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Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Bill Olsson, recently widowed, is desperate to provide for his daughter, Sally. Struggling to pay rent, he welcomes a lodger into their home: Karla, a law student and aspiring judge, who works as a housekeeper to make ends meet. Her clients are the Rytters, an incredibly wealthy couple who hide behind closed doors. The wife is ill and hasn't left the house in months. The husband is controlling and obsessive. Is he just a worried husband, concerned...
2) Moving on
Publisher
Roadside Attractions LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
Claire and Evelyn are estranged friends who reunite to get even with Howard, the petulant widower of their recently deceased best friend. Along the way, Claire reunites with Ralph, her great love from her younger years, as each woman must make peace with her past and learn to treasure the value of a good friend.
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Description
Reverend Martin Gregory, a recently widowed minister, is torn between his roles of clergyman and father. His zeal for attending to his parishioners leads him to neglect the needs of his own family, until emotions boil over one Christmas.
Author
Publisher
Zebra Books, Kensington Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Beloved inspirational romance author Jennifer Beckstrand continues her uplifting Matchmakers of Huckleberry Hill series featuring Huckleberry Hill, Wisconsin’s, irrepressible eighty-something matchmakers Anna and Felty Helmuth! Will appeal to readers of Amish and inspirational romance and fans of Charlotte Hubbard, Amy Lillard, and Emma Miller. Martha Sue Helmuth wishes she could just relax and enjoy her extended visit with her beloved grandparents....
Author
Publisher
Clash
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"An insidious darkness threatens to devastate a rural New England village when occult forces are conjured and when bigotry is left unrestrained. After a recent string of disappearances in a small Connecticut town, a grieving widower with a grim secret is drawn into a dangerous ritual of dark magic by a powerful and mysterious older gentleman named Heart Crowley. Meanwhile, a member of local law enforcement tasked with uncovering the culprit responsible...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"Paul Auster's brilliant eighteenth novel opens with a scorched pot of water, which Sy Baumgartner-phenomenologist, noted author, and soon-to-be retired philosophy professor-has just forgotten on the stove. Baumgartner's life had been defined by his deep,abiding love for his wife, Anna, who was killed in a swimming accident nine years earlier. Now 71, Baumgartner continues to struggle to live in her absence as the novel sinuously unfolds into spirals...
Author
Publisher
Canary Street Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A 33-year-old adjunct instructor with a sunny disposition despite her chronic illness, Mickey Chambers takes a job at a local bar called The Saloon, owned by 42-year-old widower--and college student--Diego Costa, where she decides to embrace everything life has to offer, including this grumpy Diego"--
"“A heartfelt opposites-attract romance...” —Publishers Weekly Total opposites. Totally irresistible. Mickey Chambers is an expert at analyzing...
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Morgan Cary, grieving the death of his wife, returns home to Hawaii where he is constantly reminded of her and tries to distract himself with commercial fishing, but through his friendship with a native family learns to face his past and regains hope for the future.
Author
Language
English
Description
"The heartwarming sequel to Same Kind of Different As Me! After Miss Debbie's death in 2000, her husband, Ron formed an even stronger bond with Denver, a homeless ex-con. Ron's touching memoir chronicles how their shared devotion to Debbie led them to work toward fulfilling her vision: to ease the pain associated with poverty, homelessness, and inequality. Workin’ Our Way Home describes the ten years Ron and Denver lived together after Miss Debbie’s...
Author
Series
Tuscan mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Though it took some time to settle into his new life in Gravigna, Italy, following the death of his wife, Nico Doyle has figured a thing or two out. The locals have not only welcomed him, but are giving him rave reviews on his contributions to the menu at Sotto il Fico, and his budding relationship with Nelli is healing old wounds. When Nico receives a phone call late at night, he tries to ignore it. A phone call at that time could only mean trouble....
Author
Series
Publisher
Zebra Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
With her close-knit Amish community and Widows’ Club of Paradise Valley rallying behind her, Joy Lehman, raising her children, including her wheelchair-bound son, and running a thriving bakery alone, gets an unexpected second chance at love when her widowed brother-in-law steps in to help.
Author
Publisher
Umbriel
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
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Description
"¿Estás listo para leer una ingeniosa y conmovedora historia que te hará reír a carcajadas sobre madres, hijas y amor: cómo lo encontramos, cómo nos aseguramos de no perderlo y cómo este siempre vuelve? ENTONCES, TE INVITO A CONOCER A MIKA SUZUKI. A sus treinta y cinco años, la vida de Mika es bastante similar a una torre de Jenga a punto de venirse abajo. Su última relación terminó mal. Su compañera de piso y mejor amiga puede que sea...
Publisher
[Acorn Media]
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Based on P.D. James's global bestsellers, this riveting mystery series stars Bertie Carvel as enigmatic Inspector Adam Dalgliesh . A recent widower and acclaimed poet, Dalgliesh is a cerebral, reserved man but possessed of exceptional empathy and insight. As he investigates complex crimes in 1970s England, he plumbs the darker depths of the human psyche in his pursuit of justice.
"Contains violence, strong language, sexual situations, and brief nudity"--
"Based...
14) Septology
Author
Publisher
Transit Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
What makes us who we are? And why do we lead one life and not another? Asle, an aging painter and widower who lives alone on the southwest coast of Norway, is reminiscing about his life. His only friends are his neighbor, Åsleik, a traditional fisherman-farmer, and Beyer, a gallerist who lives in the city. There, in Bjørgvin, lives another Asle, also a painter but lonely and consumed by alcohol. Asle and Asle are doppelgängers--two versions of...
15) Old Henry
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
An action western about a farmer who takes in an injured man with a satchel of cash. Defending a siege, he reveals a gunslinging talent, calling his true identity into question.
An action western about a widowed farmer and his son who take in an injured man with a satchel of cash. Defending a siege, the farmer reveals a gunslinging talent, calling his true identity into question.
Author
Series
Jewell Cove novel volume 4
Publisher
Donna Alward
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
" A summer in Jewell Cove leads ER doctor Lizzie Howard to discover there's more to life than living up to expectations in this small town romance by New York Times Bestselling Author, Donna Alward. When Lizzie Howard's best friend asks if she will cover her maternity leave in a small-town medical practice, Lizzie almost refuses. But with her career as a top ER doc in jeopardy and a failed relationship in her rear-view mirror, maybe a change of pace...
Publisher
Cemetery Dance Publications
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In "A Face in the Crowd," widower Dean Evers sees faces from his past while watching baseball; and in "The Longest December," the Howard family struggles to see their kind and gentle neighbor James Wilkinson as the violent criminal the police are investigating.
"This will be another World's 1st Edition from Cemetery Dance Publications: a unique new book published in the old-fashioned "double" tradition! A Face in the Crowd by Stephen King and Stewart...
Author
Series
Heart of Cheyenne volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Marybeth and Edward are compelled by their circumstances to marry as they trek west to the newly formed railroad town of Cheyenne. But life in Cheyenne is fraught with danger, and they find that they need each other more than ever. Despite the trials they face, will happiness await them in this arrangement of convenience?"--
Invited by a friend to trek west and help establish the newly formed town of Cheyenne, Edward Vogel is prepared to leave the...
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