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Author
Publisher
Touchstone/Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
cp2012
Language
English
Description
Struggling to start over after a failed relationship and her son's entry into drug rehab, a struggling Lucy Bloom tackles an unexpectedly challenging job clearing the cluttered home of a reclusive artist and hoarder who hides an astonishing secret.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"'I had but one delusion, which I held onto with all my willpower: we once gave Nikolai a life of flesh and blood; and I'm doing it over again, this time by words.' In a world created outside of time, Li and the son who died talk about their lives. Deeply intimate and moving, this story cycle of grief captures the love and humor in a relationship which goes on now in a mother's heart, between a mother and child, even as it captures the pain of Li's...
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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Description
"Our narrator, Francisco Goldberg, an American writer, has been living and working in Mexico City as a journalist for over a decade, but has recently returned to New York City in hopes of 'going home again.' It's been five years since the end of his last relationship and he is falling in love again with a new woman. Soon, though, he is beckoned back to Boston by his former high school girlfriend who was witness to his greatest youthful humiliations,...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
In 1912 Nice, after Marcela's cruel, controlling husband disappears with their two young sons, she does everything in her power to find them until an era-defining disaster strikes, making a reunion seem impossible, in a novel set against the backdrop of the sinking of the Titanic.
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Two women meet by accident on a Nantucket beach and are drawn into a friendship. Olivia is a young mother whose eight-year-old severely autistic son has recently died. She comes to the island in a trial separation to try and make sense of the tragedy of her Anthony's short life. Beth, a stay-at-home mother of three, is also recently separated after discovering her husband's long-term infidelity.
89) Silent children
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Leslie and her ex-husband are constantly fighting over how to raise their son Ian, but when Ian disappears with his young stepsister, Leslie's ex believes Ian has kindnapped the girl, but Leslie suspects their disappearance is linked to a series of child murders that occured in the area years before.
90) Don't tell
Author
Publisher
Warner
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
After staging her own death in order to escape her abusive husband, Mary Grace Winters and her son search for refuge in a small town, but when her husband discovers she is alive, Mary must decide whether she wants to sacrifice the new life she has built and run or stay and face her worst fears.
Author
Series
Sideways novels volume 2
Publisher
Loose Gravel Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Vertical Passion and Pinot on the Oregon Wine Trail is the continuance of the Sideways characters Miles and Jack as they travel to the International Pinot Noir Celebration in the Willamette Valley.
92) The last promise
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
When Eliana moved to Italy the future was bright with promise. But once she settled into the small village, she found her husband to be a very different man. Over time he distanced himself from her, leaving her to care for their young son.
94) Daughters-in-law
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
After her youngest son, and last one to marry, brings home his wife, Rachel feels her role of family matriarch slipping away and must deal with the loss that comes with it, while maintaining the relationships she holds dear.
Author
Publisher
Sevem House
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Peter Sommars is fifteen, and what he needs is a little more independence. Which is why he'd like his mom, Carol, to start dating. He even knows the perfect man - Alex Preston, his best friend's dad. As it turns out, Alex is interested, but Carol's doing everything she can to sidestep his pursuit, which only makes him - and the boys - more determined. Alex can't deny how he feels drawn to Carol - and how deeply he is falling for her. But will she...
Author
Series
Mulberry Park novels volume 4
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Fairbrook is a town tailor-made for Christmas, with beautiful old houses on quaintly named streets like Sugar Plum Lane and Nutcracker Court. But not everyone is eager for the holidays. Carly Westbrook worries about providing a merry Christmas for her boys. Then there's Grant Barrows, a formerly wealthy businessman whose heart seems to have shrunk along with his bank balance. Wealthy widow Lynette thinks that a little matchmaking between Grant and...
Author
Series
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Pierce Waverly, the Earl of Devonmont, has been estranged from his mother for most of his life. When his mother's new companion, Mrs. Camilla Stuart, writes to tell him that his mother is seriously ill, he goes home. But when he learns that the lovely widow tricked him in order to effect a holiday reconciliation, he refuses to stay unless she meets his "terms".
98) Your next breath
Author
Series
Catherine Ling novels volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Your Next Breath from New York Times best selling author Iris Johansen. Catherine Ling is one of the CIA's most prized operatives. Raised on the streets of Hong Kong, she was pulled into the agency at the age of fourteen. If life has taught her anything, it is not to get attached, but there are two exceptions to that rule: her son Luke and her mentor Hu Chang. Luke was kidnapped at age two, and now, nine years later, he has astonishingly been returned...
99) Exley: a novel
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Therapist Dr. Pahnee, hired by young Miller Le Ray's mother, finds his own reality unraveling as he tries to deal with a patient dedicated to telling the truth who is unable to distinguish between fact and fiction, while grappling with his own growing attraction to the boy's mother.
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