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Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Following three lonely strangers in a rural Oregon town, each working through grief and life's curveballs, who are brought together by happenstance on a local honeybee farm where they find surprising friendship, healing--and maybe even a second chance--just when they least expect it"--
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE
The “devastatingly moving” (People) first novel from the author of Tenth of December: a moving and original father-son story featuring none other than Abraham Lincoln, as well as an unforgettable cast of supporting characters, living and dead, historical and invented
Named One of Paste’s...
The “devastatingly moving” (People) first novel from the author of Tenth of December: a moving and original father-son story featuring none other than Abraham Lincoln, as well as an unforgettable cast of supporting characters, living and dead, historical and invented
Named One of Paste’s...
Author
Publisher
Fleming H. Revell
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
175p. 22cm.
Language
English
Description
Themes of grief, love, and renewed faith intertwine in this winsome novella by best-selling author Melody Carlson. The recently widowed Claire Andrews is mourning the deaths of her husband and young son who were killed in a boating accident. Grief-stricken and angry with God, Claire, a professional artist, finds she is no longer able to paint. In her sorrow, she flees to an isolated cabin in the Cascade Mountains to find solace and healing, and hopefully,...
7) A new hope
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
www.robyncarr.com
Starting over is never easy, but in Thunder Point, where newcomers are welcome and friends become family, it's possible to find yourself again. Author Robyn Carr takes us on a moving and rewarding journey as a young woman finds new hope.
After losing her child, Ginger Dysart was lost in grief. But since moving to Thunder Point, a small town on the Oregon coast, Ginger is finally moving forward. Her job at the flower shop is peaceful...
9) Missing May
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
After the death of the beloved aunt who has raised her, twelve-year-old Summer and her uncle Ob leave their West Virginia trailer in search of the strength to go on living.
11) We are the light
Author
Publisher
Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
244 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Lucas Goodgame lives in Majestic, Pennsylvania, a quaint suburb that has been torn apart by a recent tragedy. Everyone in Majestic sees Lucas as a hero--everyone, that is, except Lucas himself. Insisting that his deceased wife, Darcy, visits him every night in the form of an angel, Lucas spends his time writing letters to his former Jungian analyst, Karl. It is only when Eli, an eighteen-year-old young man whom the community has ostracized, begins...
12) Winter's gift
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
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Description
On Christmas Eve, an old farmer whose wife has died acquires new hope after helping a pregnant mare in a snowstorm.
Author
Publisher
Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
371 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
What if finding her means losing himself? Seventeen-year-old Bo has always had delusions that he can travel through time. When he was ten, Bo claimed to have witnessed the Titanic hit an iceberg, and at fifteen, he found himself on a Civil War battlefield, horrified by the bodies surrounding him. So when his concerned parents send him to a school for troubled youth, Bo assumes he knows the truth: that he's actually attending Berkshire Academy, a school...
14) Chasing Redbird
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
261 p.: 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Zinnia Taylor uncovers family secrets and self truths while clearing a mysterious settler trail that begins on her family's farm in Kentucky.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
261 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A novel about faith, science, religion, and family that tells the deeply moving portrait of a family of Ghanaian immigrants ravaged by depression and addiction and grief, narrated by a fifth year candidate in neuroscience at Stanford school of medicine studying the neural circuits of reward seeking behavior in mice"--
Author
Publisher
HarperFestival
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Papa and Mama Bear find Sister Bear's pet goldfish, Goldie, floating belly-up in her fishbowl, they worry about how Sister will feel over the loss of her close friend.
Author
Publisher
Tin House Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Taking over her family's failing taxidermy shop in the wake of her father's suicide, grief-stricken Jessa-Lynn Morton pursues less-than-legal ways of generating income while struggling to figure out her place among her eccentric loved ones.