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Thomas & Mercer
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English
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"Lisa Power is a tortured ghost of her former self. The author of a bestselling thriller called Thief River Falls, named after her rural Minnesota hometown, Lisa is secluded in her remote house as she struggles with the loss of her entire family: a series of tragedies she calls the "Dark Star." Then a nameless runaway boy shows up at her door with a terrifying story - he's just escaped death after witnessing a brutal murder - a crime the police want...
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"Once, in a tiny village in India, there was a young boy who loved to paint. He lived with his grandfather, who taught him to paint with his fingers, to make paints from marigolds and brushes made from jasmine flowers. Sometimes, the village children would watch them painting together, and the boy's grandfather would invite them to join in. They didn't have much, but they had each other. After his grandfather dies, the boy notices a little box wrapped...
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"Look for me there," news legend Tim Russert would tell his son, Luke, when confirming a pickup spot at an airport, sporting event, or rock concert. After Tim died unexpectedly, Luke kept looking for his father, following in Tim's footsteps and carving out a highly successful career at NBC News. After eight years covering politics on television, Luke realized he had no good answer as to why he was chasing his father's legacy. As the son of two accomplished...
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The Unnamed Press
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English
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"Debut novel set in the early 2000s about an idiosyncratic woman with a shocking secret whose father has just died. Leaving her family in San Francisco, she moves to Perth, Australia with her husband where instead of starting over, she is forced by the new neighbors, wildlife, and landscape, to confront her own past"--
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"From the bestselling author of 'All You Can Ever Know' comes a searing memoir of class, inequality, and grief--a daughter's search to understand the lives her adoptive parents led, the life she forged as an adult, and the lives she's lost. In this country, unless you attain extraordinary wealth, you will likely be unable to help your loved ones in all the ways you'd hoped. You will learn to live with the specific, hollow guilt of those who leave...
87) Riceyman Steps
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Feedbooks
Pub. Date
2023
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English
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In the "great metropolitan industrial district" of East London, Riceyman Steps lead from King's Cross Road to Riceyman Square. Here in this busy neighborhood, Henry Earlforward, the proprietor of a secondhand bookstore, takes a keen interest in Violet Arb, the widowed owner of a nearby confectionary shop. The middle-aged shopkeepers marry, but their chance for late-in-life happiness is increasingly shadowed by Henry's compulsive miserliness. Violet...
88) Te daría el sol
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Español
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A story of first love, family, loss, and betrayal told from different points in time, and in separate voices, by artists Jude and her twin brother Noah.
89) The Swedish art of aging exuberantly: life wisdom from someone who will (probably) die before you
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Scribner
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English
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Margareta Magnusson shared with the world her practical Swedish tradition of ḏs̃tdning, or {28}death cleaning.
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A New York Times Bestseller
A "page-turning thriller that will keep readers guessing until the very end" (School Library Journal) about a road trip in a snowstorm that turns into bone-chilling disaster, from New York Times bestselling mystery author and "master of tension" (BCCB) Natalie D. Richards.
She thought being stranded was the worst thing that could happen. She was wrong.
Mira
...91) Wondrous Willow
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Pub. Date
2022
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English
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WHAT MAKES YOU SPECIAL? Once there was, an auspicious little butterfly, who lived on the side of a very steep mountain. How Willow had come to be born on the side of this particular mountain was a great mystery to her for there hadn't, been an Old World Swallowtail, since the previous century. Yet, she felt sure it was for a very special reason that she was there. Until she began to doubt...
Christine Horner and Joey McGrellis take us on a courageous...
92) Fire song
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Annick Press
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"How can Shane reconcile his feelings for David with his desire for a better life? [He's] still reeling from the suicide of his kid sister Destiny. How could he have missed the fact that she was so sad? He tries to share his grief with his girlfriend Tara, but she's too concerned with her own needs to offer him much comfort. What he really wants is to be able to turn to the one person on the rez whom he loves--his friend, David"--Amazon.com.
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Morgan James Publishing
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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Returning to Joy is a three-part gift book series that provides inspiration and healing for those who are grieving the loss of a loved one or beloved pet.Returning to Joy provides those who are grieving with faith-based, inspirational thought anchors. The beautiful 4-color images along with motivating quotes and appropriate Bible Verses throughout its pages serve as a perfect, thoughtful gift for anyone mourning the loss of someone or pet they love....
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Open Road Media Teen & Tween
Pub. Date
2022
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English
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Somehow Jimmie Little must overcome his belief that terrible things are always about to happen
Jimmie Little was always the sensible one in the family. The rest of his aunts, uncles, and cousins were always getting into ridiculous scrapes because of their bold, show-off attitudes. But when he loses his father to a mining accident and his Uncle Pete to a frozen river, everything changed. Jimmie is certain that everything he
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Lake Union Publishing
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English
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"Inheriting her grandparents' island estate on Florida's Gulf coast is a special kind of homecoming for thirty-one-year-old Charity Baxter. Raised by a narcissistic single mother, Charity's only sense of a loving home comes from childhood summers spent with Gramps and Grandma. But piercing her fondest memories is her sharpest grief--the death of her beloved grandmother, when Charity stopped believing in the magical healing power of the weeping willow...
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Pub. Date
2023
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English
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The Altar of the Dead Henry James - The Altar of the Dead is a short story by Henry James, first published in his collection Terminations in 1895. A fable of literally life and death significance, the story explores how the protagonist tries to keep the remembrance of his dead friends, to save them from being forgotten entirely in the rush of everyday events. He meets a woman who shares his ideals, only to find that the past places what seems to be...
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2017
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English
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From bestselling author Chelsea Sedoti comes a comedic young adult mystery with "one of the most relatable characters in recent young adult literature" (Book Page), perfect for fans of John Green and Jandy Nelson. Hawthorn Creely's not one to get involved in other people's business. But a missing person's investigation? That's another matter...
Hawthorn wasn't trying to insert herself into a missing person's investigation.
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