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Pub. Date
2017.
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-- Praise for -- —Cheryl Strayed “Every deep feeling a human is capable of will be shaken loose by this profound book. Ariel Levy has taken grief and made art out of it.”—David Sedaris “Beautifully crafted . . . This book is haunting; it is smart and engaging. It was so engrossing that I read it in a day.”—The New York Times Book Review “Levy has the rare gift of seeing herself with fierce, unforgiving clarity. And she deploys...
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
385 pages
Description
It's summertime on the North Carolina coast and the livin' is easy. Unless, that is, you've just lost your mother to cancer, your sister to her extremist husband, and your husband to his executive assistant. Meet Gray Howard. Right when Gray could use a serious infusion of good karma in her life, she inadvertently gets a stranger, Diana Harrington, fired from her job at the local pharmacy. Diana Harrington's summer isn't off to the greatest start...
Author
Publisher
Grijalbo
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
183 pages ; 20 cm
Description
"This new edition, revised and updated, includes an unpublished chapter: A new ending for Romina. What happened to her? Where she went to? What experiences did she live? All told in the new ending of the novel. Romina's life represents that of those who dream on going away and embracing a new future, with the main expectation of finding love and themselves. The Journey of the Hummingbirds is a flight without ending, in which Romina makes different...
505) The crash landing
Author
Series
Fart monster and me volume 1
Publisher
ABC Books
Pub. Date
©2018.
Physical Desc
56 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Description
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Are those clouds shaped like bottoms?! Nothing exciting has ever happened in Ben Dugan's backyard. That is, until something crash-lands from the biggest and smelliest storm cloud in the sky! In one split second, Ben's life changes forever.
506) The memory house
Author
Series
Honey Ridge novels volume 1
Publisher
HQN
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
376 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
Julia fills her void from the tragic loss of husband and child with the routine of running Peach Orchard Inn in Honey Ridge, Tennessee. While doing renovations on the inn, Eli, an ex-con with a motherless son, finds letters from the Civil War period that give them the courage to face the past and embrace the future.
Julia suspects there's more to Eli Donovan's past than his motherless son, Alex. There's a reason he's chasing redemption and bent on...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
357 pages : illustration ; 21 cm
Description
Clara Falkenberg, once Germany's most eligible and lauded heiress, earned the nickname “the Iron Fräulein” during World War II for her role operating her family's ironworks empire. It's been nearly two years since the war ended and she's left with nothing but a false identification card and a series of burning questions about her family's past. With nowhere else to run to, she decides to return home and take refuge with her dear friend, Elisa....
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Publisher
Simon Element, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2023..
Physical Desc
xix, 441 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Description
"Life has many transitions: A baby is born. A child leaves for college. A marriage. A divorce. A death. We all experience moments of profound change, but what do we do to mark those moments? How do we become mindful of these events and imbue them with purpose and meaning? Could our lives be better, richer, and more resilient if we had more practical resources and rituals to honor, sanctify, and make sense of these transitions? Day Schildkret, artist...
Author
Series
Love walked in volume 5
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
298 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
Cornelia Brown is reeling from a terrifying act of violence when she gets word that her mother has been badly injured in an accident. Cornelia returns to Virginia, to the house she grew up in, and in the weeks that follow, she watches her mother Ellie struggle to recover, fluctuating between her usual crisp, can-do clarity and periods of delirium during which she seems haunted by a devastating loss from her past. In grief-stricken tones, Ellie begs...
511) Corinne
Author
Series
Girl of the year. 2022: Corinne volume 1
American girl library
Girl of the year. 2022 Corinne volume 1
Girl of the year. Corinne volume 1
American girl library
Girl of the year. 2022 Corinne volume 1
Girl of the year. Corinne volume 1
Publisher
American Girl Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
136 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm.
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"When the powder's fresh, Corinne snaps on her skis and takes a deep breath of crisp mountain air. She and her sister, Gwynn, have always called Aspen home, but moving in with their new stepdad, Arne, changes everything. Sure, there are perks - like a fancy bedroom and a new puppy named Flurry whom Corinne trains to do search and rescue. Still, Corinne feels uncomfortable in her new family and hides the truth from her best friend, Cassidy."--
512) A pesar de ti
Author
Publisher
Planeta
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
428 pages ; 20 cm
Description
A Morgan Grant y su hija de dieciseis anos, Clara, nada les gustaria mas que no parecerse en nada. Morgan esta decidida a evitar que su hija cometa los mismos errores que ella. Al quedar embarazada y casarse demasiado joven, Morgan puso sus propios suenos en espera. Clara no quiere seguir los pasos de su madre. Su predecible madre no tiene un hueso espontaneo en su cuerpo. Con personalidades enfrentadas y objetivos en conflicto, a Morgan y Clara les...
513) The measure: a novel
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It seems like any other day: You wake up, pour a cup of coffee, and head out. But today when you open your front door, waiting for you is a small wooden box. This box holds your fate inside: the answer to the exact number of years you will live. From suburban doorsteps to desert tents, every person on every continent receives the same box. In an instant, the world is thrust into a collective frenzy. Where did these boxes come from? What do they mean?...
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
182 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
After a fluke tornado destroys George I. Newett's neighborhood, a series of strange coincidences relating to the stock market crash of 1929 occur, causing him to experience five serial visions corresponding to pivotal events in his life.
515) Toad
Author
Publisher
MCD
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xi, 338 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
This previously unpublished novel from cult icon Katherine Dunn, the author of Geek Love, follows Sally Gunnar, a reclusive woman whose only companions are goldfish, a garden toad and a door-to-door salesman, as she broods over her deepest regrets: failed romances, body issues and her wayward early twenties.
516) Barefoot: a novel
Author
Publisher
Back Bay Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
406, 7 pages ; 21 cm
Description
It's summer on Nantucket, and as the season begins, three women arrive at the local airport, observed by Josh, a local boy, home from college. Burdened with small children, unwieldy straw hats, and some obvious emotional issues, the women -- two sisters and one friend -- make their way to the sisters' tiny cottage, inherited from an aunt. They're all trying to escape from something: Melanie, after seven failed in-vitro attempts, discovered her husband's...
517) The salt path
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
Just days after Raynor Winn learns that Moth, her husband of thirty-two years, is terminally ill, their house and farm are taken away, along with their livelihood. With nothing left and little time, they make the brave and impulsive decision to walk the 630 miles of the sea-swept South West Coast Path, from Somerset to Dorset, through Devon and Cornwall. Carrying only the essentials for survival on their backs, they live wild in the ancient, weathered...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
viii, 255 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"Frances flees a painful breakup and her claustrophobic childhood home in Manhattan, which has become more airless in the aftermath of two family announcements ... She seeks refuge at a Norwegian artist colony that's offered her a painting apprenticeship ... Yasha, an eighteen-year-old Russian immigrant raised in a bakery in Brighton Beach, is kneading bread in the shop's window when he sees his mother for the first time in a decade. As he gains a...
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
xiii, 283 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"On a cold, gloomy night, twenty-three-year-old Kyoko stands in the rain with a knife in her hoodie’s pocket. Her target is Daniel, who seduced Kyoko’s mother then callously dropped her, leading to her death. But tonight, there will be repercussions. Following the unsuspecting Daniel home, Kyoko manages to get a rash kidnapping plot off the ground . . . and then nothing goes as planned. The Fetishist is the story of three people—Kyoko,...
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