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Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Having missed much of her children's lives while she built a home-furnishings empire, Olivia Grayson arranges a family vacation in the Mediterranean in the hopes of rekindling ties only to confront painful interpersonal dynamics and unexpected revelations.
Author
Series
Blossom Street volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Susannah, the owner of a new flower store, and her employee, a young widow named Colette Blake, join the knitting class at A Good Yarn, they meet a group of unforgettable women who offer them life-changing advice, support, and friendship.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
"How do you hold onto hope in a difficult time? In the small city of Wharton, Connecticut, lives are beginning to unravel. A woman loses the love of her life. A son struggles with addiction. A widow misses her late spouse. A husband betrays his wife. At the heart of these interlinking stories is one couple: Freddie and Greg Tyler. Greg has just been diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a brutal form of cancer. He has never been dependent or weak, and...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It's been a minute--or five years--since Jordan Vargas last saw his college friends, and twenty-eight years since their graduation when their adult lives officially began. Now Jordan, Jordy, Naomi, Craig, and Marielle find themselves at the brink of a new decade, with all the responsibilities of adulthood, yet no closer to having their lives figured out. Though not for a lack of trying. Over the years they've reunited in Big Sur to honor a decades-old...
Author
Series
Baxter family volume 07
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In love for the first time, a son's decisions about the future divides his family in this fearless and thought-provoking novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author of the "heart-tugging and emotional" (Romantic Times Book Reviews) Baxter Family books. In the shadow of very great loss, the only way to live with passion is truly, madly, deeply. When eighteen-year-old Tommy Baxter declares to his family that he wants to be a police officer after...
7) First love
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Runaways Axi, sixteen, and Robinson, seventeen, who met on a cancer ward, leave small-town Oregon on a cross-country trip to experience the best of life before it is too late.
Author
Publisher
Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Scribner trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
438 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Lia, her husband, Harry, and their daughter, Iris, are a perfectly balanced family of three with a happy life. But when a devasting diagnosis threatens to derail their lives, the world around them begins to warp and transform, and Lia's carefully hidden secrets come rushing out.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
419 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"From an award-winning storyteller comes a stunning debut novel following a New Mexican family's extraordinary year of love and sacrifice. It's Holy Week in the small town of Las Penas, New Mexico, and thirty-three-year-old unemployed Amadeo Padilla has been given the part of Jesus in the Good Friday procession. He is preparing feverishly for this role when his fifteen-year-old daughter Angel shows up pregnant on his doorstep and disrupts his plans....
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dorothea Benton Frank once again takes us deep into the heart of the magical Lowcountry where three amazing middle aged women are bonded by another amazing woman's death. Through their shared loss they forge a deep friendship, asking critical questions. Who was their friend and what did her life mean? Are they living the lives they imagined for themselves? Will they ever be able to afford to retire? How will they maximize their happiness? Security?...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
399 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
An intelligent and dynamic woman who enjoys life with her husband and newborn daughter is astounded by her cancer diagnosis, which pits her family against a difficult healthcare system, well-meant intentions, and other stressors that threaten her marriage.
12) Safe haven
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
"When a mysterious young woman named Katie appears in the small North Carolina town of Southport, her sudden arrival raises questions about her past. Beautiful yet self-effacing, Katie seems determined to avoid forming personal ties until a series of events draws her into two reluctant relationships: one with Alex, a widowed store owner with a kind heart and two young children; and another with her plainspoken single neighbor, Jo. Despite her reservations,...
14) Before I go
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
Confronting the final months of her life when her breast cancer aggressively returns, twenty-seven-year-old Daisy endeavors to find her beloved husband another wife, an effort that forces her to make difficult choices.
15) Silver alert
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
214 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"The story of an elderly man who, rather than give up his independence, heads off on a joyride with a new young friend"--
Author
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
For fans of Jodi Picoult and Anita Shreve comes an exhilarating debut novel of one woman's courage in the face of catastrophe.
She'll do anything to save them.
But what will she do to save herself?
When Kat Jamison retreats to the Blue Ridge Mountains, she's counting on peace and solitude to help her make a difficult decision. Her breast cancer has returned, but after the death of her husband, her will to fight is dampened. Now she has a choice...
Author
Series
O'Malley volume 0.4
Language
English
Description
"It's a summer of change for Jennifer O'Malley. The busy physician has a pediatrics practice in Dallas, Texas, and meeting and falling in love with surgeon Tom Peterson is adding a rich layer to her life. She's sorting out how to introduce Tom to her family--she's the youngest of seven--and thinking about marriage. She's falling in love with Jesus too, and knows God is good. But that faith is about to be tested, and in a way she didn't expect. The...
19) Observer
Author
Publisher
The Story Plant
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
380 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Dr. Caroline Soames-Watkins's star has been on the rise. But when she accuses a superior of sexual misconduct, the Twitterstorm that follows upends her career. With few professional options and an impoverished sister with a disabled child to support, Caro is willing to consider a mysterious proposal from her great-uncle, the Nobel Prize-winning scientist Samuel Watkins. Sam Watkins has invested untold sums of money to build a medical facility in the...
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
272 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Six women gather to celebrate their friend Kate's recovery from cancer, where she strikes a bargain with them: to celebrate her new lease on life, she'll do the one thing that's always terrified her, but if she does, each of them will also do one thing that they'd find difficult.