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1) One summer
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Jack, terminally ill and preparing to say goodbye to his family, has a miraculous recovery after his wife is killed in a car accident and struggles to reunite his family at her childhood home on the South Carolina oceanfront.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Language
English
Description
"Truluv is a moving novel about three people who have lost the person they love most, and must find their way back to happiness. Arthur, a widower, meets Maddy, an angry and friendless teenage girl, while visiting his late wife at the cemetary, where he goes every day for lunch. Against all odds, the two strike up a friendship that pulls them out of a serious rut. They band together with Arthur's nosy neighbor Lucille, to create lives that are truly...
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
274 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this delightful, moving novel, Peter Pezzelli brings to life the earthy sensuality of Italy's Abruzzo region- the smell of just-baked bread wafting through the village piazza; the shopkeepers sweeping the sidewalks first thing in the morning; groups of cyclists dotting the mountain roads-and spins a story of May-December romance as sharp and delicious as the olives of Villa San Giuseppe. . .
SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO TRAVEL FAR TO FIND YOUR WAY HOME.
After...
Author
Publisher
Zondervan
Language
English
Description
Part of a family-oriented Amish community, twenty-four-year-old Naomi King has given up her dreams of finding true love. But when a young widower stirs surprising feelings in her, Naomi cautiously opens her heart to him and receives an unexpected response that once again turns her world upside-down.
Author
Series
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
371 p. ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
When the Reverend Noah Kincaid arrives in Virgin River to reopen an abandoned church, he finds an unlikely assistant in Alicia Baldwin, a former exotic dancer who needs a respectable job in order to regain custody of her children.
8) The promise
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
After accepting a temporary position at a small family practice in Thunder Point, Oregon, physician's assistant Peyton Lacoumette finds herself tempted to stick around when she falls in love with her boss, Dr. Scott Grant.
Author
Series
Miller Family volume 1
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
299 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A bright new voice shares a tender love story set in the rolling green fields of Ohio Amish country.
After the death of her husband, Hannah Brown is determined to make a new life with her sister's family. But when she sells her farm in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and moves with her sheep to Ohio, the wool unexpectedly starts to fly. Her deacon brother—in—law finds just about everything about Hannah vexing. When his widower brother shows interest...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Kensington hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
265 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Battle-scarred and emotionally ravaged by the loss of his wife and children to Spanish Flu, former US Army Major Logan Hunter heads to Blue Moon to salvage whatever peace he can near the only family he has left. Not only does the Calder clan embrace him, but patriarch Webb Calder helps Logan secure a prime piece of ranching property. Yet settling into his new home is fraught with challenges, especially since Logan's land borders the rival Dollarhide...
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...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Kensington hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
233 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The lone lawman in the small Texas town of Branding, widowed single father Sheriff Sam Delaney shoulders a lot until a special someone enters the picture.
13) No second chance
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Language
English
Description
Injured by an unknown shooter who has killed his wife and abducted his baby daughter, surgeon Marc Seidman struggles with limited options when he receives a ransom note that he will never see his daughter again if he contacts the police. .
Author
Language
English
Description
National Book Award Finalist?Fiction In the aftermath of the Civil War, an aging itinerant news reader agrees to transport a young captive of the Kiowa back to her people in this exquisitely rendered, morally complex, multilayered novel of historical fiction from the author of Enemy Women that explores the boundaries of family, responsibility, honor, and trust. In the wake of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas,...
Author
Publisher
B & H Pub
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
xvi, 381 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Cameron Vaux starts losing his memory, he heeds the message given him years earlier by his dying father and sets off in search of God's Book of Days, the record of the past, present, and future of every soul on earth.
Author
Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
298 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
When his daughter is hit by a poison arrow during an Indian raid, widower Paul Meakes, determined to bring the Comanche warriors responsible to justice, hires an Indian hunter to help him on his quest, only to discover that the dangers of the West are far greater than he ever could have imagined.
Author
Series
Amish legacy novel volume 1
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In the first installment of bestseller Amy Clipston's brand-new series, an Amish widower with three grown sons discovers that another chance at love may be waiting for him"--
19) Me for you
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of Good Grief comes a richly poignant and stirring story that asks: How soon is too soon to fall in love again? The last thing Rudy expected was to wake up one Saturday morning, a widow at fifty-four years old. Now, ten months after the untimely death of his beloved wife, he's still not sure how to move on from the defining tragedy of his life--but his new job is helping. After being downsized from his...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Sixty-nine-year-old Arthur Pepper lives a simple life. He gets out of bed at precisely 7:30 a.m., just as he did when his wife, Miriam, was alive. He dresses in the same gray slacks and mustard sweater-vest, waters his fern, Frederica, and heads out to his garden. But on the one-year anniversary of Miriam's death, something changes. Sorting through Miriam's possessions, Arthur finds an exquisite gold charm bracelet he's never seen before. What follows...