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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.
2) Don't go
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fleeing home from his military service in Afghanistan when his wife dies in an apparent freak household accident, Dr. Mike Scanlon struggles with the tragedy, his inability to bond with his new baby daughter, and a downsizing in his medical practice.
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
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
352, 14 p. : paperback ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
After the death of his wife, young antiquarian bookseller Peter Byerly relocates from North Carolina to the English countryside where he stumbles upon a Victorian watercolor portrait that allows him to commune with his dead wife's spirit.
10) Forever my hero
Author
Series
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
372 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
After tragically losing their spouses, Dan Amos and Alice Conroy find their aversion to new love being eroded as a tropical storm brings them together.
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.
12) Without warning
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"It's been thirteen years since Kate Callahan's husband committed suicide after being arrested for murdering Police Chief Sean Blaylock's wife. It's a small town and memories are long, but they've all tried to put the tragedy behind them, especially Kate and Sean. But it's all brought up again when the town's quaint tradition of creating a time capsule every fifty years reveals a macabre set of predictions dating back to days before the murder/suicide....
Author
Publisher
Random House
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
358 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Forced to confront the realities of life in the twenty-first century when he falls in love with Pakistani widow Mrs. Ali, Major Pettigrew finds the relationship challenged by local prejudices that view Mrs. Ali, a Cambridge native, as a perpetual foreigner.
14) The healing
Author
Series
Publisher
Barbour Pub
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
377 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Seek a fresh start with Amish widower Samuel Fisher as he journeys from Lancaster County to Bluegrass Country, hoping to find a balm for the grief hes carried with him. Will this single father, burdened by yesterdays memories, discover a new and perhaps better life in Kentucky, the land of tomorrow? Esther Beiler, who helps watch Samuels children, develops a crush on Samuel and a true affection for his kids. Can she win his heart, or has she already...
16) A widow's hope
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...
17) Holly and Ivy
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Kensington hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
The flames of memory always seem to glow a little brighter during the holidays. Perhaps that's why this time of year is so difficult for airline heiress Ivy Macintosh, as she faces thoughts of yet another festive season alone. Since the plane crash that claimed the lives of her husband and two children eight years ago, she's been submerged in grief. When eleven-year-old Holly Greenwood knocks on her door, lost and frightened after a forbidden visit...
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...
19) 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...
20) The Emerald tide
Author
Series
Miramar Bay volume 6
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Kensington hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
Still mourning his wife four years after her death, art history teacher and auction house consultant Derek Gaines teams up with Kelly Reid, the head of gallery operations at Christie's Los Angeles, to track down a stolen painting.