Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Description
An award-winning best-seller from the UK recounts how the author, an experienced falconer grieving the sudden death of her father, endeavored to train for the first time a dangerous goshawk predator as part of her personal recovery.
"As a child Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer. She learned the arcane terminology and read all the classic books, including T.H. White's tortured masterpiece, The Goshawk, which describes White's struggle...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After the sudden death of his wife, Maida, Gene is haunted by the fear that their marriage was not all it appeared to be. Alongside Ed and Gayle Donnelly, friends since college days, he tries to resurrect happy memories of the times the two couples shared, raising their children in a small New Hampshire town and vacationing together at a lake house every summer. Meanwhile, his daughter, Dary, challenges not only his happy version of the past but...
Author
Language
English
Description
#1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel delivers one of the most deeply affecting novels of her celebrated career. Ginny Carter and her husband, Mark, were a golden couple - she, a rising on-air reporter, and he, the most popular anchorman in the business. They had it all: the gorgeous home in Beverly Hills, a marriage and life that were the envy of all, and a cherished, darling three-year-old son, Chris. But everything changed one fateful...
5) Breakdown
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
An influenza plague decimates humanity, and former rock star Chris Price leaves the ruins of his life in New York, setting out on a journey home to England. His passage leaves him scarred, in body and mind, by exposure to humankind at its most desperate and dangerous. He meets a woman, Pauline, and together, they undertake the most difficult part of Chris's journey: confronting grief, violence, and the man Chris has become.
7) Float plan
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Critically acclaimed author Trish Doller's unforgettable and romantic adult debut about setting sail, starting over, and finding yourself. Since the loss of her fiancae, Anna has been shipwrecked by grief--until a reminder goes off about a trip they weresupposed to take together. Impulsively, Anna goes to sea in their sailboat, intending to complete the voyage alone. But after a treacherous night's sail, she realizes she can't do it by herself and...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Themes of grief, love, and renewed faith intertwine in this winsome novella by best-selling author Melody Carlson. The recently widowed Claire Andrews is mourning the deaths of her husband and young son who were killed in a boating accident. Grief-stricken and angry with God, Claire, a professional artist, finds she is no longer able to paint. In her sorrow, she flees to an isolated cabin in the Cascade Mountains to find solace and healing, and hopefully,...
9) A new hope
Author
Series
Thunder Point novels volume 8
Language
English
Description
After losing her child, Ginger Dysart was lost in grief. But since landing in Thunder Point, Ginger is finally moving forward. Her job at the flower shop is fulfilling, and she's excited to be assisting with the Lacoumette wedding. - In spite of her heartache, Ginger is swept up in the pleasure of the occasion. But the beauty of the Lacoumette farm and the joy of the gregarious family are ruined by an encounter with the bride's brother. Struggling...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this striking, enormously affecting novel, Joyce Carol Oates tells the story of two very different and yet intimately linked American families. Luther Dunphy is an ardent Evangelical who envisions himself as acting out God's will when he assassinates an abortion provider in his small Ohio town while Augustus Voorhees, the idealistic doctor who is killed, leaves behind a wife and children scarred and embittered by grief. In her moving, insightful...
13) The touch
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
2012 Christy Award finalist, Contemporary series category. Andrew Jones was once one of the few surgeons in the world to have that rare, God-given ability called The Touch. But after failing to save his young fiancée, Faith, at the scene of a car accident, Jones abandons his gift and shuns the operating room. Lara Blair owns a Chicago-based biomedical engineering company developing a surgical tool that will duplicate precisely the movement of a surgeon's...
14) Sing them home
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
This novel is a portrait of three siblings who have lived in the shadow of unresolved grief since their mother's disappearance when they were children. Everyone in Emlyn Springs knows the story of Hope Jones, the physician's wife whose big dreams for
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"What happens when a girl who can't forget befriends a man who's desparate to remember?"--Jacket.
Named one of the 12 Best New Books of May by Harper's Bazaar and one of AM New York's "10 Books to Read in 2017" What happens when a girl who can't forget befriends a man who's desperate to remember' Grief-stricken over his partner Sydney's death, Gavin sets fire to every reminder in the couple's home before fleeing Los Angeles for New Jersey, where...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the midst of family heartaches, can two young Amish people move past their grief and trust that God's will includes finding happiness again?
Along with his volunteer work at the local fire department, running his Amish farm keeps Jamie Riehl busy. He barely has time to eat at the family table, never mind find someone to date. But when he meets Kayla Dienner, he is smitten. Kayla tries hard to deny her attraction to Jamie. After all, she's spent...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
" Ever since her best friend died six months ago, Laura Reihl has vowed to make each day count. And that means she should probably break off her relationship with Rudy. They've been together for so many years, and his friendship means the world to her. But she knows friendship doesn't come close to the fireworks of true love, and she's not really feeling the fireworks. So when Savilla's widower, Allen, asks her to help him take care of the baby Savilla...
19) Haunting Paris
Author
Publisher
Nan A. Talese
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1989, while all of Paris is poised to celebrate the bicentennial of the French Revolution, Sylvie mourns the loss of her lover, Julien, and is unable to find solace in the music that has always been her refuge. But when she accidentally dislodges an envelope concealed in Julien's desk, she finds an enigmatic note from a stranger and feels compelled to meet this woman who might hold the key to Julien's past. Julien's sister and one...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request