A son returns after an absence of two years to find both his mother and family friend Wiff trying to sustain his father, Jacob. A heart attack has forced Jacob out of work, and he can't reconcile himself to his frightening situation....
Death
- Auteur:French, DavidSommaire:
- Auteur:DeWees, AmandaSommaire:
Vivacious actress Sybil Ingram looks forward to a life of security when she leaves the theater in 1873 to marry a wealthy American. But when he dies suddenly on their wedding night, she finds herself a penniless widow. Her only legacy...
- Auteur:Albert, Susan WittigSommaire:
China Bayles is finally on the verge of finding out the truth about her father's death. But her reservations about letting her half-brother Miles hire her husband prove all too accurate when she discovers Miles has a hidden agenda.
- Auteur:Oates, Joyce CarolSommaire:
When a powerful parent dies, each of his adult children reacts in startling and unexpected ways, and his grieving widow in the most surprising way of all.
- Auteur:Keener, Jessica BrilliantSommaire:
In 1970s Boston, the glossy veneer of 16-year-old Sarah Kunitz's wealthy family is starting to show cracks. Her parents' constant fighting and her mother's prescription pill abuse drive Sarah into two romantic relationships with...
- Auteur:Bishop, Mary HarelkinSommaire:
Andrea and her brother travel back to the most dangerous part of her grandfather's past, in Chicago.
- Auteur:Erickson, LoriSommaire:
After her brother died unexpectedly and her mother moved into a dementia-care facility, spiritual travel writer and Episcopal deacon Lori Erickson felt called to a new quest: to face death head-on, with the eye of a tourist and the...
- Auteur:Rendon, Marcie R.Sommaire:
Cash and Sheriff Wheaton make for a strange partnership. When they find themselves staring at the dead Indian lying in the field, there's a long and dangerous way to go to find the men who killed him.
- Auteur:Groth, DarrenSommaire:
In this novel for teens, Munro Maddux goes to Australia on a student exchange in order to try and deal with his younger sister's death.
- Auteur:Miller, SueSommaire:
Graham and Annie are a golden couple, and have been married for nearly thirty years. So when Graham suddenly dies, Annie becomes lost. But when she discovers that Graham had been unfaithful to her, she spirals into darkness.
- Auteur:Erskine, KathrynSommaire:
Ten-year-old Caitlin, who has Asperger's Syndrome, struggles to understand emotions, show empathy, and make friends at school, while at home she seeks closure by working on a project with her father.
- Auteur:Rylant, CynthiaSommaire:
After the death of the beloved aunt who has raised her, twelve-year-old Summer and her uncle Ob leave their West Virginia trailer in search of the strength to go on living.
- Auteur:Dzogchen Ponlop, RinpocheSommaire:
- Auteur:John, AntonySommaire:
Noah Savino has been in a wheelchair for months and hates being treated like he's helpless. He misses playing baseball, though not as much as he misses his dad, who died in the car accident that paralyzed Noah. He'll have to...
- Auteur:Buntin, JulieSommaire:
Fifteen-year-old Cat's new town in rural Michigan is lonely and off-kilter, until she meets her neighbor, the manic, beautiful, pill-popping Marlena. Within the year, Marlena is dead, drowned in six inches of icy water. Decades later,...
- Auteur:Vézina, MartinSommaire:
Dans les nouvelles de ce recueil, les thèmes abordés sont classiques et universels : l’amour et la mort, dont les pas complexes s’entremêlent dans un tango déchirant dansé sur la piste souvent trop étroite du quotidien. Les rencontres,...
- Auteur:Munday, EvanSommaire:
October Schwartz and her five deadest pals are back for another crime-solving caper
When October Schwartz raises her five dead friends to investigate the cause of Cyril Cooper’s death way back in 1783, she expects a dull...
- Auteur:Allison, WillSommaire:
Taking his daughter Sara home from school one day, New Jersey accountant Glen drives his car into another vehicle, killing its driver. Since no one else saw the accident, Glen lies about it to the police--a decision that sends his life...
- Auteur:Slipperjack, RubySommaire:
A young Ojibway girl, struggling over the fact that her father has died, spends summers in the bush with her grandmother and finds her own identity and voice.
Eleven-year-old Ray feels like a misfit at school and in her family....
- Auteur:Polikoff, Barbara GarlandSommaire:
As Horatio tries to adjust to the death of his father from lung cancer, O.P., Horatio's grandfather, mourns the loss of his dog Mollie.
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