Three middle-aged sisters--each harboring a secret pain--gather to close up their grandmother's beach house for the final time. Together, they unpack their family baggage and discover the true legacy left behind by a grandma married...
Death
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Author:Whitcomb, LauraSummary:After 350 years as a Fetch, or death escort, Calder breaks his vows and enters the body of Rasputin, whose spirit causes rebellion in the Land of Lost Souls while Calder struggles to convey Ana and Alexis, orphaned in the Russian...
- Author:Poe, Edgar AllanSummary:
First published in a 1839 edition of Burton's Gentleman's Magazine, The Fall of the House of Usher is the story of the declining physical and psychological health of the residents of the House of Usher-and the way in which the house...
- Author:Staveley, BrianSummary:
The children of an assassinated emperor try to stay alive and avenge their father's death while continuing down their individual life-paths, one in a monastery, another training with elite soldiers, and one appointed a minister...
- Author:Becker, ErnestSummary:
Winner of the 1974 Pulitzer Prize and the culmination of a life's work, this is Ernest Becker's answer to the "why" of human existence. In bold contrast to the predominant Freudian school of thought, Becker tackles the problem of the...
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Author:Tolstoy, Leo.Summary:Hailed as one of the world's supreme masterpieces on the subject of death and dying, The Death of Ivan Ilyich is the story of a worldly careerist, a high court judge who has never given the inevitability of his death so much as a...
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Author:Munday, EvanSummary:Thirteen-year-old October Schwartz is new in town, short on friends, and the child of a clinically depressed science teacher. Naturally, she spends most of her time in the Sticksville Cemetery, which just happens to border her backyard...
- Author:Gardner, ScotSummary:
Aaron Rowe walks in his sleep. He has dreams he can't explain, and memories he can't recover. Death doesn't scare him - his new job with a funeral director may even be his salvation. But if he doesn't discover the...
- Author:Lee, Jen SookfongSummary:
2016. Social worker Jessica Campbell sorts through her mother's belongings after the funeral. In the basement, she makes a shocking discovery: two dead girls curled into the bottom of Donna's deep-chest freezers. A pair of...
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Author:Galloway, StevenSummary:The Confabulist is a clever and suspenseful narrative that weaves together the rise and fall of world-famous Harry Houdini with the surprising story of Martin Strauss, an unknown man whose fate seems forever tied to the magician's in a...
- Author:Lyons, CJSummary:
High school senior Ella Cleary, whose synesthesia causes her to see colors with each interaction, must question everything she knows about her life when journalism student Alec investigates her parents' death.
- Author:Brammer, MikkiSummary:
This program features a bonus conversation between the author and narrator. What's the point of giving someone a beautiful death if you can't give yourself a beautiful life? From the day she watched her kindergarten teacher...
- Author:House, SilasSummary:
Easter is a devout Pentecostal, while Anneth is headstrong and restless. The two live in the heart of coal mining country, surrounded by the ghosts of their loved ones. One night, Easter meets El, the man that will become her husband....
- Author:Evans, Richard PaulSummary:
This holiday season, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Noel Collection returns with another heartwarming story of secrets, heartbreak, forgiveness, and the true meaning of Christmas. On the night of her high school...
- Author:Berry, SteveSummary:
Cotton Malone knows that his father died when his submarine sunk in the north Atlantic in 1971, but not much else. Using his government contacts to discover the details behind his father's demise, he learns that the sub was on a...
- Author:Fairbrother, AlisonSummary:
Twentysomething Ellie thought she was her father's favorite child; she was sure he would leave her his most prized possession, a baseball with which they played catch, and which sat on his desk, as a kind of inspiration: her poet...
- Author:Haywood, SarahSummary:
In this witty and heartfelt debut, one woman's unconventional journey to motherhood means learning to embrace the unexpected Even the prickliest cactus has its flower. For Susan Green, messy emotions don't fit into the...
- Author:Cormier, RobertSummary:
Sixteen-year-old Barney has only fleeting memories about his past but, as a voluntary patient at the institute for experimental medicine, he knows he is different from the terminally ill patients surrounding him. His involvement with...
- Author:Brockmeier, KevinSummary:
All residents of the City have recently died, and they will remain in the City only as long as someone still living on Earth remembers them. On Earth, however, the population has been devastated by terrible pandemic. Laura Byrd,...
- Author:Zusak, MarkusSummary:
A young adult novel about how a young girl's love of books helps a community survive World War II and the Holocaust. It's just a small story really, about among other things: a girl, some words, an accordionist, some fanatical Germans,...
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