A chance meeting brings two people together for a brief moment--the first of many times their paths will cross. Separated by distance and circumstance, the possibility of these two connecting seems slight. But while fate can separate...
Life change events
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Author:Eberlen, KateSummary: - Author:Zimmerman, VickySummary:
When her life falls apart on the eve of her 40th birthday, Kate Parker finds herself volunteering at the Lauderdale House for Exceptional Ladies. There she meets 97-year-old Cecily Finn. Cecily's tongue is as sharp as her mind, but she'...
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Author:Kallio, WayneSummary:Tells the true story of this middle-class couple's face-to-face battle with schizophrenia.
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Author:Wallace, JessicaSummary:Robin Kent doesn’t understand how everyone around her, including her husband, is so certain of everything. The only explanation is that they’re all following the same Guidebook—a copy of which Robin has yet to receive. When a co-worker...
- Author:Moyes, JojoSummary:
A "New York Times" bestseller--with more than one million copies sold--by the author of "The Girl You Left Behind"
They had nothing in common until love gave them everything to lose . . . Louisa Clark is an ordinary girl living... -
Author:Kuipers, AliceSummary:In a canoe trip gone terribly wrong, the little girl that 17-year-old Lark babysits and the boy Lark is dating fall into the lake at the same moment. They are both drowning, and Lark can only save one of them in time. In this critical...
- Author:Johnson, DebbieSummary:
For years Jess believed that Joe had abandoned her during her greatest time of need. Seventeen years later, when cleaning out her mother's house, Jess unpacks a box of cards and letters hidden in the attic and makes a discovery...
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Author:Homes, A. M.Summary:Winner of the 2013 Women's Prize for Fiction—A darkly comic novel of twenty-first-century domestic life by a writer who is always “compelling, devastating, and furiously good” (Zadie Smith)
Harold Silver has spent a...
- Author:Rayner, Mark A.Summary:
"Marvellous Hairy is a top pick for any humorous fiction collection, highly recommended." --Midwest Book Review "Mark A. Rayner is an author with a fantastical sense of humor and a dangerous imagination." --The Next Best Book Club So...
- Author:Anderson, JamesSummary:
Ben Jones, protagonist of the glowingly reviewed Never-Open Desert Diner, returns in a devastatingly powerful literary crime novel about parenthood, loss, and the desert in winter. Winter has come to Highway 117, a remote road through...
- Author:Mills, EmmaSummary:
When Nina decides to take a radio-broadcasting class her senior year, she expects it to be a walk in the park. Instead, it's a complete disaster. The members of Nina's haphazardly formed radio team have approximately nothing in common....
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Author:Hrdlitschka, ShelleySummary:Raised in a polygamous community, Jon starts to question the rules of his faith. After he is caught kissing a girl, he is forced to flee his town and the only life he knows. He finds a community of other Lost Boys, or "polygs,...
- Author:Allison, WillSummary:
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...
- Author:Kubica, MarySummary:
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER-OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD! "Dark and twisty, with white-knuckle tension and jaw-dropping surprises." -Riley Sager, New York Times bestselling author of Home Before Dark In this smart and chilling...
- Author:Deits, BobSummary:
Loss can be overwhelming, and recovery sometimes seems terribly daunting, if not impossible. But Bob Deits demonstrates that the only way past grief is through it. In this newly revised edition of "Life after loss," Deits offers sound...
- Author:Grainger, JeanSummary:
Carmel, a forty-year-old Irish woman, is living a life that's fine, not exciting or awful, just fine. Then she gets a Facebook message from a stranger that could change everything. It could be a scam. But what if it is true? Her...
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Author:Buffie, ErnaSummary:At the heart of the novel is 74-year-old Pearl Calder, a woman who has thrown away her past and kept it a secret from her daughters. But as Pearl confronts her own mortality, she begins to understand what her dead husband, Henry, has...
- Author:Léger, HugoSummary:
De retour d’un voyage au dénouement malheureux, le jeune Edmond doit apprendre à vivre sans sa mère, pendant que son père essaie de cacher sa peine et que sa soeur ne semble pas vraiment comprendre que leur maman ne reviendra pas....
- Author:Genova, LisaSummary:
Genova's novel revolves around Sarah Nickerson, a high-powered consultant whose fast-paced world comes to a screeching halt when a brain injury leaves her with a condition called Left Neglect. Now Sarah must pay attention to things she...
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Author:Zimmer, MichaelSummary:J. T. Latham is rotting in prison in the Yuma Territory penitentiary. But then Sheriff Del Buchman offers to commute his sentence if Latham helps execute a prisoner exchange with some dangerous banditos. The only catch is that he must...
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