After acquiring $32,000, Will and Hand, devastated over the death of their closest friend, travel around the world giving away the money.
Loss (Psychology)
- Author:Eggers, DaveSummary:
- Author:Reeves, VirginiaSummary:
Electricity is a new power in the early 1900s, and it becomes Roscoe Martin's life work. When his family inherits a failing farm, he uses his electrical skills to siphon energy. But everything changes after a man is electrocuted by his...
- Author:Sarah, de LeeuwSummary:
Finalist for the 2017 Governor General's Literary Awards--Non-Fiction!
Finalist for the Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize at the 2018 BC Book Prizes!
Where It Hurts is a highly charged collection of personal essays,... - Author:Matheson, RichardSummary:
When an unexpected accident cuts Chris' life short, separating him from his beloved wife, Annie, the divided soul mates will do anything to reach each other across the boundaries between life and death.
- Author:Carroll, DavidSummary:
Quinn takes on a huge challenge when he enters his first ultra-marathon, the punishing Shin-Kicker 100, a 24-hour race that will push him to the very limits of his endurance. As he struggles to complete the race, we find out why this is...
- Author:Rozycki, TomaszSummary:
Tomasz Różycki’s To the Letter follows Lieutenant Anielewicz on the hunt for any clues that might lead 21st century human beings out of a sense of despair. With authoritarianism rising across Eastern Europe, the Lieutenant longs for a...
- Author:Gorkynian, Jean-PierreSummary:
Histoire d'un adolescent syrien, réfugié, à son premier hiver dans une polyvalente à Montréal Résumé Shams, adolescent rescapé de la guerre en Syrie, vit son premier hiver à Montréal. Après s'être violemment...
- Author:Martin, CharlesSummary:
Modern cowboy Tyler Steele must raise his son, Brodie, save his ranch, and rebuild his life after his wife leaves him for being emotionally distant and ultimately learns that being a man means confronting your true weaknesses.
- Author:Richmond, MichelleSummary:
Six-year-old Emma vanished into the thick San Francisco fog. Or into the heaving Pacific. Or somewhere just beyond: to a parking lot, a stranger's van, or a road with traffic flashing by. Devastated by guilt and haunted by her fears...
- Author:VanSickle, VikkiSummary:
Marivic Stone lives in a small world and that's just fine with her. Home is with her beloved grandfather (Gumps) in Darby, New Mexico, a small town that just happens to be famous for a medical discovery that saved humankind--though...
- Author:Fox, PhoebeSummary:
Marcie Malone didn't think she was either, but when she drives from Georgia to the southwestern shore of Florida without a plan and wakes up in a stranger's home, she doesn't seem to know anymore. Despondent and...
- Author:Worth, LizSummary:
Pulling from raw themes of grief and death, regret and discomfort, sadness and failure, Worth wears these poems down to their bones. Straddling dreamy, ethereal images and brutal honesty, The Truth is Told Better This Way unravels its...
- Author:Paullina, SimonsSummary:
The first novel in a beautiful, heartbreaking new trilogy from Paullina Simons, the international best-selling author of Tully and The Bronze Horseman. Can 40 days last a lifetime? The Time Traveller's Wife meets One Day in the...
- Author:Rothfuss, PatrickSummary:
Deep below the University, there is a dark place. Few people know of it: a broken web of ancient passageways and abandoned rooms. A young woman lives there, tucked among the sprawling tunnels of the Underthing, snug in the heart of this...
- Author:Powell, Mark, Conroy, PatSummary:
"'You set yourself up as judge, jury, and executioner,' Pamela had said, but that was wrong: you set yourself up as angel, and await the word of God." Luther Redding lost his job and almost lost his wife, Pamela, and teenaged daughters...
- Author:Banville, JohnSummary:
When Max Morden returns to the seaside village where he once spent a childhood holiday, he is both escaping from a recent loss and confronting a distant trauma. Mr and Mrs Grace and their twin children Myles and Chloe appeared that long...
- Author:Legault, StephenSummary:
What if everything you believed to be true about your wife’s disappearance turned out to be a lie? In the third and final Red Rock Canyon Mystery, Silas Pearson finally unearths the truth. It’s been five years since Silas Pearson’s wife...
- Author:Martinusen-Coloma, CindySummary:
Claire O'Rourke is a young writer visiting per parents in her small hometown. Her life soon becomes connected to that of the reclusive Sophia Fleming, an older woman who has lived in isolation for many years. When Sophia finds a long-...
- Author:Pronzini, BillSummary:
When his wife finally left him and filed for divorce, Rick Fallon put his house up for sale and took the last two weeks of his vacation. Then he loaded his Jeep and drove straight to Death Valley, the one place he truly belonged. On his...
- Author:Boss, PaulineSummary:
The COVID-19 pandemic has left many of us haunted by feelings of anxiety, despair, and even anger. Pauline Boss provides strategies to increase our tolerance of ambiguity and look to the future with hope and possibility.