Anne Savoie a toujours eu honte de ses origines modestes. Avec David, son grand amour, elle réalise son rêve: travailler dans l’entreprise de sa belle-famille, gravir les échelons de la société, goûter enfin au luxe et au succès. Puis,...
Loss (Psychology)
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- Author:Simone, NaimaSummary:
"Simone balances crackling, electric love scenes with exquisitely rendered characters." - Entertainment Weekly. The holidays have never been her thing. But Christmas in Rose Bend has more than one surprise in store... Grieving...
- Author:Diaczuk, DougSummary:
"You" and L, a mysterious third gender runaway, hit the road on a mission to find the meaning of life. Traveling by plane, bus and car, You run into trouble with the cops, mourn a family tragedy, smoke hundreds of cigarettes,...
- Author:LYNCH, Sarah-KateSummary:
Wife, mother, backer, lover... no wonder she feels spread thin. It's not easy being the adoring mother of one, living in the middle of the English countryside with a short-sighted goat, a crusty father-in-law and a dysfunctional...
- Author:Chariandy, DavidSummary:
An intensely beautiful, searingly powerful, tightly constructed novel, Brother explores questions of masculinity, family, race, and identity as they are played out in a Scarborough housing complex during the sweltering heat and...
- Author:Thompson, Donna Marie, Harris, Judith ParkerSummary:
What Do You Do When Your World Falls Apart? For Donna Marie Thompson, it was a perfect storm of losses. She lost her mother, her man, her money, and her health. But it wasn’t just about the people, things, and conditions; she lost her...
- Author:Moore, LorrieSummary:
A collection of eight stories that explore the passage of time and summon up its inevitable sorrows and hilarious pitfalls.
- Author:Nellums, ElizaSummary:
With her imaginary friend Teddy by her side and the detecting skills of her nosy neighbor, six-year-old Aoife sets out to uncover what happened to her big brother Theo and why her mama is in the hospital.
- Author:Moyes, JojoSummary:
How do you move on after losing the person you loved? How do you build a life worth living? Louisa Clark is no longer just an ordinary girl living an ordinary life. After the transformative six months spent with Will Traynor, she is...
- Author:Oates, Joyce CarolSummary:
On a February morning in 2008, Joyce Carol Oates drove her ailing husband, Raymond Smith, to the emergency room of the Princeton Medical Center where he was diagnosed with pneumonia. Both Joyce and Ray expected him to be released in a...
- Author:Hosseini, KhaledSummary:
After more than two years on the bestseller lists, Khaled Hosseini returns with a beautiful, riveting, and haunting novel of enormous contemporary relevance. A Thousand Splendid Suns is a breathtaking story set against the volatile...
- Author:Hosseini, KhaledSummary:
a breathtaking story set against the volatile events of Afghanistan's last thirty years-from the Soviet invasion to the reign of the Taliban to post-Taliban rebuilding-that puts the violence, fear, hope and faith of this country in...
- Author:HOSSEINI, KhaledSummary:
This is the story of an unusual and lifelong friendship between two Afghan women, spanning from the idyllic mid 1950s to post-September 11 Kabul. Bound by tragedy and fate, by political circumstance and custom, the two women live...
- Author:Isherwood, ChristopherSummary:
When A Single Man was originally published, it shocked many by its frank, sympathetic, and moving portrayal of a gay man in midlife. George, the protagonist, is adjusting to life on his own after the sudden death of his partner, and...
- Author:Roig, DeniseSummary:
The days of which Denise Roig writes in A Quiet Night and a Perfect End are filled with Chinese-cooking lessons, wedding preparations, and day trips to the Laurentian mountains. They're peopled by fundamentalist fishermen, mothers...
- Author:Joella, EthanSummary:
From the author of A Little Hope--a Read with Jenna Bonus Pick--comes an enormously powerful and life-affirming novel about three individuals whose lives intersect in unforeseen ways. Set in a close-knit Pennsylvania suburb in the grip...
- Author:Hunter, TravisSummary:
Beloved teacher Dallas Dupree just can't get over the death of his wife. To fill the void, he spends most of his time with his daughter Aja. But the new woman in Dalls' life is hiding a nasty secret that could cost him his career,...
- Author:Namey, Laura TaylorSummary:
"A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow is an absolute delight. Cozier than a hand-knit gray cardigan and richer than Abuela's pastelito recipe, Namey takes you from Miami to Winchester, and leaves your heart belonging...
- Author:Roberts, Ken L.Summary:
On a routine trip to a women’s Bible study, Ken’s wife of twenty-five years was killed in a car accident. At the time of the accident, Ken was forty-seven years of age, the father of two adult children, and the pastor of a large and...