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Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"A powerfully suspenseful story narrated by a young girl who must fend for herself and her little brother after a brutal bear attack. While camping with her family on a remote island, five-year-old Anna awakes in the night to the sound of her mother screaming. A rogue black bear, 300 pounds of fury, is attacking the family's campsite, pouncing on her parents as prey. At her dying mother's faint urging, Anna manages to get her brother into the family's...
42) At last
Author
Series
Patrick Melrose ; 5
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"Friends, relatives, and foes trickle in to pay final respects to Patrick's mother, Eleanor. An American heiress, Eleanor married into the British aristocracy, giving up the grandeur of her upbringing for "good works" freely bestowed on everyone but her own son, who finds himself questioning whether his transition to a life without parents will indeed be the liberation he had so long imagined..."Provided by publisher.
43) Steadfast mercy
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Posen, Michigan. After the tragic death of her parents, Jonica Muller must return to the Amish community she left in shame. Tasked with settling her father's estate, she plans to keep her visit as brief as possible so she can return to start a life with Ephraim, a widower who has offered her and her five-year-old son the stability of a family. But her father's sister, Aenti Edna, is showing signs of a slipping mind. Caleb is a young farmer working...
45) Hanging up
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
A tragicomedy on handling a senile parent. It is told as a series of telephone conversations between those involved, chats between the three daughters, with their father, calls to husbands, calls to friends.
46) Kate Vaiden
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
At a crucial moment in middle age, Kate Vaiden wishes to locate her only child, a son, whom she abandoned when she was 17. As she looks back over her life, her unconventional story unfolds.
47) Wit's end
Author
Language
English
Description
What happens when readers steal your characters? Rima Lanisell is about to find out when she visits her estranged godmother, Addison Early, the successful mystery writer of the Maxwell Lane mysteries, and discovers the truth behind Addison's novels.
Author
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Did Charles Drummond really kill his wife, Sarah, and then himself while their two children slept upstairs? Years later, an accident at work leads Mia to have flashbacks to the night her parents met their horrific deaths. As she and her sister Abby finally share painful memories from that fateful evening, they start to unravel the truth."--
53) Arch-conspirator
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From dystopian visionary and bestselling phenomenon Veronica Roth comes a razor-sharp reimagining of Antigone. In Arch-Conspirator, Roth reaches back to the root of legend and delivers a world of tomorrow both timeless and unexpected. Outside the last city on Earth, the planet is a wasteland. Without the Archive, where the genes of the dead are stored, humanity will end. Passing into the Archive should be cause for celebration, but Antigone's parents...
56) The kingdom
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Roy has never left the quiet mountain town he grew up in; his little brother Carl couldn't wait to get out and escape his troubled past. When Carl returns with a new wife and a business opportunity that seems too good to be true, simmering tensions begin to surface. Soon powerful players set their sights on taking the brothers down by exposing their role in the town's sordid history. Roy and Carl are survivors, and no strangers to violence. But as...
57) Time is a killer
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"In the summer of 2016, Clotilde is spending her vacation in Corsica with her husband Franck and her teenage daughter Valentine. It is the first time she has been back to the island since the car accident in which her parents and her brother were killed decades earlier. She was in the car too, but miraculously escaped with her life ... When a mysterious letter signed "Palma"--Clotilde's mother--arrives, the truth about her family, her parents' death,...
Author
Publisher
A Avon
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Already a national bestseller in the U.K., Lola Jaye's By the Time You Read This is a profoundly beautiful story of a father's abiding love for the daughter he will never see grow up-and his determination to help guide her through the difficult crossroads and crises of her life even after his own passing. Poignant and unforgettable, evoking in part The Pursuit of Happyness and The Last Lecture, By the Time You Read This celebrates a remarkable bond...
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