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This novel provides an examination of contemporary America through the prism of a family tragedy: when a powerful parent dies, each of his adult children reacts in startling and unexpected ways, and his grieving widow in the most surprising way of all. Stark and penetrating, it's an exploration of psychological trauma, class warfare, grief, and eventual healing.
2) Crown jewel
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English
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Fern Michaels, one of the world's best-loved storytellers, delivers an emotionally charged and surprising tale of two very different brothers and the one woman who loved them both—and who holds the key to a family secret.
Handsome, rich, and adored by millions, Ricky Lam was a golden boy—with a dark side. The substance-addicted superstar had hit rock bottom, but luckily, he had a business manager, his older brother Philip, who...
Handsome, rich, and adored by millions, Ricky Lam was a golden boy—with a dark side. The substance-addicted superstar had hit rock bottom, but luckily, he had a business manager, his older brother Philip, who...
5) Nightshade
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Series
China Bayles mysteries volume 16
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
China's herb shop and catering business may be thriving, but she's still reeling from her father's death, and not even remotely interested in her half-brother Miles's investigation into that event. China's husband, on the other hand, has no such qualms. And when fate forces her to get involved as well, China realizes it's time to bring the past to light-or else it will haunt her the rest of her life. But China and McQuaid discover that Miles may have...
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Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Maurice Allington has reached middle age and is haunted by death. As he says, "I honestly can't see why everybody who isn't a child, everybody who's theoretically old enough to have understood what death means, doesn't spend all his time thinking about it. It's a pretty arresting thought." He also happens to own and run a country inn that is haunted. The Green Man opens as Maurice's father drops dead (had he seen something in the room?) and continues...
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Series
Tarot mysteries (Midnight Ink) volume 1
Publisher
Midnight Ink
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Much to Alanis McLachlan's surprise, her estranged con-woman mother has left her an inheritance: The White Magic Five & Dime, a shop in tiny Berdache, Arizona. Reluctantly traveling to Berdache to claim her new property, Alanis decides to stay and pick up her mother's tarot business in an attempt to find out how she died. With help from a hunky cop and her mother's live-in teenage apprentice, Alanis begins faking her way through tarot readings in...
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Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
What would you do if you knew you only had 100 days left to live? So begins the last hundred days of Lucio's life, as he attempts to care for his family, win back his wife (the love of his life and afterlife), and spend the next three months enjoying every moment with a zest he hasn't felt in years. From helping his hopelessly romantic, widowed father-in-law find love, discovering comfort in enduring friendships, and finding new ones, Lucio becomes,...
10) Chorus: a novel
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Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The seven Shaw siblings have long been haunted by two early and profoundly consequential events. Told in turn back and forth over time, from the early twentieth century through the 1950s, each sibling relays their own version of the memories that surround both their mother's mysterious death and the circumstances leading up to and beyond one sister's scandalous teenage pregnancy. As they move into adulthood, the siblings assume various new roles:...
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Publisher
William Morrow, An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Sylvie Snow knows the pressures of expectations: a woman is supposed to work hard, but never be tired; age gracefully, but always be beautiful; fix the family problems, but always be carefree. Sylvie does the grocery shopping, the laundry, the scheduling, the schlepping and the PTA-ing, while planning her son's Bar Mitzvah and cheerfully tending her husband, Paul, who's been lying on the sofa with a broken ankle. She's also secretly addicted to the...
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Publisher
Washington Square Press, a division of Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The screech of tires brought Hannah Scott{u2019}s world as she knew it to a devastating end. A year after she signed the papers to donate her daughter{u2019}s organs, Hannah is still reeling with grief when she unexpectedly stumbles into the life of the Bell family, whose fifteen-year-old daughter, Maddie, survived only because Hannah{u2019}s daughter had died. Mesmerized by this fragile connection to her own daughter and afraid to reveal who she...
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Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Dera White's I Will Not Die Alone is a hilarious, feel-good story about the end of the world. Featuring illustrations by Joe Bennett, it is a story full of realistic self-love affirmations for all of us who are just trying to get by, until we die. "It's funny, it's dark, and there's a lion wearing pants. If you only read one more book before the world ends, make it this one."-Brooke Barker, New York Times bestselling author of Sad Animal Facts "Oh...
14) Os vigila
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Publisher
Roca Editorial
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
"Un trepidante thriller psicológico que se desarrolla en las montañas asturianas. Olivia regresa a la casa de Caberu, en las montañas asturianas, un año después del accidente que acabó con la vida de Guillermo y del que todavía no se ha recuperado. Desde que llegó, cada noche cree oír su voz advirtiéndola de que salga de allí y huya, porque hay alguien que la vigila para hacerle daño. Ella lo achaca al estrés de volver al lugar en el...
Author
Publisher
Restless Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The English-language debut of celebrated Israeli novelist Yishai Sarid is a fierce and harrowing tale of reckoning with the horror of the Holocaust, and how memory and the effort to preserve it can become an all-consuming monster. The narrator of Yishai Sarid's powerful novel is a young, initially reluctant Holocaust scholar working at Yad Vashem, Israel's memorial to the victims of the Holocaust. A diligent historian, he soon becomes a leading expert...
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