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Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Creating an algorithm to improve his internet dating employer's match success rate only to be fired for being too effective, Sam Elliot develops a computer program that creates compelling human simulations that allow people to say final goodbyes to lost loved ones.
82) The goodbye book
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Illustrations and brief text relate how a person might feel when they lose someone they love.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"On an unnamed island off an unnamed coast, things are disappearing. First, animals and flowers. Then objects--ribbons, bells, photographs. Then, body parts. Most of the island's inhabitants fail to notice these changes, while those few imbued with the power to recall the lost objects live in fear of the mysterious 'memory police,' who are committed to ensuring that the disappeared remain forgotten. When a young novelist realizes that more than her...
87) Lech
Author
Publisher
Tortoise Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Set over the course of one summer in upstate New York, this novel mixes the lives of strangers, family, friends, and neighbors to explore--with humor--the predatory side of human nature through conflicts of faith, trauma, desire, and longing.
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A love story told in letters spans two world wars and follows the correspondence between a poet on the Scottish Isle of Skye and an American volunteer ambulance driver for the French Army, an affair that is discovered years later when the poet disappears.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Renowned writer Kogito Choko returns to his home village in search of a red suitcase rumored to reveal the details of his father's drowning death during World War II, but when the contents fail to reveal anything new, he begins to flounder professionally.
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When Poppy Higgins left Yorktide, Maine, for Boston, she pictured future visits home as brief diversions from her real life in the big city. Fate had different ideas, and at twenty-five, Poppy has been called back to care for her two younger sisters following their father's death.
91) Ida, always
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A polar bear grieves over the loss of his companion, based on the real-life Gus and Ida of New York's Central Park Zoo.
92) We own the sky
Author
Publisher
Park Row Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
When a devastating illness takes his beloved family from him, a man who once believed himself incredibly lucky takes solace in photographing the skyscrapers and cliff tops his son and he once visited before embarking on a powerful journey through forgiveness back to life.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Life threatening cancer brings Francis and Amber together. But Francis's recovery is taking a different path from Amber's. He's actually getting better. And although he knew who he was before cancer, before Amber, now he has no idea how to live--or how to let go.
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
©2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
The world, itself, seems to bring together Henry, whose best friend died near their home in the mountains of Vermont, and Zavion, who lost his home in Hurricane Katrina, so that the boys can help each other heal.
Author
Publisher
River City Pub
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
"Judith's son has shot two students, a teacher, and himself at school. An ordinary wife and mother must suddenly grapple with extraordinary grief and horror, struggling to be the center of her remaining family but plagued by doubts and questions that may disrupt her life more completely than the shooting"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Trying to escape her worthless life leads to unexpected and disastrous consequences when Sue Ellen steals money and a raft and embarks on a journey to dig up her best friend's body, burn it, and sprinkle the ashes in Hollywood.
Author
Series
Eleanor Kane books volume 1
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When nine-year-old Eleanor's beloved babysitter Bibi moves away to care for her ailing father, Eleanor must spend the summer adjusting to a new babysitter while mourning the loss of her old one.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Presents a modern retelling of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream," following the experiences of three people on the run from failed relationships who are transformed by a grieving faerie queen and a scheming homeless man.
Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Still grieving over the death of her hero, and missing her stolen horse and kidnapped younger sister, Kaya tries to earn the trust of a lone and starving dog who is about to have puppies. Includes historical notes on Nez Percé children.
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