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"An emotionally-charged, brilliantly realized novel set in the l930's about five American women--Gold Star Mothers--who travel to France to visit the graves of their WWI soldier sons: a pilgrimage that will change their lives in unforeseeable and indelible ways. The women meet for the first time just before their journey begins: Katie, an Irish maid from Dorchester, Massachusetts; Minnie, wife of an immigrant Russian Jewish chicken farmer; Bobbie,...
2) The boy
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"When Detective Nick Fourcade enters the home of Genevieve Gauthier outside the sleepy town of Bayou Breaux, Louisiana, the bloody crime scene that awaits him is both the most brutal and the most confusing he's ever seen. Genevieve's seven-year-old son, KJ, has been murdered by an alleged intruder, yet Genevieve is alive and well, a witness inexplicably left behind to tell the tale. There is no evidence of forced entry, not a clue that points to a...
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"Five a.m.: Amanda Mallorie wakes to the knowledge that her son Robbie is gone. And a new chapter of her own life must begin. She has spent four years as her son's only support, desperately trying to understand the actions that landed him on death row and to change his fate. Now Amanda faces an even more difficult task--finding a way, and a reason, to move forward with her own life. Before the tragedy that unfolded in a South Dakota mall, Robbie was...
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"Two parents, desperate to find their missing daughter, stand accused of murder. How far will they go to find the truth? Someone is guilty. For the last seventeen years, everything Harry and Zara King have done has been for their crown jewel, Sophie, their one and only daughter. When she goes missing, Harry and Zara will stop at nothing to find her. Someone knows what happened. The police have no leads, and as the weeks pass there's little news. Harry...
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"Are you my mommy? Tessa Markham returns home to find a child in her kitchen. He thinks she is his mother. But Tessa doesn't have any children. Not anymore. She doesn't know who the little boy is or how he got there. After contacting the police, Tessa is suspected of kidnapping the mystery child. Her whole life is turned upside down. And then her husband reveals a secret of his own... Tessa isn't sure what to believe or whom to trust. Because someone...
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When Geniver Loxley lost her daughter at birth eight years ago, her world stopped and never fully started again. Mothers with strollers still make her flinch; her love of writing has turned into a half-hearted teaching career; and she and her husband, Art, have slipped into the kind of rut that seems inescapable. But then a stranger shows up on their doorstep, telling Gen the very thing she's always wanted to hear: that her daughter Beth was not stillborn,...
7) An hun
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This is a spiritual self-help book for the bereaved, full of grief but also comforting. The whole book runs through the beginning and end of the dialogue between a father and son. In the dialogue, the father looks back on his life and expresses a heart-wrenching repentance; in the dialogue, the son elaborates on his experience of death and tells the strange picture of the kingdom of heaven. The narrative is decidedly poignant and moving. The novel...
8) Winter water
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"Martin, who has always been drawn to the ocean, moves his wife Alexandra and their two young children move to his family's idyllic summer cottage in the picturesque island village of Orust, on the west coast of Sweden. Martin begins to cultivate a mussel farm, where he soon runs into trouble with the locals. One January weekend, in the few moments Martin is distracted by a ringing phone, his young son goes missing, leaving his little red bucket bobbing...
9) Tiny
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"Nate and Annie Forester are faced with every parent's worst nightmare when their three-year-old daughter, Penelope, is hit by a car right before their eyes. In the aftermath of her death, the distance between them grows. Nate just wants to move on and return to some version of normal, while Annie finds herself stuck in the quicksand of her grief" --
10) Plain peace
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"Anna's grandfather seems determined to ruin her Rumspringa and any hopes she has of finding a husband. Anna Byler should be enjoying her Rumspringa as allowed by her faith. But because of the strict rules enforced by her grandfather, the available suitors in town are afraid to court her. Even Anna's grandmother is keeping a big secret from Anna's grandfather in an effort to keep the peace. Under her grandfather's oppressive watch, Anna begins to...
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In the idyllic ski town of Breckenridge, Colorado, Sarah St. John is reeling. Three months ago, her twenty-two-year-old son, Cully, died in an avalanche. Though single, Sarah is hardly alone in her grief. Her father, a retiree, tries to distract her with gadgets from the QVC home shopping channel. Sarah's best friend offers life advice by venting details of her own messy divorce. Even Cully's father reemerges, stirring more emotions and confusion...
13) The guilty one
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"The day Ron Isherwood calls Maris Vacanti from the Golden Gate Bridge, asking if he should jump, is the day Maris's world completely transforms. Maris has been consumed with grief and anger since her teenage daughter was found dead at the hands of Ron's son. Her marriage is in pieces and her routine shattered. Now, burdened with a terrible choice by a man whose existence is forever entwined with hers- a fellow parent breaking under the weight of...
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Opowieść o kobiecej przyjaźni i bliznach na duszy, które zostają na całe życie. Anna, urzędniczka po czterdziestce, mieszka z matką, z którą nie potrafi znaleźć wspólnego języka. Elżbieta jest szczęśliwą żoną i współwłaścicielką rodzinnego biznesu, a Izabela rozpieszczoną przez życie córką wziętego lekarza. Trzy kobiety, trzy zupełnie różne światy. A jednak coś je łączy - każda z nich w dramatycznych okolicznościach...
15) Hamnet
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"Agnes, una muchacha peculiar que parece no rendir cuentas a nadie y que es capaz de crear misteriosos remedios con sencillas combinaciones de plantas, es la comidilla de Stratford, un pequeño pueblo de Inglaterra. Cuando esta conoce a un joven preceptor de latín igual de extraordinario que ella, se da cuenta enseguida de que están llamados a formar una familia. Pero su matrimonio se verá puesto a prueba, primero por sus parientes y después por...
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"Still grieving over his toddler's death, Philadelphia P.D. Detective Dan Brennan is assigned to investigate a socialite's fatal fall down her mansion's staircase. The victim's daughter alleges her mother was murdered. Her evidence? The dead in the vintage photographs displayed on the mansion walls have told her so. The epileptic young woman claims she can talk to the dead. Compelled to listen to the reclusive teen's pleas, Brennan sets out to look...
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"La Casa Blanca, febrero de 1862. Mientras Abraham Lincoln intenta hacer frente a una guerra civil que aenas acaba de comenzar, su hijo Willie fallece con tan sólo once años. Incapaz de dejarlo ir, el presidente visita la tumba en la que descansa el cuerpo, mientras el pequeño, atrapado entre la vida y la muerte, en un limbo habitado por fantasmas que ignoran su destino, se enfrenta a su propia lucha en lo más profundo de su alma."--Cover.