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Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks on aremarkablesearchfor a family secretthat leads him to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum.Electrifying, funny, and wholly original, Martyr! heralds the arrival of an essential new voice in contemporary fiction."Kaveh Akbar is one of my favorite writers. Ever." -Tommy Orange, Pulitzer Prize-nominated...
Author
Publisher
Broadway Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Ten years into their marriage, Doss Michaels and Abbie Coleman face Abbie's life-threatening illness, and they steal away from the hospital to embark on a 130-mile trip down the St. Mary's River, a voyage that he had promised her early in their courtship.
5) Postscript
Author
Series
PS I love you volume 2
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Annie Hebden is stuck. Stuck in her boring job, with her irritating roommate, in a life no thirty-five-year-old would want. But deep down, Annie is still mourning the terrible loss that tore a hole through the perfect existence she'd once taken for granted -- and hiding away is safer than remembering what used to be. Until she meets the eccentric Polly Leonard. Bright, bubbly, intrusive Polly is everything Annie doesn't want in a friend. But Polly...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"From the author of The Day We Met ("As with Me Before You, by Jojo Moyes, I couldn't put this book down."--Katie Fforde) comes a beautiful, life-affirming novel that sparkles with love and wonder. We Are All Made of Stars is an unforgettable story about second chances, the power of words, and the resilience of the heart"-- Provided by publisher.
"Hospice nurse Stella prefers the night shift after Afghanistan left her veteran husband a changed man,...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2025.
Language
English
Description
"Armed with a terminal diagnosis, a grudge, and a rental car, forty-year-old Hester sets out to fulfill her lifelong dream of killing her father in this brilliantly subversive and bleakly funny novel It's Hester's fortieth birthday when she's diagnosed with terminal cancer, and she knows immediately what she must do: abandon her possessions and drive to California to kill her estranged father. With no friends or family tying her to the life she's...
11) Inochi
Author
Publisher
Kōdansha
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
日本語
Description
Beset by cancer and heart disease, an author faces her old age; she reflects on her seventy years as a writer, on the men she has met, and on the death of a friend and rival in writing.
13) My phantoms
Author
Publisher
NYRB/New York Review Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Helen Grant, known to her acquaintances as Hen, is a mystery to her daughter. An extrovert with few friends who has sought intimacy in the wrong places; a twice-divorced mother of two now living alone surrounded by her memories, Helen has always haunted Bridget. Now Bridget sees Helen once a year, and considers the problem to be contained. As she looks back on their tumultuous relationship- the performances and small deceptions- she tries to reckon...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A gripping Rust Belt thriller that captures the characters of a down-and-out Pennsylvania town, revealing their troubled pasts and the crimes that could cost them their lives. In Locksburg, Pennsylvania, a former coal and steel town whose best days seem long past, five thousand residents have toughed it out, and have reasons for both worry and hope as this neglected place teeters between decay and renewal. For some of them, their biggest troubles...
Author
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The dream of ski jumping haunts Jon Bargaard as his tale unfolds. As thrilling as those soaring flights, as precarious as his family's complicated love, as tender as Jon's backward gaze while disease takes him inexorably forward, Peter Geye's gorgeous prose brings Jon and his brother to the ultimate choice: each other, or the secrets they've held tightly for so long"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A septuagenarian leftist documentary filmmaker gives a last interview from his mythologized life to a former star student to whom he discloses his experiences as a draft dodger who fled to a new life in Montreal.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"The New York Times bestselling master of psychological suspense returns with a riveting thriller in which the possible heirs of a wealthy dying man are mysteriously being eliminated, one by one by one"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
"A lost young woman returns to small-town New Hampshire under the strangest of circumstances in this one-of-a-kind novel of life, death, and whatever comes after from the acclaimed author of Rabbit Cake. The Starlings live in Everton, an ordinary enough New Hampshire town. It's notable only for Corbin Park, an enormous hunting park, and for Maple Street Cemetery-home to many former residents of Everton. There's also the town legend that Emma Starling...
Author
Series
Harold Fry novels volume 2
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"When Queenie Hennessy is told she has days to live she sends a letter on pink paper in which she bids goodbye to Harold Fry. It is a letter that inspires an unlikely walk, a cast of well-wishers and the examination of many lives unlived. But there is a second letter, a longer, quieter more complicated letter which she will never send. It is this letter, the one we did not know about in The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, which reveals the shocking...
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