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81) Familiar ground
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
1984.
Language
English
Description
A man haunted by the death of his brother and a forty-year-old secret returns to his Tennessee hometown in this novel by the author of A Question of Mercy.
A novel of homecoming, loss, and the power of story, Familiar Ground follows the return of Jacob Bechner to rural Sweetwater, Tennessee, summoned by Callie, a dying woman nearly one hundred years old. Jacob aims to confront a moment of violence from forty years in his past that cost him the...
Author
Publisher
Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The quiet, introverted daughter of a flamboyant soap-star agrees to take her Elvis-obsessed mother to Graceland one last time before she dies despite leaving Memphis with a secret and a signed agreement never to return."--
Author
Publisher
David R. Godine, Publisher
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In the years after World War II, the Senter family built an Eden-like life on their isolated dairy farm in rural Maine. When tragedy strikes, the close-knit family is shattered. Each must fight the isolation their own grief and guilt as they attempt to reclaim some semblance of their old life-if they can. Like the best work of Kent Haruf and Marilynne Robinson, Meredith Hall's Beneficence beautifully illuminates the effects of love and loss while...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
There are people in this world we pass right by, yet some of them have amazing stories to tell. Aaron Miller was an old, worn-out Vietnam vet, a handyman in a trailer park. Forty years prior, he saved the lives of three young men in the field only to come home from the war and lose everything. But God is a master at finding and redeeming the lost things of life. Aaron is about to be found. And the one who finds him just might find the love of his...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
This is a parable for our times: a take on small town America that is hilarious, moving, and utterly original… Eden, USA, is the perfect place to live until Ed Harris, the banker, finds his wife in bed with his best friend. Shotgun in hand, he escorts them to the door, and tells his friend: "Guess what? She's yours! ""I've got a wife, Ed," says the friend. "Now you have two... "Suddenly, Eden is turned upside down: love blossoms between the town...
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"After their mother's probable suicide, sisters Olivia and Jazz take steps to move on with their lives. Jazz, logical and forward-thinking, decides to get a new job, but spirited, strong-willed Olivia--who can see sounds, taste words, and smell sights--is determined to travel to the remote setting of their mother's unfinished novel to lay her spirit properly to rest"--Amazon.com.
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Abigail has given up everything she's worked so hard for to chase down the object of her obsession, Tyler Kamp. As she follows him across the border into Canada, her journey is awash in memories of family and childhood, especially those of her younger sister, Hailey. Even as Abigail races to her future, her past pulls her back. And only when she is brought to the edge of her obsession will she be able to come to terms with the tragedy that ignited...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Anna Stoltzfus lives a quiet but fulfilling life in Promise Glen. Though she lost her beloved brother in a tragic accident, her family is supportive and close-knit, and her job as a cherished teacher at the Orchard Hill Amish School fills her heart with joy each day. Anna knows one day she'll find someone she can love and marry, but she's perfectly happy with the life she created. Anna's comfort is quickly dashed, however, when the man Anna deemed...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the aftermath of her husband's act of adultery and abandonment, Savannah must finally face the ghosts that haunt her and discover for herself whether authentic faith, grace, and ultimate healing really do exist. When her husband of twenty-one years leaves her, Savannah Barrington believes she's lost almost everything she's ever loved. With her daughter in college and her son in boarding school, Savannah retreats to her parents' lake house in the...
90) Dimiter
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
As state security in 1970s Albania tortures a prisoner named Dimiter, known as the American "agent from hell," the staff at Jerusalem's Hadassah Hospital becomes enmeshed in a series of unexplainable deaths, until events explode in a surprising climax.
Author
Publisher
Urban Books
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Nevaeh Madison seems to live the epitome of the the perfect life. She's the captain of the varsity cheerleading squad and a straight-A student with a near-perfect boyfriend, Ronald. They have been dating for nearly three years, and the love that they share is immutable ... or so Nevaeh thinks. Sexual intimacy had never been an issue in their relationship because it was strictly off limits, but when their relationship is put to the test, Nevaeh's faith...
Author
Series
Shadow Lake ; 2
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Eliza King already has a broken heart, and thanks to a rickety ladder, she now has a broken leg too. She isn't dealing with either very well. Ever since a brief romance ended when the boy who'd been courting her tried a little too hard to take things further... Being incapacitated makes the latter impossible. But her Englisch doctor knows an Amish man looking for just such work. Eliza is shocked to discover that the man is Levi Lapp, the very boy...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Hope Springs, Texas, every first love deserves a second chance. Luna Meadows wove a successful career out of creating the sumptuous, richly hued scarves that adorn Hollywood's elite. Now she wants to give back to her hometown of Hope Springs, Texas, by creating a community arts center on the property that once belonged to her best friend: a talented musician named Sierra who perished in a car crash at age eighteen. As Luna sorts through the personal...
Author
Publisher
Zebra Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Reuben Helmuth is plenty bitter. John King, his best friend--or so he thought--is engaged to the girl Reuben loved. Humiliated, Reuben flees from Ohio to his grandparents' home on Huckleberry Hill, where he knows he'll find comfort. He's enjoying wallowing in his misery--until John's sister, Fern, shows up. She won't stop pestering Reuben about forgiveness--or trying to help him find love again. Yet Fern's efforts only reawaken Reuben's long-buried...
96) The punch
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
"This story traces the path of two brothers, Scott and David Henry, as they prepare for their father's memorial service. Younger brother Scott is responsible for his alcoholic mother, Doris, on their trip to New York. David works on memorial service preparations and secretly juggles marriages in New York and Los Angeles." --
Author
Publisher
She Writes Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"When her life in Scotland cracks apart, feisty Eleanor 'Els' Gordon exiles herself to a derelict plantation house on the Caribbean island of Nevis - only to discover she's cohabiting with the ghost of its former owner. The ghost must leave this world. Els must figure out how to go on living in it" --
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Escaping his political opponents in a Crimean resort town, disgraced Israeli politician Baruch Kotler runs into a former friend who had him sent to the gulag forty years prior and must reconcile with his betrayer and his own poor choices.
100) A daughter's truth
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Emma Lapp tries to be the perfect daughter, to earn the loving embrace of her family and her Amish community in Pennsylvania. Yet she can't quite win her mother's smile--or her forgiveness for a transgression Emma can't quite place . . . Emma knows she's the source of her mother's greatest sorrow, having been born on the same day Mamm lost her beloved sister. The one bright spot has been the odd trinkets anonymously left at her aunt's grave each...
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