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1021) Boynton Beach Club
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Lois, Harry, Marilyn, Sandy and Jack live in an "Active Adult" community in Boynton Beach, Florida. Their lives intersect when they meet at a local Bereavement Club where they go to find the emotional support needed after lossing a loved one. New love and romance do not end before retirement, but can bloom long after. These five do not see themselves as becoming old, and these residents of Boynton Beach aren't about to start. Sometimes we all need...
1022) Premonition
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
A housewife's life is shattered when she finds out that her husband Jim is killed in a gruesome car accident. But when she awakes the next morning, he is still alive and well. She keeps having dreams about his death, and must decide what to do.
Pub. Date
c2011
Description
Helping Parents Grieve is for any parent who has experienced the death of a child--and for those who aim to help someone who is grieving. You will meet men and women who have suffered, who share their stories, and help to kindle hope for finding life again. Topics include: Knowing you are not alone ; Dealing with the loss of hopes and dreams ; Grieving the death of a baby ; The family's grief journey ; Honoring and remembering your child.
1025) In sight of stars
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
"Seventeen-year-old Klee's father was the center of his life. He introduced Klee to the great museums of New York City and the important artists on their walls, he told him stories made of myths and magic. Until his death. Now, forced to live in the suburbs with his mom, Klee can't help but feel he's lost all the identifying parts of himself-- his beloved father, weekly trips to the MoMA, and the thrumming energy of New York City. That is until he...
1026) On my own
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
In a deeply personal and moving book, the beloved NPR radio host speaks out about the long drawn-out death (from Parkinson's) of her husband of fifty-four years, and of her struggle to reconstruct her life without him.
1028) Last Christmas
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
A boy is dreaming of meeting his deceased father, but when his wish comes true and his father visits him as an angel, it turns out that he is not exactly the hero his son envisioned him to be.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Writer Susan Tweit and her economist-turned-sculptor husband Richard Cabe had just settled into their version of a "good life" when Richard saw thousands of birds one day--harbingers of the brain cancer that would kill him two years later. This compelling and intimate memoir chronicles their journey into the end of his life, framed by their final trip together, a 4,000-mile-long delayed honeymoon road trip. As Susan and Richard navigate the unfamiliar...
1030) Angel's rest
Author
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
In 1967, a shotgun blast kills Charlie's father and puts his mother on trial for murder. When Hollis Thrasher, a reclusive Korean War veteran, is linked to his father's death, Charlie embarks on a dangerous midnight journey pitting him against his darkest fears. Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.
1031) Nostalgia
Pub. Date
2018
Description
Several stories follow people connected by the theme of loss and memory.
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Appears on list
Description
After his brother's suicide, Leopold Bloom King struggles along with the rest of his family in Charleston, South Carolina, until he begins to gather an intimate circle of friends, whose ties endure for two decades until a final, unexpected test of friendship.
1034) The volcano disaster
Pub. Date
2005.
Description
Grieving the death of his wife, Volcanologist Russel Woods visits her village in Italy and predicts an impending volcanic eruption. The mayor refuses to believe the warnings for fear of tourist panic. In the village he meets a mute girl that the villagers believe is cursed by the devil.
1036) Daniel and the superdogs
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
Daniel and the Superdogs overcome adversity with the help of friends and a cuddly canine.
1038) Wild (Colorado State Library Book Club Collection): from lost to found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Appears on list
Description
Traces the personal crisis the author endured after the death of her mother and a painful divorce, which prompted her ambition to undertake a dangerous 1,100-mile solo hike that both drove her to rock bottom and helped her to heal.
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