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Mason novels volume 1
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English
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"Truluv is a moving novel about three people who have lost the person they love most, and must find their way back to happiness. Arthur, a widower, meets Maddy, an angry and friendless teenage girl, while visiting his late wife at the cemetary, where he goes every day for lunch. Against all odds, the two strike up a friendship that pulls them out of a serious rut. They band together with Arthur's nosy neighbor Lucille, to create lives that are truly...
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English
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Annie Colwater’s husband has just confessed that he’s in love with a younger woman. Devastated, Annie retreats to the small town where she grew up. There, she is reunited with her first love, Nick Delacroix, a recent widower who is unable to cope with his silent, emotionally scarred young daughter. Together, the three of them begin to heal. But just when Annie believes she’s been given a second chance at happiness, her world is turned upside...
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English
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Major Ernest Pettigrew (retired) leads a quiet life in the village of St. Mary, England, until his brother's death sparks an unexpected friendship with Mrs. Jasmina Ali, the Pakistani shopkeeper from the village. Drawn together by their shared love of literature and the loss of their respective spouses, the Major and Mrs. Ali soon find their friendship blossoming into something more. But will their relationship survive in a society that considers...
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Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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When Edward Schuyler, is widowed, he finds himself ambushed by female attention. Edward receives phone calls from widows seeking love, while well-meaning friends try to set him up at dinner parties. The problem is that Edward is still mourning his beloved wife, Bee. But then his stepchildren surprise him by placing a personal ad in The New York Review of Books on his behalf. As letters pour in he reluctantly starts dating, finding it an nuhappy...
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Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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Henry Lee, a Chinese-American in Seattle, loses his wife to cancer and recalls his youth, when he and his Japanese-American friend, Keiko, spent time together during WWII--before Keiko and her family were interred at a camp--and deals with generational difficulties between himself and his father and college-age son.
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English
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A BEST OF SUMMER READ ACCORDING TO NEWSWEEK, PARADE MAGAZINE, NBC NEWS, LITHUB, AND POPSUGAR! "The most heartfelt read of the summer...a surprising delight of a novel."--Shondaland An unforgettable and heartwarming debut about how a chance encounter with a list of library books helps forge an unlikely friendship between two very different people in a London suburb. Widower Mukesh lives a quiet life in Wembley, in West London after losing his beloved...
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Series
Publisher
Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Center Point large print ed.
Physical Desc
431 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
On the anniversary of his beloved wife's death, Dr. Michael Everett receives a letter Hannah had written him. In it she reminds him of her love and makes one final request. An impossible request - I want you to marry again. She tells him he shouldn't spend the years he has left grieving her. And to that end she's chosen three women she asks him to consider.
10) No second chance
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Language
English
Description
A surgeon suspected of killing his wife attempts to save his kidnapped infant daughter without the help of the authorities.
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Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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When his most prized possession, a rare collection of Poe poems, is stolen, bookstore owner A. J. Fikry begins isolating himself from his friends, family and associates before receiving a mysterious package that compels him to remake his life. The irascible A. J. Fikry, owner of Island Books, the only bookstore on Alice Island, has already lost his wife. Now, a rare book, has been stolen from right under his nose in the most embarrassing of circumstances....
12) The cave
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Publisher
Harcourt, Inc
Pub. Date
c2002
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
307 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Cipriano Algor, an elderly potter, lives with his daughter Marta and her husband Marçal in a small village on the outskirts of The Center. Marçal works there as a security guard, and Cipriano drives him to work each day before delivering his own humble pots and jugs. On one such visit, he is told not to make any more deliveries until further notice. People prefer plastic, he is told it lasts longer and doesn't break. Cipriano tries his hand at making...
14) Go, went, gone
Author
Publisher
New Directions
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
The novel tells the tale of Richard, a retired classics professor who lives in Berlin. His wife has died, and he lives a routine existence until one day he spies some African refugees staging a hunger strike in Alexanderplatz. Curiosity turns to compassion and an inner transformation, as he visits their shelter, interviews them, and becomes embroiled in their harrowing fates. Go, Went, Gone is a scathing indictment of Western policy toward the European...
16) The healing
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Series
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Can a man burdened by memories of yesterday find hope in the land of tomorrow? Will peace-loving Samuel and Esther fight for their newfound love? How will God manage to untangle these star-crossed lovers before any damage is done?
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Publisher
Grove Atlantic
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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Henry Dorn, recently widowed, decides to travel to Amsterdam by ship, but an encounter with Lydia Pearce, a young woman on the ship, leads to an unexpected romantic affair that troubles Henry's thoughts about the loss of his wife and his uneasy relationship with his son.
18) Don't go
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Language
English
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Fleeing home from his military service in Afghanistan when his wife dies in an apparent freak household accident, Dr. Mike Scanlon struggles with the tragedy, his inability to bond with his new baby daughter and a downsizing in his medical practice only to discover a shocking secret that changes his understanding of everything.
19) The old man
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Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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To all appearances, Dan Chase is a harmless retiree in Vermont with two big mutts and a grown daughter he keeps in touch with by phone. But most sixty-year-old widowers don't have multiple driver's licenses, savings stockpiled in banks across the country, and a bugout kit with two Beretta Nanos stashed in the spare bedroom closet. Most have not spent decades on the run. Thirty-five years ago, as a young hotshot in army intelligence, Chase was sent...
Author
Publisher
The Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
394 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Jules is confronted headlong and all at once by a series of challenges to his principles, livelihood, and home, forcing him to grapple with his complex past and find a way forward. He risks fraud to save his terminally ill infant grandson, matches wits with a renegade insurance investigator, is drawn into an act of savage violence, and falls deeply, excitingly in love with a young cellist a third his age. He forges a denouement that is staggering...
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