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681) Fracture
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
After falling through the ice of a frozen lake and being resuscitated by her best friend Decker, seventeen-year-old Delaney begins experiencing a strange affinity for the dead and wonders whether she is predicting death or causing it.
682) Pack up the moon
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2021
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"Every month, a letter. That's what Lauren decides to leave her husband when she finds out she's dying. Each month, she gives Josh a letter containing a task to help him face this first year without her, leading him on a heartrending, beautiful, often humorous journey to find happiness again.
Joshua and Lauren are the perfect couple. Newly married, they're wildly in love, each on a successful and rewarding career path. Then Lauren is diagnosed with...
683) Gravesend
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 249 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Ray Boy Calabrese is released from prison 16 years after his actions led to the death of a young man. The victim's brother, Conway D'Innocenzio, is a 29-year-old Brooklynite wasting away at a local Rite Aid, stuck in the past and still howling for Ray Boy's blood. When the chips are down and the gun is drawn, Conway finds that he doesn't have murder in him. Thus begins a spiral of self-loathing and soul-searching into which he is joined by Alessandra,...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"One kiss lasts a moment. But a thousand kisses can last a lifetime. One boy. One girl. A bond that is forged in an instant and cherished for a decade. A bond that neither time nor distance can break. A bond that will last forever. Or so they believe. When seventeen-year-old Rune Kristiansen returns from his native Norway to the sleepy town of Blossom Grove, Georgia, where he befriended Poppy Litchfield as a child, he has just one thing on his mind....
685) Countdown
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a young nurse downloads an app that alleges to foresee a person's time of death, it claims she has three days to stay alive. With time running out, and an eerie figure haunting her, she must find a way to survive.
Author
Publisher
Plough Publishing House
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fear of accidents or acts of terror, illness or dying, loneliness or grief – if you're like most people such anxieties may be robbing you of the peace that could be yours. In Be Not Afraid, Johann Christoph Arnold, a seasoned pastoral counselor who has accompanied many people to death's door, tells how ordinary men, women and children found the strength to conquer their deepest fears. Drawing on stories of people he has known as pastor,...
687) Auma's Long Run
Author
Publisher
Lerner Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
Auma loves to run. In her small Kenyan village, she's a track star with big dreams. A track scholarship could allow her to attend high school and maybe even become a doctor. But a strange new sickness called AIDS is ravaging the village, and when her father becomes ill, Auma's family needs her help at home. Soon more people are getting sick—even dying—and no one knows why. Now Auma faces a difficult choice. Should she stay to support her struggling...
688) I am Alfonso Jones
Author
Publisher
Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
167 pages : chiefly illustrated ; 23 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The ghost of fifteen-year-old Alfonso Jones travels in a New York subway car full of the living and the dead, watching his family and friends fight for justice after he is killed by an off-duty police officer while buying a suit in a Midtown department store.
689) Summer at the Cape
Author
Series
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
422 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"As the older sibling to identical twins Violet and Lily, Cami Porter was always the odd sister out. The divide grew even wider when their parents split up--while the twins stayed in Cape Sanctuary with their free-spirited mother, Rosemary, fourteen-year-old Cami moved to LA with her attorney father. Nearly twenty years later, when Cami gets the terrible news that Lily has drowned saving a child s life, her mother begs her to return home to help untangle...
690) World without end
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 389 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in England during the 1300s, the series chronicles the lives of ordinary citizens as the King leads the nation into the Hundred Years' War with France, all while Europe is bracing for the Black Death. Caris, a visionary woman, and her lover Merthin build a community that stands up to the Crown and the church.
691) The atlas of us
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Atlas James has lost her way. In a last-ditch effort to pull her life together, she's working on a community service program rehabbing trails in the Western Sierras. The only plus is that the days are so exhausting that Atlas might just be tired enough to forget that this was one of her dad's favorite places in the world. Before cancer stole him from her life, that is. Using real names is forbidden on the trail. So Atlas becomes Maps, and with her...
Author
Publisher
Norton Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
176 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Reeling from the death of her mother, fourteen-year-old Mati's family leaves England to visit their native Zimbabwe, where Mati finds comfort in Meticais, a gender-neutral spirit or ghost who only she can see, and who helps her navigate her mercurial interpersonal relationships and feelings of grief.
693) The descendants
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Matt King is an indifferent husband and father of two girls, who is forced to re-examine his past and embrace his future when his wife suffers a boating accident off of Waikiki. The event leads to a rapprochement with his young daughters while Matt wrestles with a decision to sell the family's land handed down from Hawaiian royalty and missionaries.
694) The purple balloon
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Easy-to-read text reveals that dying is hard work, for the old and especially the young, and how good it is that so many people help when a person dies, from medical staff to clergy and friends to family members.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A rollicking historical account of Marguerite Steinheil ('the Red Widow"), a real-life French femme fatale who used her influence to arrange governmental appointments, blackmailed her opponents, and may have even attempted to poison those who got in the way of her agenda--and also mysteriously survived a home invasion that left her husband and mother dead, leaving the police with more questions than answers. For readers of The Radium Girls and Sin...
Author
Publisher
DC Comics/Vertigo
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
30th anniversary edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"Return to the realm of the Dreaming with seven remarkable stories-one for each member of the otherworldly Endless family-illustrated by an international roster of artists drawn from the tanks of comics' greatest talents. By turns haunting, bittersweet, erotic and nightmarish, these provocative tales range across time and space to reveal strange secrets and surprising truths about the immortal siblings Death, Desire, Dream, Despair, Delirium, Destruction...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
306 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Winchester, England, has always been home for Flora, but when her mother dies after a long illness, Flora feels untethered. Her family expects her to apply to university and take a larger role in their tea-shop business, but Flora isn't so sure. More than ever, she's the chaotic "hurricane" in her household, and she doesn't always know how to manage her stormy emotions. So she decides to escape to Miami without telling anyone--especially her longtime...
Author
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
The second collection of poetry from the author of such classics as Tess of the D'Urbervilles and Far from the Madding Crowd.
Although well known for his novels, like Jude the Obscure, Thomas Hardy also wrote poetry throughout his life. Poems of the Past and the Present is Hardy's second volume of poetry, originally published in 1901. This wide-ranging collection is divided into five sections: War Poems, Poems of Pilgrimage, Miscellaneous Poems,...
699) Complete sonnets
Author
Series
Publisher
Telltale Weekly
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Complete Sonnets is a collection of 154 poems written by William Shakespeare, first published in 1609. They are considered to be the greatest sonnets and poems ever written, by the greatest poet and playwright in the English language. This powerful, thought-provoking collection is for anyone interested in exploring the themes of love, desire, and the human condition. Over 150 deal with love, friendship, death, the passage of time, and the nature of...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
268 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Shantanu Das is living in the shadows of his past. In his fifties, he finds himself isolated from his traditional Bengali community after a devastating divorce from his wife, Chaitali; he hasn’t spoken to his eldest daughter Mitali in months; and most painfully, he lives each day with the regret that he didn’t accept his teenaged daughter Keya after she came out as gay. As the anniversary of Keya’s death approaches, Shantanu wakes up one morning...
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