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When Erik Davidsen and his sister, Inga, find a disturbing note from an unknown woman among their dead father's papers, they believe he may be implicated in a mysterious death. The Sorrows of an American tells the story of the Davidsen family as brother and sister uncover its secrets and unbandage its wounds in the year following their father's funeral.
2) Nightshade
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In this 16th entry in Susan Wittig Albert's long-running mystery series, China is finally on the verge of finding out the truth about her father's death. But her reservations about letting her half-brother Miles hire her husband prove all too accurate when she discovers Miles has a hidden agenda.
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"After the death of his father and fishing partner, twelve-year old Jack Cooper unwillingly travels with his mom from Pennsylvania to Alaska to meet his grandfather, Fly Bob, for the first time. Over the summer, Jack challenges himself to do something his father 'Redds' Cooper had never accomplished, catching the Alaskan Salmon Slam: all five species of Pacific salmon in one summer. Jack encounters more than he expected fly fishing on the waters of...
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This novel provides an examination of contemporary America through the prism of a family tragedy: when a powerful parent dies, each of his adult children reacts in startling and unexpected ways, and his grieving widow in the most surprising way of all. Stark and penetrating, it's an exploration of psychological trauma, class warfare, grief, and eventual healing.
6) Tiger eyes
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
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When Davey Wexler's father is killed in a holdup in Atlantic City, her mother moves Davey and her brother to Los Alamos to get away from the memories--but Davey is a girl frozen in fear and anger, until she meets an older boy called Wolf who can read her tiger eyes.
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On a midsummer day in Auckland, New Zealand, two events occur that will change composer Adam Anker's life forever. As a result, Adam embarks on a journey to uncover his family's past that takes him from New Zealand to Krakow, Poland, where he learns of his parents' fate during World War II, and finally to Sweden.
8) Skinny
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After her father's death, Gray Lachmann, finds herself compulsively overeating. Determined to take control again, she takes a job at a weight-loss camp. There she has to deal with devious co-counselors. combative teenage campers and the discovery of a teenage half-sister she never knew she had.
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2015.
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" "Eddie Joyce's terrific first novel is so American that the story might as well have taken place at the base of the Statue of Liberty. His Amendola family and their beloved Staten Island may be flawed, but they represent what's best and most necessary in the American character, what our tired and poor still yearn for." -Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls A startling and tender portrait of one family's struggle to...
11) Neznakomaia doch
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Corpus) volume 583
Publisher
Corpus
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Russian
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"Leda, a 47-year-old divorced mother, is alone for the first time in years after her now adult daughters leave home to live with their father. Her initial, unexpected sense of liberty turns to ferocious introspection. She spends her summer vacation on a beach on the southern Italian coast watching a young mother and her little girl play. When the girl loses her doll, Leda commits a small crime that she can't explain even to herself." --
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What would you do if you knew you only had 100 days left to live? So begins the last hundred days of Lucio's life, as he attempts to care for his family, win back his wife (the love of his life and afterlife), and spend the next three months enjoying every moment with a zest he hasn't felt in years. From helping his hopelessly romantic, widowed father-in-law find love, discovering comfort in enduring friendships, and finding new ones, Lucio becomes,...
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Sifriyah la-ʻam volume 777
Publisher
ʻAm ʻoved
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
עברית
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"In three clear voices unfolding over more than a decade, the story of a seemingly normative family uniting in a time of crisis unfolds. The father is a veteran beekeeper, the mother is a school principal, the daughter a flight attendant who longs to know the big world - and the son actually chooses to be a criminal. How will his family members react on the day he tries to escape the law?
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Unique Pen Publications, LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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Every fan of the standalone novel, What Happens in This House Stays in This House, knows that Raymond Kramer was a force to be reckoned with. Until now, no one knew how or why he became a monster. It was as if he was born that way, but the fact is that he wasn't. Before Raymond became a violent sadistic man, he was a sweet loving boy with dreams of one day being someone important. An abusive murderer was never in his cards, at least not the hand that...
15) Расплата
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Издательство АСТ
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Russian
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"Pete Banning was Clanton's favorite son, a returning war hero, the patriarch of a prominent family, a farmer, father, neighbor, and a faithful member of the Methodist church. Then one cool October morning in 1946. he rose early, drove into town, walked into the church, and calmly shot and killed the Reverend Dexter Bell. As if the murder wasn't shocking enough, it was even more baffling that Pete's only statement about it - to the sheriff, to his...