Catalog Search Results
1) Housekeeping
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
This modern classic is the story of Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, who grow up haphazardly, first under the care of their grandmother, then of two comically bumbling aunts, and finally of Sylvie, their eccentric and remote aunt. Their struggle toward adulthood beautifully illuminates the price of loss and survival. Cross Promotion With Gilead (FSG; Hardcover; November 2004)
2) Leaving time
Author
Language
English
Description
" For more than a decade, Jenna Metcalf has never stopped thinking about her mother, Alice, who mysteriously disappeared in the wake of a tragic accident. Refusing to believe that she would be abandoned as a young child, Jenna searches for her mother regularly online and pores over the pages of Alice's old journals. A scientist who studied grief among elephants, Alice wrote mostly of her research among the animals she loved, yet Jenna hopes the entries...
3) LaRose
Author
Language
English
Description
Landreaux Iron stalks a deer along the edge of the property bordering his own. He shoots with easy confidence -- but when the buck springs away, Landreaux realizes he's hit something else. When he staggers closer, he realizes he has killed his neighbor's five-year-old son, Dusty. The youngest child of his friend and neighbor, Peter Ravich, Dusty was best friends with Landreaux's five-year-old son, LaRose. The two families have always been close, sharing...
Author
Language
English
Description
Catalyzed by a nephew's thoughtless prank, a pair of brothers confront painful psychological issues surrounding the freak accident that killed their father when they were boys, a loss linked to a heartbreaking deception that shaped their personal and professional lives.
Author
Series
Detective Galileo mysteries volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Yasuko Hanaoka is a divorced, single mother who thought she had finally escaped her abusive ex-husband Togashi. When he shows up one day to extort money from her, threatening both her and her teenaged daughter Misato, the situation quickly escalates into violence and Togashi ends up dead on her apartment floor. Overhearing the commotion, Yasuko's next door neighbor, middle-aged high school mathematics teacher Ishigami, offers his help, disposing not...
Author
Series
Lone Star legends volume 3
Publisher
Whitaker House
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"The budding love between Micah Neville and Callie Roberts is put to the test when the two are forced to confront secrets from their pasts and overcome them with God's help"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Five people you meet in Heaven volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the author of the "New York Times" bestseller "Tuesdays with Morrie" comes a novel that explores unexpected connections and the idea that heaven is more than a placeQit's an answer. Just as the television adaptation of "Tuesdays with Morrie" boosted that title to its highest sales level ever, similar results are anticipated following the airing of a made-for-tv version of "The Five People You Meet In Heaven" on ABC December 5.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mathilda (Tilly), fourteen, and Ruth Anne (Roo), sixteen, are sisters and best friends in Connecticut, but when Roo crashes her car while texting she is confined to a hospital bed with "locked-in syndrome," aware of her surroundings, but apparently comatose--and Tilly must find a way to communicate with her sister, while dealing with her own sense of guilt.
11) Moscow noir
Publisher
Akashic Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Story after story offers haunting images: a husband interrupts his bludgeoning murder of his wife to sing their daughter back to sleep (Ludmilla Petrushevskaya's In the New Development); a cop eats an apple that fell from the shaven head of a drunken deputy chief detective just shot to death, who'd been playing William Tell (Alexander Anuchkin's Field of a Thousand Corpses). In Anna Starobinets's The Mercy Bus, a taut tale with a wicked bite, a con...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two apparently accidental deaths at the Marconi telegraph station. The drowning of a local girl. Two cases that involve Charles, Lord Sheridan, and his wife, Kate, in foreign espionage, malicious intrigue, and inexplicable messages sent out of the blue.
Author
Series
Royal Spyness mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request