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1) Johnny Angel
Author
Language
English
Description
In her fifty-eighth bestselling novel, Danielle Steel tells the breathtaking story of a mother’s love and a son’s gift, of the tragedy that nearly destroyed a family...and the miracle that saved them.
Johnny Angel
With a word or a smile, seventeen-year-old Johnny Peterson could light up a room, fill his mother’s heart with pride, and inspire the best in those around him. A star athlete and class valedictorian, tall,...
Johnny Angel
With a word or a smile, seventeen-year-old Johnny Peterson could light up a room, fill his mother’s heart with pride, and inspire the best in those around him. A star athlete and class valedictorian, tall,...
2) The Heights
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The Heights is a tall, slender apartment building among warehouses in London. Its roof terrace is so discreet, you wouldn't know it existed if you weren't standing at the window of the flat directly opposite. But you are. And that's when you see a man up there--a man you'd recognize anywhere. He may be older now, but it's definitely him. But that can't be because he's been dead for over two years. You know this for a fact. Because you're the one...
Author
Language
English
Description
When a devastating illness befalls his family, Rob Coates's world begins to unravel. Suddenly finding himself alone, Rob seeks solace in photographing the skyscrapers and clifftops he and his son Jack used to visit. He embarks on a journey to find his way back to life, and forgiveness.
Author
Language
English
Description
Quah, Oklahoma. In the fifteen years since their teenage son, Ray-Ray, was killed in a police shooting, the Echota family has been suspended in private grief. The mother, Maria, increasingly struggles to manage the onset of Alzheimer's in her husband, Ernest. Their adult daughter, Sonja, leads a life of solitude, punctuated only by spells of dizzying romantic obsession. And their son, Edgar, fled home long ago, turning to drugs to mute his feelings...
5) Jacob's list
Author
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
302 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
7) Light of day
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
9) God Jr
Author
Publisher
Black Cat
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
163 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
11) 113 minutes
Author
Series
Publisher
BookShots/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
139 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Molly Rourke takes the law into her own hands following the murder of her son.
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Francis "Gil" Gilheaney is a sculptor of boundless ambition. But bad fortune and his own prideful spirit have driven him from New York into artistic exile in Texas just after World War I. His adult daughter, Maureen, serves as his assistant, although she has artistic ambitions of her own and is beginning to understand how her own career--perhaps even her life--has become hostage to her driven father's "wild pursuit of glory." When Lamar Clayton, an...
Author
Language
English
Description
In the idyllic ski town of Breckenridge, Colorado, Sarah St. John is reeling. Three months ago, her twenty-two-year-old son, Cully, died in an avalanche. Though single, Sarah is hardly alone in her grief. Her father, a retiree, tries to distract her with gadgets from the QVC home shopping channel. Sarah's best friend offers life advice by venting details of her own messy divorce. Even Cully's father reemerges, stirring more emotions and confusion...
14) Nobody walks
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tom Bettany, a British ex-spy crammed with dark skills, comes out of retirement when he learns his estranged son is dead. His quest leads him to the shadowy Vincent Driscoll, head of the software-design firm Liam worked for, and to the bizarre Dame Ingrid Tearney, head of the Intelligence Service, who is either worried that Bettany will discover something better kept under wraps or else wants Bettany to do some dirty work on her behalf.
16) Wish
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
383 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"A father wishes his 9-year-old son would be well enough to play catch. The son wishes to see his father play in a major league baseball game. They all pray for a successful bone marrow transplant before cancer ends the boy's life, but first, they need to find a donor"--
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
323 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Guitarist Quinn Porter chases gigs on the road, largely absent to his twice-ex-wife Belle and their odd, Guinness records-obsessed son. When the boy dies suddenly, Quinn seeks forgiveness by completing the requirements for his son's unfinished Boy Scout badge. For seven Saturdays he does yard work for Ona Vitkus, the wily 104-year-old Lithuanian immigrant the boy had visited weekly. Despite himself, Quinn picks up where the boy left off: talking Ona...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Agnes is a wild creature who walks her family's land with a falcon on her glove and is known throughout the countryside for her unusual gifts as a healer, understanding plants and potions better than she does people. Once she settles with her husband on Henley Street in Stratford-upon-Avon she becomes a fiercely protective mother and a steadfast, centrifugal force in the life of her young husband, whose career on the London stage is taking off when...
Author
Series
Harold Fry novels volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Maureen Fry has settled into the quiet life she shares with her husband after his iconic walk across England ten years ago. When an unexpected message from the North disturbs her equilibrium again, it is now her turn to make a journey. But Maureen is not like Harold. By turns outspoken, then vulnerable, she struggles to form bonds with the people she meets, and the landscape she crosses has radically changed. And Maureen has no sense of what she...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
366 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Londoner Madeleine Grant is studying at the Sorbonne in Paris when she marries charismatic French journalist Giles Martin. As they raise their son, Olivier, they hold on to a tenuous promise for the future. Until the thunder of war sets off alarms in France. Staying behind to join the resistance, Giles sends Madeleine and Olivier to the relative safety of England, where Madeleine secures a job teaching French at a secondary school. Yet nowhere is...
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