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"An emotional journey of love, loss, healing, and redemption. I rooted for every character." -Lisa See, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Snow Flower and The Secret Fan
"I Liked My Life is a treasure of a novel. Warm-hearted and clever, the story will keep you reading until the final delicious revelation." -Diane Chamberlain, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author
"Warm and hopeful, this marvelous debut stands next to...
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On the River Seine in 1899, a young woman takes her life by plunging into the icy water. She doesn't know it, but her choice will set in motion a chain of events. It leads to 1950s Norway, where a grieving toy-maker is on the verge of a transformative invention, to present-day Ottawa Valley, where a journalist, suffering from a terrible disease risks everything for one last chance to live.
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The story of deaf-mute John Singer, who becomes the confidant for the misfits of a Georgia mill town during the 1930s. When Singer's mute companion goes insane, Singer is left alone and isolated. He takes a room with the Kelly family where he is visited by the town's misfits, who turn to him for understanding but have no knowledge of his inner life.
7) Claremont
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How to survive the unthinkable? This is the question nine-year-old Tom has to face after witnessing his father kill his mother and then turn the gun on himself. After the horrific event, Tom refuses to speak. At first, he moves in with his childless Aunt Sonya, but she is ill equipped to deal with the traumatized boy. Before long, Tom is forced to move again, this time to downtown Toronto, where he shares a rundown house with his mercurial Aunt Rose...
9) I was here
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In an attempt to understand why her best friend committed suicide, eighteen-year-old Cody Reynolds retraces her dead friend's footsteps and makes some startling discoveries.
11) Pihu
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While her mother lies still in bed, unsupervised two-year-old Pihu struggles to manage on her own and unnoticed in the minefield her home has become.
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Joanne Kilbourn mysteries volume 17
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A triple homicide rips apart the lives of those related to the lawyers who, at the end of their first year in law school, only half-jokingly styled themselves "The Winners' Circle." Joanne seeks answers to the question: "Why did they die?" As facts behind the suicide of Christopher Altieri, known by his law partners as "the conscience of The Winners' Circle," begin to provide insights, but these insights raise new, unsettling questions.
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Omar Ali receives a phone call from his ex-girlfriend's father. He informs Omar that Anna has committed suicide. As he unravels in his grief, Omar gets involved in break-ins, online terrorism, deals with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and loses his best friend as he becomes less recognizable.
14) Facing suicide
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"Facing suicide combines the poignant personal stories of people impacted by suicide with profiles of scientists at the forefront of research to reveal new insights into one of America's most pressing mental health crises. Shining a light on this difficult topic can destigmatize suicide while revealing that there is help as well as hope for those at risk and their loved ones"--from www.pbs.org.
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From the chief medical correspondent of ABC News, an eloquent, heartbreaking, yet hopeful memoir of surviving the suicide of a loved one, examining this dangerous epidemic and offering first-hand knowledge and advice to help family and friends find peace.
Jennifer Ashton, M.D., has witnessed firsthand the impact of a loved one’s suicide. When her ex-husband killed himself soon after their divorce, her world—and that of her children—was
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Pendergast novels volume 18
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In this #1 New York Times bestseller, FBI Agent Pendergast reluctantly teams up with a new partner to investigate a rash of Miami Beach murders . . . only to uncover a deadly conspiracy that spans decades.
After an overhaul of leadership at the FBI's New York field office, A. X. L. Pendergast is abruptly forced to accept an unthinkable condition of continued employment: the famously rogue agent must now work with a partner.
Pendergast...
After an overhaul of leadership at the FBI's New York field office, A. X. L. Pendergast is abruptly forced to accept an unthinkable condition of continued employment: the famously rogue agent must now work with a partner.
Pendergast...
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"Neve comes across a troubled woman called Isabelle on Waterloo Bridge late one night. Isabelle forces a parcel into Neves hands and jumps to her death in the icy Thames below. Two weeks later, as Neves wreck of a life in London collapses, an unexpected lifeline falls into her lap--a charming cottage in Cornwall left to her by Isabelle, the woman on the bridge. The solution to all her problems. But when Neve arrives, alone in the dark...
19) Road tripped
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Seventeen-year-old Steven "Stiggy" Gabel tries to cope with his father's suicide, his mother's depression, and his girlfriend's departure by taking off down the Great River Road from Minnesota to Louisiana.
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