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      By Alvarez, Julia
       2021., Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill Call No: Fic Alv   Edition: First paperback edition.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: Antonia Vega, the immigrant writer at the center of Afterlife, has had the rug pulled out from under her. She has just retired from the college where she taught English when her beloved husband, Sam, suddenly dies. And then more jolts: her bighearted but unstable sister disappears, and Antonia returns home one evening to find a pregnant, undocumented teenager on her doorstep. Antonia has always sought direction in the literature she loves--lines from her favorite authors play in her head like a soundtrack--but now she finds that the world demands more of her than words. Afterlife is a compact, nimble, and sharply droll novel. Set in this political moment of tribalism and distrust, it asks: What do we owe those in crisis in our families, including--maybe especially--members of our human family? How do we live in a broken world without losing faith in one another or ourselves? And how do we stay true to those glorious souls we have lost?
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      By Robinson, Peter, 1950-
       c2011., Adult, McClelland & Stewart Call No: MYS Fic Rob    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: "Through the years of success in Hollywood composing film scores, Chris always promised his wife they'd return to the Yorkshire Dales one day. Now a widower, Chris feels he must not forget his promise. Back in the Dales, he rents an isolated house that will allow him the space to grieve and the peace to compose his piano sonata. But when he finds that the house was the scene of a murder in the 1950s, and the convicted murderer was one of the last women hanged in England, he finds himself increasingly distracted by the events of sixty years before..."--Publisher.
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      By Wolitzer, Meg
       c2014., Adolescent, Dutton Books for Young Readers Call No: Fic Wol    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: Jam Gallahue, fifteen, unable to cope with the loss of her boyfriend Reeve, is sent to a therapeutic boarding school in Vermont, where a journal-writing assignment for an exclusive, mysterious English class transports her to the magical realm of Belzhar, where she and Reeve can be together.
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      By Clark, Joan, 1934-
       c2015., Adult, Alfred A. Knopf Canada Call No: Fic Cla    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: Free-spirited Lily has always played the peacemaker between her fierce, doting sister, Laverne, and her own loving, garrulous husband, Hal, as they competed for her attention. The competition has only grown worse since the three of them moved into a large house in the town of Sussex, New Brunswick. On Lily's 58th birthday, a steamy day in late June, Laverne feels she has bested Hal by winning her sister's company for a gourmet lunch, but it becomes a bitter and short-lived victory when the day's events take an unexpected and tragic turn.
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      By Vincent, John Emil, 1969-
       2021., McGill-Queen's University Press Call No: NEW QWF 811.6 V772b    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Series Title: Hugh MacLennan poetry series.Summary Note: Bitter in the Belly reckons with suicide's wreckage. After John Emil Vincent's best friend descends into depression and hangs himself, fluency and acuity lose their lustre. Vincent sorts through and tries to arrange cosmologies, eloquence, narrative, insight, only to find fatal limitations. He tries to trick tragedy into revealing itself by means of costume, comedy, thought experiment, theatre of the absurd, and Punch and Judy. The poems progress steadily from the erotic and mythic to the lapidary and biblical, relentlessly constructing images, finding any way to bring the world into the light - what there is of light, when the light is on. In his most personal book, Vincent moves from stark innocence through awful events and losses, to something like acceptance without wisdom - Jonah spit back onto the sand with little to report but that's he's home.
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      By Schwartz, Tarah
       2022., Linda Leith Publishing Call No: NEW QWF Bio S399c    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: When Tarah Schwartz miscarried for the first time at almost five months, it was devastating. Determined to try again, more miscarriages would follow, threatening her stability and her relationships, and changing her profoundly. In this memoir, she puts words to excruciating loss to recount her journey to motherhood. As a long time news reporter, Schwartz spent years in front of a television camera telling stories that reflected the power of the human spirit to survive. This time she tells her own.
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      By Chafe, Perry
       2023., Adult, Simon & Schuster Canada Call No: NEW MYS Fic Cha   Edition: Simon & Schuster Canada edition.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: From the writer and producer of the hit TV shows Republic of Doyle and Son of a Critch, a poignant coming-of-age debut novel about the mysterious disappearance of a young girl and the fragility of childhood bonds, set against the backdrop of a small island community adapting to an ever-changing landscape.
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      By Wiebe, Rudy Henry, 1934-
       c2014., General, Alfred A. Knopf Canada Call No: MYS Fic Wie    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: A retired professor, a widower, sees a man who he knows must be his beloved oldest son, Gabriel. But it can't be, as Gabe killed himself 25 years ago.
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      By Lyon, Annabel, 1971-
       2020., Adult, Random House Canada Call No: Fic Lyo    Availability:0 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: Saskia and Jenny are twins who are alike only in appearance. Saskia is a hard-working grad student whose interests are solely academic, while Jenny, an interior designer, is glamourous, thrill-seeking, capricious and narcissistic. Still, when Jenny is severely injured in an accident, Saskia puts her life on hold to be with her sister. Sara and Mattie are sisters with a difficult relationship. Mattie, the younger sister, is affectionate, curious and intellectually disabled. As soon as Sara is able, she leaves home, in pursuit of a life of the mind and the body: she loves nothing more than fine wines, sensual perfumes, and expensive clothing. But when their mother dies, Sara inherits the duty of caring for her sister. She moves Mattie in with her, but tragedy strikes soon after. Now, both Sara and Saskia, having been caregivers for so long, find themselves on their own--until a cascade of circumstances, both devastating and unexpected, brings them together. The waves from these events eventually engulf Sara and Saskia, sisters in mourning, in a quest for revenge. Consent is a startling, moving, thought-provoking novel on the complexities of familial duty and on how love can become entangled with guilt, resentment and regret.
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      By Napolitano, Ann
       2020., The Dial Press Call No: Fic Nap   Edition: First edition.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: "A twelve-year-old boy struggles with the worst kind of fame--as the sole survivor of a notorious plane crash" --.
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      By Wong, Christina (Christina M.)  Innes, Daniel
       2023., ECW Press Call No: NEW Fic Won    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: A moving story told in visual art and fiction about gentrification, aging in place, grief, and vulnerable Chinese Canadian elders. Bringing together ink artwork and fiction, Denison Avenue by Daniel Innes (illustrations) and Christina Wong (text) follows the elderly Wong Cho Sum, who, living in Toronto's gentrifying Chinatown-Kensington Market, begins to collect bottles and cans after the sudden loss of her husband as a way to fill her days and keep grief and loneliness at bay. In her long walks around the city, Cho Sum meets new friends, confronts classism and racism, and learns how to build a life as a widow in a neighborhood that is being destroyed and rebuilt, leaving elders like her behind.
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      By Ng, Celeste  OverDrive, Inc
       2014., Adult, Penguin Press HC Edition: eBook ed.    Summary Note: " Lydia is dead. But they don't know this yet. So begins the story of this exquisite debut novel, about a Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio. Lydia is the favorite child of Marilyn and James Lee; their middle daughter, a girl who inherited her mother's bright blue eyes and her father's jet-black hair. Her parents are determined that Lydia will fulfill the dreams they were unable to pursue-in Marilyn's case that her daughter become a doctor rather than a homemaker, in James's case that Lydia be popular at school, a girl with a busy social life and the center of every party. When Lydia's body is found in the local lake, the delicate balancing act that has been keeping the Lee family together tumbles into chaos, forcing them to confront the long-kept secrets that have been slowly pulling them apart. James, consumed by guilt, sets out on a reckless path that may destroy his marriage. Marilyn, devastated and vengeful, is determined to find a responsible party, no matter what the cost. Lydia's older brother, Nathan, is certain that the neighborhood bad boy Jack is somehow involved. But it's the youngest of the family-Hannah-who observes far more than anyone realizes and who may be the only one who knows the truth about what happened. A profoundly moving story of family, history, and the meaning of home, Everything I Never Told You is both a gripping page-turner and a sensitive family portrait, exploring the divisions between cultures and the rifts within a family, and uncovering the ways in which mothers and daughters, fathers and sons, and husbands and wives struggle, all their lives, to understand one another"--Provided by publisher.
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      By O'Cinneide, C. S., 1965-
       2022., Adult, Dundurn Press Call No: Fic Oci    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: After losing her young son in a tragic accident, Eve struggles to protect the one child she has left, a teenage daughter who just might be pure evil, in this unputdownable domestic thriller for fans of Lisa Jewell and Ruth Ware There is a deep chasm that runs between the natural ebb and flow of female magic and the charismatic power of the Ragman. Nobody knows that better than Eve. Desperate for a child, she called on that cunning conjurer eighteen years ago. Her daughter, Abbey, was the result. After Abbey’s younger brother dies in a fall, Eve fears the worst about her daughter. Five years later, she still battles her guilt and grief over what happened that day. Her husband, Richard, doesn’t understand. He doesn’t know the truth about Abbey; and besides, he has secrets of his own to keep. But when terrible things begin to happen to those who get in Abbey’s way, Eve must overcome her own pain and loss and find the strength to deal with what she fears most — a teenage daughter she can no longer control and a past that could come back to haunt her in the most monstrous of ways.