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c2013., Adult, Picador Call No: Fic Loy Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "A young woman, haunted by loss ... rediscovers passion and possibility when she's drawn into the tangled lives of her neighbors"-- Dust jacket flap.
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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 Martin, Katc2011., Mira Edition: eBook ed. Series Title: Raines of Wind Canyon.Summary Note: When she is forced to return to the home town she hated, widow and single mother Sarah Allen turns to Jackson Raines, with whom she went to high school, for help when her late husband's criminal past comes back to haunt her.
![Against the wind [eBook]](/Library/images/~imageCT74676.JPG "Against the wind [eBook]")
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By Martin, Katc2011., Mira Edition: eBook ed. Series Title: Raines of Wind Canyon.Summary Note: When she is forced to return to the home town she hated, widow and single mother Sarah Allen turns to Jackson Raines, with whom she went to high school, for help when her late husband's criminal past comes back to haunt her.
![Against the wind [eBook]](/Library/images/~imageCT74677.JPG "Against the wind [eBook]")
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c2012., General, HarperCollins Canada, Limited Call No: Fic Ber Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Born in 1930 in a small town outside Winnipeg, beautiful Hope Koop appears destined to have a conventional life. Church, marriage to a steady young man, children - her fortunes are already laid out for her, as are the shiny modern appliances in her new home. All she has to do is stay with Roy, who loves her. But as the decades unfold, what seems to be a safe, predictable existence overwhelms Hope. An indelible portrait of a seemingly ordinary woman who struggles to accept herself as she is, and in so doing becomes unique."--Publisher.
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c2013., Adult, Knopf Canada Call No: Fic Sod Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Sophie Brinkmann had no idea her former patient was an international crime lord. Hector Guzman had a Latin charm and easy smile she couldn't deny, so she agreed to a date... Jens Vall is in Paraguay facilitating a delivery of very dangerous weapons when he's attacked by angry Russians. They think he stole their drugs... Lars Vinge is a beat cop with a nasty drug habit he thought he kicked. He's given an important assignment that soon turns into deadly obsession... All of their paths will collide.
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c2012., General, Brindle & Glass Call No: Fic Cam Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Anglophone Imogene Jackson grew up in an English suburb on the uneasy edge of a francophone world. At the age of nineteen she quit college to marry a shoemaker from the close-knit French village of Saint-Ange-du-Lac. For ten years she has lived with her husband, Thomas, above his family's historic shoe shop, immersed in village life. When Thomas dies in a car accident, she is shattered and her hard-won mastery of the French language deserts her. Isolated and grief-stricken, she retreats to her childhood home. There she discovers that a petty drug dealer she knows from the village has rented a ramshackle farmhouse, nicknamed the "Apple House," at the corner of her parents' street and befriended her easily influenced brother Petey. Her childhood obsession with the old house resurfaces and she finds herself confronting events from both her recent and more distant past as her two worlds collide. Set in 1970s Quebec and written with a gentle humour, The Apple House is an intimate portrait of life during a time of great change.
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c2012., General, HarperCollins Canada Call No: MYS Fic Rey Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Josie Marshall deals with the death of her detective husband, Gabe, found naked outside their home on the beach with a bullet in his brain. Everyone calls it suicide. Josie knows it isn't . . . but fears it could be. After all, she had provided Gabe with a motive. The clues are so strong that even Josie begins to believe Gabe shot himself. But when a horrific slaying occurs literally at her feet, she knows Gabe was murdered, and her determination to prove it carries her toward dark corners of the beach strip and exposes the darker sides of its residents. Fending off her fears with humour and outrage, she encounters a drug-crazed drifter, an organized crime boss with romance on his mind, a woman with a murderous past and a pervert who's been frequenting her garden shed. When a chance remark leads Josie to the astonishing truth of Gabe's death, her story takes a shocking turn that no one could have seen coming.
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2001., Pocket Books Call No: MYS Fic Cla Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A bereaved widow asks a psychic to help her contact her husband. But her husband is very much alive and with the help of the psychic is trying to ruin her.
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2002., Thorndike Press ; Chivers Press Call No: LP Fic Gou Edition: Large print ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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By Purser, Ann2014., General, Berkley Prime Crime Call No: MYS Fic Pur Edition: Berkley Prime Crime mass-market ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Ivy Beasley Mystery Volume: 5Summary Note: Interested in penning her memoirs, Ivy Beasley decides to take a creative writing course. But it's hard to find time to put pen to paper when this current chapter is so full of lies, jealousy and murder... Rumors are flying around the village of Barrington about Mrs. Winchen Blatch, a reclusive widow living alone in her old farmhouse. In the past few weeks, the widow claims she has been tormented by ghostly visitations, so she hires Ivy and her fellow investigators at Enquire Within to get to the bottom of the mystery. Ivy's new classes are very close to the widow's farmhouse, perfect for combining studying and snooping.
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2007., Little, Brown and Co. Call No: Fic Shr Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your LibraryClick here to watch
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2013., Sourcebooks Edition: eBook ed. Summary Note: Catherine Ashcroft leads a quiet life caring for her precocious seven-year-old daughter, until a visitor delivers a startling ultimatum. She will match wits with the enigmatic Earl of Somerton, and it's not just her heart that's in danger.
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