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2) A dirty job
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Charlie Asher, a neurotic and anxious hypochondriac who hates change, confronts the challenges of being a widower and a single parent when his wife dies of a freak medical condition on the day his new daughter, Sophie, is born.
3) Whirlwind
Author
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
After the two children under her care are sent to boarding school, Millicent Fairweather agrees to accompany her sister and brother-in-law to America, but during the voyage is hired by Daniel Clark, a widow, who is traveling on the same boat with his young son.
5) Grief
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
A lonely professor travels to the nation's capital in order to escape his previous life and his grief over his mother's death, and, through the letters and journals of Mary Todd Lincoln, learns some unexpected truths about America and loss.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Cody Gunner returns to his family's ranch to decide what he wants to do with the rest of his life, and is surprised to find his brother, Carl Joseph, who has Downs Syndrome, thriving thanks to Elle Dalton's independent living program, and as he learns more about the program, Cody begins to wonder if Elle might be able to heal his own broken heart.
7) Beach girls
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2005, c2004
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Nell Kilvert travels with her father, Jack, to Hubbard's Point, Connecticut, determined to find her late mother's old friends Stevie and Maddie and succeeds in drawing out Stevie Moore, now a successful artist, whose failed attempts at love have driven her to live like a hermit.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
A request by a young poet to see an archive of letters written by T.S. Eliot, unsettles librarian Matthias's composure and forces him to confront his painful memories of his relationship with Judith in the years after World War II.
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Widowed Christmas tree farmer Christopher Byrne and widowed librarian Catherine Tierney are brought together when Christopher returns to the Manhattan street corner where he last saw his sixteen-year-old son, who ran away the year before.
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Henry Dorn, recently widowed, decides to travel to Amsterdam by ship, but an encounter with Lydia Pearce, a young woman on the ship, leads to an unexpected romantic affair that troubles Henry's thoughts about the loss of his wife and his uneasy relationship with his son.
11) A widow's hope
Author
Series
Miller family volume 1
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Hannah Brown sells her farm following the death of her husband and moves to Ohio to live with her sister and brother-in-law, Simon, but she and Simon just do not get along which makes Hannah wary when his brother, Seth, begins to show an interest in her.
12) Dance with me
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Jane Porter leaves her upscale New York City bakery to return to Twin Rivers, Rhode Island, to help care for her ailing mother, where she finds the secret of her past complicated by her growing attraction to widowed apple grower Dylan Chadwick.
13) The sea
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Irishman Max Morden, grieving the death of his wife, Anna, returns to the seaside town where he spent his summer holidays as a child, and finds himself engulfed inthoughts and memories of a momentous summer spent with the vacationing Grace family, his life with Anna, and his relationship with his grown daughter.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Henry Lee, a Chinese-American in Seattle, loses his wife to cancer and recalls his youth, when he and his Japanese-American friend, Keiko, spent time together during WWII--before Keiko and her family were interred at a camp--and deals with generational difficulties between himself and his father and college-age son.
20) Wanted
Author
Series
Sisters of the heart volume 2
Publisher
Avon Inspire
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Twenty-year-old Katie Brenneman, having always quietly fancied Jonathan Lundy, jumps at the opportunity when the widower asks her to help him care for his two young daughters, but just when it seems like her dreams of a future with Jonathan are about to come true, a message arrives that threatens to expose secrets from a time in her life when she strayed far from the Amish way of life.
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