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61) Old God's time
Author
Language
English
Description
"Recently retired policeman Tom Kettle is settling into the quiet of his new home, a lean-to annexed to a Victorian castle overlooking the Irish Sea. For months he has barely seen a soul, catching only glimpses of his eccentric landlord and a nervous young mother who has moved in next door. Occasionally, fond memories return, of his family, his beloved wife June and their two children, Winnie and Joe. But when two former colleagues turn up at his...
Author
Publisher
Transit Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
667 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
What makes us who we are? And why do we lead one life and not another? Asle, an ageing painter and widower who lives alone on the southwest coast of Norway, is reminiscing about his life. His only friends are his neighbour, Åsleik, a traditional fisherman-farmer, and Beyer, a gallerist who lives in the city. There, in Bjørgvin, lives another Asle, also a painter but lonely and consumed by alcohol. Asle and Asle are doppelgängers—two versions...
63) The whisper man
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After the sudden death of his wife, Tom Kennedy believes a fresh start will help him and his young son Jake heal. A new beginning, a new house, a new town. Featherbank. But the town has a dark past. Twenty years ago, a serial killer abducted and murdered five residents. Until Frank Carter was finally caught, he was nicknamed 'The Whisper Man,' for he would lure his victims out by whispering at their windows at night. Just as Tom and Jake settle...
Author
Series
Highland falls volume 2
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
461 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Can the magic of mistletoe bring together two busy single parents? Mallory Maitland knows all too well what it's like to feel abandoned, which is why she's sworn never to give up on her two stepsons -- her late husband's children. But when the teens land in hot water, she's got a whole new problem: how to resist the caring and incredibly hot Chief of Police Gabriel Buchanan. All Mallory wants is to give the boys a magical holiday. She doesn't need...
Author
Series
American gods volume 3
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
The new and old gods agree to meet in the center of America to exchange the body of the old gods' fallen leader--heading towards to the inevitable god war in this final arc to the bestselling comic series.
Author
Publisher
Back Bay Books
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
277, 8 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Rudy Harrington is ready for a new life. His daughters are grown, his wife has died, and the idea of running an avocado grove in Texas suddenly seems infinitely more appealing than staying in his rambling Midwestern house. So a new life it is. Rudy heads off for a part of the world where he knows scarcely a soul. But he has a guide: a slender book called Philosophy Made Simple, each chapter highlighting the ideas of a different philosopher. No amount...
67) A secret affair
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c1996
Physical Desc
180 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Bill Fitzgerald, a respected journalist, nears burn-out after a long stint in Bosnia and travels to Venice for a much needed change. At the hotel bar, Bill is struck by a dark beauty seated alone. She is Vanessa Stewart, an unhappily married designer from New York. And so begins a fateful affair.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 126 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Widower Otto cannot get over the death of his wife and keeps making clumsy attempts at suicide until he forms an unlikely friendship with a boisterous young family who has moved in next door.
69) My life in ruins
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Georgia came to Greece to follow a man. Cast aside, she finds herself alone and adrift in this foreign land. Eventually, her passion for history leads her to a job as a tour guide. But Georgia is bored, and has lost her 'kefi' (Greek for mojo) to boot. When Poupi replaces her regular driver at the last minute, Georgia thinks that her luck has just hit rock bottom. Thankfully, Georgia's latest batch of tourists is a more lively bunch than she's anticipated,...
Author
Series
Jonquil brothers volume 2
Publisher
Covenant Communications
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
191 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
When her father dies and leaves her completely destitute, Marion can think of only one thing to do -- make a new life for herself. Commencing a life of duplicity, Marion transforms herself into Mary Wood -- governess. In possession of a forged letter of recommendation and cloaked in the anonymity of her new identity, she enters a life of self-imposed servitude as teacher and caretaker of young Miss Caroline Jonquil of the Meadows. Her idyllic daydream...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
At their holiday home in Cornwall, a distant lighthouse holds a haunting attraction for the members of an Edwardian family as disillusionment, turmoil, and a world on the brink of war plague the family's relationships.
Author
Publisher
Covenant Communications
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
197 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Desperate to escape the unwanted advances of a cruel master, chambermaid Annie Morgan runs miles through stormy weather to find sanctuary at the home of Reverend and Mrs. Davies. Without family and tainted by scandal, she's in dire need of a new identity and an occupation to match. Equally bleak is the future of Evan Powell, a miner who harbors dreams of escaping the black mines that are slowly killing him and finding refuge under the promised blue...
Author
Series
Cemetery of forgotten books volume 1
Language
English
Description
Barcelona, 1945 -- just after the war, a boy named Daniel awakes on his eleventh birthday to find that he can no longer remember his mother's face. To console his only child, Daniel's widowed father, an antiquarian book dealer, initiates him into the secret of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books, a library tended by Barcelona's guild of rare-book dealers as a repository for books forgotten by the world, waiting for someone who will care about them again....
Author
Series
Cemetery of forgotten books volume 1
Publisher
Planeta
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
478 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
Español
Description
A boy's quest through the secrets and shadows of postwar Barcelona for a mysterious author whose book has proved as dangerous to own as it is impossible to forget.
Un amanecer de 1945, un muchacho es conducido por su padre a un misterioso lugar oculto en el corazón de la ciudad vieja: El Cementerio de los Libros Olvidados. Allí, Daniel Sempere encuentra un libro maldito que cambia el rumbo de su vida y lo arrastra a un laberinto de intrigas y secretos...
75) The bone people
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2010, c1983
Physical Desc
xiv, 553 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
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Description
A story of Kerewin, a despairing part-Maori artist who is convinced that her solitary life is the only way to face the world. Her cocoon is rudely blown away by the sudden arrival during a rainstorm of Simon, a mute six-year-old whose past seems to hold some terrible trauma.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (1 hr., 58 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the aftermath of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd, an elderly widower and itinerant news reader, is offered fifty dollars to bring an orphan girl, who was kidnapped and raised by Kiowa raiders, from Wichita Falls back to her family in San Antonio.
Author
Publisher
Covenant Communications, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
238 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Samuel Blackwood will never love again. Following the untimely death of his wife, the grieving Earl of Grey Manor knows there will never be room in his heart for another. Yet, in spite of his reluctance to seek a wife, Samuel knows his children need a mother. A garden party at the estate gives him the perfect opportunity to meet the local young ladies who might fill that role in his children's lives. Everyone is in attendance--everyone, that is,...
Author
Series
American gods volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Shadow spent three years in prison, keeping his head down, doing his time. All he wanted was to get back to the loving arms of his wife and to stay out of trouble for the rest of his life. But days before his scheduled release, he learns that his wife has been killed in an accident, and his world becomes a colder place. On the plane ride home to the funeral, Shadow meets a grizzled man who calls himself Mr. Wednesday. A self-styled grifter and rogue,...
Publisher
Diamond Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
1 videodiscs (3.75 hrs.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The farmer's wife (silent film): This first film version of Eden Phillpotts' play "The Farmer's WIfe" involves a recently widowed farmer's search for a new bride. Every candidate proves insufficent until he realizes that his perfect mate has been under his own nose all along, his faithful housekeeper.
The manxman (Hitchcock's last silent film): a lawyer and a fisherman who fall in love with the same woman. She marries one, but she loves the other....
Author
Series
Frontier trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
399 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Reeling from the sudden death of his wife, Daniel Dixon returns to Wyoming's Powder River country to start anew. It's the end of the nineteenth century and the Indians are gone. The growing city of Buffalo, just a stone's throw from the ruins of Fort Phil Kearny, seems a peaceful place to start a medical practice and raise his sons, Harry and Cal, and his willful daughter, Lorna. But the peace Dixon seeks eludes him. Johnson County is soon engulfed...
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