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41) Found memories
Series
Film Movement volume year 10, film 6
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Found memories: Like every morning, Madalena makes bread for Antonio's old coffee shop. Like every day, she crosses the railways where no trains have passed for years; she cleans up the gate of the locked cemetery, and listens to the priest's sermon before sharing lunch with the other old villagers. Clinging to the image of her dead husband and living in her memories, Madalena is awakened by the arrival of Rita, a young photographer who is arriving...
Author
Series
Eastwick volume 2
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
Alexandra, Jane, and Sukie return to the old Rhode Island seaside town where they indulged in wicked mischief under the influence of the diabolical Darryl Van Horne. Darryl is gone, and their lovers of the time have aged or died, but enchantment remains in the familiar streets and scenery of the village, where they enjoyed their lusty primes as free and empowered women. And, among the local citizenry, there are still those who remember them, and wish...
43) Deception Cove
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Former US Marine Jess Winslow reenters civilian life a new widow, with little more to her name than a falling-down house, a medical discharge for PTSD, and a loyal dog named Lucy. The only thing she actually cares about is that dog, a black-and-white pit bull mix who helps her cope with the devastating memories of her time in Afghanistan.
44) Gold coast
Author
Publisher
William Marrow
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
320 pages
Language
English
Description
In this classic Elmore Leonard thriller, a beautiful mafia widow stands to lose everything her late mob boss husband left her if she succumbs to her desire for an attractive Detroit ex-con—so the two conspire to outwit the thugs the dead capo assigned to make sure she stays chaste. Superior crime fiction in the vein of John D. MacDonald, Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain, and Robert Parker—chock full of the eccentric characters, black humor, and...
45) Off season
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
After her husband dies, a woman looks hard to her past--from her childhood, to her first love, and to her marriage--to try to make sense of her future.
Author
Language
English
Description
Helen Ames–-recently widowed, coping with loss and grief, unable to do the work that has always sustained her-–is beginning to depend far too much on her twenty-seven-year-old daughter, Tessa, and is meddling in her life, offering unsolicited and unwelcome advice. Helen’s problems are compounded by her shocking discovery that her mild-mannered and loyal husband was apparently leading a double life. The Ameses had painstakingly saved for a happy...
47) P.S. I love you
Author
Series
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
375 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Holly has always depended on her husband's practical advice to keep her going and despairs when she loses him to brain cancer, until a package arrives filled with advice for carrying on with her life without her beloved husband.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"On her sixtieth birthday, Auntie Poldi retires to Sicily, intending to while away the rest of her days with good wine, a view of the sea, and few visitors. But Sicily isn't quite the tranquil island she thought it would be, and something always seems to get in the way of her relaxation. When her handsome young handyman goes missing--and is discovered murdered--she can't help but ask questions. Soon there's an investigation, a smoldering police inspector,...
Author
Language
English
Description
Sydney Wells’s perfect life with her wealthy, devoted husband vanishes when he dies suddenly in an accident. Widowed at forty-nine, she discovers he has failed to include her in his will. With Andrew’s vicious daughters in control of his estate, and no home or money, Sydney finds a job in fashion, despite her own designer daughters’ warnings. Naïve, out of her element, and alone in a world of shady international deals and dishonest people,...
50) Country
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Stephanie Adams is a devoted stay-at-home mother, married to a successful lawyer in northern California, in a dead marriage she’s stayed in for years for the sake of her children. Then, on a ski trip in Squaw Valley, her fifty-two-year-old husband dies suddenly and all bets are off. Despite her children’s grief, and her own conflicting emotions and loneliness, Stephanie tries to move on, but struggles to find herself as an independent individual...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
391 pages
Language
English
Description
An infamous gunslinger finds his vow to reform put to the test in this exciting installment in Ralph Compton's bestselling Gunfighter series.
Twenty years ago, Sherman Knowles was notorious as a fearsome shootist with an itchy trigger finger and a hot temper. Now he resides in peaceful Elam Hollow, his gunslinging days far behind him. He hasn't fired a weapon in over a decade and is happy for that to be the end of the matter.
Then he receives a...
Author
Language
English
Description
Broadbent Manor is a home brimming with life and love. With eleven adopted children in her care, young widow Lily Broadbent is in search of the right tutor to instruct and nurture her young charges. So when Frederick Woodstone arrives on her doorstep seeking the position, Lily is quickly impressed by his qualifications -- but even more pleased with his gentle manner and immediate rapport with the children that society cast aside. It is clear: Mr....
Author
Series
Love on the Santa Fe volume 1
Language
English
Description
"When bankruptcy forces widow Susanna Jenkins to follow her family to New Mexico, what they see as a failure she sees as a fresh start. Owen Turner is immediately attracted to Susanna, but he's afraid of opening up his heart again, especially as painful memories are stirred up. But if Owen can't face the past, he'll miss out on his greatest chance at love"--
Author
Series
Gables of legacy volume 6
Publisher
Covenant Communications
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
247 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Beloved Michael Hamilton comes to life once again through the memories of his sweet wife, Emily, who contintues to struggle with accepting the veil between life and death that seperates them in this mortal life.
55) La tregua
Author
Series
Punto de lectura volume 11/5
Publisher
Punto de Lectura
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
202 pages ; 19 cm.
Language
Español
Author
Series
Byrnehouse-Davies and Hamilton saga volume 5
Publisher
Covenant Communications
Pub. Date
c1995
Physical Desc
238 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
" Donna Leon's latest New York Times bestseller "is one of her best" (Booklist, starred review) Twenty years ago Venetian Commissario Guido Brunetti and his creator, Donna Leon, first introduced readers to the delights-and dangers-of Venice. Now they have millions of devoted fans. In Drawing Conclusions, a young woman arrives home and senses that all is not right in the apartment below. When she investigates, she finds her neighbor lying lifeless...
Author
Series
At home in Beldon Grove volume 1
Publisher
Revell
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
318 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"It is the summer of 1838 in St. Lawrenceville, Missouri, and Molly McGarvie's life is about to change forever. When her beloved Samuel succumbs to cholera, Molly is heartbroken but determined to take care of herself and her children. But when Samuel's unscrupulous brother takes over the family business and leaves Molly to fend for herself, she knows she must head out on her own. It is a dangerous journey and Molly has to leave her old life behind....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 30
Language
English
Description
Lisey Debusher Landon lost her husband, Scott, two years ago, after a twenty-five-year marriage of the most profound and sometimes frightening intimacy. Scott was an award-winning, bestselling novelist and a very complicated man. Early in their relationship, before they married, Lisey had to learn from him about books and blood and bools. Later, she understood that there was a place Scott went -- a place that both terrified and healed him, that could...
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