In the sixth book featuring Donna Leon's ever-charming and sympathetic protagonist, Commissario Guido Brunetti comes to the aid of a young nursing sister who has had five patients unexpectedly die and decides to leave her convent....
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- Author:Leon, DonnaSummary:
- Author:Zorn, ClaireSummary:
In this award-winning novel, Hannah's journey through bullying and grief shows just how long old wounds can take to heal Hannah's world is in pieces, and she doesn't need the school counselor to tell her she has deep-seated...
- Author:Coleman, BrittaSummary:
Mark Reynolds is an up-and-coming minister in an affluent Houston church and Amanda is the girl of his dreams. The outlook for his future is extremely bright until Amanda tells him that she is pregnant. The newlyweds are tormented with...
- Author:Hebert, Marie-FrancineSummary:
Poppy, the zany character from A Monster in My Cereal, A Ghost in My Mirror, and Witch’s Brew, is back. But this time, Poppy is miserable. Her grandpa has died, and Poppy is as angry as she is sad. Book 2 in the Poppy series by Marie-...
- Author:Sweeney, LeannSummary:
Southern belle Abby Rose stumbles upon the secrets of her heritage when she becomes determined to solve the mystery of who killed her gardener. As the list of possible suspects increases, Abby learns her past is shrouded in mystery.
- Author:Friend, NatashaSummary:
Following the death of her father, a thirteen-year-old uses bulimia as a way to avoid her mother's and ten-year-old sister's grief, as well as her own.
- Author:Hubbard, JennySummary:
In 1982 Buncombe County, North Carolina, sixteen-year-old Alex Stromm writes of the aftermath of the accidental drowning of a friend, as his English teacher reaches out to him while he and a fellow boarding school student try to cover...
- Author:Abbott, JeffSummary:
Abbott's go-for-broke style is on full display in Panic, the tale of a man dodging threats on his life after his world is turned upside down. Evan Casher discovers his mother's murdered corpse and is then rescued from certain...
- Author:Pearson, PatriciaSummary:
Sparked by extraordinary experiences that occurred in her family when her father and her sister both died in 2008, Patricia Pearson was launched on a journey of investigation into what she calls "a curious sort of modern underground--a...
- Author:Baldacci, DavidSummary:
It's almost Christmas, but there is no joy in the house of terminally ill Jack and his family. With only a short time left to live, he spends his last days preparing to say goodbye to his devoted wife, Lizzie, and their three children....
- Author:Bowen, GailSummary:
""Charlie D is back doing his late-night radio call-in show. It's Halloween—The Day of the Dead. Not a day filled with good memories for Charlie, but the show must go on. His studio guest this evening is Dr. Robin Harris...
- Author:Campbell, Bonnie JoSummary:
Campbell's heroine is 16-year-old Margo Crane. Complicit in her father's death, Margo flees home for the Stark River. And as she follows the current, she learns the ways of the world from the eccentric characters she meets....
- Author:Anthony, PiersSummary:
No science fiction collection is complete without On a Pale Horse. In this, the first novel of the best-selling Incarnations of Immortality series, Piers Anthony combines a deeply moving examination of the meaning of life and death with...
- Author:French, DavidSummary:
A son returns after an absence of two years to find both his mother and family friend Wiff trying to sustain his father, Jacob. A heart attack has forced Jacob out of work, and he can't reconcile himself to his frightening situation....
- Author:DeWees, AmandaSummary:
Vivacious actress Sybil Ingram looks forward to a life of security when she leaves the theater in 1873 to marry a wealthy American. But when he dies suddenly on their wedding night, she finds herself a penniless widow. Her only legacy...
- Author:Albert, Susan WittigSummary:
China Bayles is finally on the verge of finding out the truth about her father's death. But her reservations about letting her half-brother Miles hire her husband prove all too accurate when she discovers Miles has a hidden agenda...
- Author:Keener, Jessica BrilliantSummary:
In 1970s Boston, the glossy veneer of 16-year-old Sarah Kunitz's wealthy family is starting to show cracks. Her parents' constant fighting and her mother's prescription pill abuse drive Sarah into two romantic...
- Author:Bishop, Mary HarelkinSummary:
Andrea and her brother travel back to the most dangerous part of her grandfather's past, in Chicago.
- Author:Erskine, KathrynSummary:
Ten-year-old Caitlin, who has Asperger's Syndrome, struggles to understand emotions, show empathy, and make friends at school, while at home she seeks closure by working on a project with her father.
- Author:Rylant, CynthiaSummary:
After the death of the beloved aunt who has raised her, twelve-year-old Summer and her uncle Ob leave their West Virginia trailer in search of the strength to go on living.