After acquiring $32,000, Will and Hand, devastated over the death of their closest friend, travel around the world giving away the money.
Grief
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Author:Cade, ScottySummary:Devastated after losing his partner of fifteen years to cancer, Dr. Bradford Mitchell tries to escape the emptiness and loss by leaving his life in Seattle behind. Traveling to the Alaskan mountains where he and Jeff often vacationed,...
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Author:Maxwell, MarySummary:These poems are steeped in loss and lament as they concern the death of the poet’s family members, particularly her father and the premature death of two brothers two years apart. The collection’s tone is often elegiac, but rarely...
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Author:Olsen, SylviaSummary:Joey is a happy Nuu-chah-nulth boy, eager to help and quick to see the bright side of things. But when he loses his beloved grandmother, the sun goes out in his world. Fortunately, she has left something of herself behind--a song, which...
- Author:Dohaney, M.T.Summary:
One Friday, Walter Dohaney, novelist M.T. (Jean) Dohaney's husband, went out as usual to play hockey with his friends. She never saw him alive again. Without warning, Jean was plunged into the most painful and disorienting experience of...
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Author:Bernstein, Judith R.Summary:"For every parent who loses a child, when one life ends another life is forever changed." —from When the Bough Breaks
When the Bough Breaks presents a breakthrough concept of mourning, documenting the process of evolution from...
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Author:Dunbar, HeleneSummary:In less than a second... two of the things Cal Ryan cares most about—a promising baseball career and Lizzie, one of his best friends—are gone forever. In the hours that follow... Cal's damaged heart is replaced. But his life will never...
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Author:Mda, ZakesSummary:In Ways of Dying, Zakes Mda's acclaimed first novel, Toloki is a "professional mourner" in a vast and violent city of the new South Africa. Day after day he attends funerals in the townships, dressed with dignity in a threadbare suit,...
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Author:Brown, JenniferSummary:Raised in the Midwest, Jersey Cameron knows all about tornadoes--or so she thinks. When her town is devastated by a twister, Jersey survives but loses her mother, her sister, and her home. Sent to live with her only surviving relatives...
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Raised in the Midwest, Jersey Cameron knows all about tornadoes--or so she thinks. When her town is devastated by a twister, Jersey survives but loses her mother, her sister, and her home. Sent to live with her only surviving relatives...
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Author:Ashling, Mickie B.Summary:Sequel to Loving Edits Basque Trilogy: Book Two In the aftermath of Mick Henley’s death, his two lovers, Paul Alcott and Tono Garat, find themselves at odds. Tono has rejected Paul on the pretext that the public will find out about...
- Author:Smythe, KarenSummary:
Part mystery, part elegy, This Side of Sad begins with an ending: the violent enigma of a man's death. Was it an accident, or did James commit suicide? In the shattering aftermath, his widow, Maslen, questions her own capacity for love...
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Author:Beautement, TiahSummary:Loss has left Ella Spinner alone to care for her husband, Bart, who suffers from clinical depression. Their days now echo the tides: any progress made, rolls back. Yet Ella keeps pushing against the monotony. Set in Mossel Bay, Ella’s...
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Author:Didion, JoanSummary:In this intensely personal, deeply moving account, the author exposes the layers and facets of her life over a year of dramatic and unexpected events. Her daughter's serious illness and her husband's sudden death "cut loose any fixed...
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Author:Patterson, James, Tebbetts, ChristopherSummary:With his best friend awarding him points, Rafe tries to break every rule in his school's oppressive Code of Conduct. But when Rafe's game starts to catch up with him, he'll have to decide if winning is all that matters, or if he's...
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Author:Looten, WouterSummary:The Widowers' Manual is a practical guidebook for men who have lost their wives and are looking for a way out of the chaotic situation they find themselves in. The Widowers' Manual offers an effective methodology, and addresses the...
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Author:Saso, EmilySummary:It’s summer in Toronto, and the snow and ice are relentless. Too bad no one but Avery can see it.
Avery Gauthier can’t get far enough away from her past: the death of her beloved father, the abuse she suffered as a teen, and the...
- Author:Worth, LizSummary:
Pulling from raw themes of grief and death, regret and discomfort, sadness and failure, Worth wears these poems down to their bones. Straddling dreamy, ethereal images and brutal honesty, The Truth is Told Better This Way unravels its...
- Author:Carr, RobynSummary:
A television talk show host returns to her childhood summer home to rebuild her life after she's fired for falling ratings. The return is bittersweet as the house has been neglected for years. She's flooded with memories of the...
- Author:Picoult, JodiSummary:
Sage Singer befriends Josef Weber, a beloved Little League coach and retired teacher. But then Josef asks Sage for a favor she never could have imagined--to kill him. After Josef reveals the heinous act he committed, Sage feels he may...
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