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641) An unfinished story
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Three years after Claire Kite lost her husband David, an aspiring novelist, she finally finds the courage to move on. While going through David's things, she finds his last, unfinished, manuscript. Whitaker Grant is famous for his one and only best-selling novel and is now suffering through a deep midlife crisis. When Claire reaches out to him to finish her husband's novel, he undertakes to understand the man who wrote it and the women he left behind....
642) Dad's camera
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"One day dad comes home with one of those old cameras, the kind that uses film. But he doesn't take photos of the regular things people photograph, he takes pictures of his keys, his coffee cup, the objects scattered on the desk. He starts doing a lot of things that are hard to understand, like putting items that belong in the fridge in the cupboard and ones that belong in the cupboard in the fridge" -- amazon.com
643) Grandpa's window
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Daria comforts her grandpa during his final days and grieves for him after his death.
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Agreeing to fake date Josh Callahan, her brother's best friend, Highland Falls police officer Emma Scott, still reeling from her fiancé's death over a year ago, when their feelings for each other become all too real, must decide if she's ready to share her heart again.
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George's favorite day is Saturday, because on Saturdays he gets to visit and have fun with Grandma Stella, from going on rides on the carousel to making fresh-baked cinnamon rolls. However, one Saturday morning George walks down the stairs to find his parents crying, and they inform him Grandma Stella has passed away. Now George wants to cancel Saturdays forever--until he learns to make new memories and celebrate a new addition to the family.
646) Fadeaway
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Fourteen-year-old Sam is struggling to get by without her best friend, Reagan, who died suddenly the summer before high school, but Regan's "reappearance" only helps temporarily.
647) Blue hunger: a novel
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Mourning her twin's death, a young woman leaves Rome for Shanghai and befriends a mysterious girl with a turbulent past and the pair discover a new dimension where the citizens practice extreme erotic rituals.
648) One amazing elephant
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Loving her family but disliking the circus that is her grandparents' life, Lily is devastated when her grandfather passes away, a loss that leads her to develop an unexpected bond with her grandfather's equally grieving elephant.
650) Lost in the clouds
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When we lose someone, we wish we could still see, feel, and hear them. Billy misses his mummy very much. He likes to imagine she is always around him, up in the clouds.
652) Ride the wind
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Still reeling from his mother's death and against his father's wishes, Javier secretly rescues and cares for an albatross who needs to find her way home, in this beautiful story of a father and a son, of grief and reconnection.
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After his mother's death, twelve-year-old Skiff Beaman decides that it is up to him to earn money to take care of himself and his father, so he undertakes a dangerous trip alone out on the ocean off the coast of Maine to try to catch a huge bluefin tuna.
After his mother's death, twelve-year-old Skiff Beaman decides that it is up to him to earn money to take care of himself and his father, so he undertakes a dangerous trip alone out on the ocean...
656) Shattered blue
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Noa, grieving over the death of her sister, meets Callum, a transfer student to her boarding school, and senses that there is something different about him, Callum is Fae, banished from his world after a loss much like her own. To survive in Noa's world, Callum needs a special human energy, Light, to survive. But he is not the only Fae on the hunt. When Callum is taken, Noa must decide if she will sacrifice everything to save him, even if it means...
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Kachemak Winkel's mother used to tell him that Alaska doesn't forgive mistakes. A lot of mistakes where made the day she died in a plane crash with Kache's father and brother-- and Kache still feels responsible. He fled Alaska for good, but now his aunt Snag insists on his return. Returning to his family's cabin in the woods, he finds smoke rising from the chimney and a mysterious Russian woman hiding from her own troubled past. Nadia has stayed there,...
659) Remembering
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"On Día de los Muertos, a family prepares an ofrenda for their favorite furry family member, remembering all the ways that their beloved pet brought love and comfort to their lives."--
660) Where did Poppy go?
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After a grandfather dies, a father and son journey forward through seasons and time, discovering how our loved ones remain with us even after they pass on.