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1) Insurgent
Author
Series
Divergent volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
"As war surges in the dystopian society around her, sixteen-year-old Divergent Tris Prior must continue trying to save those she loves--and herself--while grappling with haunting questions of grief and forgiveness, identity and loyalty, politics and love"--
2) Kaleidoscope
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"The award-winning creator of The Invention of Hugo Cabret presents the story of two people bound to each other through time and space, memory and dreams, as they try to solve a mystery of grief and love"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a memoir written with his brother, the popular author describes how the two of them dealt with their grief over the untimely deaths of their parents and only sister by embarking on a three-week odyssey around the world.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
" For more than a decade, Jenna Metcalf has never stopped thinking about her mother, Alice, who mysteriously disappeared in the wake of a tragic accident. Refusing to believe that she would be abandoned as a young child, Jenna searches for her mother regularly online and pores over the pages of Alice's old journals. A scientist who studied grief among elephants, Alice wrote mostly of her research among the animals she loved, yet Jenna hopes the entries...
Author
Publisher
Grief Care Fellowship
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
154 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this grief after suicide book, you will find many of our staff, family, and friends share their difficult journey through suicide grief and, more importantly, their journey of healing. You will be reminded of God’s promises to come alongside you, heal you, and provide hope for tomorrow" -- taken from publisher's site.
Author
Series
Kauffman Amish bakery volume 3
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Miriam Lapp returns to the Amish community she once belonged to when she hears of her mother's death. Amidst her grief and some painful lies from her past, she is forced to face the people who rejected her. Losing her once fianc�e and being shunned by her father becomes an excruciating test of her faith.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
271 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The author presents a tribute to his late golden retriever, Trixie, that describes his family's adoption of the retired service animal, the numerous lessons he learned throughout their relationship, and the family's grief upon her passing.
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
228 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Leah is changed. Months earlier, she left for a routine expedition, only this time her submarine sank to the sea floor. When she finally surfaces and returns home, her wife Miri knows that something is wrong. Barely eating and lost in her thoughts, Leah rotates between rooms in their apartment, running the taps morning and night. As Miri searches for answers, desperate to understand what happened below the water, she must face the possibility that...
13) A promise kept
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Allison believes Godmade her a promise. So why didn't her life turn out the way she expected? Allison did everything she could do to rescue her marriage, but her husband left anyway. Their marriage is over. She retreats to the mountain home shein herited from her great-aunt Emma, a woman she thought she'd known well. But the trunks she discovers in the attic hold keepsakes, photographs, and journalsthat reveal secrets;and the stories of a kindred...
14) H is for hawk
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
An award-winning best-seller from the UK recounts how the author, an experienced falconer grieving the sudden death of her father, endeavored to train for the first time a dangerous goshawk predator as part of her personal recovery.
"As a child Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer. She learned the arcane terminology and read all the classic books, including T.H. White's tortured masterpiece, The Goshawk, which describes White's struggle...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
374 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Reeling from the death of her cousin, Hannah concocts a risky plan to enroll in her cousin's elite private school and find who gave her the lethal pills, but the deeper Hannah goes the more she risks losing everything.
18) Destined for you
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1869, Gloriana Womack's family is much smaller since smallpox killed her mother and two of her siblings. She lives in a modest cottage in Duluth, Minnesota, with her father and young brother, and she has dedicated her life to holding her tiny, fractured family together--especially as her father is frequently gone on long fishing trips. Their livelihood may come from the waters of Lake Superior, but storms on the lake can be dangerous, even to those...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
In a tale inspired by the hit Broadway show, a simple lie leads to complicated truths in this story of grief, authenticity, and the struggle to belong in an age of instant connectivity and profound isolation.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Attending an elite prep school in Connecticut on a scholarship with his best friend (and secret love) science genius Delaney Doyle, sixteen-year-old Cash Pruitt, from a small town in East Tennessee, struggles with emotional pain and loss until his English teacher suggests writing poetry.