Everybody on the wonderful Italian island knows Alberto. The old man has made coffins for the great, the good, the poor and the rich for as long as they can remember. They know too that, ever since his wife died and his children left, he's withdrawn further and further into himself. Indeed, he's become positively grumpy.Unknown to the nosey townsfolk, Alberto's heart is broken with loneliness and despair. So when a peculiar bird flutters into his garden, he starts to try to tame it. And when, one day, a boy follows the bird into Alberto's basement, a door in the old man's heart chinks open. The boy is lonely too - but he's also scared. On the run from his brutal stepfather, he just wants to feel safe, for once in his life.Brought together by a magical bird, the boy and the old man slowly learn to trust one another.
Bolinda Audio
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9781489459534
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Audiobook
A Perfect Life
By Steel, Danielle
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom Danielle Steel comes a heartwarming and inspirational novel about a mother and daughter who face challenges cope with celebrity and overcome tragedy while maintaining the outward appearance of A PERFECT LIFEThe epitome of intelligence high-powered energy and grace Blaise McCarthy is an icon in the world of television news asking the tough questions and taking on the emotionally charged issues of world affairs and politics with courage and insight A single mother she manages her well-ordered career meticulously always prepared on the air or interviewing world-renowned figures and heads of state To her audience Blaise seems to have it all But privately and off the set there is another untold story she has kept hidden for years Blaisersquos teenage daughter Salima was blinded by Type diabetes in childhood and her needs have kept her away in a year-round boarding school with full-time medical care and assistance ever since When Salimarsquos school closes after a tragedy Salima returns to her motherrsquos New York City apartment and suddenly they face challenges theyrsquove never had to deal with before and that Blaise feels ill-equipped to handle A new caretaker provided by Salimarsquos school creates as many problems as he solves Handsome accomplished thirty-two-year-old Simon Ward with strong opinions on every topic questions how mother and daughter view themselves and each other Simon opens new doors for both of them and refuses to accept Salimarsquos physical limitations He turns their world upside down and the three become friends Then everything starts to unravel and Blaise canrsquot keep her two worlds separate anymore A beautiful young anchorwoman is hired at the network it is no secret that she is being groomed to take Blaisersquos place Her career as she has known it is threatened and her previously well-ordered life feels totally out of control For the first time Blaisersquos life is not perfect but real In this unforgettable tale the incomparable Danielle Steel has written a novel that pulsates with emotion and honesty as three people face the truth about themselves A Perfect Life is about what we do when facades fall away and we can no longer run from the truth As old ideas fail everything changes and life is suddenly brand-newPraise for A Perfect Life ldquoA classic Steel story with a mother and daughter keeping up appearances as they overcome tragedy and learn a thing or two about themselvesrdquomdashLibrary Journal ldquoItrsquos the lessons learned by the mother-daughter duo about love loyalty and family that bring them closer together than ever before in Steelrsquos latest heartwarming page-turnerrdquomdashCloser WeeklyFrom the Hardcover edition.
Random House Large Print; Lrg edition
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9780804194419
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Audiobook
The Gilded Hour
By Donati, Sara
[Read by Cassandra Campbell] The internationally bestselling author of Into the Wilderness makes her highly anticipated return with a remarkable epic about two female doctors in nineteenth-century New York and the transcendent power of courage and love. The year is 1883, and in New York City it's a time of dizzying splendor, crushing poverty, and tremendous change. With the gravity-defying Brooklyn Bridge nearly complete and New York in the grips of anti-vice crusader Anthony Comstock, Anna Savard and her cousin Sophie -- both graduates of the Woman's Medical School -- treat the city's most vulnerable, even if doing so may put everything they've strived for in jeopardy. Anna's work has placed her in the path of four children who have lost everything, just as she herself once had.
Blackstone Audio, Inc.; Unabridged edition
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9781504618212
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Audio CD
Amherst
By Nicholson, William
Alice Dickinson, a young advertising executive in London, decides to take time off work to research her idea for a screenplay: the true story of the scandalous, adulterous love affair that took place between a young, Amherst college faculty wife, Mabel Loomis Todd, and the college's treasurer, Austin Dickinson, in the 1880s. Austin, twenty-four years Mabel's senior and married, was the brother of the reclusive poet Emily Dickinson, whose house provided the setting for Austin and Mabel's trysts. Alice travels to Amherst, staying in the house of Nick Crocker, a married English academic in his fifties. As Alice researches Austin and Mabel's story and Emily's role in their affair, she embarks on her own affair with Nick, an affair that, of course, they both know echoes the affair that she's writing about in her screenplay.
Dreamscape Media; Unabridged edition
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9781633796959
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Audio CD
An Amish Garden
By Wiseman, Beth
Rooted in Love by Beth Wiseman: Rosemary Lantz is doing her best to run her family's household. She excels at all her tasks except one: gardening. Saul Petersheim has pursued her for years, but Rosemary keeps turning him down. What Saul doesn't know is that she has a good reason, but it's something no one can know - especially him.Flowers for Rachael by Kathleen Fuller: Rachael Bontrager's flower garden is beautiful, but she's lonely. Gideon Beiler fell in love with her almost at first sight. One day Rachael finds her garden in shambles, but she won't accept Gideon's offers of help. She must learn that she doesn't have to do everything on her own - God is in control.Seeds of Love by Tricia Goyer: Sadie Chupp finds her greatest joy in the greenhouses of her Montana community.
Oasis Audio
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9781613755563
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Audio CD
The Secrets of Midwives
By Hepworth, Sally
With empathy and keen insight, Sally Hepworth delivers a page-turning novel about the complex, lovely, and even heartbreaking relationships between mothers and daughters.--Emily GiffinThree generations of women Secrets in the present and from the pastA captivating tale of life, loss, and loveNeva Bradley, a third-generation midwife, is determined to keep the details surrounding her own pregnancy--including the identity of the babys father-- hidden from her family and co-workers for as long as possible. Her mother, Grace, finds it impossible to let this secret rest. The more Grace prods, the tighter Neva holds to her story, and the more the lifelong differences between private, quiet Neva and open, gregarious Grace strain their relationship. For Floss, Nevas grandmother and a retired midwife, Nevas situation thrusts her back sixty years in time to a secret that eerily mirrors her granddaughters--one which, if revealed, will have life-changing consequences for them all.
Macmillan Audio; Unabridged edition
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9781427252395
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Audio CD
Recreated
By Houck, Colleen
From Colleen Houck, New York Times bestselling author of The Tiger's Curse, comes Recreated, the second book in the epic Egyptian-inspired Reawakened series, in which a seventeen-year-old must literally go to hell to save the love of her life. Lily Young thought traveling across the globe with a reawakened sun prince was a grand adventure. Now she's about to embark on the journey of a lifetime. When Amon and Lily part tragically, he transports himself to the Netherworld - what mortals call hell. Tormented by the loss of his one true love, he'd rather suffer in agony during Lily's mortal years than fulfill his duty to protect humanity. Heartbroken, Lily seeks refuge on her grandmother's farm. Yet she can feel Amon's pain, and she has been having dreams - dreams of Amon continually suffering.
Listening Library
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9780804167505
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Audiobook on CD
Hold Me
By Mallery, Susan
New York Times bestselling author Susan Mallerys classic blend of lighthearted humor and intense emotional conflict works its magic on two newcomers to the California town of Fools Gold, which Library Journal calls a setting so real and appealing readers will want to start scoping out real estate.Destiny Mills believes passion has its placelike in the lyrics of the country songs that made her parents famous. After a childhood full of drama and heartache, she wants a life thats calm. Safe. Everything that Kipling Gilmore isnt. Her temporary assignment with the Fools Gold search and rescue team puts her in delicious proximity to the former world-class skier every day. Part of her aches to let go for oncethe rest is terrified whatll happen if she does.Though an accident ended his career, Kipling still lives for thrillsand a hot fling with a gorgeous redhead like Destiny would be a welcome diversion.
Brilliance Audio; Library edition
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9781491504420
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Audio CD
Woof - Audio
By Quinn, Spencer
"Spencer Quinn speaks two languages -- suspense and dog -- fluently." -- Stephen KingThere is trouble brewing in the Louisiana swamp -- Bowser can smell it. Bowser is a very handsome and only slightly slobbery dog, and he can smell lots of things. Like bacon. And rawhide chews! And the sweat on humans when they're lying.Birdie Gaux, the girl Bowser lives with, also knows something is wrong. It's not just that her grammy's stuffed prize marlin has been stolen. It's the weird rumor that the marlin is linked to a missing treasure. It's the truck that seems to be following Birdie and the bad feeling on the back of her neck.When Birdie and Bowser start digging into the mystery, not even Bowser's powerful sniffer can smell just how menacing the threat is.
Scholastic Audio Books; Unabridged edition
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9780545838344
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Audio CD
Small Victories
By Lamott, Anne
From the bestselling author of Stitches and Help, Thanks, Wow comes her long-awaited collection of new and selected essays on hope, joy, and grace.Anne Lamott writes about faith, family, and community in essays that are both wise and irreverent. It's an approach that has become her trademark. Now in Small Victories, Lamott offers a new message of hope that celebrates the triumph of light over the darkness in our lives. Our victories over hardship and pain may seem small, she writes, but they change us - our perceptions, our perspectives, and our lives. Lamott writes of forgiveness, restoration, and transformation, how we can turn toward love even in the most hopeless situations, how we find the joy in getting lost and our amazement in finally being found.
The Boy, the Bird and the Coffin Maker
By Woods, Matilda
Everybody on the wonderful Italian island knows Alberto. The old man has made coffins for the great, the good, the poor and the rich for as long as they can remember. They know too that, ever since his wife died and his children left, he's withdrawn further and further into himself. Indeed, he's become positively grumpy.Unknown to the nosey townsfolk, Alberto's heart is broken with loneliness and despair. So when a peculiar bird flutters into his garden, he starts to try to tame it. And when, one day, a boy follows the bird into Alberto's basement, a door in the old man's heart chinks open. The boy is lonely too - but he's also scared. On the run from his brutal stepfather, he just wants to feel safe, for once in his life.Brought together by a magical bird, the boy and the old man slowly learn to trust one another.
A Perfect Life
By Steel, Danielle
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom Danielle Steel comes a heartwarming and inspirational novel about a mother and daughter who face challenges cope with celebrity and overcome tragedy while maintaining the outward appearance of A PERFECT LIFEThe epitome of intelligence high-powered energy and grace Blaise McCarthy is an icon in the world of television news asking the tough questions and taking on the emotionally charged issues of world affairs and politics with courage and insight A single mother she manages her well-ordered career meticulously always prepared on the air or interviewing world-renowned figures and heads of state To her audience Blaise seems to have it all But privately and off the set there is another untold story she has kept hidden for years Blaisersquos teenage daughter Salima was blinded by Type diabetes in childhood and her needs have kept her away in a year-round boarding school with full-time medical care and assistance ever since When Salimarsquos school closes after a tragedy Salima returns to her motherrsquos New York City apartment and suddenly they face challenges theyrsquove never had to deal with before and that Blaise feels ill-equipped to handle A new caretaker provided by Salimarsquos school creates as many problems as he solves Handsome accomplished thirty-two-year-old Simon Ward with strong opinions on every topic questions how mother and daughter view themselves and each other Simon opens new doors for both of them and refuses to accept Salimarsquos physical limitations He turns their world upside down and the three become friends Then everything starts to unravel and Blaise canrsquot keep her two worlds separate anymore A beautiful young anchorwoman is hired at the network it is no secret that she is being groomed to take Blaisersquos place Her career as she has known it is threatened and her previously well-ordered life feels totally out of control For the first time Blaisersquos life is not perfect but real In this unforgettable tale the incomparable Danielle Steel has written a novel that pulsates with emotion and honesty as three people face the truth about themselves A Perfect Life is about what we do when facades fall away and we can no longer run from the truth As old ideas fail everything changes and life is suddenly brand-newPraise for A Perfect Life ldquoA classic Steel story with a mother and daughter keeping up appearances as they overcome tragedy and learn a thing or two about themselvesrdquomdashLibrary Journal ldquoItrsquos the lessons learned by the mother-daughter duo about love loyalty and family that bring them closer together than ever before in Steelrsquos latest heartwarming page-turnerrdquomdashCloser WeeklyFrom the Hardcover edition.
The Gilded Hour
By Donati, Sara
[Read by Cassandra Campbell] The internationally bestselling author of Into the Wilderness makes her highly anticipated return with a remarkable epic about two female doctors in nineteenth-century New York and the transcendent power of courage and love. The year is 1883, and in New York City it's a time of dizzying splendor, crushing poverty, and tremendous change. With the gravity-defying Brooklyn Bridge nearly complete and New York in the grips of anti-vice crusader Anthony Comstock, Anna Savard and her cousin Sophie -- both graduates of the Woman's Medical School -- treat the city's most vulnerable, even if doing so may put everything they've strived for in jeopardy. Anna's work has placed her in the path of four children who have lost everything, just as she herself once had.
Amherst
By Nicholson, William
Alice Dickinson, a young advertising executive in London, decides to take time off work to research her idea for a screenplay: the true story of the scandalous, adulterous love affair that took place between a young, Amherst college faculty wife, Mabel Loomis Todd, and the college's treasurer, Austin Dickinson, in the 1880s. Austin, twenty-four years Mabel's senior and married, was the brother of the reclusive poet Emily Dickinson, whose house provided the setting for Austin and Mabel's trysts. Alice travels to Amherst, staying in the house of Nick Crocker, a married English academic in his fifties. As Alice researches Austin and Mabel's story and Emily's role in their affair, she embarks on her own affair with Nick, an affair that, of course, they both know echoes the affair that she's writing about in her screenplay.
An Amish Garden
By Wiseman, Beth
Rooted in Love by Beth Wiseman: Rosemary Lantz is doing her best to run her family's household. She excels at all her tasks except one: gardening. Saul Petersheim has pursued her for years, but Rosemary keeps turning him down. What Saul doesn't know is that she has a good reason, but it's something no one can know - especially him.Flowers for Rachael by Kathleen Fuller: Rachael Bontrager's flower garden is beautiful, but she's lonely. Gideon Beiler fell in love with her almost at first sight. One day Rachael finds her garden in shambles, but she won't accept Gideon's offers of help. She must learn that she doesn't have to do everything on her own - God is in control.Seeds of Love by Tricia Goyer: Sadie Chupp finds her greatest joy in the greenhouses of her Montana community.
The Secrets of Midwives
By Hepworth, Sally
With empathy and keen insight, Sally Hepworth delivers a page-turning novel about the complex, lovely, and even heartbreaking relationships between mothers and daughters.--Emily GiffinThree generations of women Secrets in the present and from the pastA captivating tale of life, loss, and loveNeva Bradley, a third-generation midwife, is determined to keep the details surrounding her own pregnancy--including the identity of the babys father-- hidden from her family and co-workers for as long as possible. Her mother, Grace, finds it impossible to let this secret rest. The more Grace prods, the tighter Neva holds to her story, and the more the lifelong differences between private, quiet Neva and open, gregarious Grace strain their relationship. For Floss, Nevas grandmother and a retired midwife, Nevas situation thrusts her back sixty years in time to a secret that eerily mirrors her granddaughters--one which, if revealed, will have life-changing consequences for them all.
Recreated
By Houck, Colleen
From Colleen Houck, New York Times bestselling author of The Tiger's Curse, comes Recreated, the second book in the epic Egyptian-inspired Reawakened series, in which a seventeen-year-old must literally go to hell to save the love of her life. Lily Young thought traveling across the globe with a reawakened sun prince was a grand adventure. Now she's about to embark on the journey of a lifetime. When Amon and Lily part tragically, he transports himself to the Netherworld - what mortals call hell. Tormented by the loss of his one true love, he'd rather suffer in agony during Lily's mortal years than fulfill his duty to protect humanity. Heartbroken, Lily seeks refuge on her grandmother's farm. Yet she can feel Amon's pain, and she has been having dreams - dreams of Amon continually suffering.
Hold Me
By Mallery, Susan
New York Times bestselling author Susan Mallerys classic blend of lighthearted humor and intense emotional conflict works its magic on two newcomers to the California town of Fools Gold, which Library Journal calls a setting so real and appealing readers will want to start scoping out real estate.Destiny Mills believes passion has its placelike in the lyrics of the country songs that made her parents famous. After a childhood full of drama and heartache, she wants a life thats calm. Safe. Everything that Kipling Gilmore isnt. Her temporary assignment with the Fools Gold search and rescue team puts her in delicious proximity to the former world-class skier every day. Part of her aches to let go for oncethe rest is terrified whatll happen if she does.Though an accident ended his career, Kipling still lives for thrillsand a hot fling with a gorgeous redhead like Destiny would be a welcome diversion.
Woof - Audio
By Quinn, Spencer
"Spencer Quinn speaks two languages -- suspense and dog -- fluently." -- Stephen KingThere is trouble brewing in the Louisiana swamp -- Bowser can smell it. Bowser is a very handsome and only slightly slobbery dog, and he can smell lots of things. Like bacon. And rawhide chews! And the sweat on humans when they're lying.Birdie Gaux, the girl Bowser lives with, also knows something is wrong. It's not just that her grammy's stuffed prize marlin has been stolen. It's the weird rumor that the marlin is linked to a missing treasure. It's the truck that seems to be following Birdie and the bad feeling on the back of her neck.When Birdie and Bowser start digging into the mystery, not even Bowser's powerful sniffer can smell just how menacing the threat is.
Small Victories
By Lamott, Anne
From the bestselling author of Stitches and Help, Thanks, Wow comes her long-awaited collection of new and selected essays on hope, joy, and grace.Anne Lamott writes about faith, family, and community in essays that are both wise and irreverent. It's an approach that has become her trademark. Now in Small Victories, Lamott offers a new message of hope that celebrates the triumph of light over the darkness in our lives. Our victories over hardship and pain may seem small, she writes, but they change us - our perceptions, our perspectives, and our lives. Lamott writes of forgiveness, restoration, and transformation, how we can turn toward love even in the most hopeless situations, how we find the joy in getting lost and our amazement in finally being found.