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• Intermezzo

  a Novel

  Rooney, Sally,

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  In the wake of their father's death, two brothers—successful Dublin lawyer Peter and his younger brother Ivan, a competitive chess player—find different ways to deal with their grief.

• The Friend

  Nunez, Sigrid,

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  After becoming the guardian of her late best friend's enormous Great Dane, a grieving woman is evicted from her no-pets apartment and forges a deep bond with the equally distraught animal in ways that initially disturb her friends.

• All My Mother's Lovers

  a Novel

  Masad, Ilana,

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  Shattered by revelations about her recently deceased mother, who never entirely accepted her sexuality, Maggie tracks down the men in her mother’s hidden second life while coming to terms with new understandings about monogamy.

• Brother Sister Mother Explorer

  a Novel

  Figueroa, Jamie,

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  In the aftermath of their mother's passing, Rafa and Rufina spend a final weekend together in their childhood home carrying out a peculiar bet that Rufina hopes will force her brother to commit to living.

• Afterlife

  a Novel

  Alvarez, Julia,

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  Reeling from her beloved husband's sudden death in the wake of her retirement, an immigrant writer is further derailed by the reappearance of her unstable sister and an entreaty for help by a pregnant undocumented teen.

• The Celebrants

  a Novel

  Rowley, Steven, 1971-

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  After the death of their friend Alec two weeks before graduation, Marielle, Craig, Jordan, Jordy and Naomi made a pact to celebrate each other's "funerals" while they were still alive. Now Jordan has called the group together once more...

• Writers & Lovers

  a Novel

  King, Lily,

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  Blindsided by her mother's sudden death, and wrecked by a recent love affair, 31-year-old Casey Peabody's determination to live a creative life will be complicated by her relationships with two very different men.

• Hope and Glory

  a Novel

  Benson, Jendella,

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  Glory Akindele returns to London from her seemingly glamorous life in LA to mourn the sudden death of her father, only to find her previously close family has fallen apart in her absence.

• Sing Them Home

  Kallos, Stephanie

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  When Hope vanishes in the midst of a tornado in 1978, her three children are forced to cope with the sudden loss in their own ways. Reunited by their father's death decades later, they must finally face the tragedy that has always haunted…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Great Believers

  Makkai, Rebecca,

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  The director of a Chicago art gallery and a woman looking for her estranged daughter in Paris both struggle to come to terms with the ways AIDS has affected their lives.

• The Young Widower's Handbook

  a Novel

  McAllister, Tom,

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  For Hunter Cady, meeting Kait was the greatest thing that ever happened to him. When she dies quite suddenly, numb with grief, he stumbles forward the only way he knows how: by running away.