widows

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Hero mama

a daughter remembers the father she lost in Vietnam-and the mother who held her family together
2005
Karen Spears reflects on how her father's death in Vietnam impacted her family and shares the story of how her mother worked to keep their family together.

The silver linings playbook

2010
Pat Peoples returns to his parent's home after a lengthy stay at a health facility following the betrayal of his wife, Nikki, and shows how he regains his memory and recovers from his depression and loss.

Ice shear

a novel
2014
Widowed FBI agent June Lyons returns to her hometown in the rust belt of upstate New York to take a job with the local police department; when she discovers a body in the frozen river, the investigation unmasks a sordid maze of politics, drugs, and an outlaw motorcycle gang, and June finds that still waters run deep in this small town.

Without warning

2014
Widower police chief Jake Robbins and Kate Sanford, the widow of the man accused of murdering Jake's wife, reevaluate the past when the unearthing of a fifty-year-old time capsule reveals that someone predicted the tragedy.

The house of Bernarda Alba =

La casa de Bernarda Alba
Depicts a power struggle between a widow and her adult daughter.

Bag of bones

2008
Four years after the sudden death of his wife, novelist Mike Noonan is still unable to write and plagued by vivid nightmares about a summerhouse called Sara Laughs. Upon his return to the town with the summerhouse, he finds the town's inhabitants in the grip of a vindictive man. As Mike is drawn into the town's struggles, he is also drawn into the mystery of the summerhouse, and its escalating terrors.

The guardian

2005
Four years after her dying husband gave her one last gift, a Great Dane puppy, and promised to always keep her safe, twenty-nine-year-old Julie Barenson is finally ready to love again, but danger lurks as she tries to decide which of two men will make her happy.

The story of the cannibal woman

a novel
2007
Roselie is left with unanswered questions about her husband's violent death and uses her skills as a clairvoyant to build a new life for herself and learn the truth about her husband's murder.

I hated heaven

a novel of love after death
1998
Tom, on his deathbed, promises his doubting wife, April, that if there really is a God and Heaven he will find some way to let her know, and he determines to keep that promise even though it means breaking all the rules of Paradise.

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