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Ethan Frome

2007
The tragic story of Ethan Frome, a New England farmer married to a hypochondriac and in love with his wife's lively cousin, Mattie.
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How to walk away

2018
Margaret Jacobsen is looking at a bright future until everything is taken away in a brief turbulent moment. While in the hospital she is forced to face the possibility that nothing will be the same again. A story about finding love in the least likely place.

The five people you meet in heaven

Eddie is a war-veteran who fixes rides at an amusement park and when he dies trying to save a girl from a falling cart, he discovers that the afterlife is actually five people who sit down and explain your life to you.

The next person you meet in Heaven

"In this . . . sequel to . . . 'The Five People You Meet in Heaven,' Mitch Albom tells the story of Annie--the little girl Eddie saved on Ruby Pier--and the five people she meets in heaven, where she is reunited with Eddie in a . . . novel [about] how our lives and losses intersect"--Provided by publisher.
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The five people you meet in heaven

A bitter eighty-three-year-old war veteran who believes his life is meaningless dies while trying to save a little girl's life and finds himself in heaven, where five people from his past--some loved ones, some strangers--explain what his years on Earth really meant, and whether or not he succeeded in saving the child.

Ethan Frome

1993
This is about a lonely, poverty-stricken 19th-century New England farmer who has long and faithfully cared for his bitter, invalid wife. when his wife's distant young cousin comes to take over as housekeeper they both succumb to their forbidden passion with tragic results.

Donorboy

2004
Rosalind, a fourteen-year-old orphan, becomes the ward of her biological father after the tragic death of her gay mother, and struggles with the adjustment of getting to know a father she never knew.

Surviving accidents and crashes

Presents eight stories of people surviving accidents or crashes, such as airplane and train accidents, being stuck in a well, and more.

The visitor

2003
Alexander Tate, temporarily blinded in a riding accident, retires to Collingbourne to rest and finds himself falling in love with Cassandra Steele, the unseen young woman who has volunteered to read to him during his convalescence, but their budding relationship is threatened when Cassandra, fearing Tate will find her looks lacking, begins to pull away.

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