Monica Wood
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"The incandescent story of a 104-year-old woman and the sweet, strange young boy assigned to help her around the house - a friendship that touches each member of the boy's unmoored family."--Book jacket flap.
After his eleven-year-old son dies, guitarist Quinn Porter does yard work for an aged Lithuanian immigrant, Ona Vitkus, whom his son had often visited and comes to a resolution about his son's death as Ona discusses his son's capacity to listen...
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Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
2005
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Raised by her uncle, a Catholic priest, until he is falsely accused of molesting her and dismissed from his church, and she is sent awy to boarding school, Lizzy Mitchell is now thirty years old and struggling to deal with a failing marriage, until a near fatal car accident forces her to reexamine her life and the truths surrounding the accusations against her uncle.
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"Violet Powell, a twenty-two-year-old from rural Abbott Falls, Maine, is being released from prison after serving twenty-two months for a drunk-driving crash that killed a local kindergarten teacher. Harriet Larson, a retired English teacher who runs the prison book club, is facing the unsettling prospect of an empty nest. Frank Daigle, a retired machinist, hasn't yet come to grips with the complications of his marriage to the woman Violet killed....