Showing results for "What's Left Behind" in Literature & Fiction

When the person you've built your whole life around is gone, what do you do? It's not the first time Abby Stone has faced the question. At 18, she envisioned a future with her childhood sweetheart Charlie, only to have him go off to school and leave a pregnant Abby behind. But that pales beside a second loss, when her 18-year-old son Luke falls to his death from his third-floor dorm. Abby throws herself into running her thriving B&B on the coast of Maine.

Recently fired and adrift, Charlotte Boyd agrees to oversee renovations on her parents’ small-town summer home that holds a tragic past. After discovering an enthralling diary hidden amidst junk the previous owners left behind, Charlotte connects with the author—a troubled teen named Lark Peters who died by suicide at the house sixteen years ago.

When war sends five displaced children to her door, Dodie Fitznorton knows life will never be the same. Eight-year-old Olive trembles when spoken to and won't say how she got a bruised lip, and her brother Peter seems angry at the entire world. With whispers of spies in the village and the children's precious futures at stake, Dodie must decide who to trust before everything she's built crumbles to ashes around her.

Ten years ago, Izzy Stone's mother fatally shot her father while he slept. Devastated by her mother's apparent insanity, Izzy, now 17, refuses to visit her in prison. But her new foster parents, employees at the local museum, have enlisted Izzy's help in cataloguing items at a long-shuttered state asylum. There, amid piles of abandoned belongings, Izzy discovers a stack of unopened letters, a decades-old journal, and a window into her own past.

Lauren is thrilled to escape her old life in London for a fresh start in the countryside with her partner, Paul, and her two stepchildren. Haunted by her past, Lauren knows how lucky she is, in her dream home with her ready-made family. She also knows how much she stands to lose. But as Lauren struggles to adjust to motherhood, Paul becomes increasingly distant and as village rumours begin to swirl about the fate of the house's previous occupants, Lauren's fears grow.

Worie Dressar is 17 years old when influenza and typhoid ravage her Appalachian Mountain community in 1877, leaving behind a growing number of orphaned children with no way to care for themselves. Worie’s mother has been secretly feeding several of these little ones on Sourwood Mountain. But when tragedy strikes, Worie is left to figure out why and how she was caring for them.

Survival isn't a theorem you can solve. Lily Ross, a math prodigy with an eidetic memory and a past she can’t outrun, arrives at MIT determined to build a new life. Haunted by childhood scars, she hides in numbers—until secrets and dangerous rivalries threaten everything she’s fought for. As old wounds reopen and storms gather, Lily must choose: risk trusting others or survive alone. In a world where every equation hides a danger, healing may be her hardest challenge of all. By DT Martin https://sites.google.com/view/dtmartin/home

Ein Sohn wendet sich an seine Eltern. Mit einem Brief versucht Marco Ott das Schweigen zu überwinden, das sich über die Jahre zwischen ihnen ausgebreitet hat. Eine unerwartete Nachricht seines Vaters weckt Erinnerungen: an seine Kindheit und Jugend in einer Arbeiterfamilie im Ruhrgebiet und seine Versuche, in der akademischen Welt Fuß zu fassen.