The Lost Years by Mary Higgins Clark: Biblical scholar Jonathan Lyons believes he
has found the rarest of parchments – a letter that may have been written by
Jesus Christ. Now, under the promise of secrecy, Jonathan is able to confirm
his findings with several other experts. But he also confides in a family
friend his suspicion that someone he once trusted wants to sell the parchment
and cash in. Within days Jonathan is found shot to death in his study. At the
same time, his wife, Kathleen, who is suffering from Alzheimer's, is found
hiding in the study closet, incoherent and clutching the murder weapon. Even in
her dementia, Kathleen has known that her husband was carrying on a long-term
affair. Did Kathleen kill her husband in a jealous rage, as the police contend?
Or is his death tied to the larger question: Who has possession of the
priceless parchment that has now gone missing? Check Availability
The Beginner’s Goodbye by Anne Tyler: Anne Tyler’s new
novel explores how a middle-aged man, ripped apart by the death of his wife, is
gradually restored by her frequent appearances – in their house, on the
roadway, in the market. Crippled in his right arm and leg, Aaron has spent his
childhood fending off a sister who wants to manage him. So when he meets
Dorothy, a plain, outspoken, independent young woman, she is like a breath of
fresh air. Unhesitatingly, he marries her, and they have a relatively happy,
unremarkable marriage. But when a tree crashes into their house and Dorothy is
killed, Aaron feels as though he has been erased forever. Only Dorothy's
unexpected appearances from the dead help him to live in the moment and to find
some peace. Gradually he discovers, as he works in the family's vanity-publishing
business, turning out titles that presume to guide beginners through the trials
of life, that maybe for this beginner there is a way of saying goodbye. Check Availability
Death Comes Silently by Carolyn G. Hart: When her fellow charity shop volunteer
Gretchen Burkholt is murdered, Dead on Demand Mystery shop owner Annie Darling
enlists the help of her husband, Max, to piece together a puzzle involving an
overturned kayak, a stolen motorboat, a troubled love affair, and a reckless
teenager. Check Availability
War Horse (DVD): Set against a sweeping canvas of rural
England and Europe during the First World War, begins with the remarkable
friendship between a horse named Joey and a young man called Albert, who tames
and trains him. When they are forcefully parted, the film follows the
extraordinary journey of the horse as he moves through the war, changing and
inspiring the lives of all those he meets; British cavalry, German soldiers,
and a French farmer and his granddaughter.
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We Bought a Zoo (DVD): This film adaptation of a memoir by
Benjamin Mee tells the true account of how the author and his family used their
life savings to buy a dilapidated zoo, replete with 200 exotic animals facing
destruction, in the English countryside.
Mee, along with his children, had to balance caring for his wife, who
was dying of brain cancer, with dealing with escaped tigers, raising endangered
animals, working with an eclectic skeleton crew and readying the zoo for a
reopening.
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