Loving Reaper by Jenny Jinya (2021)

Our beautiful planet is home to 8.7 million species. Animals that walk, crawl, fly, swim, and all of which, in one way or another, enrich our daily lives. Whether it’s watching a football game with your dog, the first time your eyes meet those of a fox in the forest, or the warmth and purring provided by that cat you took in. Our lives are affected by exchanges with our animal companions, whether domestic or wild. With these comics, the author wants to show the diversity and beauty of the animal world, but above all to denounce human behaviour that we should no longer see, ever. We’re not going to lie to you, these are incredibly sad stories and it is likely that some of them will touch you. But they are also stories of hope, because every tear you shed means that these animals matter to you, and that you will take care of those who are lucky enough to cross your path.

The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson (2020)

Sandman by Neil Gaiman (2021)

Backpack Literature -- Fifth Edition by X. J. Kennedy (2016)

Fiction. Talking with Amy Tan -- Reading a story -- The art of fiction -- Types of short fiction -- Death has an appointment in Samarra / Sufi Legend -- The north wind and the sun / Aesop -- The tortoise and the geese / Bidpai -- Independence / Chuang Tzu -- Godfather death / Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm -- Plot -- The short story -- A & P / John Updike -- Writing effectively -- Point of view -- Identifying point of view -- Types of narrators -- How much does a narrator know? -- Stream of consciousness -- [A Rose for Emily](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL82884W) / William Faulkner -- [Tell-tale Heart](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41059W) / Edgar Allan Poe -- Why I live at the P.O. / Eudora Welty -- Girl / Jamaica Kincaid -- Writing effectively -- Character -- Characterization -- Motivation -- The jilting of Granny Weatherall / Katherine Anne Porter -- Bullet in the brain / Tobias Wolff -- Everyday use / Alice Walker -- Cathedral / Raymond Carver -- Writing effectively -- Setting -- Elements of setting -- Historical fiction -- Regionalism -- Naturalism -- The storm / Kate Chopin -- To build a fire / Jack London -- The gospel according to Mark / Jorge Luis Borges -- A pair of tickets / Amy Tan -- Writing effectively -- Tone and Style -- Tone -- Style -- Diction -- A clean, well-lighted place / Ernest Hemingway -- [Barn burning](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20080279W) / William Faulkner -- Irony -- The necklace / Guy de Maupassant -- [The story of an hour](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20078864W) / Kate Chopin -- Writing effectively -- Theme -- Plot versus theme -- Summarizing the theme -- Finding the theme -- Dead men's path / Chinua Achebe -- The house on Mango Street / Sandra Cisneros -- The parable of the prodigal son / Luke -- Harrison Bergeron / Kurt Vonnegut Jr. -- Writing effectively -- Symbol -- Allegory -- Symbols -- Recognizing symbols -- The chrysanthemums / John Steinbeck -- The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- The ones who walk away from Omelas / Ursula K. Le Guin -- The lottery / Shirley Jackson -- Writing effectively -- Stories for further reading -- This is what it means to say Phoenix, Arizona / Sherman Alexie -- Happy endings / Margaret Atwood -- [Young Goodman Brown](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455569W) / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The gift of the magi / O. Henry -- Sweat / Zora Neale Hurston -- Saboteur / Ha Jin -- [Araby](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20570121W) / James Joyce -- Before the law / Franz Kafka -- Miss Brill / Katherine Mansfield -- Where are you going, where have you been? / Joyce Carol Oates -- The things they carried / Tim O'Brien -- A good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor -- Tell them not to kill me! / Juan Rulfo -- A haunted house / Virginia Woolf -- Poetry. Talking with Kay Ryan -- Reading a poem -- Poetry or verse -- How to read a poem -- Paraphrase -- The Lake Isle of Innisfree / William Butler Yeats -- Lyric poetry -- Those winter Sundays / Robert Hayden -- Aunt Jennifer's tigers / Adrienne Rich -- Narrative poetry -- Sir Patrick Spence / Anonymous -- "Out, out --" / Robert Frost -- Dramatic poetry -- My last duchess / Robert Browning -- Didactic poetry -- Writing effectively -- Ask me / William Stafford -- Listening to a voice -- Tone -- My papa's waltz / Theodore Roethke -- The wayfarer / Stephen Crane -- The author to her book / Anne Bradstreet -- To a locomotive in winter / Walt Whitman -- I like to see it lap the miles / Emily Dickinson -- For my daughter / Weldon Kees -- The speaker in the poem -- White lies / Natasha Trethewey -- Luke Havergal / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- Dog haiku / Anonymous -- Theme for English B / Langston Hughes -- The farmer's bride / Charlotte Mew -- The red wheelbarrow / William Carlos Williams -- Irony -- Oh no / Robert Creeley -- The unknown citizen / W.H. Auden -- Rite of passage / Sharon Olds -- Second fig / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- The workbox / Thomas Hardy -- For review and further study -- Deliberate / Amy Uyematsu -- To Lucasta / Richard Lovelace -- Dulce et decorum est / Wilfred Owen -- Writing effectively -- Words -- Literal meaning : what a poem says first -- This is just to say / William Carlos Williams -- Diction -- Cargoes / John Masefield -- Batter my heart, three-personed God, for you / John Donne -- The value of a dictionary -- Aftermath / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- That will to divest / Kay Ryan -- Friend, on this scaffold Thomas More lies dead / J.V. Cunningham -- Bread / Samuel Menashe -- Grass / Carl Sandburg -- Word choice and word order -- Upon Julia's clothes / Robert Herrick -- The ruined maid / Thomas Hardy -- Lonely hearts / Wendy Cope -- For review and further study -- anyone lived in a pretty how town / e.e. cummings -- Carnation milk / Anonymous -- English con salsa / Gina Valdés -- My heart leaps up when I behold / William Wordsworth -- Mutability / William Wordsworth -- Jabberwocky / Lewis Carroll -- Writing effectively -- Saying and suggesting -- Denotation and connotation -- London / William Blake -- Disillusionment of ten o'clock / Wallace Stevens -- Fire and ice / Robert Frost -- The minefield / Diane Thiel -- Bilingual/bilingüe / Rhina P. Espaillat -- Tears, idle tears / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Love calls us to the things of this world / Richard Wilbur -- Writing effectively -- Imagery -- In a station of the Metro / Ezra Pound -- The piercing chill I feel / Taniguchi Buson -- Imagery -- The winter evening settles down / T.S. Eliot -- Root cellar / Theodore Roethke -- The fish / Elizabeth Bishop -- A route of evanescence / Emily Dickinson -- Reapers / Jean Toomer -- Pied beauty / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- About haiku -- The falling flower / Arakida Moritake -- Heat-lightning streak / Matsuo Basho -- In the old stone pool / Matsuo Basho -- On the one-ton temple bell / Taniguchi Buson -- Moonrise on mudflats / Taniguchi Buson -- only one guy / Kobayashi Issa -- Cricket / Kobayashi Issa -- Haiku from Japanese internment camps -- Rain shower from mountain / Suiko Matsushita -- Cosmos in bloom / Suiko Matsushita -- Even the croaking of frogs / Hakuro Wada -- The war, this year / Neiji Ozawa -- Contemporary haiku -- The old neighborhood / Nick Virgilio -- Visitor's room / Lee Gurga -- Born again / Jennifer Brutschy -- Learning to shave / Adelle Foley -- For review and further study -- Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art / John Keats -- Lipstick / Tami Haaland -- El hombre / William Carlos Williams -- Drinking alone by moonlight / Li Po, translated by Arthur Waley -- Not waving but drowning / Stevie Smith -- Driving to town late to mail a letter / Robert Bly -- Writing effectively -- Figures of Speech -- Why speak figuratively? -- The eagle / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? / William Shakespeare -- Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? / Howard Moss -- Metaphor and simile -- My life had stood, a loaded gun / Emily Dickinson -- Flower in the crannied wall / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- To see a world in a grain of sand / William Blake -- Metaphors / Sylvia Plath -- Simile / N. Scott Momaday -- A Martian sends a postcard home / Craig Raine -- Other figures of speech -- The wind / James Stephens -- You fit into me / Margaret Atwood -- Epitaph / Timothy Steele -- Money / Dana Gioia -- Fog / Carl Sandburg -- For review and further study -- The secret sits / Robert Frost -- Turtle / Kay Ryan -- Love and friendship / Emily Brontë -- Ode on a Grecian urn / John Keats -- Writing effectively -- Sound -- Sound as meaning -- Who goes with Fergus? / William Butler Yeats -- (from) Ulalume / Edgar Allan Poe -- A slumber did my spirit seal / William Wordsworth -- Alliteration and assonance -- The watch / Frances Cornford -- The splendor falls on castle walls / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Rime -- The hippopotamus / Hilaire Belloc -- Leda and the swan / William Butler Yeats -- God's grandeur / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- Desert places / Robert Frost -- How to read a poem aloud -- In memoriam John Coltrane / Michael Stillman -- Writing effectively -- Rhythm -- Stresses and pauses -- Stress and meaning -- Line endings -- We real cool / Gwendolyn Brooks -- Break, break, break / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Résumé / Dorothy Parker -- Meter -- Counting-out rhyme / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- When I was one-and-twenty / A.E. Housman -- Beat! beat! drums! / Walt Whitman -- Writing effectively -- Closed form -- The value of form -- Formal patterns -- Days of wine and roses / Ernest Dowson -- Song ("Go and catch a falling star") / John Donne -- Ballads -- Bonny Barbara Allan / Anonymous -- Ballad of Birmingham / Dudley Randall -- The sonnet -- Let me not to the marriage of true minds / William Shakespeare -- What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Acquainted with the night / Robert Frost -- Shakespearean sonnet / R.S. Gwynn -- The Facebook sonnet / Sherman Alexie -- The epigram -- Of treason / Sir John Harrington -- Two somewhat different epigrams / Langston Hughes -- Other forms -- Do not go gentle into that good night / Dylan Thomas -- We wear the mask / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Sestina / Elizabeth Bishop -- Writing effectively -- Open Form -- Ancient stairway / Denise Levertov -- Free verse -- Buffalo Bill's / e.e. cummings -- The dance / William Carlos Williams -- The heart / Stephen Crane -- Cavalry crossing a ford / Walt Whitman -- Thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird / Wallace Stevens -- Prose poetry -- The magic study of happiness / Charles Simic -- For review and further study -- in Just- / e.e. cummings -- I shall paint my nails red / Carole Satyamurti -- I, too / Langston Hughes -- Writing effectively -- Symbol -- The meanings of a symbol -- The Boston Evening Transcript / T.S. Eliot -- The lightning is a yellow fork / Emily Dickinson -- Identifying symbols -- Neutral tones / Thomas Hardy -- Facing it / Yusef Komunyakaa -- Allegory -- The parable of the good seed / Matthew -- Redemption / George Herbert -- Proverbios y cantares (XXIX) / Antonio Machado -- Traveler / translated by Michael Ortiz -- The road not taken / Robert Frost -- Up-hill / Christina Rossetti -- For review and further study -- Wild geese / Mary Oliver -- Popcorn-can cover / Lorine Niedecker -- Anecdote of the jar / Wallace Stevens -- Writing effectively -- Myth and Narrative -- The subjects and uses of myth -- Origins of myth -- Nothing gold can stay / Robert Frost -- The world is too much with us / William Wordsworth -- Helen / H.D. -- Archetype -- Medusa / Louise Bogan -- First love : a quiz / A.E. Stallings -- Personal myth -- The second coming / William Butler Yeats -- Memento mori in middle school / Diane Thiel -- Lady Lazarus / Sylvia Plath -- Myth and popular culture -- Cinderella / Anne Sexton -- Writing effectively -- What is poetry? -- Poems for further reading -- thirteen ways of looking at a tortilla / Aaron Abeyta -- First poem for you / Kim Addonizio -- The powwow at the end of the world / Sherman Alexie -- Last words of the prophet / Anonymous (Navajo chant) -- Dover Beach / Matthew Arnold -- Musée des Beaux Arts / W.H. Auden -- One art / Elizabeth Bishop -- The tyger / William Blake -- the mother / Gwendolyn Brooks -- How do I love thee? let me count the ways / Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister / Robert Browning -- Dostoevsky / Charles Bukowski -- Quinceañera / Judith Ortiz Cofer -- Kubla Khan / Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Care and feeding / Billy Collins -- Wild nights, wild nights! / Emily Dickinson -- I felt a funeral, in my brain / Emily Dickinson -- Because I could not stop for death / Emily Dickinson -- Death be not proud / John Donne -- The flea / John Donne -- The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock / T.S. Eliot -- Mending wall / Robert Frost -- Birches / Robert Frost -- Stopping by woods on a snowy evening / Robert Frost -- A supermarket in California / Allen Ginsberg -- The convergence of the twain / Thomas Hardy -- Digging / Seamus Heaney -- Easter wings / George Herbert -- To the virgins, to make much of time / Robert Herrick -- Spring and fall / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- The windhover / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- Loveliest of trees, the cherry now / A.E. Housman -- To an athlete dying young / A.E. Housman -- The Negro speaks of rivers / Langston Hughes -- Harlem [dream deferred] / Langston Hughes -- The death of the ball turret gunner / Randall Jarrell -- Fire on the hills / Robinson Jeffers -- Missed time / Ha Jin -- On my first son / Ben Jonson -- On the death of friends in childhood / Donald Justice -- Ode to a nightingale / John Keats -- Home is so sad / Philip Larkin -- Piano / D.H. Lawrence -- Learning to love America / Shirley Geok-lin Lim -- To his coy mistress / Andrew Marvell -- The Harlem dancer / Claude McKay -- Recuerdo / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- When I consider how my light is spent / John Milton -- We are many / Pablo Neruda, translated by Alastair Reid -- Anthem for doomed youth / Wilfred Owen -- Daddy / Sylvia Plath -- Annabel Lee / Edgar Allan Poe -- The river-merchant's wife : a letter / Ezra Pound -- Naming of parts / Henry Reed -- Miniver Cheevy / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- Song ("When I am dead, my dearest") / Christina Rossetti -- When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes / William Shakespeare -- My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun / William Shakespeare -- Ozymandias / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- The emperor of ice-cream / Wallace Stevens -- Ulysses / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Fern Hill / Dylan Thomas -- When I heard the learn'd astronomer / Walt Whitman -- O captain! my captain! / Walt Whitman -- Spring and all // William Carlos Williams -- Queen-Anne's-lace / William Carlos Williams -- Composed upon Westminster Bridge / William Wordsworth -- Autumn begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio / James Wright -- In this strange labyrinth / Mary Sidney Wroth -- He wishes for the cloths of heaven / William Butler Yeats -- Sailing to Byzantium / William Butler Yeats -- When you are old / William Butler Yeats -- Drama. Talking with David Ives -- Reading a play -- Interpreting plays -- Theatrical conventions -- Elements of a play -- Trifles / Susan Glaspell -- Analyzing Trifles -- Writing effectively -- Tragedy and comedy -- Tragedy -- (Scene from) Doctor Faustus / Christopher Marlowe -- Comedy -- (Scene from) The importance of being earnest / Oscar Wilde -- Soap opera / David Ives -- Writing effectively -- The theater of Sophocles -- Theater in ancient Greece -- The civic role of Greek drama -- Aristotle's concept of tragedy -- Sophocles -- The origins of Oedipus the King -- Oedipus the King / Sophocles, translated by David Grene -- Writing effectively -- The theater of Shakespeare -- William Shakespeare -- A note on Othello -- Picturing Othello -- Othello, the Moor of Venice / William Shakespeare -- Writing effectively -- The modern theater -- Realism -- A doll's house / Henrik Ibsen, translated by R. Farquharson Sharp, revised by Viktoria Michelsen -- The glass menagerie / Tennessee Williams -- Experimental drama -- The Cuban swimmer / Milcha Sanchez-Scott -- Documentary drama -- (Scenes from) Twilight : Los Angeles, 1992 / Anna Deavere Smith -- Writing effectively -- Plays for further reading -- The sound of a voice / David Henry Hwang -- El Santo Americano / Edward Bok Lee -- Click / Brighde Mullins -- Fences / August Wilson -- Writing. Writing about literature -- Read actively -- Nothing gold can stay / Robert Frost -- Think about the reading -- Plan your essay -- Prewriting : generate ideas and issues -- Sample student prewriting exercises -- Develop your argument -- Strengthen your argument : rhetorical appeals -- Draft your argument -- Revise your argument -- Some final advice on rewriting -- What's your purpose? common approaches to writing about literature -- The form of your finished paper -- Topics for writing -- Writing a research paper -- Browse the research -- Choose a topic : formulate your argument -- Begin your research -- Evaluate your sources -- Organize your research -- Organize your paper -- Maintain academic integrity -- Acknowledge all sources -- Document sources using MLA style -- Concluding thoughts -- Reference guide for MLA citations.

Mapping the Interior by Stephen Graham Jones (2017)

Walking through his own house at night, a fifteen-year-old thinks he sees another person stepping through a doorway. Instead of the people who could be there, his mother or his brother, the figure reminds him of his long-gone father, who died mysteriously before his family left the reservation. When he follows it he discovers his house is bigger and deeper than he knew. The house is the kind of wrong place where you can lose yourself and find things you'd rather not have. Over the course of a few nights, the boy tries to map out his house in an effort that puts his little brother in the worst danger, and puts him in the position to save them . . . at terrible cost.

Complete Tales and Poems [10 stories, 28 poems] by Edgar Allan Poe (2018)

10 stories: [Pit and the Pendulum](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273550W) [Tell-tale Heart](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41059W) [Fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41078W) The Gold-Bug [Masque of the Red Death](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41050W) [Cask of Amontillado](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41016W) The Murders in the Rue Morgue [Black Cat](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41068W) [Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL40987W) Hop-Frog 28 poems: [Annabel Lee](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273456W) Bells Bridal Ballad City in the Sea Coliseum Conqueror Worm Dreamland Dream within a Dream Eldorado Enigma Eulalie For Annie Haunted Palace Hymn Lenore Marie Louise (Shew) [Raven](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41081W) Silence Sleeper To F To Frances S. Osgood. To Helen To Marie Louise (Shew) To My Mother To One in Paradise To Zante Ulalume Valentine

Before I let go by Marieke Nijkamp (2018)

Corey and her best friend, Kyra, are inseparable. Corey is the only person who understands Kyra's high-highs and low-lows. So when Corey's family moves away from their Alaskan town, she makes Kyra promise to stay strong during the long, dark winters and wait for her return. Except Kyra doesn't. Two days before Corey is to visit, Kyra is found floating underneath the ice.

Belladonna by Adalyn Grace (2022)

> Nineteen-year-old orphan Signa Farrow confronts Death – and her own deathly powers ­– when she investigates the mysterious murder of a relative at the Thorn Grove estate.

If You Dare by Harmony West (2023)

The judge didn’t serve justice. But the Devils will. Violet I never meant to hurt anybody. Chloe was my best friend, and that night, we were drunk and stupid. We never backed down from a dare, and the one time she did, I wouldn't let her. Even though it was an accident, no one believes me. She was the girl everyone loved, and now I'm the girl everyone hates. I can't pretend their punishments don't hurt. Especially his. Her brother, the hockey captain I once called a friend. The man I thought, someday, might be something more. Now Wes hates me too. And he's not quiet about it. But I can't fight back. Because I deserve it all. Wes Before, Violet was the girl I wanted but couldn't have. Now, my sister is dead, and she's the girl I can't stand. Violet is getting everything she doesn’t deserve. Protection. Freedom. Her life. She gets to keep living, even after she put my sister in the ground. So I’m enlisting my team to make every second of her life as miserable as possible. Because that’s what she deserves. Violet is going to pay for what she’s done. The Devils will make sure of it.

If only I had told her by Unknown (2024)

It the heartrending sequel to if he had been with me taking us through the journey of finns perspective of our beloved story shortly before the tragedy It also includes the perspectives of his best friend jack and beloved autumn and how they are coping after the tragedy

Strange Stories by Ivalou Leveau Jensen (2025)

A collection of 14 short stories that uncovers death, freedom, and delusional human and animals alike. There is a story for every taste, whether you want to laugh, cry or be surprised. The stories includes; a catastrophic funeral for a Goldfish. A retelling of the apes that were sent up to space under The Cold War. A sickness that makes your head fall off. A glimpse into a man’s breaking point and the fall of a relationship. A shoe that eats humans to cope with its feelings of abandonment. The story of a lonely ghost that goes on adventures with a strange pumpkin. A battle between a crab and the cooks that wants to fry him. And seven more short stories, just as strange as the others.

Bones Are Forever (Temperance Brennan #15) by Kathy Reichs (2012)

A woman calling herself Amy Roberts checks into a Montreal hospital complaining of uncontrolled bleeding. Doctors see evidence of a recent birth, but before they can act, Roberts disappears. Dispatched to the address she gave at the hospital, police discover bloody towels outside in a Dumpster. Fearing the worst, they call Temperance Brennan to investigate. In a run-down apartment Tempe makes a ghastly discovery: the decomposing bodies of three infants. According to the landlord, a woman named Alma Rogers lives there. Then a man shows up looking for Alva Rodriguez. Are Amy Roberts, Alma Rogers, and Alva Rodriguez the same person? Did she kill her own babies? And where is she now? Heading up the investigation is Tempe’s old flame, homicide detective Andrew Ryan. His counterpart from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police is sergeant Ollie Hasty, who happens to have a little history with Tempe himself, which she regrets. This unlikely trio follows the woman’s trail, first to Edmonton and then to Yellowknife, a remote diamond-mining city deep in the Northwest Territories. What they find in Yellowknife is more sinister than they ever could have imagined.

Drawing conclusions by Donna Leon (2011)

Commissario Guido Brunetti, with the help of Inspector Lorenzo Vianello and the ever-resourceful Signorina Elettra Zorzi, investigates the death of a Venetian widow in a Spartan apartment on Campo San Giacomo dell'Orio.

Twisted Twenty-Six by Janet Evanovich (2019)

Grandma Mazur is a widow...again. This time her marriage lasted a whole 45 minutes. The unlucky groom was one Jimmy Rosolli, local gangster, lothario (senior division) and heart attack waiting to happen...well, the waiting's over. It's a sad day, but if she can't have Jimmy at least Grandma can have all the attention she wants as the dutiful widow. But some kinds of attention are not welcomed, particularly when Jimmy's former "business partners" are convinced that his widow is keeping the keys to their financial success for herself. As someone who has spent an entire career finding bad guys, a set of missing keys should be no challenge for Stephanie Plum. Problem is, the facts are as twisted as a boardwalk pretzel with mustard.

Ghostgirl by Tonya Hurley (2009)

Snow by John Banville (2020)

Investigating the murder of a County Wexford priest in 1957, Detective Inspector St. John Strafford navigates harsh winter weather and the community's culture of silence to expose an aristocratic family's dangerous secrets. 1957. Detective Inspector St. John Strafford has been summoned to County Wexford to investigate when a parish priest is found dead in Ballyglass House, the family seat of the aristocratic, secretive Osborne family. The Catholic Church rules Ireland with an iron fist, and Strafford-- a Protestant-- faces obstruction at every turn. There is a culture of silence in this tight-knit community, and Strafford learns the Osbornes are not at all what they seem. When his own deputy goes missing, Strafford must work to unravel the ever-expanding mystery before the community's secrets, like the snowfall itself, threatens to obliterate everything. -- adapted from jacket

Once upon a river by Diane Setterfield (2018)

When the seemingly dead body of a child reanimates hours after arriving at an ancient inn on the Thames, three families try to claim her.

Orbiting Jupiter by Gary D. Schmidt (2015)

I personally (perspective of a 12 y/o) LOVE this book! Starting on page 174 to the end of the book made me cry. This book is written from Jack's POV. (SPOILER)--> Joseph's father intrudes in his new home and threatens to shoot Jack (Joseph's foster brother) if Joseph wouldn't leave with him. Joseph agrees, and leaves with his abusive dad (who sold Jupiter, Joseph's 4 m/o daughter, for money). He speeds in his truck, t-bones Joseph and Jack's teacher, and flip into The Alliance. Keep in mind that it is below 0 degrees in the winter. It takes them 2 days to get the truck out of the water, in which Joseph dies. Joseph has his funeral. After a year, the daughter of his that he was forbidden to see goes to live with Jack and his parents. Joseph called Jack "Jackie", which was sweet in my opinion. Gary D. Schmidt quotes on page 183 "...Jupiter smiled and laughed and she waddled around my parents. And then she stopped, and then she held up her hands, and then she said 'Jackie.' I knelt down and Jupiter got on my back. She closed her little arms around my neck. I stood and hefted her up. She laid her head against me. 'Jackie.' She yawned. 'Jackie.' 'Jupiter.' I whispered back. 'Jupiter. I promise I'll always know where you are.' 'Jackie.' She said again. And I carried her into the house"

Barba Ensopada de Sangue by Daniel Galera (2012)

" From Brazil's most acclaimed young novelist, the mesmerizing story of how a troubled young man's restorative journey to the seaside becomes a violent struggle with his family's past - So why did they kill him? - I'm getting there. Patience, tchê. I wanted to give you the context. Because it's a good story, isn't it? A young man's father, close to death, reveals to his son the true story of his grandfather's death, or at least the truth as he knows it. The mean old gaucho was murdered by some fellow villagers in Garopaba, a sleepy town on the Atlantic now famous for its surfing and fishing. It was almost an execution, vigilante style. Or so the story goes. It is almost as if his father has given the young man a deathbed challenge. He has no strong ties to home, he is ready for a change, and he loves the seaside and is a great ocean swimmer, so he strikes out for Garopaba, without even being quite sure why. He finds an apartment by the water and builds a simple new life, taking his father's old dog as a companion. He swims in the sea every day, makes a few friends, enters into a relationship, begins to make inquiries. But information doesn't come easily. A rare neurological condition means that he doesn't recognize the faces of people he's met, leading frequently to awkwardness and occasionally to hostility. And the people who know about his grandfather seem fearful, even haunted. Life becomes complicated in Garopaba until it becomes downright dangerous. Steeped in a very special atmosphere, both languid and tense, and soaked in the sultry allure of south Brazil, Daniel Galera's masterfully spare and powerful prose unfolds a story of discovery that feels almost archetypal-a display of storytelling sorcery that builds with oceanic force and announces one of Brazil's greatest young writers to the English-speaking world "--

Tell the wolves I'm home by Carol Rifka Brunt (2012)

It is 1987, and only one person has ever truly understood fourteen-year-old June Elbus -- her uncle, the renowned painter Finn Weiss. Shy at school and distant from her older sister, June can only be herself in Finn's company; he is her godfather, confidant, and best friend. So when he dies, far too young, of a mysterious illness her mother can barely speak about, June's world is turned upside down. But Finn's death brings a surprise acquaintance into June's life -- someone who will help her to heal, and to question what she thinks she knows about Finn, her family, and even her own heart.