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Letters to the Lost

Brigid Kemmerer · 416 pages

"Juliet Young has always written letters to her mother, a world famous photojournalist--even after her mother's death, she leaves letters at her grave. When Declan finds a haunting letter left beside a grave, he can't resist the urge to write back. Soon, he is sharing his pain with a perfect stranger. When real life interferes with their secret life of letters, Juliet and Declan discover truths th

Friends to LoversGrief and MourningEpistolary FormatYoung Adult
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Love Letters to the Dead

Ava Dellaira · 327 pages

When Laurel starts writing letters to dead people for a school assignment, she begins to spill about her sister's mysterious death, her mother's departure from the family, her new friends, and her first love.

Death of a SiblingGrief and MourningBookishEpistolary Format
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Ruthless Vows

Rebecca Ross · 818 pages

Iris has returned home bruised and heartbroken from the front, but the war is far from over. Roman is gone, lost behind enemy lines, with no memory of his past, or Iris. Hoping his memories return, Roman begins to write again – but this time for the enemy. When a strange letter arrives beneath his wardrobe door, he strikes up with its mysterious yet hauntingly familiar author. Iris and Roman

Epistolary FormatDeath of a SiblingGrief and MourningMultiple POV
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The Sea of Tranquility

Katja Millay · 398 pages

I live in a world without magic or miracles. A place where there are no clairvoyants or shapeshifters, no angels or superhuman boys to save you. A place where people die and music disintegrates and things suck. I am pressed so hard against the earth by the weight of reality that some days I wonder how I am still able to lift my feet to walk. Former piano prodigy Nastya Kashnikov wants two things:

Grief and MourningDeath of a SiblingFriends to LoversYoung Adult
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The Last Letter

Rebecca Yarros · 432 pages

Death of a SiblingGrief and MourningEpistolary FormatMultiple POV
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The Book Thief

Markus Zusak · 566 pages

The extraordinary #1 New York Times bestselling story about the ability of books to feed the soul is now a major motion picture. This enhanced ebook edition is perfect for new fans and collectors alike. It includes: · An exclusive video welcome to the enhanced edition from Markus Zusak. · The official movie trailer for The Book Thief. · Videos featurettes introducing Sophie Nélisse (Leisel Mem

BookishGrief and MourningDeath of a SiblingYoung Adult
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Tell Me Three Things

Julie Buxbaum · 336 pages

Friends to LoversEpistolary FormatGrief and MourningYoung Adult
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Someone Else's Summer

Rachel Bateman · 320 pages

Death of a SiblingGrief and MourningFriends to LoversYoung Adult
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Saving Zoë

Alyson Noel

Instead of a fresh start, high school provides more grief and isolation to Echo, whose older sister died a year earlier, but insights gained from Zoe's diary--a fifteenth birthday gift from Zoe's boyfriend--about her sister's life and death change Echo in ways she could have never expected.

Death of a SiblingEpistolary FormatGrief and MourningYoung Adult
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All the Bright Places

Jennifer Niven · 408 pages

Theodore Finch is fascinated by death, and he constantly thinks of ways he might kill himself. But each time, something good, no matter how small, stops him. Violet Markey lives for the future, counting the days until graduation, when she can escape her Indiana town and her aching grief in the wake of her sister’s recent death. When Finch and Violet meet on the ledge of the bell tower at s

Death of a SiblingGrief and MourningYoung AdultMultiple POV
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Dear Zoe

Philip Beard · 208 pages

Philip Beard’s stunning debut novel is fifteen-year-old Tess DeNunzio’s letter to her sister, Zoe, lost to a hit-and-run driver on a day when it seemed that nothing mattered but the tragedies playing out in New York and Washington. Dear Zoe is a remarkable study of grief, adolescence, and healing with a pitch-perfect narrator who is at once sharp and naive, world- worried and self-centered, funny

Death of a SiblingGrief and MourningEpistolary FormatYoung Adult
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Stardust in Their Veins

Laura Sebastian · 576 pages

Death of a SiblingGrief and MourningYoung AdultMultiple POV
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Everything All at Once

Katrina Leno · 360 pages

When her struggles with anxiety worsen in the aftermath of a family death, Lottie is bequeathed a series of letters from her late aunt, a best-selling author, who leaves instructions to help Lottie overcome her fears and explore her own literary voice.

Epistolary FormatGrief and MourningBookishYoung Adult
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows · 278 pages

"I wonder how the book got to Guernsey? Perhaps there is some sort of secret homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers." January 1946: London is emerging from the shadow of the Second World War, and writer Juliet Ashton is looking for her next book subject. Who could imagine that she would find it in a letter from a man she's never met, a native of the island of Guernsey,

BookishGrief and MourningEpistolary FormatMultiple POV
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If Only I Had Told Her

Laura Nowlin · 300 pages

Autumn surrounds herself with books and wants to write her own destiny—but one doesn't always get a new chapter and fate can be cruel to those in love. Told through three different perspectives, If Only I Had Told Her is a love story brimming with truth, tragedy, and the unexpected bonds that heal us.

Grief and MourningFriends to LoversYoung AdultMultiple POV
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My Heart for Yours

Steph Campbell, Jolene Perry · 254 pages

Death of a SiblingGrief and MourningYoung AdultMultiple POV
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The Vow

Jessica Martinez · 424 pages

Mo is not only eighteen-year-old Annie's best friend, he is the one who helps her cope with the loss of her older sister, so when he learns he must leave Kentucky and return to Jordan with his family, Annie suggests a shocking alternative.

Death of a SiblingFriends to LoversGrief and MourningYoung Adult
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My Beating Teenage Heart

C.K. Kelly Martin · 274 pages

Two unexpected and heartbreaking deaths cause the lives of two very different teenagers to become intertwined as one struggles to deal with his grief and stay in this world, and the other finds herself inexplicably caught between this world and the next.

Death of a SiblingGrief and MourningYoung AdultMultiple POV
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Cold Hands, Warm Heart

Jill Wolfson · 258 pages

After sixteen-year-old Tyler convinces his parents to donate the organs of his fourteen-year-old sister, who died during a gymnastics meet, he writes letters to the recipients, including Dani, who finally has a chance at normalcy after living fifteen years with a congenital heart defect.

Death of a SiblingGrief and MourningYoung AdultMultiple POV
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The Little Paris Bookshop

Nina George · 392 pages

“There are books that are suitable for a million people, others for only a hundred. There are even remedies—I mean books—that were written for one person only…A book is both medic and medicine at once. It makes a diagnosis as well as offering therapy. Putting the right novels to the appropriate ailments: that’s how I sell books.” Monsieur Perdu calls himself a literary apothecary. From his floa

BookishGrief and MourningEpistolary FormatRomance
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Where I Want to Be

Adele Griffin · 150 pages

Two teenaged sisters, separated by death but still connected, work through their feelings of loss over the closeness they shared as children that was later destroyed by one's mental illness, and finally make peace with each other.

Death of a SiblingGrief and MourningYoung AdultMultiple POV
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The Good Sister

Jamie Kain · 298 pages

When teenaged Sarah dies in a sudden and puzzling accident, sending her two sisters into a tailspin of grief and confusion, Sarah wakes up in the afterlife and must piece together how she got there.

Death of a SiblingGrief and MourningYoung AdultMultiple POV
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Regretting You

Colleen Hoover · 363 pages

Death of a SiblingGrief and MourningMultiple POVRomance
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Punk 57

Penelope Douglas · 362 pages

"We were perfect together. Until we met." Misha I can’t help but smile at the words in her letter. She misses me. In fifth grade, my teacher set us up with pen pals from a different school. Thinking I was a girl, with a name like Misha, the other teacher paired me up with her student, Ryen. My teacher, believing Ryen was a boy like me, agreed. It didn’t take long for us to figure out t

Friends to LoversEpistolary FormatMultiple POVRomance

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