DPL - The Lovely Bones

Stories of psychological fiction, death, and family relationships.

If You Like... The Lovely Bones


	Peace Like a River Enger, Leif. New York : Atlantic Monthly Press ; [Emeryville, CA] : Distributed by Publishers Group West, c2001. Eleven-year-old Reuben shares the story of how his father, trying to raise his sons alone in 1960s Minnesota, takes their family on a quest to find Reuben's older brother, who has been charged with murder. Subjects Headings Boys -- Fiction. Minnesota -- Fiction. Fathers and sons -- Fiction. Motherless families -- Fiction. Brothers -- Fiction. Outlaws -- Fiction.

	Empire Falls Russo, Richard, 1949- New York : Knopf, 2001. Milo Roby tries to hold his family together while working at the Empire Grill in the once-successful logging town of Empire Falls, Maine, with his partner, Mrs. Whiting, who is the heir to a faded logging and textile legacy. Subjects Headings Pulitzer Prizes. Maine -- Fiction. Restaurants -- Fiction. Restaurateurs -- Fiction. Working class -- Maine -- Fiction. Fathers and daughters -- Fiction.

	Blue Diary Hoffman, Alice. New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, c2001. Subjects Headings Trials (Murder) -- Fiction. City and town life -- Fiction.

	Shadow Baby McGhee, Alison, 1960- New York : Picador, 2003. Subjects Headings Girls -- Fiction. Older men -- Fiction. Friendship -- Fiction. Adirondack Mountains (N.Y.) -- Fiction.

	Spilling Clarence Ursu, Anne. New York : Theia, c2002. Subjects Headings Pharmaceutical industry -- Fiction. Industrial accidents -- Fiction. City and town life -- Fiction. Reminiscing -- Fiction. Minnesota -- Fiction.

	Change of Heart : A Novel Picoult, Jodi, 1966- New York : Atria Books, 2008. Shay Bourne, a prisoner on death row in New Hampshire, has one last request: to donate his heart, post-execution, to the sister of his victim who needs a transplant. Bourne says it's the only way he can redeem himself. Shay's spiritual advisor, Fr. Michael Wright, knows redemption has nothing to do with organ donation and plans to convince Bourne; but miracles, witnessed by inmates and prison guards alike, make the unkempt, bipolar, convicted murderer a media personality. Subjects Headings Murderers -- Fiction. Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. -- Fiction. Repentance -- Fiction.

	Elsewhere Zevin, Gabrielle. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005. After fifteen-year-old Liz Hall is hit by a taxi and killed, she finds herself in a place that is both like and unlike Earth, where she must adjust to her new status and figure out how to live. Subjects Headings Future life -- Fiction. Death -- Fiction.

	The Brief History of the Dead Brockmeier, Kevin. New York : Pantheon Books, c2006. Subjects Headings Death -- Fiction. Epidemics -- Fiction. Future life -- Fiction. Wilderness survival -- Fiction. Antarctica -- Fiction.

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