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While you are waiting for the popular title 'Theo of Golden' by Allen Levi, why not pass the time with one of these equally heartwarming reads! @BurlONLibrary bpladult

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  • Working at the local library, Aleisha reads every book on a secret list she found, which transports her from the painful realities she's facing at home, and decides to pass the list on to a lonely widower desperate to connect with his bookworm…
    Book, 2021New York, NY : William Morrow, [2021] — ADA
  • Between two London houses sits a forgotten community garden, and when a quiet neighbor receives a mysterious parcel, a long-kept promise gently brings the garden—and its neighbors—back to life.
    Book, 2024New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2024] — ADA
  • Not leaving her house in 1,214 days, Meredith Maggs is kept company by visits from her best friend, her online support group and her treacherous memories of a traumatizing past, but when the world comes knocking at her door, she must find the…
    Book, 2022New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2022. — ALE
  • Intrigued by three tiny figures hidden in a famous painting, an aspiring young artist sets off on a journey to uncover the seaside friendships and long-ago summer days that brought the artwork to life.
    Book, 2025Toronto, Ontario : Simon & Schuster Canada, 2025. — BAC
  • Ninety-year-old Eddie Winston, a lifelong romantic who has never been kissed, befriends a grieving young woman at a charity shop, and together they embark on an unexpected journey to help him finally find love.
    Book, 2024New York, NY : Harper, [2024] — CRO
  • Determined to leave a mark on the world even though they are in the hospital and their days are dwindling, unlikely friends, 17-year-old Lenni and 83-year-old Margot, devise a plan to create 100 paintings showcasing the stories of the century they…
    Book, 2021New York, NY : Harper, [2021] — CRO
  • When retired math teacher Grace Winters inherits a dilapidated house on Ibiza from a long-lost friend, she travels there in search of answers and instead uncovers a strange, transformative truth that forces her to reckon with her past and embrace a…
    Book, 2024Toronto : Harper Avenue, [2024] — HAI
  • An elderly bookseller who delivers his recommendations door-to-door forms an unlikely friendship with a 9-year-old girl who changes his life.
    Book, 2023Toronto, Ontario : Hanover Square Press, 2023. — HEN
  • After returning to Toronto in disgrace, an inexperienced matchmaker finds unexpected purpose—and wisdom—when she agrees to help a secret club of elderly bachelors find love.
    Book, 2022New York : Berkley, 2022. — LIM
  • As a small-town shopping mall nears its end, the lives of the people who pass through it intertwine as they quietly dream of new beginnings beyond its closing doors.
    Book, 2023Berkeley, CA : Counterpoint, 2023. — LIN
  • Reunited with her estranged brother, a woman returns to the marshes of their childhood on a shared birding journey that offers a chance at healing and reconnection.
    Book, 2022London : Mantle, 2022. — REG
  • Arriving in London, brokenhearted Libby Nichols meets elderly Frank who has been riding the bus for 60 years, hoping to find a girl he met in 1962, and decides to help him search, finding her tightly controlled world expanding as she opens her heart…
    Book, 2022New York : Berkley, [2022] — SAM
  • Armed with a Crock-Pot and a pile of recipes, a grandmother, her granddaughter and a mysterious young man work to bring a community together.
    Book, 2024New York : Avon, [2024] — SWI
  • As a grand English manor faces reinvention, an observant neighbor guides us through its memory-filled rooms, revealing decades of secrets and the intertwined lives of five siblings.
    Book, 2026New York : Scribner, 2026. — TOM
  • Over the course of a single week in a small English village, a widowed octogenarian who has spent her last years alone, ready to die, discovers an unexpected reason to live. Helen's life takes a sudden turn when an unexpected guest arrives: a small,…
    Book, 2024Boston : Godine, 2024. — VAN