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1) Get a life
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A young man's treatment for cancer inspires profound changes in his family.
Paul Bannerman, an ecologist in South Africa, believes he understands the trajectory of his life, with the usual markers of vocation and marriage. But when he's diagnosed with thyroid cancer and, after surgery, prescribed treatment that will leave him radioactive, for a period a danger to others, he begins to question, as Auden wrote, "what Authority gives / existence its...
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Series
Blossom street novels volume 4
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Description
Women who share a love of knitting support each other through the vicissitudes of life.
9) Lightning
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Publisher
Random House Large Print
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
592 p. (large print) ; cm.
Description
"What happens to people when every aspect of their lives and well-being is threatened? In Lightning, Danielle Steel tells the story of a family thrust into uncertainty and explores whether the bonds of love and marriage can withstand life's most unexpected bolts of lightning."--Amazon.com.
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Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
339 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"A compelling and dramatic portrait of a couple whose long union has been shadowed by secrets, threatened by illness, and redeemed by loyalty and love. For readers of Anne Tyler, Rick Russo, and Elizabeth Strout"--
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
251 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
A collection of stories includes "Home," a wryly whimsical account of a soldier's return from war; "Victory Lap," a tale about an inventive abduction attempt; and the title story, in which a suicidal cancer patient saves the life of a young misfit.
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Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
345 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"Maddy is sixteen. She has loyal friends, a mother with whom she's unusually close, a father she's never met, devoted grandparents, and a crush on a boy named Jack. Maddy also has cancer. Deeply curious, wry, and vivacious, she's poised at the outset of adulthood, ready to untangle all the mysteries that living holds--if she survives her teens"--
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Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Celebrated children’s book author Agnes Lee is determined to secure her legacy—to complete what she knows will be the final volume of her pseudonymously written Franklin Square novels; and even more consuming, to permanently protect the peninsula of majestic coast in Maine known as Fellowship Point. To donate the land to a trust, Agnes must convince shareholders to dissolve a generations-old partnership. And one of those shareholders is her best...
14) Before I go
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Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 24 cm
Description
On the eve of what was supposed to be a triumphant "Cancerversary" with her husband, Jack, to celebrate three years of being cancer-free, Daisy suffers a devastating blow: her doctor tells her that the cancer is back, but this time it's an aggressive stage four diagnosis. She may have as few as four months left to live. She's terrified of what will happen to her brilliant but helpless husband when she's no longer there to take care of him. The solution:...
15) Torch
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Publisher
Vintage Contemporaries, Vintage Books, a division of Random House
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
xvi, 410 pages ; 21 cm
Description
Grounded in the everyday particulars of life in a small town, leavened by earthy humor, this book presents the saga of a family coming to terms with death--a tale of love and loss, grief and redemption set in rural Minnesota.
16) Transhuman
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"Luke Abramson, a brilliant cellular biologist who is battling lung cancer, has one joy in life, his ten-year-old granddaughter, Angela. When he learns that Angela has an inoperable brain tumor and is given less than six months to live, Abramson wants to try a new enzyme, Mortality Factor 4 (MORF4), that he believes will kill Angela's tumor. However, the hospital bureaucracy won't let him do it because MORF4 has not yet been approved by the FDA. Knowing...
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"In love for the first time, a son's decisions about the future divides his family in this fearless and thought-provoking novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author of the 'heart-tugging and emotional' (Romantic Times Book Reviews) Baxter Family books. In the shadow of very great loss, the only way to live with passion is truly, madly, deeply. When eighteen-year-old Tommy Baxter declares to his family that he wants to be a police officer after...
18) Aprender a volar
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Publisher
B
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
301 pages ; 23 cm
Description
HAGAMOS UN TRATO, EMPECEMOS A VIVIR. Una emotiva novela sobre dos amigos. Uno sabe que cada minuto cuenta, el otro est�a a punto de aprenderlo. Luis tiene diecis�eis a�nos y la vida le dio un vuelco cuando le diagnosticaron c�ancer. A Diego, residente de oncolog�ia, la vida le cambia en el momento que conoce a Luis y acepta ayudarlo a cumplir un �ultimo sue�no: huir del hospital y viajar a Tarifa para despedirse de la chica de la que...
19) The guts
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"A triumphant return to the characters of Booker Prize-winning writer Roddy Doyle's breakout first novel, The Commitments, now older, wiser, up against cancer and midlife. Jimmy Rabbitte is back. The man who invented the Commitments back in the 1980s is now 47, with a loving wife, 4 kids...and bowel cancer. He isn't dying, he thinks, but he might be. Jimmy still loves his music, and he still loves to hustle--his new thing is finding old bands and...
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Publisher
The Dial Press
Pub. Date
c2021.
Physical Desc
302 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"On the heels of a difficult break-up and a devastating diagnosis, Shakespearian scholar Lizzie Delford decides to take one last lavish vacation on Elba, the sun-kissed island off the Italian coast, with her best friend and his movie-star boyfriend. Once settled into a luxurious seaside resort, Lizzie has to make big decisions about her future, and she needs the one thing she may be running out of: time. She leaves the yacht-owners and celebrities...
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