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1) The whispers
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The Loverlys sit by the hospital bed of their young son who is in a coma after falling from his bedroom window in the middle of the night; his mother, Whitney, will not speak to anyone. Back home, their friends and neighbors are left in shock, each confronting their own role in the events that led up to what happened that terrible night: the warm, altruistic Parks who are the Loverlys' best friends; the young, ambitious Goldsmiths who are struggling...
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Arcopress
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
190 pages ; 22 cm.
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"In this her first book, Raquel Marugan tells us about her own personal experience after being diagnosed with throat cancer. This unexpected turn marks a turning point in her life. A way of living that trapped her forever. A chronicle that began in the country of uncertainty and ends in the world of hope. An exciting journey in which cancer led her to cross the border between the ordinary and the extraordinary. To play it all or nothing in order to...
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B
Pub. Date
2022.
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301 pages ; 23 cm
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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...
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Grijalbo Vital
Pub. Date
2023.
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254 pages ; 23 cm
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Muchas personas conocen a un sobreviviente de cancer, pero nadie podria decir que ha conocido a uno de Alzheimer... hasta ahora. En sus primeros dos libros el doctor Dale E. Bredesen compartio con sus lectores el revolucionario tratamiento que sigue cambiando vidas y que ha logrado revertir el deterioro cognitivo y la demencia. Ahora, en Los primeros sobrevivientes del Alzheimer son los pacientes de este programa quienes hablan de sus increibles resultados...
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Book of Lost Things volume 2
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Emily Bestler Books, Atria
Pub. Date
2023.
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358 pages ; 24 cm
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While reading aloud fairy stories in hopes of bringing her comatose eight-year-old daughter back to this world, Ceres is called to a land colored by the memories of childhood and the folklore beloved by her father where old enemies are watching and waiting.
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Urano
Pub. Date
2022.
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382 pages ; 23 cm
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An Emmy Award-winning writer and activist describes the harrowing years she spent in early adulthood fighting leukemia and how she learned to live again while forging connections with other survivors of profound illness and suffering.
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Suma de Letras
Pub. Date
2023.
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487 pages ; 23 cm
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While recovering from a heart transplant, first-year medical resident Cora Merlo gets an invitation from the enigmatic mother of the heart donor, Charles, to visit his home, a place full of secrets--some of them decades old--in an isolated town where a little girl disappears on the very day Cora arrives.
10) Cost
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Hoping to reconnect with her repressive neurosurgeon father and Alzheimer's patient mother during a summer in Maine, art professor Julia Lambert is shattered by her son's heroin addiction and marshals help from their scattered family in order to save him, with unexpected results.
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When Ryan White was diagnosed with AIDS as a teenager in 1984, doctors gave him just six months to live. With the time he had left, all he wanted was to live a normal life, go to school, and spend time with friends. Instead, he faced discrimination from people who didn't understand his illness--but he didn't let that stop him. Ryan kicked off a heroic battle to educate the world about a disease that was spreading rapidly, killing more and more people...
12) Carefree
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Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
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She's afraid of marriage--can he help? With the forever magic of Irving Berlin's romantic Change Partners, the dance craze of The Yam and more, the answer is delightfully Yes!
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Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
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292 pages ; 22 cm
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After dedicated soccer player Will is sidelined from the season--and his friend group--due to complications from his newly diagnosed Crohn's disease, he finds himself figuring out who he really is on the inside in this heartfelt and thoughtful middle grade novel that's perfect for readers who love books by Maulik Pancholy and Christine Day.
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Debolsillo
Pub. Date
2021.
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233 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
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The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.
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Penguin Random House Groupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2022.
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620 pages ; 23 cm
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"El pasajero: 1980, Mississippi. Son las tres de la madrugada cuando Bobby Western se sumerge en el mar del golfo de México con su traje de neopreno e ilumina el avión hundido con la linterna de buceo: nueve cuerpos con el cinturón de seguridad aún abrochado. Faltan la caja negra y el décimo pasajero. Pero ¿cómo es posible? Testigo colateral de maquinaciones que solo pueden perjudicarle, Bobby se ve ensombrecido en cuerpo y espíritu por hombres...
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2023.
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362 pages ; 22 cm.
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During the past few years, as our country has faced unprecedented challenges, Senator Klobuchar has been in the room where it happens―on the Senate floor for critical votes during the pandemic, at the debate podium during one of the most critical presidential elections in US history, and in the Capitol on January 6, 2021, when insurrectionists stormed the building, interrupting the certification of the electoral college. It was well past midnight...
18) Be mine
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Unconstrained, astute, provocative, often laugh-out-loud funny, Frank Bascombe is once more our guide to the great American midway. Now in the twilight of life, a man who has occupied many colorful lives-sportswriter, father, husband, ex-husband, friend, real estate agent--Bascombe finds himself in the most sorrowing role of all: caregiver to his son, Paul, diagnosed with ALS. On a shared winter odyssey to Mount Rushmore, Frank, in typical Bascombe...
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"For Julie, an elementary school librarian and mother of two boys, there was no time for debilitating anxiety. Yet the terrifying aftershocks of her first panic attack left her grappling with questions about the causes of her mental health crisis and where it would lead next. What follows is a hopeful, honest account of love and loss, a husband who can't read minds, disastrous family outings, and finding a path (with help from loved ones and a few...
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Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2024.
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335 pages ; 22 cm
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Isaiah "Ice" Abernathy has always worshiped his older brother, Seth. For years they've been not just brothers but best friends--and as Seth starts his senior year, Ice is eager to spend as much time with his brother as he can, making memories before Seth goes to college. But when Seth announces he's leaving much earlier than expected, and then he misses an important event--one he'd promised to attend--it causes a major fight. Filled with regret, Ice...
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