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1) The secret
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In the seemingly ordinary Amish home of Grace Byler, secrets abound. Then, in one startling moment, everything is shattered. Her mother's disappearance leaves Grace reeling. Heather Nelson is an English grad student, stunned by a doctor's diagnosis. Would fate allow her father to lose his daughter after the death of his wife? Heather travels to Lancaster County, the last place she and her mother were together. And the lives of four wounded souls begin...
Author
Publisher
Conari Press, an imprint of Red Wheel/Weiser, LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
222 pages
Description
"Caring for the Dying describes a whole new way to approach death and dying. It explores how the dying and their families can bring deep meaning and great comfort to the care given at the end of a life. Created by Henry Fersko-Weiss, the end-of-life doula model is adapted from the work of birth doulas and helps the dying to find meaning in their life, express that meaning in powerful and beautiful legacies, and plan for the final days. The approach...
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
407 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"Ted McKay had it all: a beautiful wife, two daughters, a high-paying job. But after being diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor he finds himself with a gun to his temple, ready to pull the trigger. Then the doorbell rings. A stranger makes him a proposition: why not kill two deserving men before dying? The first target is a criminal, and the second is a man with terminal cancer who, like Ted, wants to die. After executing these kills, Ted will become...
4) Beaches
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (123 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Two childhood friends are reunited in their middle age and one learns she is dying of a fatal disease.
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Jules is confronted headlong and all at once by a series of challenges to his principles, livelihood, and home, forcing him to grapple with his complex past and find a way forward. He risks fraud to save his terminally ill infant grandson, matches wits with a renegade insurance investigator, is drawn into an act of savage violence, and falls deeply, excitingly in love with a young cellist a third his age. He forges a denouement that is staggering...
Author
Publisher
Avery
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
230 pages ; 19 cm
Description
"As the Senior Rabbi of one of the largest synagogues in the world, Steve Leder has learned over and over again the many ways death teaches us how to live and love more deeply by showing us not only what is gone, but also the beauty of what remains"--
Author
Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
273 pages
Description
A lawyer known for his work defending inmates on death row confronts his own feelings and reaction to the end of life when his father-in-law becomes terminally ill, his beloved pet suffers liver failure, and his young son begins to understand mortality.
9) Host
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Description
Devastated by the death of her boyfriend after a routine surgery, fourth-year medical student Lynn Pierce investigates the accident and discovers a string of suspicious deaths at the hospital.
Author
Publisher
Picador/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
185 pages ; 21 cm
Description
Charlie Fairburn, successful screenwriter, ex-husband, and absent father, has been given six months to live. He resolves to stake half his fortune on a couple of turns of the roulette wheel and, to his agent's disgust, to write a novel-about death. In the casino he meets his muse. Charlie grows as addicted to writing fiction as she is to gambling.
11) Five days left
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Mara Nichols, a terminally ill career woman, wife, and mother, and Scott Coffman, a middle-school teacher whose eight-year-old foster son is about to return to his former inmate mother, traverse the last five days they have to say goodbye to their loved ones.
13) Living
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
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Description
The story of an ordinary man, reduced by years of oppressive office routine to a shadow existence, who at the eleventh hour makes a supreme effort to turn his dull life into something wonderful.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
468 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
"Taylor Edwards' family might not be the closest-knit--everyone is a little too busy and overscheduled--but for the most part, they get along just fine. Then Taylor's dad gets devastating news, and her parents decide that the family will spend one last summer all together at their old lake house in the Pocono Mountains. Crammed into a place much smaller and more rustic than they are used to, they begin to get to know each other again. And Taylor...
16) The farewell
Publisher
Lionsgate
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Description
Chinese-born, U.S.-raised Billi reluctantly returns to Changchun to find that, although the whole family knows their beloved matriarch, Nai-Nai, has been given mere weeks to live, everyone has decided not to tell Nai Nai herself. To assure her happiness, they gather under the joyful guise of an expedited wedding, uniting family members scattered among new homes abroad. As Billi navigates a minefield of family expectations and proprieties, she finds...
17) Last holiday
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Georgia Byrd is a department store employee who leads a life of frustrated desires. She particularly likes the bashful salesman from the outdoor furnishings department. But when she learns she only has a few weeks left to live, Georgia gathers her money, quits her job, and flies to the swank European resort she's always dreamed of visiting. Naturally, her new carelessness with money and fearless candor lead everyone around her, including a senator...
18) Hope
Publisher
KimStim
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (125 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The troubled relationship between Anja and Tomas, an unmarried couple who have been together for years, is thrown into turmoil when Anja learns she has three months to live.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
328 pages : 1 illustration ; 25 cm
Description
"The reclusive Harriet Wolf, revered author and family matriarch, has a final confession--a love story. Years after her death, as her family comes together one last time, the mystery of Harriet's life hangs in the balance. Does the truth lie in the rumored final book of the series that made Harriet a world-famous writer, or will her final confession be lost forever? Harriet Wolf's Seventh Book of Wonders tells the moving story of the unforgettable...
20) Everybody's fool
Author
Series
Nobody's fool volume 2
Description
"A best-selling and beloved author, at the very top of his game, now returns to North Bath, in upstate New York, and the characters who made Nobody's Fool, his third novel, his first great success. The irresistible Sully, who in the intervening years has come by some unexpected good fortune, is now staring down a VA cardiologist's estimate that he only has a year or two left, and he's busy as hell keeping the news from the most important people in...
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