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Author
Publisher
American Cancer Society
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
41 p. : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Description
Emily and Ben cope with the loss of their mother to cancer and their relationships with their father, each other, and the people around them, in a story that uses nature as a backdrop for the cycle of life and emphasizes hope and healing.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Formats
Description
"How do you hold onto hope in a difficult time? In the small city of Wharton, Connecticut, lives are beginning to unravel. A woman loses the love of her life. A son struggles with addiction. A widow misses her late spouse. A husband betrays his wife. At the heart of these interlinking stories is one couple: Freddie and Greg Tyler. Greg has just been diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a brutal form of cancer. He has never been dependent or weak, and...
4) Other people
Publisher
Wolfe
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A struggling gay comedy writer in New York City, fresh off a breakup and in the midst of the worse year of his life, returns home to Sacramento to care for his dying mother in this affecting family drama from "Saturday Night Live" writer Chris Kelly.
Author
Publisher
Voice/Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
266 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Description
"At 36, Kelly had a good marriage, a couple of kids, and a weekly newspaper column. But she still saw herself as George Corrigan's daughter. A garrulous Irish-American charmer from Baltimore, George was the center of the ebullient, raucous Corrigan clan. Kelly's was a colorful childhood, just the sort a girl could get attached to. She lives deep within what she calls the Middle Place--'that sliver of time when parenthood and childhood overlap'--but...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Formats
Description
"We all know, intellectually, that our time on earth is limited. What would we change if we knew it viscerally? Kate Bowler was thirty-five when she was diagnosed with stage IV colon cancer. Now that she's responded to immunotherapy Kate has to figure outhow to make a new life between CT scans. Before she got sick, she'd accepted the very American idea that life was an endless horizon of possibilities. Now she has to figure out what to do within the...
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Sara and Brian live an idyllic life with their young son and daughter. Suddenly, their baby girl falls ill, and her only hope for survival rests in her parents' ability to find a compatible bone marrow donator. Their desperate decision to conceive another child raises both ethical and moral questions and begins to erode their relationship. Their actions ultimately set off a court case that threatens to tear the family apart.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
264 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Carole DiFalco Radziwill traces her life and marriage to Anthony Radziwill, President Kennedy's nephew, in an account that describes her work as a journalist, her friendship with JFK, Jr., and his wife, and her husband's struggle with terminal cancer. A memoir about a girl from a working class town who becomes an award-winning television producer and marries a prince, Anthony Radziwill, nephew of John F. Kennedy. At the age of nineteen, she struck...
9) The shore
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
290 pages ; 22 cm
Description
One summer in Seaside, steps away from the bustling boardwalk, the Dunne family faces an unknowable future and copes with loss through hard work and dark humor, sisterhood and friendship, romance and escape. Brian and Margot Dunne live in Seaside year-round, with their daughters Liz and Evy. The Dunnes run a real estate company, quickly turning over rental houses to keep a roof over their heads. Together the family must navigate the unimaginable when...
10) A fine romance
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
x, 350 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 24 cm
Description
In a follow-up to Knock Wood, Candice Bergen shares the big events: her marriage to a famous French director, the birth of her daughter, Murphy Brown, widowhood, falling in love again, and watching her daughter blossom. A Fine Romance begins with Bergen's charming first husband, French director Louis Malle, whose huge appetite for life broadened her horizons and whose occasional darkness never diminished their love for each other. But her real romance...
Author
Publisher
Dey Street Books, an imprint of William Morrow Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xi, 274 pages ; 24 cm
Description
A woman who strengthened her relationship with the love of her life after he was diagnosed with a rare brain cancer discusses her journey with him during this tough time, from getting engaged on his hospital bed to having a baby while he was on chemotherapy.
12) Home is burning
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Formats
Description
"For the Marshalls, laughter is the best medicine. Especially when combined with alcohol, pain pills, excessive cursing, sexual escapades, actual medicine, and more alcohol. Meet Dan Marshall. 25, good job, great girlfriend, and living the dream life in sunny Los Angeles without a care in the world. Until his mother calls. And he ignores it, as you usually do when Mom calls. Then she calls again. And again. Dan thought things were going great at home....
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
178 pages ; 20 cm
Description
"A divinity professor and young mother with a Stage IV cancer diagnosis explores the pain and joy of living without certainty. Thirty-five-year-old Kate Bowler was a professor at the school of divinity at Duke, and had finally had a baby with her childhood sweetheart after years of trying, when she began to feel jabbing pains in her stomach. She lost thirty pounds, chugged antacid, and visited doctors for three months before she was finally diagnosed...
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