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.

"Flat is Guthrie's story of how two bouts of breast cancer shook her faith in her body, her relationship, and medicine. Along the way, she challenges the view that breasts are essential to femininity and paramount to a woman's happiness. Ultimately, she traces an intimate portrayal of how cancer reshapes her relationship with Mary, her partner, revealing-in the midst of crisis-a love story."--Amazon.com.

When Lisa's favorite patient Kathy loses her battle with cancer, she finds herself drawing closer to Carrie and Suzanne, Kathy's devoted friends. As their lives connect and they powerwalk the beaches of the Isle of Palms, they uncover the truth of Kathy's life-- and discover their own futures in the process. In this charming, evocative, soul-touching novel, Dorothea Benton Frank once again takes us deep into the heart of the magical Lowcountry where...

Women who share a love of knitting support each other through the vicissitudes of life.

"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"--

In the span of four months in 2012, Tig Notaro was hospitalized for a debilitating intestinal disease called C-diff, her mother unexpectedly died, she went through a breakup, and she was diagnosed with bilateral breast cancer. Days after her diagnosis, Tig took her grief onstage, opening an unvarnished set with, "Good evening. Hello. I have cancer." The set went viral instantly and was later released as an album, Live, and was nominated for a Grammy....

Recovering from breast cancer and reeling from her husband's infidelity, Mia flees to the mountains of North Carolina, and seeks refuge in a neglected cabin belonging to her fly-fishing instructor, where she unknowingly reopens a tragic family scandal.

On the anniversary of her daughter Emily's death, Sarabess, the matriarch of the Windsor family, enlists the help of lawyer Jake Forrest to find Trinity, the daughter she had given up for adoption, a desperate search that exposes dark secrets and has unexpected consequences.

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...

An unlikely friendship develops between Claire, a devout and compassionate midwife, and Béatrice, her father's mistress, who unexpectedly shows up after thirty years of absence and reveals that she has a brain cancer.