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Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 130 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A famous writer is told he has only a few days to live. He meets a young boy on the street, an illegal immigrant from Albania, and decides to take him back home. During the trip, the writer hopes to learn about life and death.
2) 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...
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Tough-as-nails criminal defense attorney Jane Smith is hip-deep in the murder trial of the century. Actually, her charmless client might've committed several murders. She's also fallen in love with a wonderful guy. And an equally wonderful dog, a mutt. But Jane doesn't have much time. She's just received a terminal diagnosis giving her twelve months. Unless she's murdered before her expiration date"--
4) Nerve damage
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
304 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Missing his fifteen-years-dead wife while facing his own impending death from a rare respiratory disease, Roy Valois hacks into the "New York Times" to research his own future obituary and makes a shattering discovery about his late wife's true identity.
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A successful entrepreneur in the mushroom industry, Jaakko Kaunismaa is a man in his prime. At just 37 years of age, he is shocked when his doctor tells him that he's dying. What is more, the cause is discovered to be prolonged exposure to toxins; in other words, someone has slowly but surely been poisoning him. Determined to find out who wants him dead, Jaakko embarks on a suspenseful rollercoaster journey full of unusual characters, bizarre situations...
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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...
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Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
271 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Shocked to discover that her husband has had affairs during their four-year marriage, Lucy is even more devastated by the news that his heart is failing and invites all the women listed in her cheating spouse's little black book for a final visit to his deathbed.
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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...
13) 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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Description
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...
16) Dark victory
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The life of a fast moving Long Island socialite skids to a stop when she discovers that she has less than a year to live.
17) Sunshine
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Formats
Description
The author shares his extraordinary experiences as a counselor at Camp Sunshine, a camp for seriously ill kids and their families, where he met campers and fellow counselors who forever changed the course of his life.
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"--
19) Martyr!
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"A newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks on a search that leads him to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum"--
20) Jericho's fall
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
355 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
In an imposing house in the Colorado Rockies, Jericho Ainsley, former head of the Central Intelligence Agency and a Wall Street titan, lies dying. He summons to his bedside Beck DeForde, the younger woman for whom he threw away his career years ago, miring them both in scandal. Beck believes she is visiting to say farewell. Instead, she is drawn into a battle over an explosive secret that foreign governments and powerful corporations alike want to...
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