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"A Black father makes amends with his gay son through letters written on his deathbed in this wise and penetrating novel of empathy and forgiveness, for fans of Ta-Nehisi Coates, Robert Jones Jr. and Alice Walker As Jacob lies dying, he begins to write aletter to his only son, Isaac. They have not met or spoken in many years, and there are things that Isaac must know. Stories about his ancestral legacy in rural Arkansas that extend back to slavery....
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.
23) Last holiday
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Told by his doctor he has no more than a few months to live, drab British workingman George Bird decides to spend his savings on lodging at a seaside resort. Once there, however, he finds his identity caught between upstairs and downstairs, the guest and the "help."
24) Host
Author
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.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1998.
Physical Desc
241 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"On the eve of court-ordered integration" in small-town Georgia, four characters interact: "J.T. Malone, a lonely, dying middle-aged druggist looking to redeem his misspent life; Fox Clane, a corrupt old judge and defender of the ways of the Old South; Jester Clane, the judge's orphaned grandson, a directionless adolescent with a strong sense of social justice; and Sherman Pew, an angry, blue-eyed black youth in search of his own identity."--Cover....
28) Lucky life
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Film Movement
Formats
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A group of friends travels to the beach to encourage Jason, recently diagnosed with terminal cancer. The journey is rooted in nostalgia and desire for a meaningful farewell, although the friends avoid the subject of Jason's illness. Some time later, as Mark and Karen plan to have a child, the beach trip lingers as a haunting memory in their new phase of life ... Inspired by the poetry of Gerald Stern. From the director of the award-winning film MINARI....
31) 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.
32) Deadline
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
316 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Given the medical diagnosis of one year to live, high school senior Ben Wolf decides to fulfill his greatest fantasies, ponders his life's purpose and legacy, and converses through dreams with a spiritual guide known as "Hey-Soos."
33) Then came you
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A hypochondriac who works as an airport baggage handler must face his fears when a terminally ill teenager asks him to help her carry out her eccentric bucket list.
35) Living
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Formats
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.
36) Firefly Cove
Author
Series
Miramar Bay novels volume 2
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
Since the age of seven, Lucius Quarterfield has known he is dying. But now, at twenty-eight, his time is finally running out. So he's returning to the one place he ever felt happy, near the only woman he ever truly wanted. He's going to make each moment count because he knows that everything is about to change ... he just can't know exactly how.
37) Powder blue
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
On the gritty streets of L.A., the destinies of four people desperate for connection and redemption are about to collide on Christmas Eve, including an erotic dancer, a grieving husband, a terminally ill ex-con, and a mortician all desperate for redemption.
38) One word kill
Author
Series
Impossible times volume 1
Publisher
47North
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
194 pages ; 22 cm
Description
In January 1986, fifteen-year-old boy-genius Nick Hayes discovers he's dying. And it isn't even the strangest thing to happen to him that week. Nick and his Dungeons & Dragons-playing friends are used to living in their imaginations. But when a new girl, Mia, joins the group and reality becomes weirder than the fantasy world they visit in their weekly games, none of them are prepared for what comes next. A strange--yet curiously familiar--man is following...
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