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Language
English
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"For readers of Atul Gawande, Andrew Solomon, and Anne Lamott, a profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir by a young neurosurgeon faced with a terminal cancer diagnosis who attempts to answer the question What makes a life worth living? At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Despite the medical miracle that has bought her a few more years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, but when Augustus Waters suddenly appears at the Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel's story is about to be rewritten.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Language
English
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...
Author
Publisher
Atria Paperback
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Atria Paperback edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 273 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
The author draws on her experiences as both a nurse and a patient with breast cancer to share positive insights about the disease's diagnosis, treatments, side effects, and recovery.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Born blind in Vietnam, Julie Yip-Williams narrowly escaped euthanasia by her grandmother, only to then flee the political upheaval of the late 1970s with her family. Loaded into a rickety boat with three hundred other refugees, Julie made it to Hong Kong and, ultimately, America, where a surgeon at UCLA gave her partial sight. Against all odds, she became a Harvard-educated lawyer, with a husband, a family, a life. Then, at age thirty-seven, with...
Author
Series
Baxter family volume 07
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In love for the first time, a son's decisions about the future divides his family in this fearless and thought-provoking novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author of the "heart-tugging and emotional" (Romantic Times Book Reviews) Baxter Family books. In the shadow of very great loss, the only way to live with passion is truly, madly, deeply. When eighteen-year-old Tommy Baxter declares to his family that he wants to be a police officer after...
11) Hope was here
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
186 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When sixteen-year-old Hope and the aunt who has raised her move from Brooklyn to Mulhoney, Wisconsin, to work as waitress and cook in the Welcome Stairways diner, they become involved with the diner owner's political campaign to oust the town's corrupt mayor.
12) Safe haven
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
"When a mysterious young woman named Katie appears in the small North Carolina town of Southport, her sudden arrival raises questions about her past. Beautiful yet self-effacing, Katie seems determined to avoid forming personal ties until a series of events draws her into two reluctant relationships: one with Alex, a widowed store owner with a kind heart and two young children; and another with her plainspoken single neighbor, Jo. Despite her reservations,...
Author
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
For fans of Jodi Picoult and Anita Shreve comes an exhilarating debut novel of one woman's courage in the face of catastrophe.
She'll do anything to save them.
But what will she do to save herself?
When Kat Jamison retreats to the Blue Ridge Mountains, she's counting on peace and solitude to help her make a difficult decision. Her breast cancer has returned, but after the death of her husband, her will to fight is dampened. Now she has a choice...
Author
Publisher
Howard Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Howard Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 240 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of how single mother and terminal cancer patient Trish Somers bonded with oncology nurse Tricia Seaman, and ultimately asked Tricia to raise her eight-year-old son after she was gone.
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Marilyn and her teacher, Miss Wichelman, both get cancer, they encourage each other and, aided by medical treatments and support from friends, they get better. Based on a true story.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (126 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Hazel and Gus are two extraordinary teenagers who share an acerbic wit, a disdain for the conventional, and a love that sweeps them on an unforgettable journey. Their relationship is all the more miraculous, given that they met and fell in love at a cancer support group.