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1) Seaview inn
Author
Series
Publisher
MIRA Books
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
New York Times bestselling author Sherryl Woods proves home can be found where you least expect it.
Hannah Matthews is undeniably tough—a single mom, a top-tier PR exec, a breast cancer survivor. She prides herself on being go-to Hannah, who can handle any crisis. But with her grandmother balking at going into a retirement home, her daughter unexpectedly pregnant and an old flame suddenly underfoot, Hannah is facing a few crises of...
Hannah Matthews is undeniably tough—a single mom, a top-tier PR exec, a breast cancer survivor. She prides herself on being go-to Hannah, who can handle any crisis. But with her grandmother balking at going into a retirement home, her daughter unexpectedly pregnant and an old flame suddenly underfoot, Hannah is facing a few crises of...
3) Last call
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Descended from a long line of indomitable, good-humored Scots, Hayden MacBride sees no reason to take his own deaht lying down. In fact, he crashes funerals for free food and insight into the Great Beyond. Then he meets Rosamund, a nun playing hooky from the Holy Orders.
Author
Series
Brave enough volume 2
Publisher
Flux
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Teenage cancer survivors Mari and Jase have flirted for years at Camp Chemo, but when she transfers to his high school their different approaches to their history cause trouble.
Jase Ellison doesn't remember having Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia when he was three years old. His cancer diagnosis only enters his mind at his yearly checkup at the oncology clinic and when he attends Camp Chemo in the summer. Mari Manos has never been able to hide her cancer...
Author
Series
Tending roses volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a woman’s whole life falls apart, she finds refuge in the home she left behind in this touching novel in the Tending Roses series from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Lost Friends and Before We Were Yours.
Karen Sommerfield has been hiding from the big questions of her life—the emotional distance in her marriage, her inability to have children, and her bout with cancer....
Karen Sommerfield has been hiding from the big questions of her life—the emotional distance in her marriage, her inability to have children, and her bout with cancer....
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Language
English
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Description
A boy named Mark, tired of being sick with cancer, conceives a plan to climb Mount Rainier, and runs away from home with his dog, Beau--but with over two hundred miles between him and his goal, and only anger at his situation to drive him on nothing will be easy, and only his best friend, Jessie, suspects where he is heading.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarpercollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old El has planned on making her first week at a new school fantastic. She won't go by her given name, Laughter. She'll sit in the back of the classroom where she can make new friends. She won't even have time to think about all the fun her old friends are having without her. Everything will be great. But when her dad picks her up after school and tells her that her younger sister, Echo, has a life-threatening illness, her world is suddenly...
12) The end
Author
Publisher
Arctis/W1-Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"When will the world end? With Foxworth, a massive comet, hurtling toward Earth, humanity now knows the exact date. Seventeen-year-old Simon wants to spend his last weeks with the people he cares about most, especially his goal-oriented swimmer ex-girlfriend, Tilda, who dumped him shortly after the news broke. Since Lucinda was diagnosed with cancer she has retreated into herself preparing for the inevitable. Suddenly facing down a death that makes...
13) Aprender a volar
Author
Publisher
Ediciones B
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
"Esta es la historia de dos amigos. Uno sabe que cada minuto cuenta, el otro está a punto de aprenderlo. Luis tiene dieciséis años y la vida le dio un vuelco cuando le diagnosticaron cáncer. A Diego, residente de Oncología, la vida cambia en el momento en que conoce a Luis y acepta ayudarlo a cumplir un último sueño: huir del hospital y viajar a Tarifa para despedirse de la chica de la que se enamoró el verano pasado. Este es el arranque de...
14) Yolk
Author
Language
English
Description
Struggling with emotional problems and an eating disorder, Jayne, a Korean American college student living in New York City, is estranged from her accomplished older sister June, until June gets cancer.
Jayne and June are nothing alike. Their family moved from Seoul to San Antonio and finally New York. The sisters don't want anything to do with each other... until June gets cancer. And Jayne becomes the only one who can help her. Now, flung together...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Barely able to walk and rendered mute by the cancer metastasizing in his throat, Ulysses S. Grant is scratching out words, hour after hour, day after day. Desperate to complete his memoirs before his death so his family might have some financial security and he some redemption, Grant journeys back in time. He had once been the savior of the Union, the general to whom Lee surrendered at Appomattox, a twice-elected president who fought for the civil...
16) Cometas y deseos
Author
Publisher
HarperKids/HarperCollins Ibérica
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
"'Hoy es el primer día de clase y va a ser fantástico'. Esto es lo que se dice Ele cuando entra en su nuevo instituto el primer día de curso. Pero cuando su padre va a recogerla a la salida de clase y le anuncia que Eco, su hermana pequeña, está enferma, el mundo se detiene. De repente, las clases, hacer nuevos amigos o jugar al tenis, todo lo que hasta ese momento era normal, pasa a un segundo plano. La familia al completo decide no venirse...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Ted Fullilove, aka Mr. Peanut, is not like other Ivy League grads. He shares an apartment with Goldberg, his beloved battery-operated fish, sleeps on a bed littered with yellow legal pads penned with what he hopes will be the next great American novel, and spends the waning malaise-filled days of the Carter administration at Yankee Stadium, waxing poetic while slinging peanuts to pay the rent. When Ted hears the news that his estranged father, Marty,...
18) Solving for m
Author
Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
I thought fifth grade at the middle school was going to make perfect sense. But now I'm not so sure. Besides writing poems in science and following the "no drawing" rule in art, we have to keep a journal...in math! Our teacher, Mr. Vann, says a math journal is a place to tackle challenging problems and process deep thinking. All I know is that it's a place where I can draw. When Mika's neat life starts getting messy, she realizes there are no easy...
Author
Publisher
Cuento De Luz
Pub. Date
©2012
Language
Español
Description
Una enfermedad innombrable: el cáncer. Una mamá que quiere explicar a sus hijos lo que le sucede y cómo cambiarán sus vidas en los meses siguientes. Una reina que inicia una larga guerra con muchas batalls y que tiene un ejército de aliados que luchará sin condiciones a su lado.
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