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81) Do no harm
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Mother of a kindergartener, married to her police detective soulmate, Emma has a rewarding career as a doctor at the local hospital. When her son, Josh, is diagnosed with a rare form of cancer, she is determined to save him. Emma makes the risky decision to sell opioids to fund the life-saving treatment Josh needs. When somebody ends up dead, a lethal game of cat and mouse ensues-- with her own husband leading the chase. With her son's life hanging...
82) Almost paradise
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old Ruby's mother goes to jail, Ruby finds her Aunt Eleanor, an ornery nun with some dark secrets, who Ruby hopes will help free her mother.
83) Private label
Author
Language
English
Description
Worlds apart in their high school hierarchy, Serene and Lian Chen find refuge in one another.
Serene dreams of making couture dresses even more stunning than her mom's, but for now she's an intern at her mom's fashion label. When her mom receives a sudden diagnosis of pancreatic cancer, all that changes. Serene has to take over her mother's business overnight, dealing with ruthless investors who do not think a seventeen-year-old can run a fashion...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
At twenty-two, Susan Stachler was diagnosed with cancer. Her mother, Laura, was devastated: the same illness that took her sister's life was threatening her daughter's. Heartbroken but steadfast, Laura pledged to help Susan through the worst of her treatments. When they discovered that Laura's homemade ginger cookies soothed the side effects of Susan's chemo, the mother-daughter duo opened Susansnaps and shared them with the world. Told with admirable...
86) 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
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Dava Shastri, one of the world's wealthiest women, has always lived with her sterling reputation in mind. A brain cancer diagnosis at the age of seventy, however, changes everything, as she decides to take her death-like all matters of her life-into her own hands. Summoning her four adult children to her private island, she discloses shocking news: in addition to having a terminal illness, she has arranged for the news of her death to break early,...
Author
Publisher
Editorial Planeta Mexicana, bajo el sello Editorial Diana
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Español
Description
"En noviembre de 2011, Patricia Reyes Spíndola se convirtió en la protagonista de su propio melodrama: "Señora, tiene cáncer." Aún en el más hondo desconsuelo, la enfermedad la motivó a buscar en lo más profundo de su alma y a mirar la vida desde la perspectiva de quien es sorprendida por el cáncer de mama, pero jamás vencida por su amenaza. La detección, el diagnóstico, los tratamientos y finalmente la mastectomía total a la que se sometió...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Thirteen-year-old Conor awakens one night to find a monster outside his bedroom window, but not the one from the recurring nightmare that began when his mother became ill--an ancient, wild creature that wants him to face truth and loss.
90) Viviendo
Author
Publisher
Celebra
Pub. Date
2013
Language
Español
Description
The Mexican television star discusses her life and career, her marriage and divorce, and the ways in which her situation changed when she learned she had breast cancer.
91) In waves
Author
Publisher
Nobrow
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"In this visually arresting graphic novel, surfer and illustrator AJ Dungo remembers his late partner, her battle with cancer, and their shared love of surfing that brought them strength throughout their time together. With his passion for surfing uniting many narratives, he intertwines his own story with those of some of the great heroes of surf in a rare work of nonfiction that is as moving as it is fascinating."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
"When Miss Norma was diagnosed with uterine cancer, she was advised to undergo surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy. But instead of confining herself to a hospital bed for what could be her last stay, Norma -- newly widowed after nearly seven decades of marriage -- rose to her full height of five feet and told her doctor, 'I'm ninety years old. I'm hitting the road.' Packing what she needed, Norma took off on an unforgettable cross-country journey...
93) El buen doctor
Author
Publisher
Editorial Océano De Mexico
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Español
Description
"Paul Kalanithi, a young and promising neurosurgeon, received a devastating diagnosis of stage IV lung cancer at the age of thirty-six. He was a doctor treating patients one day and the next was struggling for his own life. On the verge of completing a decade's worth of training, he decided to begin writing this book to come to terms with and give closure to his life, and to face death with courage. What makes a life worth living in the face of death?...
Author
Series
Publisher
Orenda Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Single-mother Florida bounty hunter Lori Anderson's got an ocean of trouble on her hands. Her daughter Dakota is safe, but her cancer is threatening a comeback, and Lori needs JT - Dakota's daddy and the man who taught Lori everything - alive and kicking. Problem is, he's behind bars, and heading for death row. Desperate to save him, Lori does a deal, taking on off-the-books job from shady FBI agent Alex Monroe. Bring back on-the-run felon, Gibson...
97) Echo's sister
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...
Author
Publisher
Rayo
Pub. Date
2007
Language
Español
Description
¿Cómo sobrevivir la noticia devastadora de que tu pareja tiene cáncer y que, a su vez, el sea la causa de un dolor descomunal por una infidelidad escandalosa? ¿Cómo balancear la tristeza de saber que perderás al amor de tu vida, con la furia al comprender que ese amor te traicionó? ¿Cómo manejar las ganas de acompañar a tu marido hasta el final y el despecho que te impulsa a largarlo todo? A Maria Antonieta le tocó vivir esta tortura emocional...
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In November 2014, thirteen members of the Biden family gathered on Nantucket for Thanksgiving, a tradition they had been celebrating for the past forty years. It was the one constant in what had become a hectic, scrutinized, and overscheduled life. But this year felt different from all those that had come before. Joe and Jill Biden's eldest son, Beau, had been diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor fifteen months earlier, and his survival was uncertain....
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Someone is telling the story of the life of Charlie Barnes, and it doesn't appear to be going well. Too often divorced, discontent with life's compromises and in a house he hates, this lifelong schemer and eternal romantic would like out of his present circumstances and into the American dream. But when the twin calamities of the Great Recession and a cancer scare come along to compound his troubles, his dreams dwindle further, and an infinite past...
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