The masterful story of a lifelong friendship between two very different women with shared histories and buried secrets, tested in the twilight of their lives, set across the arc of the 20th century. Celebrated children's book author Agnes Lee is determined to secure her legacy--to complete what she knows will be the final volume of her pseudonymously written Franklin Square novels; and even more consuming, to permanently protect the peninsula of...

"Since the age of twelve, McKenzie Arnold has spent every summer at Albany Beach, Delaware, with her best friends Aurora, Janine, and Lilly. The seaside house teems with thirty years of memories--some wonderful, others painful--and secrets never divulged beyond its walls. This summer may be the last they spend together"--

When an underground criminal and devoted family man discovers he has a terminal illness, he tries to get his life in order and discovers that people around him are falling apart.

Kate Bowler is a professor at Duke Divinity School with a modest Christian upbringing, but she specializes in the study of the prosperity gospel, a creed that sees fortune as a blessing from God and misfortune as a mark of God's disapproval. At thirty-five, everything in her life seems to point toward "blessing." She is thriving in her job, married to her high school sweetheart, and loves life with her newborn son. Then she is diagnosed with stage...

Provides answers to the twenty most-commonly asked questions about lung cancer, including diagnosis, treatments, and getting on with life. "20 respuestas para cáncer de pulmón explica de manera sencilla y accesible tanto los conceptos como los procesos médicos a los que se enfrenta una persona que padece cáncer pulmonar"--P. [4] of cover.

People with a cancer diagnosis wonder what they can eat. Odile Fernandez, a family doctor who beat ovarian cancer with metastases, assures the reader that food is a tool to successfully complete treatment. The book explores the effects of different foods on various diseases. A real anticancer bible, based on a vision that is already known as integrative oncology. "Una obra idónea para todas aquellas personas que quieran adoptar un estilo de vida...

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.

In exploring her husband's traumatic brain injury and loss of memory, Sonya Lea has written a memoir that is both a powerful look at perseverance in the face of trauma and a surprising exploration into what lies beyond our fragile identities. --Publisher's 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,...