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Author
Series
Chammont Point volume 1
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Marketing executive and mother of two, Jade Kelly can now add cancer survivor to her list of successes. But while her life looks good on paper, four months out of treatment, Jade realizes she hardly knows her college-age children and she and her husband Nick are little more than housemates. Determined to start over, Jade schedules a family vacation to a lakefront cabin. When her kids bail and Nick stays home to handle a last minute work crisis, Jade...
82) The mutations
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
Description
"A modern-day Flaubert takes us on a comic tour through a deeply neurotic Mexico City by way of the life of a successful lawyer struck with a rare cancer of the tongue" --
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When confident and handsome Eric Larson is sent to a rural Montana town to work in the local branch of his uncle's financial company, he's determined to exceed everyone's expectations, earn a promotion, and be back in Seattle by the end of summer. Yet nothing could prepare him for the lessons this small town has in store. At forty-six years old, eccentric and outspoken Eunice Parker has come to accept her terminal illness and has given herself one...
84) Eating Pavlova
Author
Pub. Date
1994.
Edition
First Carroll & Graf edition.
Language
English
Description
The dreams of Freud as he lies dying. In one, he has a vision of an atomic explosion with its huge mushroom. The bomb not yet invented, Freud mistakenly interprets it as a case of nostalgia for a mushroom-gathering outing with his daughter. An occasion for the reader to analyze the analyzer.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Julia Berkwith's daughter has moved to Alaska, her beloved mother-in-law is in a nursing home, and her ex-husband is in Hawaii-with a younger woman. In her late forties, Julia is now used to being invisible. But even if she has to do it alone, she's determined to celebrate her victory over breast cancer by hiking Italy's Cinque Terre. And while she's there, she can scout out treasures for her interior design business back in Kentucky. Invigorated...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Bridget Jones meets The Exorcist in this wickedly funny, dark novel about one woman's post-cancer retreat to a remote Australian town and the horrors awaiting her. It wasn't just the bad breakup that turned Eleanor Mellett's life upside down. It was the cancer. And all the demons that came with it. One day she felt a bit of a bump when she was scratching her armpit at work. The next thing she knew, her breast was being dissected and removed by an...
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Coach Charley Cristo's life is changed forever, not by the cancer that he is battling, but by the letters he receives daily from "the Sender.""--
"Coach Charlie Cristo is battling cancer, but it is years of bitterness and disappointment that are the real enemy. "The Sender's" letters begin to heal his heart even as the chemo is fighting the cancer. Slowly, Charlie's life and the lives of everyone around him change, but will it be enough when the...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Luke Stark, a Special Forces veteran, returns home from his second tour in Afghanistan to learn that his wife has been mysteriously murdered and his son has disappeared. In addition to these tragedies, he also suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, as well as being diagnosed with an incipient form of cancer. Although he lives in a shelter with fellow down-and-outers, he is a sharp-dressed man wearing an impeccable suit and nicknamed The Suited...
90) Before I'm gone
Author
Language
English
Description
"Palmer Sinclair has never needed anyone's help. A successful loan officer, she's all work and no play. But when splitting headaches and blurred vision begin to affect her job, she begrudgingly sees a doctor and receives a diagnosis that leaves her shaken to her core and with little time left. Facing an uncertain future, Palmer makes a bucket list, determined to do the things she'd only dreamed of before she goes. Kent Wagner has dedicated his life...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Large print edition.
Language
English
Description
Sienna has no memory of her late mother, yet every significant day of her life has been marked by a letter written during her last weeks of life. Sienna knows her father feels grateful to be able to offer up these connections to the loving, talented woman his daughter never got a chance to know. Yet for Sienna herself, the letters have become a dreaded burden, a reminder that every milestone is less than it would be if both parents were still living....
92) Invincible
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Evie is living on borrowed time. She was diagnosed with terminal cancer several months ago and told that by now she'd be dead. Evie is grateful for every extra day she gets, but she knows that soon this disease will kill her. Until, miraculously, she may have a second chance to live. All Evie had wanted was her life back, but now that she has it, she feels like there's no place for her in it--at least, not for the girl she is now. Her friends and...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"More accurately a love triptych than triangle, The Femme Fatale Hypothesis is the story of one spring in 2015 when three people form intimate bonds forged in the fires of their respective tribulations. As Rose Geddes's lung cancer progresses toward its inexorable end and her husband's ability to care for her diminishes, their widowed neighbor, June Danhill, stumbles into the middle of their intersecting crises. June's only son, daughter-in-law, and...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Darla Manning has survived cancer so she can survive anything--including having to work closely with her ex-husband to help their best friends have an amazing summer wedding in their quaint Victorian beach town. Her cancer is cured, but what remains is a lifetime of tests and follow-ups. While Darla has survived, she's not truly living. Nick Cammareri knows he failed Darla in their marriage, but now he wants to show Darla that he'll be there for...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"It's been thirteen years since doctors declared Libby Ross-Velasquez a goner. Yet here she is--cancer free. So why doesn't she feel more alive? Sure, Libby's husband, Shiloh, has been distant. One of their daughters has a serious health condition. And her father's death hovers over Libby like a rain cloud. Still, this eternal optimist knows she's the winner of the existential lottery. But when her forced cheer isn't enough to keep her family from...
Author
Language
English
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Description
At an intimate, festive dinner party in Seattle, six women gather to celebrate their friend Kate's recovery from cancer. Wineglass in hand, Kate strikes a bargain with them. To celebrate her new lease on life, she'll do the one thing that's always terrified her: white-water rafting. But if she goes, all of them will also do something they always swore they'd never do-and Kate is going to choose their adventures.
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Betty Jewel Hughes was once the hottest black jazz singer in Memphis. But when she finds herself pregnant and alone, she gives up her dream of being a star to raise her beautiful daughter, Billie, in Shakerag, Mississippi. Now, ten years later, in 1955, Betty Jewel is dying of cancer and looking for someone to care for Billie when she's gone. With no one she can count on, Betty Jewel does the unthinkable: she takes out a want ad seeking a loving mother...
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