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Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
204 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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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.
4) Punk wig
Author
Publisher
Boyds Mills Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a mother loses her hair during chemotheraphy, a son gives her constant support as he helps her choose a wig.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace & Co
Pub. Date
c1999
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
279 p. map 24 cm.
Language
English
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Description
Retired heart surgeon Ben Givens, diagnosed with terminal colon cancer, decides to take one last hunting trip in the Columbia Basin of central Washington where he plans to end his life, but the people he meets and the situations he faces along the way cause him to change his mind.
6) WAVE
Author
Publisher
Cameron Kids
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
313 pages. 21 cm
Language
English
Description
When her best friend's cancer returns in the summer of 1987, none of her usual pursuits--surfing, singing, or reading poetry--can keep thirteen-year-old Ava afloat.
Author
Publisher
Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Scribner trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
438 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Lia, her husband, Harry, and their daughter, Iris, are a perfectly balanced family of three with a happy life. But when a devasting diagnosis threatens to derail their lives, the world around them begins to warp and transform, and Lia's carefully hidden secrets come rushing out.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Despite the loving intentions of her mother and boyfriend, sixteen-year-old Astrid wants to make the decisions about her life and death when her cancer returns, including exploring the possibility of cryopreservation.
11) Torch
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
vii, 322 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Claire Woods has always admired her mother Teresa's determination, strength, and compassion, and is devastated by Teresa's sudden death, as is Claire's brother Joshua, and as the two struggle to deal with their own grief, they must find a way to keep their mother's memory alive.
Author
Language
English
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Description
Sixteen-year-old Hazel, a stage IV thyroid cancer patient, has accepted her terminal diagnosis until a chance meeting with a boy at cancer support group forces her to reexamine her perspective on love, loss, and life. Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"It's been a minute-or five years-since Jordan Vargas last saw his college friends, and twenty-eight years since their graduation when their adult lives officially began. Now Jordan, Jordy, Naomi, Craig, and Marielle find themselves at the brink of a new decade, with all the responsibilities of adulthood, yet no closer to having their lives figured out. Though not for a lack of trying. Over the years they've reunited in Big Sur to honor a decades-old...
14) Spring's arcana
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
353 pages : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Nat Drozdova is desperate to save a life. Doctors can do little for her cancer-ridden mother, who insists there is only one cure--and that Nat must visit a skyscraper in Manhattan to get it. Amid a snow-locked city, inside a sleek glass-walled office, Nat makes her plea and is whisked into a terrifying new world. For the skyscraper holds a hungry winter goddess who has the power to cure her mother...if Nat finds a stolen object of great power. Now...
15) Yolk
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
390 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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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.
16) Private label
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
404 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Worlds apart in their high school hierarchy, Serene and Lian Chen find refuge in one another.
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