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Author
Series
Blossom street novels volume 4
Language
English
Description
Blossom Street begins with a new knitting class at the shop Lydia Goetz owns in downtown Seattle. Lydia's business is doing well, and in attendance are Susannah, who runs the flower shop next door; Colette, a young widow who lives upstairs; and Alix Townsend, a baker and former hoodlum engaged to a future minister. Lydia always tries to encourage friendship among her pupils, but this group is none too warm. Colette's reticence is attributed to grief,...
2) 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
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
367 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"There's heartbreak, there's joy, there are parts where you cry-and it's very high quality writing. Well done!"
- Margaret Atwood
"Unpretentious and affecting, with characters to remember and themes that linger and resound."
- Meg Wolitzer, New York Times bestselling author of The Ten-Year Nap
Marina Endicott's Good to a Fault wrings suspense and humor out of the everyday choices we make, revealing the delicate balance between sacrifice and...
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.
5) Age of Iron
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1990
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
198 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Mrs. Curren, a dying professor in Cape Town, South Africa has been insulated from the brutality of apartheid but now is forced to come to terms with the iron-hearted rage that the system has wrought.
6) 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
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Deborah Birch is a seasoned hospice nurse whose daily work requires courage and compassion. But her skills and experience are tested in new and dramatic ways when her easygoing husband, Michael, returns from his third deployment to Iraq haunted by nightmares, anxiety, and rage. She is determined to help him heal, and to restore the tender, loving marriage they once had. At the same time, Deborah's primary patient is Barclay Reed, a retired history...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
419 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"It's Holy Week in the small town of Las Penas, New Mexico, and thirty-three-year-old unemployed Amadeo Padilla has been given the part of Jesus in the Good Friday procession. He is preparing feverishly for this role when his fifteen-year-old daughter Angel shows up pregnant on his doorstep and disrupts his plans. Their reunion sets her own life down a startling path. Vivid, tender, darkly funny, and beautifully rendered, The Five Wounds spans the...
Author
Language
English
Description
"48-year-old Nantucketer Dabney Kimball Beech has always had a gift for matchmaking. Some call her ability mystical, while others - like her husband, celebrated economist John Boxmiller Beech, and her daughter, Agnes, who is clearly engaged to the wrong man - call it meddlesome, but there's no arguing with her results: With 42 happy couples to her credit and all of them still together, Dabney has never been wrong about romance. Never, that is, except...
Author
Publisher
CROOKED LANE BOOKS
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Formats
Description
"She'll do anything to save them. But what will she do to save herself? When Kat Jamison retreats to the Blue Ridge Mountains, she's counting on peace and solitude to help her make a difficult decision. Her breast cancer has returned, but after the death of her husband, her will to fight is dampened. Now she has a choice to make: face yet another round of chemotherapy or surrender gracefully. Self-reflection quickly proves impossible as her getaway...
14) Punkzilla
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Punkzilla" is on a mission to see his older brother "P", before "P" dies of cancer. Still buzzing from his last hit of meth, he embarks on a days-long trip from Portland, Ore. to Memphis, Tenn., writing letters to his family and friends. Along the way, he sees a sketchier side of America and worries if he will make it to see his brother in time.
Author
Language
English
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Formats
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...
16) Safe haven
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
This book tells the story of romance lost and rediscovered and the wrenching decision one woman must make between loyalty and love. Every person's story has a beginning, middle and end, but the path that leads from one stage of life to the next is rarely predictable. Renee's journey begins when she is a carefree college student, studying in Italy with her best friend, Audrey. During that idyllic summer abroad, Renee meets a handsome local, and falls...
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
247 Pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A twelve-year-old boy lives with his family in a small, poverty-stricken town in Vermont. His father works at a manufacturing plant, his mother is a homemaker, and his fifteen-year-old brother is about to enter high school. His family has gained enough financial stability to move out of the nearby trailer park, and as conflict rages abroad, his father’s job at a weapons manufacturing plant appears safe. But then his mother is diagnosed with cancer,...
18) The guts
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
The distinct wit and lively, authentic dialogue that are the hallmarks of Roddy Doyle's fiction are on a full display as he reintroduces Jimmy Rabbitte in this follow-up to his beloved debut novel 'The Commitments.' In the 1980s Jimmy Rabbitte formed the Commitments, a ragtag, blue-collar collective of Irish youths determined to bring the soul music stylings of James Brown and Percy Sledge to Dublin. Time proves a great equalizer for Jimmy as he's...
19) The faded photo
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
360 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Recalling her mother's words that some things should be kept private, Frances Snyder chooses to face breast cancer on her own terms: alone. That is, until she finally understands that unexpected friendship--and unconditional love--can offer hope in the darkest hours"--
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 25 cm
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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