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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (3 video file, approximately 344 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Siddhartha Mukherjee, tells the complete story of cancer, from its first description in an ancient Egyptian scroll to the gleaming laboratories of modern research institutions.At six hours, the film interweaves a sweeping historical narrative; with intimate stories about contemporary patients; and an investigation into the latest scientific breakthroughs that may have...
42) Mortality
Author
Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xv, 104 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Courageous, insightful and candid thoughts on malady and mortality from one of our most celebrated writers"--Provided by the publisher.
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.
45) Good to a fault
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...
46) Love, Ish
Author
Publisher
Workman Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Mischa "Ish" Love's longtime dream has been to someday live on Mars, but when she collapses on the first day of seventh grade, Ish receives a diagnosis which threatens her future plans.
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,...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 12 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Medical professionals all over the world are constantly looking for better ways to treat patients and diseases. In this program, doctors at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center treat a patient with a type of cancer that affects the area of the brain that controls function. Glioblastomas are aggressive and often fatal malignant brain tumors. To combat the disease, revolutionary medical treatments...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
290 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"One summer in Seaside, steps away from the bustling boardwalk, the Dunne family faces an unknowable future and copes with loss through hard work and dark humor, sisterhood and friendship, romance and escape. Brian and Margot Dunne live in Seaside year-round, with their daughters Liz and Evy. The Dunnes run a real estate company, quickly turning over rental houses to keep a roof over their heads. Together the family must navigate the unimaginable...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (126 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Hazel and Gus are two extraordinary teenagers who share an acerbic wit, a disdain for the conventional, and a love that sweeps them on an unforgettable journey. Their relationship is all the more miraculous, given that they met and fell in love at a cancer support group.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xviii, 380 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"On the night of December 2, 1943, the Luftwaffe bombed a critical Allied port in Bari, Italy, sinking seventeen ships and killing over a thousand servicemen and hundreds of civilians. Caught in the surprise air raid was the John Harvey, an American Liberty ship carrying a top-secret cargo of 2,000 mustard bombs to be used in retaliation if the Germans resorted to gas warfare. After young sailors began suddenly dying with mysterious symptoms, Lieutenant...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 98 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Pink ribbons...they're everywhere: tee-shirts, hats, yogurt cups, KFC buckets, car ads, NFL stadiums...the list goes on and on. They make us feel good, as if we're all engaged in a successful battle against breast cancer. But who is really benefiting? After all, more and more women are diagnosed with breast cancer every year. Maybe it's the companies who wrap their products in pink to gain our admiration (and money)... and wouldn't it be something...
Author
Publisher
Wheeler Pub
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
Large Print edition
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
In Up Close and Personal, New York Times bestselling author Fern Michaels creates one extraordinary family who shows us the power of the loves we find, the loves we lose, and the ones we carry with us always. . .
For generations, the Windsors have lived on the family's grand estate in Crestwood, South Carolina, as intertwined with local life as sweet tea and pecan pie. Now, on the anniversary of her daughter Emily's death, Sarabess Windsor believes...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 55 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Liberty explores the deep connections in a circle of lesbian friends as they face death and celebrate life and love. Viewers say Liberty has documented the meaning of community with rare grace and wit. It is not a wimpy, weepy tale by a mile, but a keen celebration of family values. Liberty demystifies death, dispels misinformation about age and sexual orientation, and reminds us how rich life is, even in the shadow of death. Part One: Death to Life...
Author
Publisher
Dey Street Books, an Imprint of William Morrow Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition
Physical Desc
xi, 274 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Purmort manages to pull off a funny, never-morbid memoir largely about losing her husband to brain cancer. She recorded his journey in a blog called myhusbandstumor.com, subtitled "It's not a cancer story, it's a love story. With some cancer." Despite a 2014 that "sucked pretty hard" (she miscarried her second baby; a few weeks later, lost her dad; and then six weeks later, her husband, Aaron), she still elicits laughs as she combines humor and wisdom....
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her mother, who is unexpectedly pregnant, receives a devastating diagnosis, Sonnet Romano must decide what really matters in life and, putting her career on hold, stays in Avalon and takes a job that forces her to work alongside her biggest mistake--award-winning filmmaker Zach Alger and Sonnet's former lover.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
371 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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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,...
59) The idiot cycle
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 63 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Did you know that the same chemical companies who are responsible for cancer causing chemicals are also invested in and produce cancer treatments. The most profitable disease on the planet. These chemical companies have now lobbied against long term health studies of their new invention - genetically modified crops. Do genetically modified foods toxic? Could they be a new cause of cancer? No one seems to want to know the answer. Our investigation...
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