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2) Benediction
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
A terminally ill cancer patient is attended throughout his final days by his wife and daughter while the trio contemplates their relationships with an estranged son, a situation that stirs up painful memories for a new next-door neighbor who has recently lost her mother.
3) The sunroom
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Pennsylvania in the 1950s, Becky Owens learns to accept her mother's serious illness and the likelihood that the disease will be fatal, as she grows in her Christian faith and discovers that love need have no limits
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mara Nichols, a terminally ill career woman, wife, and mother, and Scott Coffman, a middle-school teacher whose eight-year-old foster son is about to return to his former inmate mother, traverse the last five days they have to say goodbye to their loved ones.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Patrol officer Joe O'Brien is third-generation Irish in Charlestown. A tough cop with a soft interior, a loving wife and four adult children, Joe is diagnosed with Huntington's disease. As Joe's symptoms worsen and he's eventually stripped of his badge and more, Joe struggles to maintain hope and a sense of purpose, while his daughter Katie and her siblings must find the courage to either live a life "at risk" or learn their fate.
"From award-winning,...
Author
Publisher
Avery
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
230 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
"As the Senior Rabbi of one of the largest synagogues in the world, Steve Leder has learned over and over again the many ways death teaches us how to live and love more deeply by showing us not only what is gone, but also the beauty of what remains"--
9) Kill me
Author
Series
Alan Gregory novels volume 14
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
402 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
10) Host
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Devastated by the death of her boyfriend after a routine surgery, fourth-year medical student Lynn Pierce investigates the accident and discovers a string of suspicious deaths at the hospital.
Author
Publisher
Broadway Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
375 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ten years into their marriage, Doss Michaels and Abbie Coleman face Abbie's life-threatening illness, and they steal away from the hospital to embark on a 130-mile trip down the St. Mary's River, a voyage that he had promised her early in their courtship.
12) Before I die
Author
Publisher
David Fickling Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
1st American ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
326 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A terminally ill teenaged girl makes and carries out a list of things to do before she dies.
Author
Publisher
Scribner Classics
Pub. Date
1997.
Edition
1st Scribner Classics ed.
Physical Desc
286 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
This book introduced the now-famous idea of the five stages of dealing with death: denial and isolation, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. It gives the reader a better understanding of how imminent death affects the patient, the professionals who serve the patient, and the patient's family.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jules is confronted headlong and all at once by a series of challenges to his principles, livelihood, and home, forcing him to grapple with his complex past and find a way forward. He risks fraud to save his terminally ill infant grandson, matches wits with a renegade insurance investigator, is drawn into an act of savage violence, and falls deeply, excitingly in love with a young cellist a third his age. He forges a denouement that is staggering...
Publisher
Monterey Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Widescreen version
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of a terminally ill 10-year-old boy whose dream is to catch the most beautiful butterfly on Earth, the Blue Morpho. His mother persuades a renowned entomologist to take them to the jungle to search for it.
16) Amulet
Publisher
Magnet Releasing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tomaz is a homeless former soldier who takes refuge in the decaying home of Magda, a lonely young woman in desperate need of help as she cares for her ailing mother. At first hesitant, Magda soon welcomes Tomaz into their lives. But as he gets closer to and begins to fall for Magda, Tomaz notices strange and unexplainable phenomena. Something seems very wrong with the mysterious old woman who never leaves the top floor, and Tomaz begins to suspect...
17) The professor
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
[Spanish subtitled version]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Richard, a buttoned-down college lecturer, who after learning he has six months to live, transforms into a rebellious party animal. To the shock of his wife and school chancellor, and the delight of his students, Richard leads a hilarious crusade against authority and hypocrisy in this dark comedy.
20) The hero
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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Description
A former Western icon re-evaluates his life, his image and more importantly his heart after a surprise diagnosis.
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