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1) 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.
2) 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.
5) Martyr!
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks on a search that leads him to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum"-- Provided by publisher.
Cyrus Shams is a young man grappling with an inheritance of violence and loss: his mother's plane was shot down over the skies of the Persian Gulf in a senseless accident; and his father's life in America was...
6) Mortality
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Courageous, insightful and candid thoughts on malady and mortality from one of our most celebrated writers"--Provided by the publisher.
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"-- Provided by publisher.
8) Host
Author
Series
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.
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
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Language
English
Formats
Description
"What begins as a mystery-tinted character study transforms into a full-bore thriller, with a spate of jaw-dropping twists that recast the entire narrative. Readers should be prepared to stay up all night." —Publishers Weekly
"A razor-sharp domestic thriller about a dying woman's desperate mission to handpick her husband's next wife—and she'll stop at nothing to get the job done. Darkly funny and relentlessly suspenseful, Karp
...14) 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...
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...
16) 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.
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.
18) 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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