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Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The author shares how, in the years following her beloved father's death, she denied her suffering and lived with the constant fear of loss that left her terrified of love and intimacy until she set out on a journey to confront the grief she'd been avoiding for so long.
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
164 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
McColl seeks the answer to a question that has haunted her for years: Can you explain what people mean when they say, You are just like your mother? Her memories reveal her late mother, Allison, as a woman of endless charm and infinite love for her unruly brood of red-headed children. When Allison is diagnosed with cancer, McColl drops everything to return to the family farmhouse to tend to her mother in the best way she knows how -- by sweating over...
Author
Publisher
Ice Cube Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
229 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"...powerful, tender and humorous memoir about resiliency and love in the face of cancer. Mirriam-Goldberg braves breast cancer, the breast cancer genetic mutation and the loss of a parent by connecting with an eclectic Midwest community, the land and sky, and a body undergoing vast rennovation." -- taken from front cover inside flap.
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
267 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
About the time that her father was diagnosed with cancer, Jade invented Zoe, an imaginary friend in the pages of her notebook that she could depend on; then one of her classmates, Gresham Gorham (called Clue), somehow brings Zoe to life, and Jade suddenly has a best friend, one she can still control by what she writes in her notebook--but soon Jade begins to wonder how much a friendship is worth if you are calling all of the shots, and whether she...
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Author Bruce Feiler was a young father when he was diagnosed with cancer. He instantly worried what his daughters' lives would be like without him. "Would they wonder who I was? Would they yearn for my approval, my love, my voice?" Three days later he came up with a stirring idea: he would reach out to six men from all the passages in his life, and ask them to be present in the passages in his daughters' lives. And he would call this group "The Council...
Author
Series
Sunday Potluck Club volume 3
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
399 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Live in the moment . . . Nichole Peterson increasingly believes in rituals, routines, and checklists--especially after almost losing her father to cancer two years ago. Now she lives in constant fear of saying the wrong thing, knowing any conversation could be their last. She met her best friends--and their cherished canine companions--at the hospital right before each lost a parent. As the only member of the Sunday Potluck Club with a surviving...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Still reeling from the death by suicide of his drug-addicted father, Travis moves in with his grandmother to become her caretaker as she battles cancer. Meanwhile, he tries to live a typical teen life of pulling pranks, occasional shoplifting, dating, and endless drives through the twisting backroads of Central Massachusetts with Nirvana's Nevermind as the soundtrack. When the police intervene after a prank backfires, the boys realize that their time...
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 221 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
The author of The Vagina Monologues describes being diagnosed and treated for uterine cancer and how her illness forced her to reconnect with her own body and gave her a better understanding of the resilience of humans.
Author
Publisher
Redwood Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xii, 222 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
A year-long journey by the renowned psychiatrist and his writer wife after her terminal diagnosis, as they reflect on how to love and live without regret. Internationally acclaimed psychiatrist and author Irvin Yalom devoted his career to counseling those suffering from anxiety and grief. But never had he faced the need to counsel himself until his wife, esteemed feminist author Marilyn Yalom, was diagnosed with cancer. In A Matter of Death and Life,...
20) The book keepers
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Book Keepers follows the uplifting journey of a husband who keeps his wife's dream alive by becoming the spokesperson for her book after her death. Carol Wall's debut memoir, about cancer, friendship, and cultivating an open heart, was a breakout success. But joy turned to tragedy when the breast cancer she wrote about returned, and she died months after its publication. Carol's husband, Dick, determined to help her life-affirming message find...
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