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Since opening her own advertising agency three years ago, Alexis Gold has all but given up on finding a good work/life balance. She hands over the household reins to her supportive, loving partner, Tommy. When Tommy receives a terminal cancer diagnosis, Alexis realizes everything she's worked for doesn't matter without him. Tommy wants is to spend one last summer together at "their" beach, and she puts her career on hold to make it happen. Their teenager...
Author
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Touchstone hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Four previously terminally ill people must grapple with the reality of reentering their lives after being granted genetically perfect copies of their former bodies. Hannah, David, Connie, and Linda leave the SUBlife pilot program with their fingerprints different, their vision impeccable, and most importantly, their illnesses cured. But as each tries to re-enter their previous lives and relationships they are faced with the question: how much of your...
83) The man who died
Author
Publisher
Orenda Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
245 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
A successful entrepreneur in the mushroom industry, Jaakko Kaunismaa is a man in his prime. At just 37 years of age, he is shocked when his doctor tells him that he's dying. What is more, the cause is discovered to be prolonged exposure to toxins; in other words, someone has slowly but surely been poisoning him. Determined to find out who wants him dead, Jaakko embarks on a suspenseful rollercoaster journey full of unusual characters, bizarre situations...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Ivo uses the A to Z game to pass the time, to avoid the pain, and to think about what really got him here. His hospice nurse suggested it. Think of a body part for each letter, and think of memories connected to each one. And so begins the revealing of his misspent life: the terrible teenage choices, friendships made and cracked, love he'll never get back. He remembers the girl who tried to help him, the friend who wouldn't let her, and the sickness...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"A dying man brings his oldest friends together for one last beach blowout in this witty, heartfelt novel from the author of Last Couple Standing. At just thirty-five, reclusive billionaire Robbie Malcolm is a renowned financial prognosticator, a celebrated philanthropist, and a mathematical genius. Also, he's dying, which is a fact he's carefully concealing from the world. As he takes stock, Robbie realizes that his wealth means nothing if he can't...
86) Hollow world
Author
Publisher
Tachyon
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
viii, 371 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Ellis Rogers is an ordinary man who is about to embark upon an extraordinary journey. All his life he has played it safe and done the right thing, but when diagnosed with a terminal illness, he's willing to take an insane gamble. He's built a time machine in his garage, and if it works, he'll face a world that challenges his understanding of what it means to be human, what it takes to love, and the cost of paradise. He could find more than the cure...
Author
Publisher
Soho
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
viii, 264 pages ; 22 cm
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English
Description
"'I was a blonde eating an avocado, in a country where avocados were plentiful and blondes were not'...So begins the story of a woman haunted by memories of the months she spent in Mexico in her early twenties and the wealthy Americans she fell in with there...Two decades later in rural England, facing a terminal illness, Frances discovers a letter to her husband from a younger woman. When she follows him to London and spies on his interactions with...
88) 40: a novel
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Series
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
10 CDs (11 hr., 45 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Freelance music producer Tyler Harrison is closing in on his 40th birthday. Suffering hallucinations as the big day approaches, he meets a man named Matthew, who claims to be an angel and tells Tyler he will soon die. Descending into self-destructive behavior and uncertainty about God, Tyler meets Ellis, an internationally famous DJ. But Ellis' influence may be the last thing Tyler needs.
89) Lampedusa
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Set in a sun-drenched Sicily, among the decadent Italian aristocracy of the late 1950s, Steven Price's Lampedusa explores the final years of Giuseppe Tomasi, the last prince of Lampedusa, as he struggles to complete his only novel, The Leopard. In 1955, Tomasi was diagnosed with advanced emphysema; shortly after, he began work on a novel that would fail to be published before his death four years later. When The Leopard at last appeared, it won...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
362 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Here is a truth that can't be escaped: for Mia "Rabbit" Hayes, life is coming to and end. Rabbit Hayes loves her life, ordinary as it is, and the extraordinary people in it. She loves her spirited daughter, Juliet; her colorful, unruly family; the only man in her big heart, Johnny Faye. But it turns out the world has other plans for Rabbit, and she's okay with that. Because she has plans for the world too, and only a handful of days left to make...
91) My phantoms
Author
Publisher
The New York Review of Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
199 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Helen Grant, known to her acquaintances as Hen, is a mystery to her daughter. An extrovert with few friends who has sought intimacy in the wrong places; a twice-divorced mother of two now living alone surrounded by her memories, Helen has always haunted Bridget. Now Bridget sees Helen once a year, and considers the problem to be contained. As she looks back on their tumultuous relationship- the performances and small deceptions- she tries to reckon...
92) Postscript
Author
Series
PS I love you volume 2
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Seven years after her husband's death -- six since she read his final letter -- Holly Kennedy has moved on with her life. When Holly's sister asks her to tell the story of the "PS, I Love You" letters on her podcast -- to revisit the messages Gerry wrote before his death to read after his passing -- she does so reluctantly, not wanting to reopen old wounds. But after the episode airs, people start reaching out to Holly, and they all have one thing...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Lewis Madigan is young, gay, out of work, and getting antsy when he's roped into providing end-of-life care for his insufferable homophobic neighbor, Chester Wheeler. Lewis doesn't need the aggravation, just the money. The only requirements: run errands, be on call, and put up with a miserable old churl no one else in Buffalo can bear. After exchanging barbs, bickering, baiting, and pushing buttons, Chester hits Lewis with the big ask. Lewis can't...
Author
Publisher
Gibson House Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
227 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Colin Tugdale has only one year left to live. He has no complaints. He took the government money, and he lived for twenty years in perfect health, never growing one day older, never getting sick. But his time is almost over, and his beloved wife, Ruby, is already gone. Colin needs something to occupy himself. He meets a woman who should be dead. He sees a man who is dead. Is it possible that his government has been lying to him? Colin's last year...
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
185 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Charlie Fairburn, successful screenwriter, ex-husband, and absent father, has been given six months to live. He resolves to stake half his fortune on a couple of turns of the roulette wheel and, to his agent's disgust, to write a novel--about death. In the casino he meets his muse. Charlie grows as addicted to writing fiction as she is to gambling. His novel is set on a train and involves a group of characters (familiar to readers of St. Aubyn's earlier...
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
207 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Sitting at the bedside of his mother as she is dying from leukemia in a hospital in northern Mexico, Julián is immersed in memories of his unstable boyhood and youth. Guadalupe was a prostitute, and Julián spent his childhood with half brothers and sisters each from a different father, moving from city to city and from one tough neighborhood to the next. As he wanders the hospital, Julián tells fevered stories of his life as a writer, from a trip...
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English
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"Jennifer Cole has just been told that she has a terminal blood disorder and has just three months to live--ninety days to say goodbye to friends and family, and to put her affairs in order. Ninety days to come to terms with a diagnosis that is unfair, unexpected, and completely unpronounceable. Focusing on the positives (she won't have to go on in a world without Bowie or Maya Angelou; she won't get Alzheimer's or Parkinson's like her parents, or...
Author
Series
A Jimmy Veeder fiasco volume 1
Publisher
Amazon Encore
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
380 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jack Veeder is dying. Soon. And that impending event brings his son Jimmy back to the Imperial Valley of southern California just north of the Calexico/Mexicali border. Jimmy hopes he can spend what time his father has left laughing and reminiscing. But Jack's got one dying request. He needs Jimmy to find a Mexican prostitute named Yolanda. Enlisting the help of his boyhood friend Bobby Maves, the pair stumbles through the violent, the exploited,...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the author of The Day We Met ("As with Me Before You, by Jojo Moyes, I couldn't put this book down."--Katie Fforde) comes a beautiful, life-affirming novel that sparkles with love and wonder. We Are All Made of Stars is an unforgettable story about second chances, the power of words, and the resilience of the heart"--
"Hospice nurse Stella prefers the night shift after Afghanistan left her veteran husband a changed man, haunted at night by...
100) Kill the next one
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First English language edition.
Physical Desc
407 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Ted McKay had it all: a beautiful wife, two daughters, a high-paying job. But after being diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor he finds himself with a gun to his temple, ready to pull the trigger. Then the doorbell rings. A stranger makes him a proposition: why not kill two deserving men before dying? The first target is a criminal, and the second is a man with terminal cancer who, like Ted, wants to die. After executing these kills, Ted will become...
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