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Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Lexile measure
HL 710L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eighteen-year-old Cayenne learns that her long-dead mother left her and her sister a series of video messages; that their aunt, who raised them, has the same gene mutation that caused their mother's cancer; and that she and her sister may also have it.
42) The healer
Publisher
Vision Films
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A young man discovers suddenly to have the gift of healing. Trying to understand it and the new reality that it offers, a teenage girl with terminal cancer unexpectedly will show him the way.
43) Seaview Inn
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
New York Times bestselling author Sherryl Woods proves home can be found where you least expect it. Hannah Matthews is undeniably tough--a single mom, a top-tier PR exec, a breast cancer survivor. She prides herself on being go-to Hannah, who can handle any crisis. But with her grandmother balking at going into a retirement home, her daughter unexpectedly pregnant and an old flame suddenly underfoot, Hannah is facing a few crises of her own. And being...
44) Miracle dogs
Publisher
Tag Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
A poignant and funny story of a nine year old English springer spaniel who loses her front leg to cancer.
45) Getting Grace
Publisher
Random Media
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Grace, a teenage girl dying of cancer, crashes a funeral home to find out what will happen to her after she dies, but ends up teaching awkward funeral director Bill how to celebrate life.
Author
Publisher
Covenant Communications, Inc
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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Description
Escaping an impending arranged marriage in India, Maya Gupta arrives in America only to face a far greater challenge -- cancer -- and, while staying in her best friend's apartment, she participates in a DC clinical trial that could save her life. But her best friend has a brother -- major league baseball player Ben Evans -- who is shocked to find Maya in his apartment. Can he protect his above-reproach reputation and still search for a way to help...
47) Sort of forever
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-olds Cady and Nana explore the strengths of their special friendship as they cope with Nana's cancer.
48) The wish
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
"1996 was the year that changed everything for Maggie Dawes. Sent away at sixteen to live with an aunt she barely knew in Ocracoke, a remote village on North Carolina's Outer Banks, she could think only of the friends and family she left behind . . . until she meets Bryce Trickett, one of the few teenagers on the island. Handsome, genuine, and newly admitted to West Point, Bryce gradually shows her how much there is to love about the wind-swept beach...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A doctor's riveting story of loss and hope in the world of cancer. What is it like to encounter cancer? How does it feel to face the unknown, to enter a world of hope, loss, and dread? From the diagnosis of his childhood friend's mother to his poignant memories in the lab, David Scadden's seen the unknown world of cancer from the lens of a young boy, a classmate, a researcher, a friend, a doctor, and a neighbor. Scadden chronicles his personal memories...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Maddy is sixteen. She has loyal friends, a mother with whom she's unusually close, a father she's never met, devoted grandparents, and a crush on a boy named Jack. Maddy also has cancer. Deeply curious, wry, and vivacious, she's poised at the outset of adulthood, ready to untangle all the mysteries that living holds--if she survives her teens"--
Series
Publisher
Cinema Libre Studio
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Documentary filmmaker Stephen Kroschel asks whether the long-suppressed form of cancer treatment known as Gerson Therapy could truly be as effective as some cancer survivors claim in this film that offers a wide array of testimonies from medical specialists, health experts, and patients. More than seventy five years after being proven to cure degenerative disease, Gerson Therapy is still virtually unknown to the masses - but why? In order to seek...
Author
Language
English
Description
"A divinity professor and young mother with a Stage IV cancer diagnosis explores the pain and joy of living without certainty. Thirty-five-year-old Kate Bowler was a professor at the school of divinity at Duke, and had finally had a baby with her childhood sweetheart after years of trying, when she began to feel jabbing pains in her stomach. She lost thirty pounds, chugged antacid, and visited doctors for three months before she was finally diagnosed...
53) Champions
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
For years, Bob Champion, a talentd young jockey, dreamt of winning The Grand National Steeplechase. Then Champion's life changed forever when he was stricken with cancer at the age of 31. During six courses of chemotherapy, in which his body literally wasted away, he refused to give up.
Author
Series
Tending roses volume 3
Language
English
Description
After Karen Sommerfield is suddenly forced to deal with the threat of cancer at the same time her company downsizes her, she returns to the rural Missouri Ozarks and her grandmother's old farm on an odyssey to find herself.
55) Changing hearts
Publisher
Distributed by Questar
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Amber and Betty couldn't be more different. Amber is Little Miss Sunny Disposition, and Betty is as curmudgeonly as they get. But this unlikely pair get as close as two peas in a pod battling cancer at the same time. They'll help each other cope with everything from illness to sorting out their messy love lives.
Author
Publisher
Crown Archetype
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
The founder and CEO of Susan G. Komen for the Cure shares the inspirational story of her late sister's battle with breast cancer and the author's contributions to establishing one of the world's most influential health advocacy organizations.
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two brothers brave a whirlwind summer in this taut and luminous coming-of-age novel. 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...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the twenty-third year of their marriage, Sonya Lea's husband, Richard, went in for surgery to treat a rare appendix cancer. When he came out, he had no recollection of their life together: how they met, their wedding day, the births of their two children. All of it was gone, along with the rockier parts of their past - her drinking, his anger. Richard could now hardly speak, emote, or create memories from moment to moment. Who he'd been no longer...
Author
Language
English
Description
A historical assessment of cancer addresses both the courageous battles against the complex disease and the misperceptions and hubris that have compromised modern understandings, covering such topics as ancient-world surgeries and the developments of present-day treatments.
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