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The Andreas family is one of readers. Their father, a renowned Shakespeare professor who speaks almost entirely in verse, has named his three daughters after famous Shakespearean women. When the sisters return to their childhood home to care for their ailing mother, and to lick their wounds and bury their secrets, they are horrified to find the others there. But the sisters soon discover that everything they've been running from might offer more than...
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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.
3) The secret
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Seasons of grace (Beverly Lewis) volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
[2009]
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English
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Conari Press, an imprint of Red Wheel/Weiser, LLC
Pub. Date
©2017
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English
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Caring for the Dying describes a whole new way to approach death and dying. It explores how the dying and their families can bring deep meaning and great comfort to the care given at the end of a life.
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Gallery Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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"From award-winning, New York Times bestselling author and neuroscientist Lisa Genova comes a powerful new novel that does for Huntington's Disease what her debut Still Alice did for Alzheimer's. Joe O'Brien is a forty-four-year-old police officer from the Irish Catholic neighborhood of Charlestown, Massachusetts. A devoted husband, proud father of four children in their twenties, and respected officer, Joe begins experiencing bouts of disorganized...
8) The farewell
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Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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When a Chinese family finds out that their grandmother has only a short time left to live, they plan a family reunion before she dies without telling her.
9) The hero
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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A former Western icon re-evaluates his life, his image and more importantly his heart after a surprise diagnosis.
10) Cherry blossoms
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Strand Releasing Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Deutsch
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Only Trudi knows that her husband Rudi is suffering from a terminal illness. She decides not to tell him and convinces him to visit their family in Berlin. When Trudi dies suddenly, Rudi vows to make up for her lost life and takes his last journey to Tokyo in the midst of the cherry blossom festival.
11) Living
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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The story of an ordinary man, reduced by years of oppressive office routine to a shadow existence, who at the eleventh hour makes a supreme effort to turn his dull life into something wonderful.
An ordinary man, reduced by years of oppressive office routine to a shadow existence, makes a supreme effort to turn his dull life into something wonderful after receiving a terminal diagnosis.
12) Reconciliation
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Bridgestone Multimedia Group
Pub. Date
©2010
Language
English
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"A groundbreaking, provocative story about an estranged father and son struggling to overcome the heartbreaking consequences of their past."
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Despite the medical miracle that has bought her a few more years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, but when Augustus Waters suddenly appears at the Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel's story is about to be rewritten.
Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly...
14) Our friend
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Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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Follows Matt and Nicole Teague and their two young daughters after Nicole is diagnosed with terminal cancer and the couple's best friend puts his life on hold to stay with them for help and support.
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"Born blind in Vietnam, Julie Yip-Williams narrowly escaped euthanasia by her grandmother, only to then flee the political upheaval of the late 1970s with her family. Loaded into a rickety boat with three hundred other refugees, Julie made it to Hong Kong and, ultimately, America, where a surgeon at UCLA gave her partial sight. Against all odds, she became a Harvard-educated lawyer, with a husband, a family, a life. Then, at age thirty-seven, with...
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Rocaeditorial
Pub. Date
2022.
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Español
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"Entre los mejores libros de 2022 según NPR y Locus "Una feminista y locuaz reinterpretación de La Bella Durmiente, donde el destino implacable puede ser desafiado por el corage, la sororidad y la perseverencia, así como por un buen conocimiento de los cuentos de hadas". ?Katherine Arden Es el vigesimoprimer cumpleaños de Zinnia Gray, un día muy especial porque será el último cumpleaños que celebrará jamás. Cuando era joven, un accidente...
18) Barking water
Publisher
Lorber Films
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
A dying Native American man enlists the help of an ex-lover to assist him in getting home to reconnect with his family.
19) Brian's song
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
A true story based on the unique relationship between the black Gayle Sayers and the late white athlete, Brian Piccolo.
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