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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Hazel, a stage IV thyroid cancer patient, has accepted her terminal diagnosis until a chance meeting with a boy at cancer support group forces her to reexamine her perspective on love, loss, and life. 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 appears...
Author
Language
English
Description
He was a fishing guide and struggling artist from a south George trailer park. She was the beautiful only child of South Carolina's most powerful senator. Yet once Doss Michaels and Abigail Grace Coleman met by accident, they each felt they'd found their true soul mate. Ten years into their marriage, when Abbie faces a life-threatening illness, Doss battles it with her every step of the way. And when she makes a list of ten things she hopes to accomplish...
3) The secret
Author
Series
Seasons of grace (Beverly Lewis) volume 1
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this portrait of an Amish family's struggle to overcome the effects of a baffling secret, soon-to- be-engaged Grace Byler is perplexed by her mom's nocturnal weeping and wandering--and her dad's refusal to discuss what's wrong. But when her mom runs off, Grace puts her own life on hold to pick up the pieces her mother left behind.
4) The Six
Author
Series
The Six (Mark Alpert) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Adam, crippled by muscular dystrophy, and five other terminally ill teenagers sacrifice their bodies and upload their minds into weaponized robots to battle a dangerously advanced artificial intelligence program bent on destroying humanity.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Joshua and Lauren are the perfect couple. Newly married, they're wildly in love, each on a successful and rewarding career path. Then Lauren is diagnosed with a terminal illness. As Lauren's disease progresses, Joshua struggles to make the most of the time he has left with his wife and to come to terms with his future- a future without the only woman he's ever loved. He's so consumed with finding a way to avoid the inevitable ending that he never...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
With his bestselling blend of nail-biting intensity, daring artistry, and storytelling magic, Dean Koontz returns with an emotional roller coaster of a tale filled with enough twists, turns, shocks, and surprises for ten ordinary novels. Here is the story of five days in the life of an ordinary man born to an extraordinary legacy—a story that will challenge the way you look at good and evil, life and death, and everything in between.
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Author
Series
Harold Fry novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry comes an exquisite love story about Queenie Hennessy, the remarkable friend who inspired Harold’s cross-country journey.
“This lovely book is full of joy. Much more than the story of a woman’s enduring love for an ordinary, flawed man, it’s an ode to messy, imperfect, glorious, unsung humanity.”—The...
“This lovely book is full of joy. Much more than the story of a woman’s enduring love for an ordinary, flawed man, it’s an ode to messy, imperfect, glorious, unsung humanity.”—The...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Noah wants to go home. A seemingly easy request from most four year olds. But as Noah's single-mother, Janie, knows, nothing with Noah is ever easy. One day the pre-school office calls and says Janie needs to come in to talk about Noah, and no, not later, now - and life as she knows it stops.
For Jerome Anderson, life as he knows it has stopped. A deadly diagnosis has made him realize he is approaching the end of his life. His first
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Language
English
Formats
Description
The beloved New York Times bestseller from acclaimed author Eleanor Brown about three sisters who love each other, but just don't happen to like each other very much.
Three sisters have returned to their childhood home, reuniting the eccentric Andreas family. Here, books are a passion (there is no problem a library card can't solve) and TV is something other people watch. Their father—a professor of Shakespeare who speaks...
Three sisters have returned to their childhood home, reuniting the eccentric Andreas family. Here, books are a passion (there is no problem a library card can't solve) and TV is something other people watch. Their father—a professor of Shakespeare who speaks...
11) Kill me
Author
Series
Alan Gregory novels volume 14
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
12) Last holiday
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
Full screen ed.
Language
English
Description
Georgia Byrd is a department store employee who leads a life of frustrated desires. She particularly likes the bashful salesman from the outdoor furnishings department. But when she learns she only has a few weeks left to live, Georgia gathers her money, quits her job, and flies to the swank European resort she's always dreamed of visiting. Naturally, her new carelessness with money and fearless candor lead everyone around her, including a senator...
Author
Publisher
Pamela Dorman Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Discovering that he has inoperable cancer and only a few months to live, a charismatic womanizer spends his final days attempting to care for his family, win back his estranged wife, reconnect with friends, and become the man he was meant to be.
Author
Series
Jane Smith volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Tough-as-nails criminal defense attorney Jane Smith is hip-deep in the murder trial of the century. Actually, her charmless client might've committed several murders. She's also fallen in love with a wonderful guy. And an equally wonderful dog, a mutt. But Jane doesn't have much time. She's just received a terminal diagnosis giving her twelve months. Unless she's murdered before her expiration date"--
16) Cas & Dylan
Publisher
Peace Arch Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2015
Language
English
Description
When the self-proclaimed loner and terminally ill Dr. Cas Pepper reluctantly agrees to give aspiring writer and social misfit, Dylan Morgan, a ride home, the last thing he expects is that they will end up on a cross country journey together. The two unlikely companions hit the road and encounter a series of bizarre twists and turns along the way. This unexpected adventure opens their eyes to life s most important lessons, and they end up finding friendship...
Author
Language
English
Description
Determined to leave a mark on the world even though they are in the hospital and their days are dwindling, unlikely friends, seventeen-year-old Lenni and eighty-three-year- old Margot, devise a plan to create one hundred paintings showcasing the stories of the century they have lived.
18) The sunroom
Author
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
When I was twelve, I made a naïve, yet desperate pact with God to keep my ailing mother alive. It was the first time I'd ventured something so brazen--making a contract with the Almighty... So begins the story of Becky Owens, a talented and passionate young pianist on the verge of adolescence when she learns the devastating news of her mother's critical illness. As the daughter of a country preacher in Lancaster County, Becky knows well the significance...
19) Postscript
Author
Series
PS I love you volume 2
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
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