"The first lady" is the tale of a preacher's wife who learns she's dying and vows to find her husband another woman. There is no shortage of ladies who want her man, but will she be able to find a suitable replacement among the...
Cancer
- Auteur:Weber, CarlSommaire:
- Auteur:Mukherjee, SiddharthaSommaire:
A "biography" of cancer from its origins to the epic battle to cure, control, and conquer it. A combination of medical history, cutting-edge science, and narrative journalism that transforms the listener's understanding...
- Auteur:Talusan, GraceSommaire:
Born in the Philippines, young Grace Talusan moves with her family to a New England suburb in the 1970s. At school, she confronts racism as one of the few kids with a brown face. At home, the confusion is worse: her grandfather's...
- Auteur:Skuy, DavidSommaire:
Even though Cody's health is better and he's won a spot on the Lions soccer team, life is still complicated when plans to build a factory nearby means that his soccer team is divided between those who want the factory because of the...
- Auteur:Trebek, AlexSommaire:
A RECOMMENDED SUMMER READ BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY, TIME, AND NEWSWEEK. Longtime Jeopardy! host and television icon Alex Trebek reflects on his life and career. Since debuting as the host of Jeopardy! in 1984, Alex Trebek...
- Auteur:Thompson, Kelly S.Sommaire:
With honesty, love, and humour, in this moving memoir, Kelly S. Thompson explores her relationship with her older sister, Meghan. Tested by addiction, abuse, and illness, the sisters’ relationship crumbles, only to be rebuilt into an...
- Auteur:Swender, JenniferSommaire:
The book tells the story of Mika and how her illustrated math journal helps her cope with the challenges of middle school, math, and her mother's melanoma.
- Auteur:Flaherty, Kate MarshallSommaire:
Radiant is a poetic exploration of one hopeful person's healing journey through cancer-from missed appointment, to mammogram, to diagnosis, to surgery, chemo, and radiation, through hysterectomy, genetic testing through to...
- Auteur:Choyce, LesleySommaire:
In this novel for teens, Trevor, who has Huntington's disease, connects with an old man who helps him live his life more fully.
- Auteur:Nagourney, Robert A.Sommaire:
By rethinking what cancer is and how it behaves, Dr. Nagourney developed a smarter, more effective way to treat cancer patients as described in this book.
- Auteur:Rose, Michal G., DeVita, Vincent T., Lawrence, Theodore S., Rosenberg, Steven A.Sommaire:
Oncology in Primary Care is for primary care clinicians who need practical and concise information on caring for their patients with cancer. Written in an easy-to-browse format, chapters cover risk factors, prevention, screening,...
- Auteur:Silver, Marc, Silver, MayaSommaire:
Collects stories and advice from over one hundred teens who have dealt with a parent battling cancer.
- Auteur:Begley, LouisSommaire:
Thomas Mistler, a New York advertising executive has only six months to live. He takes a solitary holiday in Venice, and encounters a young photographer and finally the love of his youth.
- Auteur:Miller, Linda LaelSommaire:
The only female in Keegan McKettrick's life these days is the young daughter he sees all too rarely, and his sole passion is for his job overseeing his family's corporation. Until beautiful but mysterious Molly Shields comes to Indian...
- Auteur:Miller, Linda LaelSommaire:
Holt McKettrick leaves a mail-order bride at the altar in Arizona and rides hard for Texas to help two desperate friends. But he doesn't count on meeting Lorelai Fellows--who just called off her own nuptials and is burning her dress in...
- Auteur:Mitchell, AlannaSommaire:
An unprecedented take on cancer and recovery. Why does cancer have such a deadly hold over our collective imagination? Why do we fear it above all else, even bankruptcy, crime, and sudden death? And why is our dread intensifying,...
- Auteur:Rivers, KarenSommaire:
Mischa "Ish" Love knows she'll be one of the first settlers on Mars. She's applied to - and been rejected from - the Mars Now project forty-seven times, but the mission won't leave for ten years, and Ish hasn...
- Auteur:Pawagi, ManjushaSommaire:
Manjusha Pawagi, a successful family court judge, has written a not-so-typical memoir about her experience with cancer. Wryly funny and stubbornly hopeful, this is her quirky take on what it's like to face your own mortality when, to be...
- Auteur:Bly, MarySommaire:
On the heels of a difficult break-up and a devastating diagnosis, Shakespearian scholar Lizzie Delford decides to take one last lavish vacation on Elba, the sun-kissed island off the Italian coast, with her best friend and his movie-...
- Auteur:Lovegrove, JamesSommaire:
Months after Inara leaves Serenity, Mal and the crew finally learn the reason for her sudden departure: she is dying of a terminal illness. Through their shock and despair, rumors of a cure reach the crew.