"I live here alone in a garage, together with a laptop computer and an old hand grenade. It's pretty cozy." Herra BjOrnsson is at the beginning of the end of her life. Oh, she has two weeks left, maybe three-she has booked her cremation...
Terminally ill
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Author:Lewis, BeverlySummary:In this portrait of an Amish family's struggle to overcome the effects of a baffling secret, sSoon-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...
- Author:Winn, RaynorSummary:
The true story of a couple who lost everything and embarked on a transformative journey walking the South West Coast Path in England. Just days after Raynor Winn learns that Moth, her husband of thirty-two years, is terminally ill,...
- Author:Cronin, MarianneSummary:
Seventeen-year-old Lenni Pettersson has been told she's dying, but she still has a lot of living left to do. Joining her hospital's arts and crafts class, she meets Margot, an eighty-three-year-old rebel, who transforms Lenni...
- Author:Georges, KarolineSummary:
'In this singular story dedicated to the mother, the narrator creates an avatar to counter her pain of living. Karoline Georges manages to combine the real and the virtual around the complexity of family ties. The author approaches...
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Author:Kearney, GregSummary:In telling the intersecting stories of Edmund, Teresa, and Joel - all of whom leave trails of hopeful chaos in their wake - Greg Kearney has painted a blackly comic, yet surprisingly earnest, portrait of modern loneliness.
- Author:JACOBS, AnnaSummary:
Meet the Corrigans. Childless Maeve, rich and successful, is dying of cancer. She wants to leave her business empire to one of the offspring of her two estranged brothers, Des and Leo. But which young relative should she choose? As...
- Author:Picoult, JodiSummary:
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the author of Small Great Things and A Spark of Light comes a “powerful” ( The Washington Post ) novel about the choices that alter the course of our lives. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE...
- Author:Wilson-Yang, Jia QingSummary:
Small Beauty tells the story of Mei, who in coping with the death of her cousin abandons her life in the city to live in his now empty house in a small town. There she connects with his history as well as her own, learns about her aunt'...
- Author:Bagwell, TravisSummary:
Dominic Hart was screwed. Diagnosed with terminal cancer, no money for treatment, and an athletic scholarship hanging by a thread... he didn't have many options. But the university clinic had offered him a free videogame. Some sort of "...
- Author:Hunt, Angela ElwellSummary:
A busy single mom runs a Florida funeral home. But her mortuary work becomes even more poignant when her assistant discloses his terminal illness.
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Author:Ahern, CeceliaSummary:When Holly tells the story of the "PS, I Love You" letters, people start reaching out with one thing in common: they're terminally ill and want to leave their own missives behind for loved ones.
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Author:Choyce, LesleySummary:In this novel for teens, Trevor, who has Huntington's disease, connects with an old man who helps him live his life more fully.
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Author:Albert, Susan WittigSummary:It's Halloween, and Ruby is looking forward to a party at China Bayles' house and a busy holiday weekend at her New Age shop, the Crystal Cave. But her holiday plans are interrupted when Jessica Nelson, a crime reporter at the Pecan...
- Author:LeBaron, SamuelSummary:
In Ordinary Deaths, Dr. Samuel LeBaron reminds us of our need for human connection when experiencing death and loss. Based on more than thirty years of working with children and adults dying from cancer, LeBaron's memoir contains...
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Author:Ahern, CeceliaSummary:Kitty Logan's career has been destroyed by scandal and now Constance, her mentor, is dying. Kitty asks her -- what is the one story she always wanted to write? The answer lies in a file buried in Constance's office: a list of...
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Author:French, DavidSummary:A son returns after an absence of two years to find both his mother and family friend Wiff trying to sustain his father, Jacob. A heart attack has forced Jacob out of work, and he can't reconcile himself to his frightening situation....
- Author:Abrahams, PeterSummary:
Roy Valois has been given four months to live. Curious, he hacks into the New York Times to read his impending obituary and notices a discrepancy in the information about his deceased wife Delia, who Roy believes died accidentally. As...
- Author:Begley, LouisSummary:
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.
- Author:Segal, ErichSummary:
The love between wealthy Oliver Barrett IV and working-class beauty Jenny Cavilleri allows them to overcome their differences, but cannot help them when tragedy strikes.
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