One late September day, amid the year’s first snowfall, the winter child is born. He does not breathe. His mother watches helplessly until “at least the baby uttered a first tentative croak like a frog unsure of spring’s arrival.”
...Terminally ill children
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Author:Pésémapéo Bordeleau, VirginiaSummary: -
Author:Beamish, DanielSummary:After surviving a desperate childhood of lawlessness and violence, Alfred Olyontombo makes his way to a refugee camp while Rwanda's genocide rages behind him. His knowledge of local languages catches the attention of an idealistic...
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Author:Elkin, StanleySummary:After Eddy Bale loses his 12-year-old son to a rare disease, he decides to take a select group of terminally-ill children to Disney's Magic Kingdom.
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Author:Helprin, MarkSummary:Seventy-four-year-old Jules Lacour--a maître at Paris-Sorbonne, cellist, widower, veteran of the war in Algeria, and child of the Holocaust--must find a balance between his strong obligations to the past and the attractions and beauties...
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Megs Devonshire is brilliant with numbers and equations, on a scholarship at Oxford, and dreams of solving the greatest mysteries of physics. The younger brother she loves with all her heart doesn't have long to live. When George...
