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Author
Series
Blossom street novels volume 4
Publisher
MIRA Books
Language
English
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Description
Lydia's business is doing well, and in attendance are Susannah, who runs the flower shop next door; Colette, a young widow who lives upstairs; and Alix Townsend, a baker and former hoodlum engaged to a future minister. Lydia always tries to encourage friendship among her pupils, but this group is none too warm. Colette's reticence is attributed to grief, but she is actually in hiding. Alix is trying her best to please her future in-laws, but as the...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lia, her husband Harry, and their beloved daughter, Iris, are a precisely balanced family of three. With Iris struggling to navigate the social tightrope of early adolescence, their tender home is a much-needed refuge. But when a sudden diagnosis threatens to derail each of their lives, the secrets of Lia’s past come rushing into the present, and the world around them begins to transform.
Deftly guided through time, we discover the people who shaped...
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
279 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Retired heart surgeon Ben Givens, diagnosed with terminal colon cancer, decides to take one last hunting trip in the Columbia Basin of central Washington where he plans to end his life, but the people he meets and the situations he faces along the way cause him to change his mind.
Author
Series
Harold Fry novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry followed its unassuming hero on an incredible journey as he traveled the length of England on foot — a journey spurred by a simple letter from his old friend Queenie Hennessy, writing from a hospice to say goodbye. Harold believed that as long as he kept walking, Queenie would live. What he didn’t know was that his decision to walk had caused her both alarm and fear. How could she wait? What would she say?...
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Upbeat cancer survivor Lydia and her pragmatic sister, Margaret, start a "Knit to Quit" group in their Blossom Street yarn store in Seattle, bringing in a delightful assortment of customers for weekly self-help sessions, including a local baker who wants a baby as much as Lydia does, a super-stressed chocolate magnate who takes the knitting class after his doctor suggests it, and a young woman who is trying to quit obsessing about a broken engagement....
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
399 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
New York, 1993. Alice Culvert is a caring wife, a doting new mother, a loyal friend, and a soulful artist -- a fashion designer who wears a baby carrier and haute couture with equal aplomb. In their loft in Manhattan's gritty Meatpacking District, Alice and her husband, Oliver, are raising their infant daughter, Doe, delighting in the wonders of early parenthood. Their life together feels so vital and full of promise, which makes Alice's sudden cancer...
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
534 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Determined to save her sister's life, Kristen drops everything to guide Sherri on her harrowing cancer treatment journey. When she's unable to balance the strain of caring for her patients, being a wife and mother, and her frantic efforts to save her sister, Kristen's carefully balanced life crumbles, starting with her marriage. Desperate to regain her footing, she vows to rebuild her broken relationships . . . as soon as she's sure Sherri will beat...
Author
Series
Mitch Rapp novels volume 17
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Atria
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
370 pages : map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Russian president Maxim Krupin discovers that he has inoperable brain cancer, he’s determined to cling to power. His first task is to kill or imprison any of his countrymen who can threaten him. Soon, though, his illness becomes serious enough to require a more dramatic diversion — war with the West. Upon learning of Krupin’s condition, CIA director Irene Kennedy understands that the US is facing an opponent who has nothing to lose. The...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The masterful story of a lifelong friendship between two very different women with shared histories and buried secrets, tested in the twilight of their lives, set across the arc of the 20th century. Celebrated children's book author Agnes Lee is determined to secure her legacy--to complete what she knows will be the final volume of her pseudonymously written Franklin Square novels; and even more consuming, to permanently protect the peninsula of...
12) The mutations
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
184 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"A modern-day Flaubert takes us on a comic tour through a deeply neurotic Mexico City by way of the life of a successful lawyer struck with a rare cancer of the tongue" --
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