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English
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Everyone has secrets, but not everyone has remorse…
A terrible accident.
Meghan Michaels is trying to find balance between being a single mom and working full time as an ICU nurse, when a patient named Caitlin arrives in her ward with a traumatic brain injury. They say she jumped from a bridge and plunged over twenty feet to the train tracks below.
A shocking revelation.
When a witness comes forward with new details about Caitlin’s fall, it...
Author
Publisher
Editorial Arcopress
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
190 pages ; 22 cm
Language
Español
Description
En este su primer libro, Raquel Marugán nos narra su propia experiencia personal tras haber sido diagnosticada de un cancer de garganta. Este giro inesperado supone un punto de inflexion en su vida. Una forma de vivir que la atrapo para siempre. Una cronica que empezaba en el pais de la incertidumbre y acaba en el mundo de la esperanza. Una travesia apasionante en la que el cancer la llevo a cruzar la frontera entre lo ordinario y lo extraordinario....
Author
Publisher
Brazos Press, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
253 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Nearly everyone knows someone on the autism spectrum, whether it's a niece or nephew, a student in their classroom, a coworker, or a sibling, spouse, or child. One in 54 children has autism, according to the CDC, and autism is reported across racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic groups. Yet most of what people think they know about autism is wrong.
On the Spectrum debunks myths with a realistic yet hope-filled deep dive into the heart, mind, and life...
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
427 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"When leg-breaker Hutch Holtz rolls up to a rundown apartment complex in Portland, Oregon, to collect overdue drug money, a severed hand is the very last thing he expects to find stashed in the client's refrigerator. Hutch quickly realizes that the hand induces uncontrollable madness: anyone in its proximity is overcome with a boundless compulsion for violence. Within hours, catastrophic forces are set into motion: dark-op government agents who want...
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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...
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English
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"It's 1951 in Blowing Rock, North Carolina. Blackburn Gant, his life irrevocably altered by a childhood case of polio, seems condemned to spend his life among the dead as the sole caretaker of a hilltop cemetery. It suits his withdrawn personality, and the inexplicable occurrences that happen from time to time rattle him less than interaction with the living. But when his best and only friend, the kind but impulsive Jacob Hampton, is conscripted to...
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Publisher
Red Hen Press
Language
English
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I discover a "lost" aunt, separated from our family due to racism and discrimination against the disabled. She had a mental disability due to childhood meningitis. She was taken away in 1942 when all Japanese Americans were considered the enemy and imprisoned. She then became a "ward" of the state. We believed she had died, but 70 years later found her alive and living a few miles from our family farm. How did she survive? Why was she kept hidden?...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Group
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
320 pages
Language
English
Description
"A young woman with amnesia falls under the influence of a powerful doctor in Paris's notorious women's asylum, where she must fight to reclaim dangerous memories-and even more perilously, her sanity-in this gripping historical novel inspired by true events, from the bestselling author of Wunderland. "I didn't see her the day she came to the asylum. Looking back, this sometimes strikes me as unlikely. Impossible, even, given how utterly her arrival...
Author
Series
The book of lost things volume 2
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Atria
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Twice upon a time—for that is how some stories should continue…”
Phoebe, an eight-year-old girl, lies comatose following a car accident—a body without a spirit. Ceres, her mother, can only sit by her bedside and read aloud the fairy stories Phoebe loves in the hope they might summon her back to this world.
But an old house on the hospital grounds, a property connected to a book written by a vanished author, is calling to Ceres. Something...
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
324 pages, 16 pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Richard E. Grant emigrated from Swaziland to London in 1982, with dreams of making it as an actor. Unexpectedly, he met and fell in love with a renowned dialect coach Joan Washington. Their relationship and marriage, navigating the highs and lows of Hollywood, parenthood, and loss, lasted almost forty years. When Joan died in 2021, her final challenge to him was to find a "pocketful of happiness in every day." This honest and frequently hilarious...
11) Be mine
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Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
10 audio discs (12 1/2 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Now in the twilight of life, Frank Bascombe, a man who has occupied many colorful lives, finds himself in the most sorrowing role of all: caregiver to his son, Paul, diagnosed with ALS. On a shared winter odyssey to Mount Rushmore, Frank faces down the mortality that is assured each of us, and in doing so confronts what happiness might signify at the end of days.
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