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""Every life is different, but every death is the same. We live with others. We die alone." In his riveting, artfully written memoir The Autobiography of an Execution, David Dow enraptured readers with a searing and frank exploration of his work defending inmates on death row. But when Dow's father-in-law receives his own death sentence in the form of terminal cancer, and his gentle dog Winona suffers acute liver failure, the author is forced to reconcile...
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Shortly after Teresa Rhyne adopted Seamus, a totally incorrigible beagle, vets told her that he had a malignant tumor and less than a year to live. Devastated, she decided to learn everything she could about the best treatment for Seamus - not knowing that she was preparing herself for life's next hurdle - a cancer diagnosis of her own.
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Twenty-seven-year-old Sarah Thebarge had it all - a loving boyfriend, an Ivy League degree, and a successful career - when her life was derailed by aggressive breast cancer. After surviving the grueling treatments, Sarah moved to Portland, Oregon, to start over. There, a chance encounter with an exhausted African mother - abandoned by her husband and struggling to raise five young daughters - transformed Sarah's life again.
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In her six years at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Adele Levine rehabilitated combat-injured soldiers admitted in worse and worse shape. Working in a glassed-in gymnasium, Levine, her colleagues, and their patients were on display to tour groups, politicians, and celebrities. Days were intense, chaotic, consuming, and heartbreaking, but inside the fishbowl they were also filled with camaraderie and humor.
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