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Barely able to walk and rendered mute by the cancer metastasizing in his throat, Ulysses S. Grant is scratching out words, hour after hour, day after day. Desperate to complete his memoirs before his death so his family might have some financial security and he some redemption, Grant journeys back in time. He had once been the savior of the Union, the general to whom Lee surrendered at Appomattox, a twice-elected president who fought for the civil...
3) Side effects
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Everything changes for Isabelle, not quite fifteen, when she is diagnosed with lymphoma--but eventually she survives and even thrives.
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California diaries volume 11
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Dawn and her best friend Sunny aren't speaking to each other -- until Sunny's mother comes home from cancer treatment to die.
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Sixteen-year-old Claire is unable to face her fears about a recurrence of her leukemia, her eating disorder, her need to fit in with the popular crowd on Hackett Island, and her mother's alcoholism until the enigmatic Lani Garver helps her get control of her life at the risk of his own. The close-knit residents of Hackett Island have never seen anyone quite like Lani Garver. Everything about this new kid is a mystery: Where does Lani come from? How...
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Notoriously cool, calm and always in control, single dad Dr Sam Marcus is facing every parent's worst nightmare. His adorable adopted son Dani has contracted cancer and Andrea Rimmer is the only woman who can help! As she treats his son, Sam sees the warmth and compassion behind her independent exterior. Can he prove to Andrea that she's the only mummy for Dani and that together their family is a perfect fit?
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Eleanor "Lenny" Rosenthal-Hermann is struggling to cope with her father's cancer, her best friend moving across the country, and her sister moving off to college. In this sea of uncertainty, dreams of romance with Dr. Ganesh may become her anchor. Okay, he's almost twenty years older than her, but he's about the only person who hasn't given up hope for finding a cure for her dad. When she sends Dr. Ganesh some very private selfies, the end of the...
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"A dark, satiric novel about a woman whose attempt to escape crises in her health and marriage ends up causing more chaos. In a single day, Cat finds out that she is pregnant, that a lump in her breast is the worst thing it could be, and that her husband has done something unforgivably creepy. Her life is stressful enough as it is: her career is stalled and being a stay-at-home mom for two young kids has become a grind. Cat responds by falling apart...
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On a visit to her grandmother Ola, who is dying of cancer in her house in the desert, fourteen-year-old Emmie hears many stories about the past and her family history and comes to a better understanding of relatives both dead and living. The videotaping is Ola's idea--Ola, Emmie's grandma who lives in the California desert is dying of cancer. Emmie and her mother have come to "the dry" to pack up Ola's house and take her back to a hospital in Cleveland....
10) Suiza
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"Tomás is a farmer, the richest man in his rural village. Rough and taciturn, Tomás is seemingly as solid as the cattle he breeds, as rooted in the land as the eucalyptus trees he grows under the Galican sun. When he's diagnosed with lung cancer, he tells no-one. Suiza is a strikingly beautiful and damaged young woman, a run-away who is barely literate and whose only dream is to see the sea. When Tomás meets Suiza's gaze he is seized with irrepressible...
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A moving novel about the devotions of friendship and the power of love to heal, American Sycamore celebrates the American experiment and the importance of giving a damn. Rob Barrow's devotion to the American experiment has never wavered. For forty years he has devoted his legal brilliance to advancing the essential American ideals enshrined by the Founders. Rob is the best kind of throwback--a classic American character, reserved and respectful, yet...
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