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2022.
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English
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Two things got Rarity Cole through her breast cancer treatments: friends and books. Now cancer-free, Rarity is devoting her life to helping others find their way through the maze to healing. She's opened a bookstore focusing on the power of healing--Eastern medicine, Western medicine, the healing power of food, the power of meditation, and the importance of developing a support community. To that end, she's also started the Tuesday Night Survivors...
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While vacationing on Elba, Shakespearian scholar Lizzie Delford, who received a devastating diagnosis, meets a sardonic chef named Dante, his battered dog Lily, and his 12-year-old daughter Etta, who is desperate for a mother, and wonders if it is right to fall in love when time is short.
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Blossom street novels volume 4
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English
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"These involving stories, along with Macomber's familiar characters, continue the Blossom Street themes…that readers find so moving." -Booklist
Come back to Blossom Street, where you'll find everything you're looking for, from yarn and flowers, to friendship… Enjoy again the beloved series from #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber.
There's a new shop on Seattle's Blossom Street-a flower store called Susannah's Garden, right...
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2022.
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English
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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 majestic...
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With more than a score of heartwarming novels to her credit, Karen Kingsbury is a best-selling inspirational author who captivates fans with her tales of triumph over personal tragedy. Halfway to Forever continues the story of Hannah Ryan, the grieving widow who found her way back to God in Waiting for Morning. As Hannah and her new husband Matthew confront obstacles while waiting to adopt a child, their best friends must cope with a devastating illness....
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Dawn Rochelle novels volume 3
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Willowisp Press
Pub. Date
[1991]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting to engage reluctant readers! Fifteen-year-old Dawn Rochelle has survived cancer not once, but twice. No one knows the battle better than she does. That's why Dawn agrees to be a camp counselor for young kids with cancer-the same camp she and her best friend Sandy had attended. Now Sandy is gone. Can Dawn handle the memories? How can she help the kids if she is still...
8) Seaview Inn
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New York Times bestselling author Sherryl Woods proves home can be found where you least expect it. Hannah Matthews is undeniably tough--a single mom, a top-tier PR exec, a breast cancer survivor. She prides herself on being go-to Hannah, who can handle any crisis. But with her grandmother balking at going into a retirement home, her daughter unexpectedly pregnant and an old flame suddenly underfoot, Hannah is facing a few crises of her own. And being...
9) Safe Haven
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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"When a mysterious young woman named Katie appears in the small North Carolina town of Southport, her sudden arrival raises questions about her past. Beautiful yet self-effacing, Katie seems determined to avoid forming personal ties until a series of events draws her into two reluctant relationships: one with Alex, a widowed store owner with a kind heart and two young children; and another with her plainspoken single neighbor, Jo. Despite her reservations,...
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2020.
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English
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"In the shadow of very great loss, the only way to live with passion is truly, madly, deeply. When eighteen-year-old Tommy Baxter declares to his family that he wants to be a police officer after graduation, his mother, Reagan, won't hear of it. After all, she's still mourning the death of her own father on September 11 and she's determined to keep her son safe from danger and disaster. But Tommy's father, Luke Baxter, is proud of Tommy's decision,...
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When eight-year-old Charlee and ninety-year-old Marva are both diagnosed with cancer, the prospects of having a merry Christmas seem bleak. That is, until a series of letters and gifts that coincide with the 12 days of Christmas begin appearing. And the last letter--for the 13th day of Christmas--might just be the most important one of all.
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Scribner
Pub. Date
[2001]
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English
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Anita Diamant's international bestseller The Red Tent brilliantly re-created the ancient world of womanhood. Diamant brings her remarkable storytelling skills to Good Harbor -- offering insight to the precarious balance of marriage and career, motherhood and friendship in the world of modern women. The seaside town of Gloucester, Massachusetts is a place where the smell of the ocean lingers in the air and the rocky coast glistens in the Atlantic sunshine....
13) Witch creek
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Wildlands novels volume 2
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Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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"As the daughter of an alchemist, Petra Dee has battled supernatural horrors and experienced astonishing wonders. But there's no magic on Earth that can defeat her recent cancer diagnosis, or help find her missing husband, Gabriel. Still, she would bet all her remaining days that the answer to his disappearance lies in the dark subterranean world beneath the Rutherford Ranch on the outskirts of Temperance, Wyoming"--
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Alcove Press
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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When Keira first receives her breast cancer diagnosis, she never expects to end up joining a running group with three women she's only just met. Totally blind-sided, all she can think about is how she doesn't want to tell her family or step back from work. Nor does she want to be part of a group of fellow cancer patients. Cancer is not her club. And yet it's running - hot, sweaty, lycra-clad running in the company of brilliant, funny women all going...
15) Good to a fault
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Harper
Pub. Date
2010.
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English
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After Clara Purdy gets into a car crash, the bruises of the mother in the other car turn out to be late-stage cancer, prompting Clara to take in the mother's three children and their grandmother while the mother fights to beat her disease.
16) Love in bloom
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Heart Lake novels (Shelia Roberts) volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2009.
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English
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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Mid-October is harvest time in the Columbia Basin of central Washington, a rich apple- and pear-growing region. Ben Givens, recently widowed, is a retired heart surgeon, once admired for his steadiness of hand, his precision, and his endurance. But now he has been diagnosed with terminal colon cancer. Ben has never been a man to readily accept defeat-but he is determined to avoid suffering, and to avoid being a burden. Accompanied by his two hunting...
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"Two sisters come together and reevaluate their priorities when one sister receives a terminal diagnosis"--
Two sisters work to heal lingering childhood wounds and seek a new balance in work, family, marriage, and love when one receives a diagnosis that sets the clock ticking. Determined to save Sherri's life, Kristen drops everything to guide her sister on the harrowing cancer treatment journey. When she's unable to balance the strain of caring...
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William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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Deborah Birch is a seasoned hospice nurse whose daily work requires courage and compassion. But her skills and experience are tested in new and dramatic ways when her easygoing husband, Michael, returns from his third deployment to Iraq haunted by nightmares, anxiety, and rage. She is determined to help him heal, and to restore the tender, loving marriage they once had. At the same time, Deborah's primary patient is Barclay Reed, a retired history...
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University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
[1956]
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English
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A new dramatization of one of the greatest baseball stories of all time. A poignant, touching, and often comic tale of a baseball team's friendship and loyalty to a dying teammate. Adapted from the novel by Mark Harris.
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