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Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Despite the loving intentions of her mother and boyfriend, sixteen-year-old Astrid wants to make the decisions about her life and death when her cancer returns, including exploring the possibility of cryopreservation.
Author
Publisher
Debolsillo
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Español
Formats
Description
A dying seventeen-year-old orphan is given the opportunity to go to Grand Hotel, an island where those who are dying enjoy their final days, where he bonds with other dying teenagers and learns lessons about life and death.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Twelve letters. That's what Lauren decides to leave her husband when she finds out she's dying. Twelve letters to see him through the first year without her, and to lead him on a heartrending, beautiful, often humorous journey to find happiness again in the new novel from New York Times bestselling author Kristan Higgins."--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
Prolific author Stephen King presents a collection of four new novellas. In the story 1922, a man plunges into the depths of madness when his wife attempts to sell off the family home. A mystery writer, who was beaten and raped while driving home from her book club, plots her revenge in Big Driver. Diagnosed with a deadly cancer, a man makes a deal with the devil in Fair Extension. And in A Good Marriage, a woman discovers her husband's darker side...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Moonglow unfolds as the deathbed confession of a man the narrator refers to only as "my grandfather." It is a tale of madness, of war and adventure, of sex and marriage and desire, of existential doubt and model rocketry, of the shining aspirations and demonic underpinnings of American technological accomplishment at midcentury, and, above all, of the destructive impact--and the creative power--of keeping secrets and telling lies"--Dust jacket.
15) Benediction
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
A terminally ill cancer patient is attended throughout his final days by his wife and daughter while the trio contemplates their relationships with an estranged son, a situation that stirs up painful memories for a new next-door neighbor who has recently lost her mother.
17) Deadline
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Given the medical diagnosis of one year to live, high school senior Ben Wolf decides to fulfill his greatest fantasies, ponders his life's purpose and legacy, and converses through dreams with a spiritual guide known as "Hey-Soos."
18) Life expectancy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Jimmy Tock comes into the world on the very night his grandfather leaves it. Rudy Tock spends long hours walking the corridors between the expectant fathers' waiting room and his dying father's bedside. When Josef Tock suddenly sits up in bed and speaks for the first and last time since his stroke, he says that there will be five dark days in the life of his grandson-each occurring at different times of his life. Rudy is all too ready to discount...
19) Night swimming
Author
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Learning that she has only one year left to live, Charlotte Clap steals two million dollars from the bank where she used to work, changes her name, and moves into an expensive Hollywood condo, all the while eluding the police.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
The interwoven lives of four black college friends in Chicago who form a support group. They are Riley, divorcee and poet who surfs the Internet in search of a man, Leland, a homosexual psychiatrist, Dwight who wants to work for a black-owned business, and Yolanda who is having an affair with a football star.
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