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1) Torch
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English
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The debut novel from the internationally acclaimed author of Wild weaves a searing and luminous tale of a family's grief after unexpected loss. • "A deeply honest novel of life after catastrophe, of intimacy lost and found." —O, The Oprah Magazine
"Work hard. Do good. Be incredible!" is the advice Teresa Rae Wood shares with the listeners of her local radio show, Modern Pioneers, and the advice...
"Work hard. Do good. Be incredible!" is the advice Teresa Rae Wood shares with the listeners of her local radio show, Modern Pioneers, and the advice...
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Blossom Street novel volume 5
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English
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Upbeat cancer survivor Lydia and her pragmatic sister, Margaret, start a "Knit to Quit" group in their Blossom Street yarn store in Seattle, bringing in a delightful assortment of customers for weekly self-help sessions, including a local baker who wants a baby as much as Lydia does, a super-stressed chocolate magnate who takes the knitting class after his doctor suggests it, and a young woman who is trying to quit obsessing about a broken engagement....
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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...
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...
13) Sunny
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Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c1997
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English
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Sunny Winslow wants to escape her problems and her life--her mother is in the hospital with cancer and her father is preoccupied with his wife's health problems and with his bookstore--but she finds out that running away is not necessarily the answer.
14) The snow queen
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English
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A heartbroken man turns to religion after seeing a vision in the sky above Central Park while his musician brother takes drugs he thinks will help him compose a ballad for his seriously ill wife.
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Atria Books
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"When eighteen-year-old Tommy Baxter declares he wants to be a police officer after graduation, his mother, Reagan, won't hear of it. 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. Tommy's father Luke arranges for his son to take part in a ride-along program with the Indianapolis Police Department. Meanwhile, Tommy is in love: Annalee Miller has been a family friend...
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English
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Haunted by a decision he made as a young soldier in World War I, involving a French artist and her baby, Nick Burns, with only months left to live, enlists Jenny, a college dropout, to help him unravel the mystery, forcing them both to reckon with regret, betrayal and the lives they've left behind.
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Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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A young altar boy questions his impoverished family's hard-line Catholic beliefs in the face of his father's weapons-plant job, his mother's diagnosis with cancer, and a peer's struggles against the pressures of growing up too fast.
19) Lightning
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Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
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A woman's idyllic life--child, career, successful husband--ends with breast cancer. The protagonist is Alexandra Parker, a New York lawyer who suddenly finds her husband doesn't want a woman who is sick. Fortunately others do, even if she has gone bald from treatment.
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Imprint
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2019.
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IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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The youngest doctor in America, an Indian-American teen makes her rounds -- and falls head over heels -- in the contemporary romantic comedy Symptoms of a Heartbreak. Fresh from med school, sixteen-year-old medical prodigy Saira arrives for her first day at her new job: treating children with cancer. She's always had to balance family and friendships with her celebrity as the Girl Genius -- but she's never had to prove herself to skeptical adult co-workers...
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