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Katz, Anne (Anne Jennifer)

Summary: "Prostate Cancer and the Man You Love is for the women and men who love and support a man with prostate cancer. Each chapter tells the story of a man and his partner dealing with this cancer, from diagnosis through survivorship. Fully updated and comprehensive, this book educates and informs partners on the latest studies and findings"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.99 KAT

Wheeler, Dan

Summary: " Beth and Dan Wheeler had it all. Their growing family consisted of two beautiful daughters, a loving son-in-law, and a handsome grandson. They lived in their dream house on a beautiful, sprawling property. Dan was enjoying a thriving career as a popular television host on QVC. Suddenly in 2012, their world was rocked when Beth was diagnosed with stage IV cancer." --

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: WestBow Press, a division of Thomas Nelson & Zondervan 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 WHE

Joella, Ethan

Summary: "How do you hold onto hope in a difficult time? In the small city of Wharton, Connecticut, lives are beginning to unravel. A woman loses the love of her life. A son struggles with addiction. A widow misses her late spouse. A husband betrays his wife. At the heart of these interlinking stories is one couple: Freddie and Greg Tyler. Greg has just been diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a brutal...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2021

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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOE

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOE

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Joella 2021

Montgomery, Gary

Summary: This is a true story which reaffirms the most sobering part of the wedding vows: "In sickness and in health...'til death do us part." It chronicles, in the words of the author and Penny herself, the discovery of her Stage 3, or possibly even Stage 4 cancer, her reaction to and ultimate rejection of the formal methods of treatment, her search for alternative medicine, and the final acceptance of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 920 MON

Bowler, Kate

Summary: "A divinity professor and young mother with a Stage IV cancer diagnosis explores the pain and joy of living without certainty. Thirty-five-year-old Kate Bowler was a professor at the school of divinity at Duke, and had finally had a baby with her childhood sweetheart after years of trying, when she began to feel jabbing pains in her stomach. She lost thirty pounds, chugged antacid, and visited...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BOWLER, KATE BOW

Outcalt, Todd

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Blue River Press 2013

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.9944 OUT

Choi, Mary H. K.

Summary: Jayne and June are nothing alike. Their family moved from Seoul to San Antonio and finally New York. The sisters don't want anything to do with each other... until June gets cancer. And Jayne becomes the only one who can help her. Now, flung together by sickness, bound by family secrets, they learn more about themselves and each other than they may be willing to confront. -- adapted from jacket

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2021

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Corrigan, Kelly

Summary: Traces a San Francisco newspaper columnist's life experiences as evaluated during her late thirties, describing her relationships with her husband, children, and Irish-American father before and during her battle with breast cancer.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2008

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 362.196 COR

Schwalbe, Will.

Summary: Recounts how the author and his mother read and discussed books during her chemotherapy treatments, describing how the activity involved a wide range of literary genres, furthered their appreciation for literature and strengthened their bond.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2012

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 616.994 SCH

Hutton, Deborah.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Short Books 2005

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.994 HUT

Corrigan, Kelly

Summary: At 36, Kelly had a good marriage, a couple of kids, and a weekly newspaper column. But she still saw herself as George Corrigan's daughter. A garrulous Irish-American charmer from Baltimore, George was the center of the ebullient, raucous Corrigan clan. Kelly's was a colorful childhood, just the sort a girl could get attached to. She lives deep within what she calls the Middle Place--"that...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Voice/Hyperion 2008

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: B Corrigan Cor

Schwalbe, Will.

Summary: Recounts how the author and his mother read and discussed books during her chemotherapy treatments, describing how the activity involved a wide range of literary genres, furthered their appreciation for literature, and strengthened their bond.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.994 SCH

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.994 SCH

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: B SCHWALBE SCH

Delaney, Rob

Summary: In 2016, Rob Delaney's one-year-old son, Henry, was diagnosed with a brain tumor. The family had moved from Los Angeles to London with their two young boys when Rob's wife was pregnant with Henry, their third. The move was an adventure that would bind them even more tightly together as they navigated the novelty of London, the culture clashes, and the funhouse experience of Rob's fame--thanks...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel and Grau 2022

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1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: Sara and Brian live an idyllic life with their young son and daughter. Suddenly, their baby girl falls ill, and her only hope for survival rests in her parents' ability to find a compatible bone marrow donator. Their desperate decision to conceive another child raises both ethical and moral questions and begins to erode their relationship. Their actions ultimately set off a court case that...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2009

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MY

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MY

Bowler, Kate

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: "We all know, intellectually, that our time on earth is limited. What would we change if we knew it viscerally? Kate Bowler was thirty-five when she was diagnosed with stage IV colon cancer. Now that she's responded to immunotherapy Kate has to figure out how to make a new life between CT scans. Before she got sick, she'd accepted the very American idea that life was an endless horizon of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BOWLER, KATE BOW

Silver, Marc

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale 2004

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.9944 SIL

Summary: Vanessa Marks returns to her hometown library to read to children the book that she wrote, "November Christmas." The book is about her serious illness as a child and how her family and community teamed up to move Halloween to August and Christmas to November to help her.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Hallmark Hall Of Fame Productions 2010

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: DVD Holiday N

Grant, Heather

Summary: "Featuring projects designed by industry leaders and selected by cancer patients, this unique sewing guide for friends and families of loved ones fighting cancer shows them exactly what to create and give as useful gifts"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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McClain, AnneMarie

Summary: "Loved Ones With Cancer covers the basics of cancer, what people with cancer might experience, loving someone with cancer, and showing love for others and yourself. Loved Ones With explores what it's like to watch loved ones go through unique and often difficult circumstances. Written in kid-friendly language, this social-emotional learning series supports readers' empathetic understanding of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2024

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Disability McClain

Yolen, Jane

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2003

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 YOL

Kingston, Genevieve

3 holds on 1 copy

Summary: Genevieve (Gwen) Kingston's mother was diagnosed with terminal cancer when Gwen was just three years old. Defying the odds, she lived another eight years, during which time she filled a chest with gifts and letters to Gwen and her brother, Jamie, for every major milestone and birthday through age thirty. The day Gwen got her driver's license. The day she graduated from high school. Gwen is now...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Marysue Rucci Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, LLC 2024

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Runde, Katie

Summary: "One summer in Seaside, steps away from the bustling boardwalk, the Dunne family faces an unknowable future and copes with loss through hard work and dark humor, sisterhood and friendship, romance and escape. Brian and Margot Dunne live in Seaside year-round, with their daughters Liz and Evy. The Dunnes run a real estate company, quickly turning over rental houses to keep a roof over their...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2022

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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUN

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC RUN

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUN

Sweeney, Julia.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1997

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.994 SWE

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