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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"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.99 KATWheeler, 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." --
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Publisher / Publication Date: WestBow Press, a division of Thomas Nelson & Zondervan 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 WHEJoella, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2021
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOECopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Joella 2021Montgomery, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 920 MONBowler, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BOWLER, KATE BOWOutcalt, Todd
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blue River Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.9944 OUTChoi, 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
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2021
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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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 362.196 CORSchwalbe, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 616.994 SCHHutton, Deborah.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Short Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.994 HUTCorrigan, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Voice/Hyperion 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B Corrigan CorSchwalbe, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.994 SCHCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B SCHWALBE SCHDelaney, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel and Grau 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MYCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MYBowler, Kate
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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BOWLER, KATE BOWSilver, Marc
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.9944 SILSummary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hallmark Hall Of Fame Productions 2010
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1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: DVD Holiday NGrant, 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"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Disability McClainYolen, Jane
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 YOLKingston, Genevieve
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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marysue Rucci Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, LLC 2024
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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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUNCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUNSweeney, Julia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1997