Summary: Just as Magda is diagnosed with breast cancer, she meets Arturo, a devoted husband and father in the midst of unspeakable loss. Their chance encounter leads both down a path of strength, grace, love, and rebirth.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MAMcLaren, Kaya
Summary: "In Kaya McLaren's What's Worth Keeping, during one unforgettable summer, three generations of one family receive the best gift of all time: a second chance ... The day her doctor says the one word that no one wants to hear, Amy Bergstrom discovers a secret that her husband of 25 years has been keeping from her. Now that the months of treatment and surgeries are behind her, she escapes her...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC MCLMacDibble, Bren
Summary: "It's one of them days when everything is off. A hot sweaty night in Rusty Bus means we kids is all grouchy-tired. Me and my best friend, Jaguar, is trying to cool down by taking turns at dipping in the sea pool. Him standing on the sea wall made from car frames and rocks on lookout for crocs, me swimming, then we'll swap places. We's always doing things as a team, him and me. We's gonna be the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Allen & Unwin 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MACHicks, Faith Erin
Summary: It should have been a night of triumph for Alix's hockey team. But her mean teammate Lindsay decided to start up with her usual rude comments and today Alix, who usually tries to control her anger, let it finally run free. Alix lashes out and before she knows it, her coach is dragging her off Lindsay, and the invitation to the Canada National Women's U18 Team's summer camp is on the line. She...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 HICAcevedo, Linda J.
Summary: In the 1970s Bronx, Manolo, a shy Puerto Rican boy, overcomes his fears and insecurities to become part of a new innovative dance style called breaking.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lee & Low Books Inc. 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ACEKuipers, Alice
Summary: Claire and her mother are running out of time, but they don't know it. They rarely find themselves in the same room at the same time, and it often seems that the only thing they can count on are notes to each other on the refrigerator door. When home is threatened by a crisis, their relationship experiences a momentous change. Forced to reevaluate the delicate balance between their personal...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC KUIKuipers, Alice
Summary: Claire and her mother are running out of time, but they don't know it. They rarely find themselves in the same room at the same time, and it often seems that the only thing they can count on are notes to each other on the refrigerator door. When home is threatened by a crisis, their relationship experiences a momentous change. Forced to reevaluate the delicate balance between their personal...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KUISummary: In season two, following the aftermath of their encounter with Trigon, Dick Grayson reforms the Titans. Under his supervision in their new home at Titans Tower, Rachel, Gar, and Jason Todd train together as a team. Although these original Titans attempt to transition into a regular life, when old enemies resurface everyone must come together to take care of unfinished business.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TITGemeinhart, Dan
Summary: A boy named Mark, tired of being sick with cancer, conceives a plan to climb Mount Rainier, and runs away from home with his dog, Beau--but with over two hundred miles between him and his goal, and only anger at his situation to drive him on nothing will be easy, and only his best friend, Jessie, suspects where he is heading.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GEMCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC GEMCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC GEMTwin, Christopher
Summary: "After wandering out to the river near their homes, five teens decide to build a fire and exchange horror stories. Chad begins by telling the group about an unfortunate fisher who encountered a cluster of small, malevolent creatures while navigating the river in his canoe. Attempting to defend himself, Carl lashed out with an oar... and his world changed forever. One by one, the teens try to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Emanata, an imprint of Conundrum Press 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 TWIBrun-Cosme, Nadine
Summary: Inseparable friends Rabbit, Duck, and Big Bear discover the importance of taking time to spend by themselves.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Studio 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BRUSummary: Joan and Tom have been married for many years. When Joan is unexpectedly diagnosed with breast cancer, the course of her treatment shines a light on their relationship as they are faced with the challenges that lie ahead and the prospect of what might happen if something were to happen to her.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ORDCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Ordinary 2020Hodge, Rebecca
Summary: "She'll do anything to save them. But what will she do to save herself? When Kat Jamison retreats to the Blue Ridge Mountains, she's counting on peace and solitude to help her make a difficult decision. Her breast cancer has returned, but after the death of her husband, her will to fight is dampened. Now she has a choice to make: face yet another round of chemotherapy or surrender gracefully....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HODNess, Patrick
Summary: Thirteen-year-old Conor awakens one night to find a monster outside his bedroom window, but not the one from the recurring nightmare that began when his mother became ill--an ancient, wild creature that wants him to face truth and loss.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2011
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC NESCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC NESCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC NESGooden, Philip.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Carroll & Graf Publishers 2002
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS GOOMonroe, Mary Alice.
Summary: While recovering from breast cancer in a remote cabin in North Carolina, Mia Landan finds the journal of Kate Watkins, a 1920s fly fisher, and, inspired by Kate's example, learns to fish and uncovers many secrets around her.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MONWoods, Sherryl.
Summary: Single mother, business executive, and breast cancer survivor Hannah Matthews, struggling to cope with her ornery grandmother and her daughter's unexpected pregnancy, finds her life further complicated by an old flame's return.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC WOODSBrown, Rita Mae.
Summary: Shortly before the 5K Run for Breast Cancer Awareness, Harry and her pets find the corpse of well-liked OR nurse Paula Benton, one of the event's organizers, who appears to have died of anaphylactic shock from a hornet's sting. But was it murder?
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BRODiamant, Anita.
Summary: Two women are brought together by a mutual love for books, humor and nature for a once in a lifetime friendship.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio Division 2001
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DIADiamant, Anita.
Summary: Kathleen Levine, a longtime resident of Gloucester, Massachusetts, is maternal and steady, a devoted children's librarian, a convert to Judaism, and mother to two grown sons. When her serene life is thrown into turmoil by a diagnosis of breast cancer at fifty-nine, painful past secrets emerge and she desperately needs a friend. Forty-two-year-old Joyce Tabachnik is a sharp-witted freelance...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DIAOakley, Colleen.
Summary: "A heartfelt novel in the bestselling tradition of P.S. I Love You about a young woman in Georgia with stage four breast cancer who undertakes a mission to find a "replacement wife" for her husband before she passes away" --
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OAKSekaran, Shanthi
Summary: Twelve-year-old Boomi accidentally travels back in time to 1986 Thumpton-on-Soar, England, where she meets her late father as a child, changing her life forever.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC SEKPerry, Thomas
Summary: Wrongly implicated in the robbery of a powerful strip club owner, Joe sets out to make the vengeful owner sorry for suspecting him while the real culprit embarks on an increasingly violent crime spree, a case that is complicated by the head detective's bigamous marriages.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2010