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Adams, Alice

Summary: The trials of a woman with cancer. The doctors she sees attribute her fatigue and headaches to everything but cancer until, finally, one of them discovers a tumor. Which is how she falls into the clutches of Dr. Mark Jacobs whose treatment is accompanied by bullying and proposals of marriage. Now in addition to cancer, she has him giving her headaches.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 1997

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ADA

Cogan, Priscilla

Summary: Awakening from a coma with a traumatic brain injury, former English professor Tess Outerbridge finds herself cognitively challenged, facing unexpected divorce papers from her husband and homeless. An elderly, lonely hospital volunteer, Cassie McDermott, invites Tess to her mansion for the long rehabilitation. An unforeseen gun battle leaves Sonny, a brilliant young man on the cusp of a bright...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Two Canoes Press 2013

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1 available in Local Author, Call number: FIC COG
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COG

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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Cogan 2013

Xu, Ruiyan.

Summary: Injured by a gas explosion that renders him incapable of speaking Chinese, Shanghai businessman Li Jing struggles to communicate using faltering English phrases learned during his childhood years in Virginia and finds his marriage strained by a growing bond with an American neurologist.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2010

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Glines, Abbi

Summary: After being away for two years, Riley Young returns to Lawton, Alabama, with her fifteen-month-old daughter to help take care of her grandmother who has Alzheimers, even though it means she has to face the lies that forced her to leave town in the first place and a blossoming friendship with the high school football star Brady Higgens, who is dealing with his own family problems.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Pulse 2017

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Kingsbury, Karen.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers 2003

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Berger, John.

Summary: Ninon, Gino, and her parents embark on separate journeys of self-discovery on the way to the couple's wedding, which they have decided to celebrate in grand fashion, even though Ninon has been diagnosed with the AIDS virus.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 1995

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BER

Hepworth, Sally.

Summary: "Anna Forster, in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease at only thirty-eight years old, knows that her family is doing what they believe to be best when they take her to Rosalind House, an assisted living facility. She also knows there's just one another resident her age, Luke. What she does not expect is the love that blossoms between her and Luke even as she resists her new life at...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2016

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HEP

Patterson, James

Summary: Axi Moore is a good girl. When Axi invites her best friend, Robinson, with whom she's secretly in love, to come with her on a cross country road trip, she's finally breaking all the rules. They soon find that, however far they run, they can't escape the heartbreaking troubles that brought them together in the first place.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2014

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PAT

Fisher, Karen

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2005

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC FIS

Fisher, Karen

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2005

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FIS

Morgan, Jude

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2005

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOR

Allende, Isabel

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Summary: Sponsored by the poet Pablo Neruda to flee the violence of the Spanish Civil War, a pregnant widow and an army doctor unite in an arranged marriage only to be swept up by the early days of World War II.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ALL

Gaughen, A. C.

Summary: Scarlet's true identity has been revealed and she has been forced to marry Lord Gisbourne and participate at court, acting the part of a noblewoman in hopes of helping her beloved Robin Hood's cause and forging a future with him.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GAU

Gray, Shelley Shepard

Summary: "Aaron Coblentz has a secret: he's been studying to take the GED to get promoted at work. But he can't let his Amish family know, not when his older brother already left the faith just a year after getting baptized, practically crippling the family. When Aaron asks bookmobile librarian Sarah Anne Miller for some additional study guides, she does one better. She arranges for Kayla Kaufman to be...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRA

Green, John

Summary: Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel's story is about to be completely rewritten.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2012

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1 available in Young Adult Audiobooks, Call number: YA PA FIC GRE

Lewis, Beverly

Summary: "Anna is eager to begin a new chapter in her life as a Lancaster County tour guide in the picturesque area where her Plain grandmother once stayed. Anna wishes she could talk with her grandmother about those long-ago days, but the elderly woman suffers from Alzheimer's, and beyond a vague hint about an old stone wall, much about that time is a mystery. Thankfully, Martin Nolt, a handsome...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC LEW

Estleman, Loren D.

Summary: For many years Judge Roy Bean, the cantankerous self-styled arbiter of rough frontier justice, wrote fan letters to the beautiful actress Lillie Langtry across the sea; occasionally, she wrote back. He even renamed the town in which he lived Langtry in her honor. After years of this strange but poignant correspondence, Lillie finally kept her promise to visit her distant admirer.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2010

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EST

Minot, Susan.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Contemporaries 2007

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MIN

Kinsella, Sophie

Summary: "It's been over two years since Effie's beloved parents got divorced, destroying the image of the happy, loving childhood she thought she had. Since then, she's become estranged from her father and embarked on a feud with his hot (and much younger) girlfriend, Krista. And now, more earth-shattering news: Greenoaks, the rambling Victorian country house Effie called home her whole life, has been...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Company 2022

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC KIN

Thayer, Nancy

Summary: "Lisa Hudson feels more alive than she has in a long time after hiring hunky carpenter Mack Whitney to renovate her old Nantucket home. There's no denying the spark growing between them--despite the fact that Mack is ten years her junior. But her twentysomething children, Juliet and Theo, on the island for the summer, worry that the new relationship will only lead to Lisa's heartbreak. Yet...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC THA

Peebles, Frances de Pontes.

Summary: In 1930's Brazil, a vigilante gang invades the home of two seamstresses, kidnapping one of them.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2008

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Cassella, Carol Wiley.

Summary: Across the Puget Sound in a rural hospital on the Olympic Peninsula an unidentified patient lies unconscious, the victim of a hit and run. In Seattle, ICU doctor Charlotte Reese receives a call: Jane Doe will be transferred to her care. But when the patient arrives--with only tubes keeping her alive--Charlotte has to dig through x-rays and MRIs to determine what went wrong on the operating...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CAS

Kinsella, Sophie

Summary: It's been over two years since Effie's beloved parents got divorced, destroying the image of the happy, loving childhood she thought she had. Since then, she's become estranged from her father and embarked on a feud with his hot (and much younger) girlfriend, Krista. And now, more earth-shattering news: Greenoaks, the rambling Victorian country house Effie called home her whole life, has been...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2021

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Nichols, Linda

Summary: A woman walks into a psychiatrist's office in San Francisco and proceeds to tell him her story. Only the man behind the desk is not the doctor, who is away, but his carpenter. The carpenter hears her out, schedules a second appointment and a romance follows.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2000

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NIC

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