Welsh, Clare Helen
Summary: "A story about sisters. A story about love. A story about how it feels when someone close to you is diagnosed with a serious illness. A book to help name and explore the complicated feelings borne of heartbreaking situations."--Amazon.com
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kane Miller, a division of EDC Publishing 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WELMcLaren, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC MCLMa, Diana
Summary: If there's one thing Lily Hong can't stand, it's being second best. That's why she and Max Zhang have been bitter rivals ever since he swooped into town as the new kid with the cool clothes and his fancy downtown Chinese school and showed her up in the fifth-grade reading challenge. She had wanted to be the one to win the pizza party for their class. Okay, so that was two years ago . . . her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MAMirren, Lilly
Summary: "Set against the backdrop of the golden sands and crystal clear waters of Cabarita Beach, three sisters inherit an inn and discover a mystery about their grandmother's past that changes everything they thought they knew of their family... Bindi Summer, the hard-working manager at The Waratah Inn is tired, feeling low, and wondering where her life is headed. Then, she is blind-sided by a shock...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Lab Press 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MIRJoella, 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 2021Sánchez, Erika L.
Summary: "Julia no es la hija mexicana perfecta. Ese era el rol de su hermana Olga. Olga no fue a la universidad, se quedó en casa para cuidar a sus padres, limpiar la casa y trabajar a medio tiempo. Julia tiene grandes sueños y no quiere formar parte del camino de su hermana mayor. Pero un solo error, que ocurre mientras enviaba un mensaje de texto al mismo tiempo que cruzaba la calle más concurrida de...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Español 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA FOREIGN SPANISH SANAllen, Kari
Summary: "Best sisters and big thinkers Maddie and Mabel have a new idea. A really wild idea. But can their idea become a reality? With their sweet charm and innocent curiosity, the sisters make lists, ask questions, and learn when to turn something broken into something new. Together they learn that every idea has opportunities and obstacles and that an imperfect solution might be just the right plan."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kind World Publishing 2023
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Summary: "CAMINO RIOS lives for the summers, when her father visits her in the Dominican Republic. But this year, on the day when his plane is supposed to land, Camino arrives at the airport to see crowds of crying people. ... In New York City, YAHAIRA RIOS is called to the principal's office, where her mother is waiting to tell her that her father, her hero, has died in a plane crash. Separated by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ACEFerris, Joshua
Summary: Someone is telling the story of the life of Charlie Barnes, and it doesn't appear to be going well. Too often divorced, discontent with life's compromises and in a house he hates, this lifelong schemer and eternal romantic would like out of his present circumstances and into the American dream. But when the twin calamities of the Great Recession and a cancer scare come along to compound his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FERCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FERDark, Alice Elliott
Summary: The masterful story of a lifelong friendship between two very different women with shared histories and buried secrets, tested in the twilight of their lives, set across the arc of the 20th century. Celebrated children's book author Agnes Lee is determined to secure her legacy--to complete what she knows will be the final volume of her pseudonymously written Franklin Square novels; and even...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marysue Rucci Books/Scribner 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DARHeley, Veronica.
Summary: After 24 years, she's learning the truth that was hidden from her as a child. Now the fate of many people depends on what she will do with it. At the age of four, Araminta "Minty" Cardale was exiled from Eden Hall on the wings of a scandal. Twenty years later, summoned by her half-sister, she has returned to see her dying father. But her hopes of a warm family welcome are shattered, and she is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HELRamisetti, Kirthana
Summary: "Dava Shastri, one of the world's wealthiest women, has always lived with her sterling reputation in mind. A brain cancer diagnosis at the age of seventy, however, changes everything, as she decides to take her death-like all matters of her life-into her own hands. Summoning her four adult children to her private island, she discloses shocking news: in addition to having a terminal illness, she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RAMWoods, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC WOODSMacomber, Debbie.
Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MIRA Books 2009
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MACPatterson, Dave
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PATPixley, Marcella Fleischman
Summary: It's the summer of '83 on Trowbridge Road, and June Bug Jordan is hungry. Months after her father's death from complications from AIDS, her mother has stopped cooking and refuses to leave the house, instead locking herself away to scour at the germs she believes are everywhere. June Bug threatens this precarious existence by going out into the neighborhood, gradually befriending an imaginative...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PIXBailey, Susanna
Summary: When eleven-year-old Addie goes to stay with a foster-care family on a remote Exmoor farm in the midst of a very cold winter, she is full of hurt, anger and a deep mistrust of everyone around her. Until one day, when she rescues a tiny wild foal from the moorland snow and Addie discovers that perhaps she's not so alone after all. And as adventure and unexpected friendship blossom, Addie is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Peachtree 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BAIBache, Ellyn.
Summary: Paisley Lamm's terminal cancer helps her and her four friends suddenly appreciate their memorable life experiences, their own families and their lifestyles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BACQuade, Kirstin Valdez
Summary: "From an award-winning storyteller comes a stunning debut novel following a New Mexican family's extraordinary year of love and sacrifice. It's Holy Week in the small town of Las Penas, New Mexico, and thirty-three-year-old unemployed Amadeo Padilla has been given the part of Jesus in the Good Friday procession. He is preparing feverishly for this role when his fifteen-year-old daughter Angel...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC QUAKingsbury, Karen.
Summary: Halfway to Forever brings back two of Karen Kingsbury's favorite couples -- Waiting for Morning's Matt and Hannah, and Jade and Tanner from A Moment of Weakness -- who once again face traumatic issues. Matt and Hannah risk losing another daughter as they invest their emotions in a risky adoption, and Tanner dreads losing Jade when brain cancer threatens her first pregnancy. Kingsbury's latest...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Multnomah 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KINPulkkinen, Riikka
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Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PULOakley, 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" --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OAKBock, Charles.
Summary: "Alice Culvert is a force: passionate, independent, smart, and gorgeous, she--to her delight--attracts attention wherever she goes, even amid the buzz of mid-90s New York. In knee-high boots, with her newborn daughter, Doe, strapped to her chest, Alice is one of those people who just seem so vividly alive, which makes her cancer diagnosis feel almost incongruous. How could such a being not go...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOCMcMahon, Jennifer
Summary: "Alison has never been a fan of Christmas. But with it right around the corner and her husband busily decorating their cozy Vermont home, she has no choice but to face it. Then she gets the call. Mavis, Alison's estranged mother, has been diagnosed with cancer and has only weeks to live. She wants to spend her remaining days with her daughter, son-in-law, and two granddaughters. But Alison grew...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scout Press 2023