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
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Young Adult Audiobooks, Call number: YA PA FIC GRESummary: Inspired by personal experiences, an original story about friendship, love, survival, and finding humor in unlikely places. Two best friends' lives change when one of them is diagnosed with cancer.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Summit Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY FIFHendriks, Jenni
Summary: "Steve Stevenson is a jerk. That might not be a cool thing to say about someone with cancer, but it's true. Yeah, he throws legendary parties and is the most popular guy in school, but he also loves humiliating pranks and Cardi B, and he doesn't recycle. Worst of all, he's dating Kaia - the girl of nice guy Cam's dreams. But when a desperate Kaia asks Cam to help her raise money to pay for...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen 2020
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HENPatterson, 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 PATSummary: A drama about the deep friendship between Gale Sayers, black halfback for the Chicago Bears, and his white teammate, Brian Piccolo, who died of cancer in 1970.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BRIGreen, 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: Brilliance Audio 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD YA FIC GREMirren, 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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Black Lab Press 2020
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MIRRaney, Karen
Summary: "Maddy is sixteen. She has loyal friends, a mother with whom she's unusually close, a father she's never met, devoted grandparents, and a crush on a boy named Jack. Maddy also has cancer. Deeply curious, wry, and vivacious, she's poised at the outset of adulthood, ready to untangle all the mysteries that living holds--if she survives her teens"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RANCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RANDamron, Carla
Summary: Clawing chest pains and a fiery car crash take one life and change the destiny of four others. The Stone Necklace braids together the stories of a grieving widow, a struggling nurse, a young mother, and a troubled homeless man, reminding us of the empowering and surprising ways our lives touch one another and how, together, we can recover from even the greatest of losses. Carla Damron weaves...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The University of South Carolina Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAMCharaipotra, Sona
Summary: The youngest doctor in America, an Indian-American teen makes her rounds -- and falls head over heels -- in the contemporary romantic comedy Symptoms of a Heartbreak. Fresh from med school, sixteen-year-old medical prodigy Saira arrives for her first day at her new job: treating children with cancer. She's always had to balance family and friendships with her celebrity as the Girl Genius -- but...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Imprint 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CHADoyle, Roddy
Summary: "Jimmy Rabbitte of The Commitments returns in the triumphant new novel from the Booker Prize-winning author The distinct wit and lively, authentic dialogue that are the hallmarks of Roddy Doyle's fiction are on a full display as he reintroduces Jimmy Rabbitte in this follow-up to his beloved debut novel The Commitments. In the 1980s Jimmy Rabbitte formed the Commitments, a ragtag, blue-collar...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOYCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Doyle 2014Garner, Helen
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2009
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: FIC GarKingsbury, Karen
Summary: "Eighteen-year-old Tommy Baxter wants to become a police officer. His mother, who lost her own father on September 11, objects, but Tommy's father, Luke, is proud of his son's decision. Tommy is also planning to ask his girlfriend, Annalee Miller, to marry him someday. However, she hasn't been feeling well--and tests reveal the unthinkable. While his girlfriend begins the fight of her life,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC KINMinot, Susan.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Contemporaries 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MINBache, 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BACBly, Mary
Summary: While vacationing on Elba, Shakespearian scholar Lizzie Delford, who received a devastating diagnosis, meets a sardonic chef named Dante, his battered dog Lily, and his 12-year-old daughter Etta, who is desperate for a mother, and wonders if it is right to fall in love when time is short.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Dial Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Display, Call number: FIC BLY1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLY
Endicott, Marina
Summary: Clara Purdy is at a crossroads. At forty-three, she is divorced, living in her late parents' house, and nearing her twentieth year as a claims adjuster at a local insurance firm. Driving to the bank during her lunch hour, she crashes into a sharp left turn, taking the Gage family in the other car with her. When bruises on the mother, Lorraine, prove to be late-stage cancer, Clara decides to do...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ENDFerris, 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...
Format: text
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 FERInclan, Jessica Barksdale.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC INCMacomber, 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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: MIRA Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MACCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MACMcHale, Celeste Fletcher
Summary: "Southern charm, hilarity, heart-wrenching emotion, and the remarkable bond of friendship. Carrigan, Ella Rae, and Laine had been friends since kindergarten. But when cancer threatens to rip the trio apart, they just may discover the secret to the divine taste of hummingbird cake--and to friendships that never end"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MCHPatterson, 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PATSparks, Nicholas.
Summary: When an enigmatic stranger shows up out of the blue, the folks of sleepy Southport become suspicious of her past. Katie tries to keep herself from becoming involved with anybody in town, but as time goes on, she slowly falls in love with Alex, a widowed store owner and father of two. However, when her dark past finally catches up with her Katie must make the painful choice between either...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SPASwierczynski, Duane
Summary: A serial killer who vanished 40 years prior emerges from hibernation and is being tracked by a retired LAPD officer, a teenager with a terminal disease and a genealogist trying to repair her marriage.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company 2024