Hutson, Katherine J.

Summary: "Cancer, did you know that I am a poet? In stirring verse and essays, Katy Bowser Hutson chronicles her battle with breast cancer and the complications of faith amid such a fight. Accentuated by the art of Jodi Hays, Katy's words lead us through her resistance to sickness, fight for survival, and wrestling toward beauty"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: IVP 2023

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Wheeler, 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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Summary: Follows ecologist and cancer survivor Sandra Steingraber as she travels the U.S. making the case for a link between environmental toxins and cancer.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2013

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Edelstein, Jean Hannah

Summary: "In 2014 I moved back to the United States after living abroad for fourteen years--my whole adult life--because my father was dying from cancer. Six weeks after I arrived in New York City, my father died. Six months after that I learned that I had inherited the gene that would cause me cancer too." When Jean Hannah Edelstein's world overturned she was forced to confront some of the big...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2019

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Frangello, Gina

Summary: "Gina Frangello is a long-married fortysomething devoted mom when her life is turned upside down by the sudden death of her closest friend. Worn down from years of caregiving both her elderly parents and three kids, Gina starts to interrogate her own mortality and what she once longed for as a younger woman : a kind of sexual, romantic and artistic intensity radically at odds with her...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint Press 2021

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Lunden, Joan

Summary: "When former Good Morning America host Joan Lunden was diagnosed with breast cancer, she set out to learn everything about it to help her survive. With seven children counting on her, giving up was not an option. After announcing her diagnosis on Good Morning America, people all over the country rallied around Joan as she went into Warrior mode. Within a few months, after losing her hair, Joan...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2015

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Summary: "Saga of high school chemistry teacher-turned-meth kingpin Walter White ... a family man who turns to crime after a lung cancer diagnosis unravels his bland but simple life. Recruiting former student and small-time drug dealer Jesse Pinkman to be his partner in crime, Walt rises to the top of the meth trade, leaving a trail of bodies in his wake. But he can't keep his dogged DEA agent...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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Summary: Never-before-seen footage and journal entries form the narrative spine of the documentary, allowing Gilda Radner to tell her own story; through the laughter and sometimes the tears. Incredibly, she was able to find humor in even the darkest of times. Her spirit lives on in comedy as a female trailblazer who continues to inspire many present day comedic performers.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2019

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Cooper, Elisha.

Summary: "The award-winning children's book author confronts a new world when faced with his daughter's illness in this frank, moving, and beautiful memoir. Elisha Cooper spends his mornings writing and illustrating children's books, his afternoons playing with his two daughters. The phrase he hates most is "throw like a girl," so he teaches them to climb trees and play ball. But when he discovers a...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon 2016

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Trillin, Calvin.

Summary: In a tribute to his late wife, Alice, and their relationship, the author celebrates the life of a remarkable woman who played a vital role in his life.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2006

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Bessie, Adam

Summary: "With Peter Glanting's powerful illustrations, author Adam Bessie, an English professor and graphic essayist, uses the unique historical moment of the COVID-19 pandemic as a catalyst to explore the existing inequalities and student struggles that plague the public education system. This graphic memoir chronicles the reverberations from the onset of the pandemic in 2020 when students and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: The Censored Press 2023

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Dern, Laura

Summary: "Award-winning actresses and mother-daughter duo Laura Dern and Diane Ladd are the kind of women who draw strength from their lifelong friendships with other women, and most of all, from each other. Ever since Laura was born, the two have leaned on each other through the trials of everyday life and the tribulations that come with even the most storied Hollywood careers. They were always close,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing, Hachette Book Group 2023

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Edelstein, Jean Hannah

Summary: 'In 2014 I moved back to the United States after living abroad for fourteen years, my whole adult life, because my father was dying from cancer. Six weeks after I arrived in New York City, my father died. Six months after that I learned that I had inherited the gene that would cause me cancer too.' When Jean Hannah Edelstein's world overturned she was forced to confront some of the big...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2018

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D'Aguiar, Fred

Summary: Drawing from two cultural perspectives, an acclaimed British-Guyanese writer and award-winning poet combines personal reminiscence and philosophy to reflect on a year of personal and global crisis, as he was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021

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Hagberg Fisher, Eva

Summary: A luminous memoir about how friendship saved one woman's life, for anyone who has loved a friend who was sick, grieving, or lost-and for anyone who has struggled to seek help or accept it.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2019

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Prasad, Vinayak K.

Summary: "In this critical study of current cancer therapies, Dr. Prasad, an oncologist and hematologist, examines oncology practice and policy in the United States. His book is organized into four sections: (1) an overview of cancer drugs, (2) forces that distortcancer medicine and practice, (3) details about cancer research and practice, (4) recommended solutions on multiple levels (policy,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Johns Hopkins University Press 2020

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Hoxie, Jim

Summary: "When Grandpa loses his sight, he attends a school for veterans who are visually impaired. There he regains his confidence for independent living. Grandpa shares these experiences and talks about educating children about the tall white cane."--Publisher

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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Hopkinson, Deborah

Summary: "Carter G. Woodson was born ten years after the end of the Civil War, to parents who had both been enslaved. Their stories were not the ones written about in history books, but Carter learned them and kept them in his heart. Carter's father could not read or write, but he believed in being an informed citizen. So Carter read the newspaper to him every day, and from this practice, he learned...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Peachtree Publishers 2019

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Summary: From Baryshnikov to break dancing, from Fred and Ginger to Shirley and Bojangles, from movement depicted on Grecian urns to the kaleidoscopic pizzazz of Busby Berkely spectaculars.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2007

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Horton, James

Contents: Preface and Acknowledgements -- Foreword by Judith Jadinger, RE (Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers) -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 : Defining a Wood Engraving -- Chapter 2 : History of Wood Engraving as It Pertains to Commercial Engraving -- Chapter 3 : The Commercial Wood Engraver -- Chapter 4 : The Tools and Specialized Processes of the Wood Engraver -- Chapter 5 : The Sander Engraving...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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LaRue, James

Summary: "In America, censorship surges in periods of demographic and political change. Its primary purpose is to silence challenges to an established elite or norm. Today, censorship is part of a larger assault on such American institutions as schools, public libraries, and universities, the better to establish more control over the people--while also pilfering their wallets. In this concise look at...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Fulcrum Publishing 2023

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Summary: The story of the musical Carter and Cash families, the dynasty at the heart of country music. Starting with the Original Carter Family, A.P., Sara, and Maybelle, this film traces the flow of their influence through generations of musicians, the transformation of that act into the Carter Sisters and Mother Maybelle, the marriage of Johnny Cash and June Carter, and the efforts of the present-day...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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Lyons, Kelly Starling

Summary: "The A Girl Named series tells the stories of how ordinary American girls grew up to be extraordinary American women. Misty Copeland became the first African American Female Principal Dancer for the American Ballet Theatre, but how did she get there?"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2018

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