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Summary: Life as a teenager is hard. Life gets even harder when you're a teenager suffering from a life-threatening illness. Compound illness, adolescence, and the fact that you're spending most of your time in the hospital; life can get very lonely. The only person who could possibly understand may be a teenager living a similar life. When two critically ill teens met at a hospital, only time will tell...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FIV

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FIV

Hoover, Colleen

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: "Ridge and Sydney are thrilled to finally be together guilt-free. But Warren and Bridgette's relationship is as tumultuous as ever, and Maggie grapples with her illness. When she comes across an old list of things she wanted to do, Maggie decides to live life to the fullest and accomplish these dreams. Maggie keeps Ridge updated on her adventures, but he can't help but worry, even as Sydney...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023

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

Lippincott, Rachael

Summary: Can you love someone you can never touch? Stella and Will both suffer from cystic fibrosis. Being together means they could pass an infection. Stella is waiting for a lung transplant; Will is on a clinical drug trial. The only way to stay alive is to stay apart. Staying six feet apart doesn't feel like safety, it feels like punishment. Would five feet apart really be so dangerous if it stops...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2018

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3 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LIP

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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC LIP

Merullo, Roland.

Summary: Left adrift after the tragic death of the woman he loved, Jake finds himself falling for the beautiful woman who backs into his truck, despite the fact that she is involved in an affair with the governor and suffers from cystic fibrosis.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Shaye Areheart Books 2005

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MER

Rothenberg, Laura

Summary: A twenty-one-year-old woman with cystic fibrosis shares her decision to accept a lung transplant and muses on the challenges of her disease, the surgery, her recovery period, and the ongoing confrontation with her own mortality.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2003

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.37 ROT

Lippincott, Rachael

Summary: Stella Grant likes to be in control, even though her out-of-control lungs have sent her in and out of the hospital most of her life. Now she needs to keep herself away five feet away from anyone or anything that might pass along an infection and jeopardize the possibility of a lung transplant. Then she meets Will Newman, another boy in the hospital and exactly what Stella needs to stay away...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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

Trivedi, Bijal P.

Summary: "Science writer Bijal P. Trivedi gives a comprehensive look at cystic fibrosis, from its late 1930s discovery to the recent development of breakthrough treatments for 90% of patients, and the way treatments for the previously fatal disease are opening thedoor for curing other life-threatening conditions"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: BenBella Books, Inc. 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.3 TRI

Summary: A middle-aged psychiatrist tries to find out why a young man has blinded six horses entrusted to his care.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2003

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA EQU

Plain, Belva.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 1994

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PLA

Baldwin, Cindy

Summary: Penny Rooney is stumped when she's given the assignment to write a poem about herself. She thinks of herself as half of a whole with her best friend, Cricket--until shes blindsided by the news that Crickets family is moving away in a matter of weeks. Then Penny and her sister see something impossible in the creek behind their house: a dolphin. Penny feels an immediate connection with the...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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Vrabel, Beth

Summary: "Twelve-year-old Caleb is shorter, frailer, and more protected than most kids his age. That's because he has cystic fibrosis, a diagnosis meaning lungs that fill with mucus and a shortened lifespan. Caleb tries not to let his disorder define him, but it can be hard with an overprotective mom and a perfect big brother. Twelve-year-old Caleb is shorter, frailer, and more protected than most kids...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Running Press Kids 2017

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Vrabel 2017

Summary: The dark crystal: The Mystics fight to overthrow the evil Skeksis and take back control of their planet. When Jen, a member of the Gelfling tribe, sets out to find the crystal's missing shard, his dangerous journey brings him face to face with monsters at every turn. Determined to restore peace to their planet, Jen will not back down.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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Baldwin, Cindy

Summary: The unexpected appearance of a dolphin in her backyard creek helps a sixth-grader with cystic fibrosis learn to write her own story.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BAL

Lippincott, Rachael

Summary: Stella y Will tienen la misma enfermedad pulmonar, el el msmo hospital. Cuando se enamoran, recuperan la alegría de vivir, per hay una problema: por el peligro de contagio, no pueden acercarse a menos de cinco pies sin arriesgar sus vidas.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Nube de Tinta 2019

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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA WORLD SPANISH LIP

Telgemeier, Raina

3 holds on 7 copies

Summary: Catrina and her family have moved to the coast of Northern California for the sake of her little sister, Maya, who has cystic fibrosis--and Cat is even less happy about the move when she is told that her new town is inhabited by ghosts, and Maya sets herheart on meeting one.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2016

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Summary: House finds himself in an uncomfortable position: away from the examination room. As he works to regain his license and his life, his coworkers deal with the staff shakeups, moral dilemmas, and their own tricky relationships with House.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2010

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HOU

Summary: 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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Summary: Dr. Gregory House is devoid of bedside manner and wouldn't even talk to his patients if he could get away with it. Dealing with his own constant physical pain and ignoring his pain killing addiction, he uses his cane to punctuate his acerbic, brutally honest demeanor. House and his team deal with unusual medical mysteries.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2009

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD HOU

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HOU

Summary: He's sarcastic, incorrigible, bitter, and in a relationship? Dr. Gregory House has spent his career taking on seemingly hopeless cases, but when his rapport with Dr. Lisa Cuddy changes, he finds himself facing new, and very different, challenges. His team at Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital also continues to blaze trails as they investigate baffling medical cases involving a religious...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studio Home Entertainment 2011

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD HOU

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HOU

Emmet, Robert

Summary: We all experience extraordinary highs and lows in life. Having Robert Emmet’s doctor tell him he had until Christmas to live was one of Emmet’s darkest moments. The diagnosis: an incurable disease called IPF – Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis. The disease was taking over Emmet’s lungs. At first, Emmet was in denial. Then slowly he came to understand that the only way to survive the disease was to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Mission Point Press 0000

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 EMMET, ROBERT EMM

Summary: An alcoholic, failed attorney is reduced to ambulance chasing. A friend gives him a supposedly easy malpractice case which becomes a last chance to redeem himself and his career.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006

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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY VER

Summary: Make an appointment with the outrageous doctors of Sacred Heart hospital. This season, J.D. moves in with Turk and Carla, and Elliot uses an interesting form of blackmail in order to get her job back at the hospital.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2007

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SCR

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Summary: Newcomer Dr. Phil Capra and his wife join the quirky residents of Cicely, Alaska. They adjust to small town life with the help of Dr. Joel Fleischman, Maggie, Chris and the rest of the town.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2007

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV No 6

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: Expertly mixes comedy, tragedy, and melodrama to tell the emotionally gripping story of the interesting lives of two former lovers.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Wellspring Media, Inc. 2005

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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN KIN

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