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Pike, Christopher

Summary: "Rotterham Home was a hospice for young people--a place where teenagers with terminal illnesses went to die. Nobody who checked in ever checked out. It was a place of pain and sorrow, but also, remarkably, a place of humor and adventure. Every night at twelve, a group of young guys and girls at the hospice came together to tell stories. They called themselves the Midnight Club, and their...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Pulse 2022

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

Pennypacker, Sara

Summary: A foster child named Angel and twelve-year-old Stella, who are living with Stella's great-aunt Louise at the Linger Longer Cottage Colony on Cape Cod, secretly assume responsibility for the vacation rentals when Louise unexpectedly dies and the girls are afraid of being returned to the foster care system.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray 2012

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

Brammer, Mikki

1 hold on 3 copies

Summary: "Mikki Brammer's The Collected Regrets of Clover is a big-hearted and life-affirming debut about a death doula who, in caring for others at the end of their life, has forgotten how to live her own, for readers of The Midnight Library. What's the point of giving someone a beautiful death if you can't give yourself a beautiful life? From the day she watched her kindergarten teacher drop dead...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023

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Steel, Danielle

Summary: "A renowned supermodel's world is torn apart in an instant, sending her on an unexpected journey of discovery in this masterful novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel. Veronique Vincent is a star. At age twenty-two, she is one of the most sought-after models in fashion, gracing the covers of magazines and walking the runways of haute couture shows across the globe. Yet,...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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Evison, Jonathan

Summary: "After his wife's death, a man brings his young daughter to live in a cave he has found in the Cascade mountains. Once there, his daughter begins to sense the presence of other people in the cave, a mother and son who retreated there during the last ice age in an effort to survive"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EVI

Forman, Gayle.

Summary: While in a coma following an automobile accident that killed her parents and younger brother, seventeen-year-old Mia, a gifted cellist, weights whether to live with her grief or join her family in death.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 2009

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2 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC FOR

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

Copies Available at East Bay

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

Hyde, Catherine Ryan

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: "Lewis Madigan is young, gay, out of work, and getting antsy when he's roped into providing end-of-life care for his insufferable homophobic neighbor, Chester Wheeler. Lewis doesn't need the aggravation, just the money. The only requirements: run errands, be on call, and put up with a miserable old churl no one else in Buffalo can bear. After exchanging barbs, bickering, baiting, and pushing...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2022

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HYD

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HYD

Forman, Gayle.

Summary: While in a coma following an automobile accident that killed her parents and younger brother, seventeen-year-old Mia, a gifted cellist, weighs whether to live with her grief or join her family in death.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Salamandra 2012

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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA FOREIGN SPANISH FOR

Strawser, Jessica

Summary: "A musician facing the untimely end of his career. An end-of-life doula with everything, and nothing, to lose. A Star Is Born meets Me Before You in this powerful novel by the author of A Million Reasons Why. As an end-of-life doula, Nova Huston's job-her calling, her purpose, her life-is to help terminally ill people make peace with their impending death. Unlike her business partner, who...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STR

Sáenz, Benjamin Alire

Summary: "A story set on the American border with Mexico, about family and friendship, life and death, and one teen struggling to understand what his adoption does and doesn't mean about who he is"--

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library/Random House 2017

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Karst, Patrice

Summary: Emily tries to comfort her best friend, Zack, whose dog Jojo recently died, by telling him about the "Invisible Leash" that connects each owner to his or her deceased pet.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019

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Leaver, Trisha

Summary: "When her identical twin sister Maddy is killed in a car accident, seventeen-year-old Ella assumes Maddy's life, only to discover that it was filled with dark secrets"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2015

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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION LEA

Sáenz, Benjamin Alire

Summary: "A story set on the American border with Mexico, about family and friendship, life and death, and one teen struggling to understand what his adoption does and doesn't mean about who he is"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017

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

Tropper, Jonathan.

Summary: As his wedding day approaches, Zachary King begins to wonder if his entire life might be a big mistake, doubts that are only enhanced by the arrival of Norm, Zack's freewheeling, overbearing father, after a twenty-year absence.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2005

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TRO

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