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Acker, Monica Haydu, Corey Ann. LaCorte, Ellen Leroy, Margaret. Picoult, Jodi Stage, ZojeHaydu, Corey Ann.
Summary: "Four sisters rely on each other--and a bit of mysterious magic--to cope with their mother's illness"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC HAYPicoult, Jodi
Summary: All her life, 13-year old Anna has helped her sister fight leukemia. Anna has provided platelets, bone marrow, and even stem cells to ensure Kate's survival. But when their parents ask her to donate a kidney, Anna has had enough. She enlists the aid of a lawyer and announces her intention to sue for control of her own body.--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2004
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PICLaCorte, Ellen
Summary: Motherhood is tough. But then, so is daughterhood. When we first meet Claire, she's living in Sedona, Arizona with her boyfriend Cal and ducking calls from her mother. Her mom is a world class psychic on the East Coast and Claire doesn't want her to discover the truth. Claire works in the family business and calls herself a psychic, but she doesn't really have "the gift" and hasn't for a long...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LACCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LACAcker, Monica
Summary: When a young girl's fish-wrestling, spider-wrangling mom becomes an illness-fighting mom, they explore together what it means to be strong, brave, and fierce.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beaming Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ACKCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ACKPicoult, Jodi
Summary: "Anna is not sick, but she might as well be. By age thirteen, she has undergone countless surgeries, transfusions, and shots so that her older sister, Kate, can somehow fight the leukemia that has plagued her since childhood. The product of preimplantation genetic diagnosis, Anna was conceived as a bone marrow match for Kate -- a life and a role that she has never challenged...until now. Like...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Washington Square Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PICCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PICCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Stacks, Call number: P PICLeroy, Margaret.
Summary: When disturbing postcards begin to arrive in the mail, Catriona Lydgate finds her happy family life succumbing to her secret past, a situation that is complicated when she is accused of deliberately trying to make her daughter ill.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LERStage, Zoje
Summary: Afflicted with a chronic debilitating condition, Suzette Jensen knew having children would wreak havoc on her already fragile body. Nevertheless, she brought Hanna into the world, pleased and proud to start a family with her husband Alex. Estranged from her own mother, Suzette is determined to raise her beautiful daughter with the love, care, and support she was denied. But Hanna proves to be a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2018