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Author
Series
Seasons volume 4
Language
English
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Description
Sylvia Bryan has been feeling weak and tired, but is shocked when her internist finds a malignant lump in her breast. She and her husband canât understand why God is allowing cancer to attack at a time when their missionary work is going so well. As Sylvia undergoes a mastectomy and chemotherapy, the rest of the neighbors pull together to support her, even while coping with the stress of their own lives. Steve and Cathy experience problems with their...
3) Torch
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Work hard. Do good. Be incredible!" is the advice Teresa Rae Wood shares with the listeners of her local radio show, Modern Pioneers, and the advice she strives to live by every day. She has fled a bad marriage and rebuilt a life with her children, Claire and Joshua, and their caring stepfather, Bruce. Their love for each other binds them as a family through the daily struggles of making ends meet. But when they received unexpected news that Teresa,...
Author
Series
Forever faithful volume 3
Publisher
Multnomah Books
Pub. Date
2013, c2002
Language
English
Description
Hannah Bronzan and her new husband Matt decide to adopt a little girl, while Jade and Tanner Eastman learn that Jade is finally pregnant, but their happiness is shattered after discovering that Jade has a cancerous brain tumor.
Author
Series
O'Malley volume 7
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Jennifer O'Malley is a pediatric physician who's falling in love with Tom Peterson, God, and Jesus. She must withstand a stunning test of faith when she discovers she has cancer.
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"A terminal breast cancer diagnosis shatters Kendra Woods' life and dreams. But through the hurt and the pain, she learns to view her life - however many days that includes - in a new way. Kendra Woods has always known success. Raised in a prominent black family in well-to-do Clayton, Missouri, she had high aspirations for herself and, thus far, has met them. After graduating from law school she went to work at a prestigious law firm. Now she's just...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In Alice & Oliver, Charles Bock has created an unflinching yet deeply humane portrait of a young family’s journey through a medical crisis, laying bare a couple’s love and fears as they fight for everything that’s important to them. --Publisher
10) The survivor
Author
Series
Families of honor volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
After successfully battling cancer, twenty-three-year old Mattie Troyer, now that she is healthy, enters into a relationship with her best friend, Graham Weaver, but her hopes for a happily ever after are dashed when it is rumored that Graham has fathered a baby with another woman.
Author
Series
Sanctuary Sound volume 3
Publisher
Montlake Romance
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Peyton Prescott would give anything for the carefree life she knew before breast cancer changed everything. But instead of using her second chance to move forward, she's stuck promoting the memoir her brother convinced her to write, thus reliving the very battle she wants to forget. If she hopes her European book tour will allow her to enjoy revisiting her favorite travel-writing destinations, she's wrong: her PR whiz is too consumed with his own...
12) The next
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Turning away from the loved ones she believes disappointed her before succumbing to breast cancer, Joanna DeAngelis becomes a ghost bent on revenge against her ex and is eventually forced to reevaluate her life choices and the qualities of a proper death.
Author
Publisher
The Dial Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"On the heels of a difficult break-up and a devastating diagnosis, Shakespearian scholar Lizzie Delford decides to take one last lavish vacation on Elba, the sun-kissed island off the Italian coast, with her best friend and his movie-star boyfriend. Once settled into a luxurious seaside resort, Lizzie has to make big decisions about her future, and she needs the one thing she may be running out of: time. She leaves the yacht-owners and celebrities...
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Six women gather to celebrate their friend Kate's recovery from cancer, where she strikes a bargain with them: to celebrate her new lease on life, she'll do the one thing that's always terrified her, but if she does, each of them will also do one thing that they'd find difficult.
15) Three mothers
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2008, c2006
Language
English
Description
A woman struggling with her relationship with her mother explores her mother's and grandmother's strained relationship across generations after learning about her mother's cancer and impending death.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The masterful story of a lifelong friendship between two very different women with shared histories and buried secrets, tested in the twilight of their lives, set across the arc of the 20th century. Celebrated children's book author Agnes Lee is determined to secure her legacy--to complete what she knows will be the final volume of her pseudonymously written Franklin Square novels; and even more consuming, to permanently protect the peninsula of majestic...
17) Safe haven
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
"When a mysterious young woman named Katie appears in the small North Carolina town of Southport, her sudden arrival raises questions about her past. Beautiful yet self-effacing, Katie seems determined to avoid forming personal ties until a series of events draws her into two reluctant relationships: one with Alex, a widowed store owner with a kind heart and two young children; and another with her plainspoken single neighbor, Jo. Despite her reservations,...
18) Time is a river
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
While recovering from breast cancer in a remote cabin in North Carolina, Mia Landan finds the journal of Kate Watkins, a 1920s fly fisher, and, inspired by Kate's example, learns to fish and uncovers many secrets around her.
19) Hiss of death
Author
Series
Mrs. Murphy mystery volume 19
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
Shortly before the 5K Run for Breast Cancer Awareness, Harry and her pets find the corpse of well-liked OR nurse Paula Benton, one of the event's organizers, who appears to have died of anaphylactic shock from a hornet's sting. But was it murder?
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Emma loves her life. She’s the mother of a precocious kindergartener, married to her soulmate—a loyal and loving police detective—and has a rewarding career as a doctor at the local hospital. But everything comes crashing down when her son, Josh, is diagnosed with a rare form of cancer. Determined to save him, Emma makes the risky decision to sell opioids to fund the life-saving treatment he needs. But when somebody ends up dead, a lethal game...
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