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"Dawn Edelstein is on a plane when she is told to prepare for a crash landing. She braces herself as thoughts flash through her mind. The shocking thing is, the thoughts are not of her husband but of a man she last saw fifteen years ago: Wyatt Armstrong. Dawn, miraculously, survives the crash, but so do all the doubts that have suddenly been raised. She has led a good life. Back in Boston, there is her husband, Brian, their beloved daughter, and her...
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"When Queenie Hennessy is told she has days to live she sends a letter on pink paper in which she bids goodbye to Harold Fry. It is a letter that inspires an unlikely walk, a cast of well-wishers and the examination of many lives unlived. But there is a second letter, a longer, quieter more complicated letter which she will never send. It is this letter, the one we did not know about in The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, which reveals the shocking...
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Few romance novels have touched readers as deeply or as lastingly as this classic by New York Times bestselling author Mary Jo Putney. Poignant, passionate, and tender, One Perfect Rose is the story of two mismatched lovers drawn into a fragile, unforgettable union...
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Stephen Kenyon, the new Duke of Ashburton, has always known exactly what society expected of him. But...
<CENTER>One Perfect Rose</CENTER>
Stephen Kenyon, the new Duke of Ashburton, has always known exactly what society expected of him. But...
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"A best-selling and beloved author, at the very top of his game, now returns to North Bath, in upstate New York, and the characters who made Nobody's Fool, his third novel, his first great success. The irresistible Sully, who in the intervening years has come by some unexpected good fortune, is now staring down a VA cardiologist's estimate that he only has a year or two left, and he's busy as hell keeping the news from the most important people in...
7) Moon tiger
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Winner of the Man Booker Prize
Penelope Lively won Britain's prestigious Booker Prize for this deeply moving, elegantly structured novel. Elderly, uncompromising Claudia Hampton lies in a London hospital bed with memories of life fluttering through her fading consciousness. An author of popular history, Claudia proclaims she's carrying out her last project: a history of the world. This history turns out to be a mosaic of her life,...
8) Before I die
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A terminally ill teenaged girl makes and carries out a list of things to do before she dies.
10) The professor
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After learning he has six months left to live, a quiet college professor decides to change his life and begins rebelling against the school and society.
11) The hero
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A former Western icon re-evaluates his life, his image and more importantly his heart after a surprise diagnosis.
12) Beginners
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A young man is rocked by two announcements from his elderly father: that he has terminal cancer, and that he has a young male lover.
13) The farewell
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When a Chinese family finds out that their grandmother has only a short time left to live, they plan a family reunion before she dies without telling her.
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Despite the medical miracle that has bought her a few more years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, but when Augustus Waters suddenly appears at the Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel's story is about to be rewritten.
A Hazel y a Gus les gustaría tener vidas más corrientes. Algunos dirían que no han nacido con estrella, que su mundo es injusto. Hazel y Gus son solo adolescentes, pero si algo les ha enseñado el cáncer que ambos padecen...
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Two stories converge as young Nathan learns his mother is dying and tries to get her a pair of red shoes for Christmas while lawyer Robert Layton re-evaluates his life and relationships after a chance encounter with Nathan; when a doctor loses a patient on the operating table he returns to his hometown and is reminded of the importance of family and friends; having grown apart following the loss of their son, child-placement social worker Patricia...
17) Self/less
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In this provocative psychological science fiction thriller, an extremely wealthy man dying from cancer undergoes a radical medical procedure that transfers his consciousness into the body of a healthy young man. But all is not as it seems when he starts to uncover the mystery of the body's origin and the secret organization that will kill to protect its cause.
18) A monster calls
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A young boy living with his unsympathetic grandmother conjures up a forty-foot-high tree monster to help him cope with his mother's terminal illness.
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