Winner of several prestigious prizes, The Spare Room is extraordinary writer Helen Garner's intense, moving investigation of the boundaries and limits of a lifelong friendship.As the novel opens, Helen lovingly prepares the spare room...
Cancer--Patients
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Author:Garner, HelenSummary: - Author:Cassidy, Sara, Chua, CharleneSummary:
Filip, the ten-year-old son of Croatian immigrants, lives in a boring suburb of the big city, where he passes his time either at school or in his cozy kitchen, googling everything from dinosaurs to the Hubble Space Telescope. When his...
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Author:Rosser, Susan, Smith, Charlie, Schaefer, TrevorSummary:The Boy on the Lake is the inspirational story of how one teenager faced down two bullies: brain cancer and an emotionally abusive father. Born into a family of professional baseball and big macs, his courageous journey leads him from a...
- Author:Gendreau, Vickie, Wall, AimeeSummary:
On June 6, 2012, Vickie Gendreau was diagnosed with a brain tumour. In between treatments, between hospital stays and her "room of her own," she wrote Testament, an autofictional novel in which she imagines her death and at the same...
- Author:Lawrence, KatherineSummary:
Millie is eleven (going on twelve) and enjoys doing what kids usually like to do: riding her bike and dreaming of the day she can convince her family to get a dog. She also writes in her diary daily. But instead of writing to herself,...
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Author:Frey, CeceliaSummary:Manfred Weiszl who lies dying of cancer in an upper room of a grand old Toronto house. The action of the novel is precipitated when Manfred wishes to see Rupert his son before he dies and Rupert refuses to cooperate. However, ...
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Author:Pawagi, ManjushaSummary:Manjusha Pawagi, a successful family court judge, has written a not-so-typical memoir about her experience with cancer. Wryly funny and stubbornly hopeful, this is her quirky take on what it's like to face your own mortality when, to be...
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Author:Trottier, MaxineSummary:Ce livre, créé en collaboration avec la famille de Terry Fox et la fondation portant son nom, est la première biographie autorisée de Terry Fox écrite pour les jeunes.
On y raconte la jeunesse de Terry Fox, son amour du sport, l'...
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Author:Bluman, Barbara RuthSummary:This Holocaust memoir crosses generations. In I Have My Mother’s Eyes, Barbara Ruth Bluman chronicles her mother’s dramatic journey from Nazi-occupied Poland to western British Columbia, where her legacy lives on. Bluman sets an urgent...
- Author:Fisher, Eva HagbergSummary:
A luminous memoir about how friendship saved one woman's life, for anyone who has loved a friend who was sick, grieving, or lost-and for anyone who has struggled to seek help or accept it.Eva Hagberg Fisher spent her lonely youth...
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Author:Peterson, SJDSummary:Sequel to 'Ty's Obsession' John Price and Conner Burnett have been part of the Whispering Pines Ranch for the past 37 years. A loving couple who have overcome every obstacle thrown at them, John and Conner are a testament to the...
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Author:O'Brien, Joyce, Siegel, BernieSummary:Life is good for Joyce and Kevin—traveling, having fun with friends, holding down a successful Wall Street career, building their dream home and planning a big family. Then, in what feels like an instant, the young couple’s dream life...
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Author:Huber, Joy, Huber, SusieSummary:Readers will be drawn in by the personal details shared in the true inspiring story of Joy Huber, Author & Stage Four Cancer Survivor (in her 30’s). They will be encouraged as they recognize early on in their battle they have a...
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Author:Lendrum, BonnieSummary:Families who would want to honour a parent’s request to not die in hospital, encounter obstacles that can defeat even accomplished health professionals. Autumns’ Grace is a story that spans a ten-month period as the Campbell...
- Author:McMechan, RobertSummary:
Allison, a retired music teacher and lifelong musician, was advised in 2011 that she had a "giant" brain aneurysm, after experiencing olfactory hallucinations. In a twelve hour operation the aneurysm was "clipped". Following surgery...
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Author:Stap, SallySummary:Smiling Again captures Sally’s experience with the removal of a brain tumor and the recovery process. It captures her faith journey while navigating the crisis. She educates the reader on the specific disease and explains how a...
