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Author
Series
Publisher
Amicus Learning
Pub. Date
[2024]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Meet Jocelyn! She likes soccer and dinosaurs. She is also a leukemia survivor. Jocelyn is real and so are her experiences. Learn about her life in this illustrated narrative nonfiction picture book for elementary students"--
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Grayson Hayes doesn't remember things as well as he used to, but he's sure his time is running out. Diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's, he realizes he has a small window of time left to right a terrible injustice -- he just can't remember what it is. Convinced of the importance of his mission, he embarks on a journey to the small West Virginia town of his childhood hoping he can put together the fractured pieces of his memory and set things right....
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Formats
Description
"Alison has never been a fan of Christmas. But with it right around the corner and her husband busily decorating their cozy Vermont home, she has no choice but to face it. Then she gets the call. Mavis, Alison's estranged mother, has been diagnosed with cancer and has only weeks to live. She wants to spend her remaining days with her daughter, son-in-law, and two granddaughters. But Alison grew up with her mother's alcoholism and violent abuse and...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"Two sisters come together and reevaluate their priorities when one sister receives a terminal diagnosis"--
Two sisters work to heal lingering childhood wounds and seek a new balance in work, family, marriage, and love when one receives a diagnosis that sets the clock ticking. Determined to save Sherri's life, Kristen drops everything to guide her sister on the harrowing cancer treatment journey. When she's unable to balance the strain of caring...
Author
Series
Publisher
Amicus Learning
Pub. Date
[2024]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Meet Emma! She loves riding roller coasters and playing at the beach. She also has Tourette syndrome. Emma is real and so are her experiences. Learn about her life in this illustrated narrative nonfiction picture book for elementary students"--
Author
Publisher
Future Horizons Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
This is a book that will never become irrelevant or "outdated." Every child who uses it also becomes its co-author. Each chapter is divided in two parts: the first part - the Workbook - is for the child to complete, by writing or highlighting "What is True for Me" in lists of simple statements.
Author
Pub. Date
2024
Description
In 2019, a Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent who reported in over 150 countries, many in violent upheaval, was diagnosed with a fatal brain tumor, which gave him the strength to face more personal conflicts, in this unforgettable final dispatch that reveals how facing the unknown can change our relationship to the world around us.
Author
Publisher
IVP
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"Cancer, did you know that I am a poet? In stirring verse and essays, Katy Bowser Hutson chronicles her battle with breast cancer and the complications of faith amid such a fight. Accentuated by the art of Jodi Hays, Katy's words lead us through her resistance to sickness, fight for survival, and wrestling toward beauty"--
10) Saw X
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2023]
Formats
Description
John Kramer is back. The most disturbing installment of the Saw franchise yet explores the untold chapter of Jigsaw's most personal game. Set between the events of Saw I and II, a sick and desperate John travels to Mexico for a risky and experimental medical procedure in hopes of a miracle cure for his cancer only to discover the entire operation is a scam to defraud the most vulnerable. Armed with a newfound purpose, the infamous serial killer returns...
Author
Publisher
Legacy Lit
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"What if your parents turn you into a human lab rat when you're a child? Will that change the story of your life? Will that change who you are? When Susannah Breslin is a toddler, her parents enroll her in an exclusive laboratory preschool at the University of California, Berkeley, where she becomes one of over a hundred children who are research subjects in an unprecedented 30-year study of personality development that predicts who she and her cohort...
Series
Stay Sharp volume let's move!
Publisher
The Penworthy Company, LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
This kit features 1 book, Stretchy strings, a Dimpl pops board, Playable Art balls and an Expressions card game. The first two manipulatives help busy hands to be productively active through relaxing and calming sensory components. The second two manipulatives create a sense of achievement, improving mental acuity and short-term memory.
14) Soldiers don't go mad: a story of brotherhood, poetry, and mental illness during the First World War
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"A brilliant and poignant history of the friendship between two great war poets, Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, alongside a narrative investigation of the origins of PTSD and the literary response to World War I. From the moment war broke out across Europe in 1914, the world entered a new, unparalleled era of modern warfare. Soldiers faced relentless machine gun shelling, incredible artillery power, flame throwers, and gas attacks. Within the...
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"During those dark pre-antibiotic days, when tuberculosis killed one in seven people, white nurses at Sea View, New York's largest municipal hospital, began quitting. Desperate to avert a public health crisis, city officials summoned Black southern nurses, luring them with promises of good pay, a career, and an escape from the strictures of Jim Crow. But after arriving, they found themselves on an isolated hilltop in the remote borough of Staten Island,...
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