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The end of the world begins: fire rains down from the heavens, ancient gods are released from their prison. Rachel Deneuve has bigger concerns: her son Adam is in the middle of a fight against leukemia, and Rachel is determined to keep focused on that battle. When their home in Baltimore becomes a war zone, Rachel and Adam flee to their remote mountain cottage, only to find their refuge marred by mutated, grotesque plants and animals. As the cancerous...
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A narrative, in graphic novel format, of the author’s life and experiences as a leukemia patient.
When Catherine is diagnosed with acute leukemia, a deadly form of cancer that attacks the immune system, her life is turned upside down. Young and previously healthy, she now finds herself catapulted into the world of the seriously ill—constantly testing and waiting for results, undergoing endless medical treatments, learning to accept a changing...
11) Gold
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Cyclists Zoe and Kate are friends and athletic rivals for Olympic gold, while Kate and her husband Jack, also a world-class cyclist, must contend with the recurrence of their young daughter's leukemia.
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The Mindset Cure is the story of Andrea's journey from healthy and vital, engaged, always on wife, mother, volunteer and successful corporate executive to suddenly becoming a patient for most of 21 weeks during 2011 at the Mayo Clinic in Phoenix, Arizona. It tells of the always-on, driven lifestyle that drained her physically, mentally and spiritually and set her up for her bout with Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) and her terrifying and difficult journey,...
13) Now is good
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A seventeen-year-old dying from leukemia is determined to enjoy the rest of her life as much as possible.
14) The rainmaker
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In his final semester of law school, Rudy Baylor "finds himself taking on one of the most powerful, corrupt, and ruthless companies in America -- and exposing a complex, multibillion-dollar insurance scam."
16) Tear me apart
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Competitive skier Mindy Wright is a superstar in the making until a spectacular downhill crash threatens not just her racing career but her life. During surgery, doctors discover she's suffering from a severe form of leukemia, and a stem cell transplant is her only hope. But when her parents are tested, a frightening truth emerges. Mindy is not their daughter. The race to save Mindy's life means unraveling years of lies. Was she accidentally switched...
17) The rainmaker
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A law student providing legal advice as an internship requirement is faced with an insurance fraud case, which could become one of the most important cases in the history of Tennessee law.
19) Hopeful notes
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Alex, an Italian engineer, has been working in Russia for several years. At the end of his contract, he announces to his friends and colleagues that he will go back to Italy. But, after accidentally meeting Dima, a child who is a cancer patient in a local hospital, he decides to reconsider his future. The boy introduces Alex to the other young patients of his ward, where he decides to volunteer by playing piano.
20) Sadako
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Hospitalized with the dreaded atom bomb disease, leukemia, a child in Hiroshima races against time to fold one thousand paper crances to verify the legend that by doind so a sick person will become healthy. AC 21694.
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