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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...

"Bo is running out of time. Yet time is one of the few things he's got left. These days, his quiet existence is broken up only by daily visits from his home care team. Fortunately, he still has his beloved elkhound Sixten to keep him company . . . though now his son, with whom Bo has had a rocky relationship, insists upon taking the dog away, claiming that Bo has grown too old to properly care for him. The threat of losing Sixten stirs up a whirlwind...

English professor Vivian Bearing reflects on life when she is diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer.

"A powerful, moving and beautifully wrought novel about the ways in which lives are molded by personal memory and the collective past." —The Boston Globe Winner of the Man Booker Prize 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...

Camile Hart, who makes her living as a matchmaker, receives a devastating diagnosis that leaves her with only six months to live and decides that she must find a "replacement" wife for her husband.

Dr. Alan Gregory confronts the case of a man who, having survived a near-fatal accident, makes an agreement with a shadowy organization that ends the lives of clients who do not want to be a burden in the event of dire illnesses or injuries.

When I was twelve, I made a naïve, yet desperate pact with God to keep my ailing mother alive. It was the first time I'd ventured something so brazen--making a contract with the Almighty... So begins the story of Becky Owens, a talented and passionate young pianist on the verge of adolescence when she learns the devastating news of her mother's critical illness. As the daughter of a country preacher in Lancaster County, Becky knows well the significance...

Despite the loving intentions of her mother and boyfriend, sixteen-year-old Astrid wants to make the decisions about her life and death when her cancer returns, including exploring the possibility of cryopreservation.

The Perfect Cure On the surface they are beautiful and talented. But few know of the harrowing darkness inside each of them, how close they are to losing their tenuous grip on sanity. Dr. Elias is their only hope. But he's dying. And he's made his cold, final judgment: Those he can't cure, he must kill. For The Perfect Crime In order for Dr. Elias's deadly prescription to succeed, none of the eight patients must know someone is stalking them,...

Newly married, Joshua and Lauren are wildly in love, each on a successful and rewarding career path. Then Lauren is diagnosed with a terminal illness. Joshua struggles to make the most of the time he has left with his wife and to come to terms with a future without the only woman he has ever loved. Lauren has a plan to keep her husband moving forward: twelve letters, one for every month in the year after her death. Letters that will lead Joshua on...