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Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Piano prodigy Claire Fairchild, 14, has always known music would be her life. So when she has the opportunity to enter a prestigious contest, she goes all in--until she realizes she's also competing against Juan, a close childhood friend and one of the most talented musicians she knows. It doesn't help that her thoughts about him are turning romantic. When Claire and her family receive a devastating blow from Batten disease her world enters a tailspin....
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Like all mothers, Emily Rapp had ambitious plans for her first and only child, Ronan. He would be smart, loyal, physically fearless, and level-headed, but fun. He would be good at crossword puzzles like his father. He would be an avid skier like his mother. Rapp would speak to him in foreign languages and give him the best education. But all of these plans changed when Ronan was diagnosed at nine months old with Tay-Sachs disease, a rare and always-fatal...
24) Saving Sarah
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"When her daughter desperately needed a lung transplant to survive, Janet Murnaghan rallied against the outdated restrictions in healthcare that would limit her daughter's options. Sarah had been dying of cystic fibrosis since the day she was born. The disease quickly ravaged her lungs and little body bit-by-bit. Fragile and frail, she had only weeks to live, when her mom realized the reality of Sarah's situation: transplant laws, restricting access...
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"An inspiring story of hope, community, and love-in place of unrelenting grief. Myra Sack is a new mom, married to Matt, the love of her life. They live in Boston because Matt's residency in internal medicine takes them there. Myra is 30 years old, completed her MBA. They've bought a house. Life is unfolding beautifully. Until one day their beautiful year-old daughter Havi is diagnosed with a fatal neurodegenerative disease called Tay-Sachs. Then...
Series
Hallmark Hall of Fame volume 71
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Vanessa Marks returns to her hometown library to read to children the book that she wrote, "November Christmas." The book is about her serious illness as a child and how her family and community teamed up to move Halloween to August and Christmas to November to help her.
31) Then came you
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The film tells the story of Skye, a spunky teenager with a terminal illness who befriends Calvin, a 19-year old hypochondriac who is afraid of his own shadow. Calvin helps Skye carry out her eccentric bucket list of things to do before she dies. In the process, he learns to confront and conquer his own fears, including falling in love with the beautiful, but seemingly untouchable, Izzy.
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
Français
Description
Oscar, a 10-year-old boy, lives in a hospital. Neither the doctors nor his parents have the courage to tell him the truth. After listening in to a conversation, he finds out he only has a few weeks to live. Furious, he refuses to speak to anyone except straight-talking Rose, who delivers pizza to the hospital.
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Austin and Julie Locke are devastated when they receive news that their young son, Dax, has been diagnosed with a rare form of cancer. With courage, determination and faith, they decide to give their beloved boy a joyful, final Christmas-in October. When the community learns the heartbreaking truth, what happens next is a miraculous outpouring of caring and support that stretches beyond the neighborhood and around the world.
35) Lorenzo's oil
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A boy develops a disease so rare that nobody is working on a cure, so his father decides to learn about it and tackle the problem himself.
36) Proof of heaven
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
With a wisdom far beyond his years, Colm has come to terms with his probable fate, but he does have one special wish. He wants to meet his father who abandoned his beloved mother before Colm was born. But the quest to find the dying boy's missing parent soon becomes a powerful journey of emotional discovery, a test of belief and an anxious search for proof of heaven.
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