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Author
Publisher
[Tom Blair]
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A Million Suns tells the story of Catherine Blair, an enigmatic seven-year-old who was thrust into the world of childhood cancer. Through messages written during the days and nights of their daughter's battle, Tom and Ellen Blair sought to capture the mysterious ways of a little girl who was at once shy and feisty, loving and demanding, private and creative. Catherine's spirit was too big to be captured. Their messages, however, provide glimpses of...
Author
Publisher
Avery
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Jonathan Safran Foer meets Jeffrey Moussaieff Mason in a poignant, provocative memoir of survival, compassion, and awakening to the reality of our food system. Brown introduces readers to the renowned Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary and describes the animals that she loves.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A memoir about Jeff Henigson's teen Starlight Children's Foundation wish after being diagnosed with brain cancer: to meet Mikhail Gorbachev and plea for nuclear disarmament and world peace"--
It's 1986, and Jeff is an average fifteen-year-old: he thinks a lot about dating, he bounces around with his friends, and he's trying his hardest to get a car. Conversely, the world around him feels crazy: the United States and the Soviet Union are at glaring...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The author shares how, in the years following her beloved father's death, she denied her suffering and lived with the constant fear of loss that left her terrified of love and intimacy until she set out on a journey to confront the grief she'd been avoiding for so long.
"Laurel Braitman spent her childhood learning how to outfish grown men, keep bees, and fix carburetors from her larger-than-life dad. Diagnosed with terminal cancer, he went to spectacular...
Author
Publisher
Baker Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In this heartfelt, gripping autobiography, sports broadcaster Ernie Johnson provides a remarkably candid look at his life both on and off the screen. From his relationship with his sportscaster father to his own rise to the top of sports broadcasting, from battling cancer to raising six children with his wife, Cheryl, including a special needs child adopted from Romania, Ernie has taken the important lessons he learned and passed them on to his own...
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