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Conceived to provide a bone marrow match for her leukemia-stricken sister, teenage Kate begins to question her moral obligations in light of countless medical procedures and decides to fight for the right to make decisions about her own body. New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult is widely acclaimed for her keen insights into the hearts and minds of real people. Now she tells the emotionally riveting story of a family torn apart by conflicting...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
257 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
In a small Northern Italian village, nine-year-old Luca Taviano catches a stubborn cold and is subsequently diagnosed with leukemia. His only hope for survival is a bone marrow transplant. After an exhaustive search, a match turns up three thousand miles away in the form of a most unlikely donor: Joseph Neiman, a rabbi in Brooklyn, New York, who is suffering from a debilitating crisis of faith. As Luca's young nurse, Nina Vocelli, risks her career...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st Ballantine Books ed.
Physical Desc
64 p. : col. ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The members of the Peanuts gang have varying reactions when they learn that their friend Janice has leukemia and they follow her treatment and ultimate recovery.
Author
Publisher
Templar Publishing
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First UK edition.
Physical Desc
234 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Beanie's coping with more than most kids his age, including treatment for leukaemia. But Beanie just wants to be part of his big brother's gang. To show he's got what it takes, Beanie braves a scary deserted house where he finds a young chimpanzee. But where did Malcolm the chimp come from and who are the sinister men pursuing him?
Author
Series
Vanderbeekers volume 7
Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
402 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The Vanderbeekers are looking forward to the wedding of two of their favorite people! But when one of the siblings receives a dire diagnosis, instead of preparing for a celebration, the family is suddenly spending their time at the hospital. And soon they are helping a newly-made and critically ill friend, even as they struggle with how their own lives have turned upside down. In the poignant conclusion to the bestselling Vanderbeekers series, the...
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
212 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Sam McQueen, who has leukemia, writes a book during the last three months of his life, in which he tells about what he would like to accomplish, how he feels, and things that have happened to him.
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Language
English
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"The three Babcock sisters must travel to a Mexican clinic across the border so their mother, ill with leukemia, can receive alternative treatments. The sisters' world is about to shatter under the weight of an incomprehensible betrayal. . . an illness far more insidious than cancer that poisons their home"--
The three Babcock sisters and their mother spend a lot of time at a Mexican clinic across the border from their San Diego home. There the mother...
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