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Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A uniquely funny and moving story about Greg, a high school senior who avoids deep human relationships as a way to safely navigate the social mine field that is teenage life. In fact, he describes his best friend Earl, with whom he makes short-film parodies of classic movies, as being 'more like a co-worker'. But when Greg's mom insists he spends time with Rachel, a girl in his class who has just been diagnosed with cancer, Greg discovers just how...
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Sara and Brian live an idyllic life with their young son and daughter. Suddenly, their baby girl falls ill, and her only hope for survival rests in her parents' ability to find a compatible bone marrow donator. Their desperate decision to conceive another child raises both ethical and moral questions and begins to erode their relationship. Their actions ultimately set off a court case that threatens to tear the family apart.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
After a stranger is murdered on her front lawn, Dr. Shannon Frasier begins receiving threatening phone calls from a man who believes she and her sister, Megan, may have information about a crime in which the deceased was involved.
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2010
Language
Español
Description
"Anna ha nacido con un propósito muy espefíco. Nació porque un científico manipuló la conexión entre el óvulo de su madre y el esperma de su padre para crear una combinación especíca de preciosos material genético, con el propósito de salvar a su hermana que padece de leucemia mieloide."--Container.
All her life, 13-year old Anna has helped her sister fight leukemia. Anna has provided platelets, bone marrow, and even stem cells to ensure...
Author
Publisher
Tuttle Publishing, an imprint of Periplus Editions (HK) Ltd
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
In this book, author Sue DiCicco and Sadako's older brother Masahiro tell her complete story in English for the first time--how Sadako's courage throughout her illness inspired family and friends, and how she became a symbol of all people, especially children, who suffer from the impact of war. Her life and her death carry a message: we must have a wholehearted desire for peace and be willing to work together to achieve it. Sadako Sasaki was two years...
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