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Summary: "A once accomplished concert pianist, Richard now has ALS. As he becomes increasingly paralyzed and is no longer able to live on his own, Karina becomes his reluctant caretaker. As Richard's muscles, voice, and breath fade, both he and Karina try to reconcile their past before it's too late. This is a masterful exploration of redemption and what it means to find peace inside of forgiveness" --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GENFord, Richard
Summary: "From Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Ford: the final novel in the world of Frank Bascombe, one of the most indelible characters in American literature Over the course of four celebrated works of fiction and almost forty years, Richard Ford has crafted an ambitious, incisive, and singular view of American life as lived. Unconstrained, astute, provocative, often laugh-out-loud funny, Frank...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FORCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FORHarrison, Jim
Summary: In this sequel to Harrison's True North, Donald Burkett, a middle-aged Chippewa-Finnish man, is dying of Lou Gehrig's disease. While his wife, Cynthia, transcribes, Donald begins dictating his family history for the benefit of their children, stories that he never before has shared.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HARShipman, Viola
Summary: "The Hope Chest is a deeply emotional novel about three people who have seemingly lost all hope until one woman's heirloom hope chest is rediscovered in the attic, along with its contents and secrets. Mattie is a fiercely independent woman battling ALS; Don, her deeply devoted husband is facing a future without his one true love; and Rose, their struggling caregiver, is a young, single mother...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHICopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION SHICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Shipman 2017Genova, Lisa
Summary: A once accomplished concert pianist, Richard now has ALS. As he becomes increasingly paralyzed and is no longer able to live on his own, Karina becomes his reluctant caretaker. As Richard's muscles, voice, and breath fade, both he and Karina try to reconcile their past before it's too late. This is a masterful exploration of redemption and what it means to find peace inside of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scout Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GENCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GENCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION GENCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Genova 2018Harrison, Jim
Summary: In the universally-praised Returning to Earth, Jim Harrison has delivered a masterpiece--a tender, profound, and magnificent novel about life, death, and the possibility of finding redemption in unlikely places. Donald is a middle-aged Chippewa-Finnish man slowly dying of Lou Gehrig's disease. His condition deteriorating, he realizes no one will be able to pass on to his children their family...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2007
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAR1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL FIC HARRI
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction HarrisonLish, Atticus
Summary: "From the author of the PEN/Faulkner winning debut novel Preparation for the Next Life--a searing, tender, haunting story about fathers and sons, sons and mothers, and a young boy's struggle to become a man. Corey Goltz is fifteen years old when his mother, Gloria, is diagnosed with ALS. Estranged from his father, and increasingly responsible for meeting both his mother's needs and his own,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LISWildgen, Michelle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILSparks, Nicholas
Summary: A chance encounter becomes a transcendent turning point for two very different people--the conflicted daughter of an ALS patient and a Sunset Beach newcomer from Zimbabwe who aims to meet his birth father.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SPAAcheson, Alison
Summary: "A profoundly honest and intensely personal story of a woman who cares for her husband after the devastating terminal diagnosis of ALS. Marty, age 57, was given a preliminary diagnosis of ALS by his family doctor. Seven weeks later, the diagnosis was confirmed by a neurologist. Ten months and ten days later, Marty passed away. Dance Me to the End is an evocative memoir about the emotional...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brindle & Glass 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ACHESON, ALISON ACHMakechnie, Amy
Summary: Twelve-year-old Golden Maroni starts eighth grade determined to be master of his universe, but learns he cannot control everything on the soccer field, in his friendships, and especially in facing his father's incurable disease.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MAKMeltzer, Brad
Summary: "An illustrated biography of the astrophysicist Stephen Hawking"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rocky Pond Books
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 HAWGleason, Steve
Summary: "In 2011, three years after leaving the NFL, Steve Gleason was diagnosed with ALS, a terminal disease that takes away the ability to move, talk, and breathe. Doctors gave him three years to live. He was thirty-three years old. As Steve says, he is now ten years past his expiration date. His memoir is the chronicle of a remarkable life, one filled with optimism and joy, despite the trauma and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2024