New York Times bestseller Nancy Thayer tells a deeply moving tale of a life unravelled and of learning to live and love again. For fans of Santa Montefiore and Barbara Delinsky.Carley Winsted never expected her world could change so much in just one moment. Now, after...

Editeur : Review
Parution : 2014-02-13

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What is it like to have someone die in your arms? Can we return from the dead? And why has nobody heard of therapeutic hypothermia? Forced to come to terms with doctors pronouncing her husband ‘clinically dead’, Alexandra Zelman-Doring embarks on an exploration of what...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2014-01-30

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i newspaper 'What We're Reading This Week' December 2017'Elizabeth's courage in speaking out is moving, and her ability to move others is impressive. This is a story that needs to be told, and needs to be heard.' - Theresa May, Prime Minister'Elizabeth [is] someone who...

Editeur : Piatkus
Parution : 2013-10-24

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Barry Norman was one of the nation's most popular and enduring broadcasters. Journalist, writer and presenter, he was best known for having fronted the BBC's flagship Film programme for more than 25 years.While working as a gossip columnist for The Daily Sketch,Barry...

Editeur : Transworld Digital
Parution : 2013-09-26

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Claire Bidwell Smith, an only child, is just fourteen years old when both of her charismatic parents are diagnosed with cancer. What follows is a coming-of-age story that is both heartbreaking and exhilarating. AsClaire hurtles towards loss she throws herself at...

Editeur : Headline
Parution : 2013-09-12

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A brilliant follow-up to Hidden Lives, Margaret Forster's most personal book yet takes up the story of her gritty, northern father, Arthur, intertwined with that of her sister-in-law, Marion, who died of cancer at almost half the age of the 96 year-old Arthur. Margaret...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2012-10-31

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'A wonderful book about wonderful books and mothers and sons and the enduring braid between them.' - Mitch Albom, author of Tuesdays With Morrie'a true meditation on what books can do.' - Edmund de Waal, author of The Hare with Amber EyesMary Anne Schwalbe is waiting...

Editeur : John Murray
Parution : 2012-10-11

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John Carthy was an average guy, a hard-working young man devoted to his mother and sister, who also happened to suffer from depression - in common with one in four Irish people today. But in April 2001, in the grip of a bi-polar episode,John was shot dead by gardai...

Editeur : Hachette Books Ireland
Parution : 2012-08-30

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'I asked Jai what she has learned since my diagnosis,' Randy Pausch wrote about his wife in THE LAST LECTURE. 'Turns out, she could write a book titled Forget the Last Lecture; Here's the Real Story.' DREAM ON traces Jai's experiences since Randy's diagnosis, from the...

Editeur : John Murray
Parution : 2012-05-24

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Each person fears death in their own way. Despite turning to the comforts of children, or wealth, or belief in a higher power, death anxiety is never completely subdued: it is always there, lurking in the hidden ravines of our minds.In STARING AT THE SUN, master...

Editeur : Piatkus
Parution : 2011-03-03

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Mesmerized and somewhat unnerved by his 97-year-old father's vitality and optimism, David Shields undertakes an original investigation of our flesh-and-blood existence, our mortal being.Weaving together personal anecdote, biological fact, philosophical doubt, cultural...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2011-03-03

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What’s going to happen? How will we manage? There are things I still want to do. I’m afraid…As death approaches, both patient and family must cope with grief, pain, and seemingly unanswerable questions. It’s a time of challenge, of concerns. But,...

Editeur : Sterling Ethos
Parution : 2011-01-04

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Patrimony is a true story about the relationship between a father and a son.Philip Roth watches as his eight-six-year-old father, famous for his vigour, his charm and his skill as a raconteur - lovingly called 'the Bard of Newark' - battles with the brain tumour that...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-12-23

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By the author of the bestselling The Woman Warrior, a magical book: a literature of peace built on the stories of war. Divided into four sections - 'Fire', 'Paper', 'Water' and 'Earth' - this book is neither fiction nor autobiography nor memoir, but a unique form of...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-11-30

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A mysterious novel by the author of the international bestseller SOPHIE'S WORLD.A chance meeting on the Fijian island of Taveuni is the trigger for a fascinating and mysterious novel that intertwines the stories of John Spooke, an English author who is grieving for his...

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2010-11-25

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Conversations about life and death, between a girl and an angel.It's almost Christmas. Cecilia lies sick in bed as her family bustle around her to make her last Christmas as special as possible. Cecilia has cancer. An angel steps through her window. So begins a...

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2010-07-15

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SMALL MIRACLES is a landmark Australian self-help book offering practical advice, inspiration and comfort for anyone coping with the loss of a baby through miscarriage, stillbirth or prematurity and related issues such as infertility.

Editeur : Hachette Australia
Parution : 2010-07-01

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They say it's coming back. Before long the moon will find a shadow under the lake. Bubbles will rise and the shadow will spread to a stain. Then, in the night, in the dark, the floating island will surface. Here again. As it was a year ago. The day Tom died.It's almost...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2010-03-30

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'Erica James' sensitive story of a woman coming to terms with guilt and grief is as sparklingly fresh as dew on the village's surrounding meadows ... thoroughly enjoyable' SUNDAY EXPRESS'Wry humour and romance ... Erica James is a breath of fresh air' DAILY...

Editeur : Orion
Parution : 2009-12-23

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The extraordinary – and true – story of a cat with a remarkable giftIn the summer of 2007 Oscar the cat made headlines around the world. Why? Because he knows when the patients in the Rhode Island hospice where he lives are going to die. Oscar curls up on their beds,...

Editeur : Review
Parution : 2009-10-29

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