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Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Corporate billionaire Edward Cole and working class mechanic Carter Chambers have nothing in common, except they both have been diagnosed with terminal illnesses. While sharing a hospital room together, they decide to make a Bucket List of all the things they have ever wanted to do before they die. In the process of completing the list, both of them heal each other, become unlikely friends, and ultimately find the joy in life.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Texas cowboy Ron Woodroof's free-wheeling life was overturned in 1985 when he was diagnosed as HIV-positive. Shunned and ostracized by many old friends and bereft of government-approved medicines, he decided to take matters in his own hands, tracking down alternative treatments from all over the world by means both legal and illegal. Bypassing the establishment, he joined forces with an unlikely band of renegades and outcasts and established a hugely...
3) 50/50
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Inspired by personal experiences, an original story about friendship, love, survival, and finding humor in unlikely places. Two best friends' lives change when one of them is diagnosed with cancer.
Author
Series
King and Maxwell volume 5
Edition
1.a edición.
Language
Español
Description
Edgar Roy, presunto asesino en serie confinado en un centro federal de máxima seguridad, está a la espera de juicio. Su condena parece segura. El abogado de Roy, Ted Bergin, viejo amigo y mentor de Sean King, pide ayuda a este y a michelle Maxwell. Pero la investigación queda desbaratada antes de empezar camino de su primera reunión con Bergin, puesto que Sean y Michelle se lo encuentran muerto. Ahora serán ellos quienes tendrán que...
5) Elena sabe
Author
Language
Español
Description
Poco después de que Rita aparezca muerta en la iglesia que suele frecuentar, la investigación se da por cerrada y su madre es la única que no renuncia a esclarecer el crimen. Pero asediada por la enfermedad, ella es también la menos indicada para encabezar la búsqueda del asesino. Un penoso viaje de los suburbios a la Capital y una conversación reveladora guían la trama de esta novela íntima y crítica donde el cuerpo femenino es...
Language
English
Description
Texas cowboy Ron Woodroof's free-wheeling life was overturned in 1985 when he was diagnosed as HIV-positive. Shunned and ostracized by many old friends and bereft of government-approved medicines, he decided to take matters in his own hands, tracking down alternative treatments from all over the world by means both legal and illegal. Bypassing the establishment, he joined forces with an unlikely band of renegades and outcasts and established a hugely...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Primera edición.
Language
Español
Description
Amber despierta en un hospital. No puede moverse. No puede hablar. No puede abrir sus ojos. Es capaz de escuchar a todos los que la rodean, pero ellos no lo saben. Amber no recuerda que fue lo que le sucedió, pero sospecha que su marido tuvo algo que ver en ello. Alternando entre su paralizado presente, la semana anterior a su accidente y un diario de su niñez veinte años atrás, este perturbador thriller psicológico hará preguntarnos:...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
Description
Sabbage was forty-eight years old and happily married with a four-year old daughter when she was diagnosed with late-stage lung cancer. Since then, she's been on a remarkable journey of healing and renewal that has reshaped her life-- for the better. Here she calls for an end to "the war on cancer" and the start of a more transformative dialogue with the disease.
Sophie Sabbage tenía 48 años y estaba felizmente casada con una hija de 4 años...
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
An ambitious, anxious young doctor is eager to impress his superiors and colleagues. He steps in when an 18-year-old patient Diane is admitted for a kidney infection and gets the much-needed boost of self-esteem he craves. But things take a dark turn as his enthusiasm begins to become an obsession.
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Edition
Segunda edición.
Language
Español
Description
En este su primer libro, Raquel Marugán nos narra su propia experiencia personal tras haber sido diagnosticada de un cáncer de garganta. Este giro inesperado supone un punto de inflexión en su vida. Una forma de vivir que la atrapó para siempre. Una crónica que empezaba en el país de la incertidumbre y acaba en el mundo de la esperanza. Una travesía apasionante en la que el cáncer la llevó a cruzar la frontera entre lo ordinario...
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
1a edición en rústica de Atria Books.
Language
Español
Description
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.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
Primera edición: Abril de 2023.
Language
Español
Description
"Nueva York, 2017. Cora Merlo, médico residente de primer año, sufre un infarto fulminante que la obliga a un trasplante de corazón. Aún convaleciente la joven recibe la visita de una extraña mujer con una enigmática oferta: pasar unos días en Steelville, un pequeño pueblo de interior, para conocer la vida de su hijo Charles, el donante de su corazón. Cora se adentra así en un hogar lleno de secretos, en un misterio que se extiende...
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