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2) A family man
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Dane Jensen is a hard-driven, Chicago-based headhunter, working at a cut-throat job placement firm. When Dane's boss announces his retirement, he pits Dane against Lynn Vogel, Dane's equally driven, but polar opposite rival at the firm, in a battle for control of the company. As Dane gears up for the professional battle of his life, he learns his ten-year-old son, Ryan, has been diagnosed with cancer.
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Seasons volume 1
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The women of Cedar Circle band together to face their problems and reevaluate their lives.
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"The Fairway Players, an amateur theater group, are in the middle of rehearsals for their production of Arthur Miller's All My Sons when tragedy strikes the family of director Martin Hayward and his wife, Helen. Their young granddaughter is diagnosed with a rare form of cancer and faces an experimental treatment that costs a tremendous sum, so their fellow castmates rally to raise the money to give her a chance at survival. But not everybody is convinced...
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Red gloves volume 1
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"Holiday tale of a man who has lost all hope, an irrepressible child suffering from a terrible illness and the one small act of love and faith that will give them both the greatest gift of all."--Jacket.
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When Ryan dies in Afghanistan, he leaves a letter asking that his friend Beckett watch over his sister, Ella. Beckett has already been corresponding with her under his nickname, Chaos, and after leaving the service he goes to visit Ella, who is the mother of twins. One of the twins has been diagnosed with leukemia, and Ella is dealing with the illness while running a business-- singlehandedly. When Beckett becomes part of Ella's life, will his promise...
12) Hopeful notes
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Alex, an Italian engineer, has been working in Russia for several years. At the end of his contract, he announces to his friends and colleagues that he will go back to Italy. But, after accidentally meeting Dima, a child who is a cancer patient in a local hospital, he decides to reconsider his future. The boy introduces Alex to the other young patients of his ward, where he decides to volunteer by playing piano.
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"I'm a fabulist by trade," warns Gabriel Noone, a late-night radio storyteller, as he begins to untangle the skeins of his tumultuous life: his crumbling ten-year love affair, his disaffection from his Southern father, his longtime weakness for ignoring reality. Gabriel's most sympathetic listener is Pete Lomax, a thirteen-year-old fan in Wisconsin whose own horrific past has left him wise and generous beyond his years. But when this virtual father-son...
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"On a cold winter's eve, deep in the woods, a mother shrew frets about her sick young son. His head is cold and his feet are hot, and there is only one thing that can cure him: wild honey from the moon. Mother Shrew does not stop to wonder how she will make such an impossible journey. Instead, she grabs her trusty red umbrella, gives her darling son a kiss, and sets out into the unknown. Along the way, Mother Shrew encounters one obstacle after another,...
17) A distant music
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Maggie MacAuley and her friend Summer Rankin try to help Jonathan Stuart, a respected teacher in the one-room schoolhouse, hold onto hope when his cherished flute is stolen.
18) The wonder
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"Tourists flock to the cabin of eleven-year-old Anna O'Donnell, who is said to be living without food, and a journalist is sent to cover the sensation. Lib Wright, a veteran of Florence Nightingale's Crimean campaign, is hired to keep watch over the girl. As Anna's life ebbs away, Lib finds herself responsible not just for the care of a child but for that child's very survival. Haunting and magnetic, The Wonder is a searing examination of doubt, faith,...
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Hallmark Hall of Fame volume 71
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Vanessa Marks returns to her hometown library to read to children the book that she wrote, "November Christmas." The book is about her serious illness as a child and how her family and community teamed up to move Halloween to August and Christmas to November to help her.
