Best Short Stories About Cancer - April 2024

When Breath Becomes Air

• ASIN: 081298840X
• UPC: 642688054472
• ASIN: 081298840X
• ISBN: 081298840X
• Manufacturer: Random House

Embraced: 100 Devotions to Know God Is Holding You Close

Embraced is the beautiful new devotional from Lysa TerKeurst, the president of Proverbs 31 Ministries and the New York Times bestselling author of Uninvited, The Best Yes, Unglued, and Made to Crave. Embraced features 100 devotions that will resonate with women in all stages of life by giving them a godly perspective on the issues they face each day.A real embrace indicates an intimate level of closeness. It’s not a high five or a casual handshake. The best kind of embrace is when someone we know deeply loves us flings their arms wide open and pulls us in close.Our hearts were made ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1400310296
• ASIN: 1400310296
• ISBN: 1400310296
• Brand: HarperCollins Christian Pub.
• Manufacturer: Thomas Nelson

Dog Heaven

In Newbery Medalist Cynthia Rylant's classic bestseller, the author comforts readers young and old who have lost a dog,  as she did for cats in the bestselling companion book, CAT HEAVEN. Recommended highly by pet lovers around the world, DOG HEAVEN not only comforts but also brings a tear to anyone who is devoted to a pet. From expansive fields where dogs can run and run to delicious biscuits no dog can resist, Rylant paints a warm and affectionate picture of the ideal place God would, of course, create for man's best friend. The first picture book illustrated by the author, Dog Heaven is en... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0590417010
• UPC: 400307301570
• ASIN: 0590417010
• ISBN: 0590417010
• Brand: Scholastic
• Manufacturer: Blue Sky Press

The Last Lecture

• ASIN: 1401323251
• ASIN: 1401323251
• ISBN: 9781401323257
• Brand: Hyperion Books
• Manufacturer: Hyperion

Left Boob Gone Rogue: My Life With Breast Cancer

July 15, 2013 was a defining moment in the life of Dr. Uzma Yunus. On that day, at age 41, she was diagnosed with Stage III breast cancer. The diagnosis derailed an unstoppable life of achievement, first as a determined medical student in Pakistan and later as an award-winning psychiatrist in the United States. Almost immediately after learning of her condition, Dr. Yunus began writing "Left Boob Gone Rogue," a personal blog of her experiences..Her honest, unflinching, often funny look at cancer from the unique perspective of a clinician has earned her a loyal following of over 300,000 reade... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1729070817
• ASIN: 1729070817
• ISBN: 1729070817
• Manufacturer: Independently published

Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

In Being Mortal, best-selling author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: How medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its ending. Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable. But in the inevitable condition of aging and death, the goals of medicine seem too frequently to run counter to the interest of the human spirit. Nursing homes, preoccupied with safety, pin patients into railed beds and wheelchairs. Hospitals isolate the dying, checking for vital signs long after the g... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00NPAJ32S
• ASIN: B00NPAJ32S
• Manufacturer: Macmillan Audio

Red War (A Mitch Rapp Novel Book 15)

*Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller* The #1 New York Times bestselling series returns with Mitch Rapp racing to prevent Russia’s gravely ill leader from starting a full-scale war with NATO. “Mills is the only writer capable of filling the enormous void left by Vince Flynn.”—The Real Book SpyWhen Russian president Maxim Krupin discovers that he has inoperable brain cancer, he’s determined to cling to power. His first task is to kill or imprison any of his countrymen who can threaten him. Soon, though, his illness becomes serious enough to require a more dramatic diversion—war wit... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07B3WJ9X7
• ASIN: B07B3WJ9X7
• Manufacturer: Atria/Emily Bestler Books

Even if you don't.: A love story

#1 Bestseller in Love & Loss EVEN IF YOU DON'T is not a cancer story - it's a love story. And even more than that, it's the awe-inspiring life story of Kailen Combs Taylor. Kailen lived with a perpetual sense of wonder, maintaining immutable joy and resilient hope in the midst of some of life's most barbaric trials. Narrated with heartrending candor, this harrowing love story will make you laugh, cry, and frantically turn the page, often all at once. And long after you finish the book and fall back into the hectic fray of life, you may find Kailen's message still resonates in your heart: That... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1983414042
• ASIN: 1983414042
• ISBN: 1983414042
• Manufacturer: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Final Gifts: Understanding the Special Awareness, Needs, and Communications of the Dying

In this moving and compassionate classic—now updated with new material from the authors—hospice nurses Maggie Callanan and Patricia Kelley share their intimate experiences with patients at the end of life, drawn from more than twenty years’ experience tending the terminally ill. Through their stories we come to appreciate the near-miraculous ways in which the dying communicate their needs, reveal their feelings, and even choreograph their own final moments; we also discover the gifts—of wisdom, faith, and love—that the dying leave for the living to share.Filled with practical advice ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1451667256
• ASIN: 1451667256
• ISBN: 1451667256
• Brand: Simon & Schuster
• Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

A Grief Observed

Written after his wife's tragic death as a way of surviving the "mad midnight moment," A Grief Observed is C.S. Lewis's honest reflection on the fundamental issues of life, death, and faith in the midst of loss. This work contains his concise, genuine reflections on that period: "Nothing will shake a man -- or at any rate a man like me -- out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to be knocked silly before he comes to his senses. Only torture will bring out the truth. Only under torture does he discover it himself." This is a beautiful and unflinchingly honest r... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0060652381
• UPC: 099455012997
• ASIN: 0060652381
• ISBN: 0060652381
• Brand: HarperOne
• Manufacturer: HarperOne

God Hears Her: 365 Devotions for Women by Women

When you're having one of those days, you just want to know that someone is on your side. You have more than just someone  . . . you have your Heavenly Father! He is with you. He is for you. He hears your heart's cry. And He will reassure you of this through the beautifully designed, hardcover devotional collection, God Hears Her. The personal stories, Scripture passages, and inspirational quotes pulled from Our Daily Bread devotionals will lift you up and remind you that God is bigger than the trials you face.  God Hears HerContains 365 daily devotions written by women for womenMakes an ide... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1627078711
• ASIN: 1627078711
• ISBN: 1627078711
• Brand: Discovery House Publishers
• Manufacturer: Discovery House

A Monster Calls: Inspired by an idea from Siobhan Dowd

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• ASIN: 0763660655
• ASIN: 0763660655
• ISBN: 0763660655
• Brand: CANDLEWICK
• Manufacturer: Candlewick

The Tumor: A Non-Legal Thriller

John Grisham says THE TUMOR is the most important book he has ever written. In this short book, he provides readers with a fictional account of how a real, new medical technology could revolutionize the future of medicine by curing with sound. THE TUMOR follows the present day experience of the fictional patient Paul, an otherwise healthy 35-year-old father who is diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor. Grisham takes readers through a detailed account of Paul’s treatment and his family’s experience that doesn’t end as we would hope. Grisham then explores an alternate future, where Paul ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01AUYDNI6
• ASIN: B01AUYDNI6
• Manufacturer: Focused Ultrasound Foundation

Family Trust: A Novel

Some of us are more equal than others....Meet Stanley Huang: father, husband, ex-husband, man of unpredictable tastes and temper, aficionado of all-inclusive vacations and bargain luxury goods, newly diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. For years, Stanley has claimed that he’s worth a small fortune. But the time is now coming when the details of his estate will finally be revealed, and Stanley’s family is nervous.For his son Fred, the inheritance Stanley has long alluded to would soothe the pain caused by years of professional disappointment. By now, the Harvard Business School graduate had e... [Read More]

• ASIN: B077M9R84W
• ASIN: B077M9R84W
• Manufacturer: William Morrow

The 20-Month Legend: My Baby Boy's Fight with Cancer

After Steve Tate finds out his wife is expecting triplets to add to his existing family of three kids, he gets the unexpected news that one of the new babies has a brain tumor that ultimately takes his son’s life after a year of up-and-down battles with surgeries and chemotherapy.As if juggling a life with half-a-dozen kids, including triplets, isn’t enough, Steve Tate receives the life-altering news that one of his triplets, Hayes, has been diagnosed with brain cancer. The once-star collegiate football player finds himself fighting for his son’s life. This memoir takes you through the v... [Read More]

• ASIN: 168261512X
• ASIN: 168261512X
• ISBN: 168261512X
• Manufacturer: Savio Republic

100 Years of The Best American Short Stories

An award-winning short-story writer introduces the stories she has selected from such authors as Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Alexie, Roth, Updike, Oates and more, to present a decade-by-decade examination of the literary trends captured by this series

• UPC: 45056350
• Rating: 5.0

The Best American Short Stories 2018

Best-selling, award-winning, pop culture powerhouse Roxane Gay guest edits this year’s Best American Short Stories, the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short

• UPC: 746152764

More Stories about Spaceships and Cancer

Award-winning TV writer and filmmaker Casper Kelly brings his hilarious, absurdist, and dark vision to the page in this debut collection, perhaps the first with a horror host guiding you between the stories. Enter the

• UPC: 53397459
• Rating: 5.0

Us, in Progress: Short Stories about Young Latinos (Hardcover)

"In this book, you will meet many young Latinos living in the United States, from a young girl whose day at her father's burrito truck surprises her to two sisters working together to change the

• UPC: 55699590
• Rating: 4.0

The Best American Short Stories 2005

The Best American Series First, Best, and Best-SellingThe Best American series has been the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction since 1915. Each volume's series editor selects notable works from

• UPC: 34682001
• Rating: 3.75

The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoyevsky

9781420938036

• UPC: 21019188
• Rating: 4.25

The Best American Short Stories 2009

The oldest and bestselling Best American, THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 2009 will be selected by  Alice Sebold, author of the bestseller THE LOVELY

• UPC: 10976107
• Rating: 3.5

Selected Tales and Sketches (the Best Short Stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne)

"Selected Tales and Sketches" is a collection of the best short stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Collected here are the following tales: The Gray Champion, Sunday at Home, The Minister's Black Veil, The May-Pole of Merry

• UPC: 6105733
• Rating: 5.0

Best Russian Short Stories - eBook

For centuries, critics and fans alike have extolled the virtues of the Russian masters of fiction, with many ranking them among the foremost literary artists the world has ever produced. This volume collects finely crafted

• UPC: 699648974
• Rating: 3.5

The Best American Short Stories 2017

Best-selling author Meg Wolitzer guest edits this year’s Best American Short Stories, the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short

• UPC: 55971052
• Rating: 5.0