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361) Seize the day
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Calvin Jones' life is finally on the right course. Then a routine checkup reveals cancer. The oncologist offers him chemotherapy to extend his life, but Calvin declines . . . and decides to live the best he can while he can. What happens next is extraordinary.
362) Tucked
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
When veteran, 74-year-old drag queen Jackie Collins receives a diagnosis with six weeks left to live, all he wants to do is perform his long-running act, and behave as if all is normal. But between a surprising new friendship with a rising young queen called Faith and unfinished business with his estranged daughter, he may just have the most eventful month and a half of his life.
365) Gold star
Publisher
Dreamscape Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Vicki, a young music-school dropout struggling to make sense of her aimless life, becomes the primary caretaker for her dying ninety-year-old father.
366) Magical girl
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Español
Description
A man searching to grant his ill daughter's wish, a disturbed woman, and a math teacher who has become a criminal find their paths crossing.
367) Before I'm gone
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Palmer Sinclair has never needed anyone's help. A successful loan officer, she's all work and no play. But when splitting headaches and blurred vision begin to affect her job, she begrudgingly sees a doctor and receives a diagnosis that leaves her shaken to her core and with little time left. Facing an uncertain future, Palmer makes a bucket list, determined to do the things she'd only dreamed of before she goes. Kent Wagner has dedicated his life...
369) 100 yards
Publisher
RLJE Films
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A talented but troubled college football player turns down an offer to play for the NFL to search for his missing mother.
370) Natural selection
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Having discovered that her dying husband has an illegitimate child living in Florida, a devout Christian housewife leaves her sheltered world on a mission to reunite father and son.
Publisher
Burning Hay Wagon Productions
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
"Motivated by their personal experiences with loss, two long-time friends-one a hospice worker and the other a State Teacher of the Year-present a powerful and inspiring film on the American struggle with communication and preparation at the end-of-life. Consider the Conversation examines multiple perspectives on end-of-life care and includes interviews with patients, family members, doctors, nurses, clergy, social workers, and national experts from...
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009?]
Language
English
Description
Rebel without a cause (1955): The adolescent son of a well-to-do family gets into trouble with other kids and the police.
East of Eden (1955): A wayward Salinas Valley youth vies for the affection of his hardened father with his favored brother.
Cat on a hot tin roof (1958): A drama of the problems of a wealthy but decadent family in the South.
A streetcar named Desire (1951): Set in the steamy squalor of New Orleans, the story of a neurotic woman's...
Series
Criterion collection volume 495
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Two people who feel they have not achieved much in life meet and fall in love; a ruthless boss brings in a younger man, hoping to force his aging assistant to resign; a bumbling young man who turns everything he touches into a disaster is drafted into the Air Force during the Cold War; boxer Mountain Rivera deliberately loses a fight to save his manager who bet against his winning; the star pitcher of a New York team makes sure the last season of...
Series
Publisher
DistriMax Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Español
Description
Pamplona, June 2001. Camino, a lovely, sweet child is living her final moments in a hospital ward. Surrounded by family, friends, priests and an unusual number of hospital staff she is an almost supernatural example of a serene, happy death. In an atmosphere of saintliness when it seems that death is now inevitable, something extraordinary happens in the room.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Now, voyager: A young woman escapes the smothering influence of her wealthy and very conservative mother through the help of a psychiatrist and an ocean cruise where she finds love, helping her to become her own person.
Dark victory: The life of a fast-moving Long Island socialite skids to a stop when she discovers that she has less than a year to live.
Old acquaintance: Old friends Kit Marlowe and Millie Drake adopt contrasting lifestyles: Kit...