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1) The locket
Series
Language
English
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Description
The story of a wise woman who teaches a troubled young man an invaluable lesson about not giving up easily in the quest for both real love and a fulfilling life.
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Liam White's career has peaked. Uninspired, the titular character loses his will to finish his next novel and shirks his public appearance commitments. To top it all off, Liam is told by his oncologist his cancer has returned. Resigned to the fact that his life will soon come to an end, he begins a journey of reflection as he comes to grips with his life thus far and the people who shaped him.
Series
Language
English
Description
When he was growing up, Brad started making funny noises - all the time. Only Brad and his supportive mother knew he could not control it. He was teased, misunderstood and punished for disrupting class. By the time he is diagnoes with Tourette Syndrome, Brad had learned to hate school. When an understanding school principal offers encouragement, Brad decides to become a teacher. Now he has to find a school where someone's with Tourette's in front...
6) Brian's song
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
A drama about the deep friendship between Gale Sayers, black halfback for the Chicago Bears, and his white teammate, Brian Piccolo, who died of cancer in 1970.
8) Help
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
When Sarah starts a job in a nursing home, to her surprise she is really good at it. She's a natural with the residents, and begins to form a special bond with Tony, a younger resident who has early onset dementia. The home is chronically underfunded and when the Covid pandemic hits, it suffers from understaffing, sickness and heart-breaking losses.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
It is the summer of 1953 and Nurse Appleyard is rushed to a secret location where she discovers her patient is Winston Churchill, the elderly Prime Minister. Churchill has suffered a stroke and may not last the weekend. As Churchill's wife and family gather at his bedside, long-buried tensions rise to the surface.
Series
Hallmark Hall of Fame volume 41
Language
English
Formats
Description
A woman divorced by her husband following the birth of their disabled daughter receives help and support from her mother, her baby-sitter, and her former brother-in-law.
13) The Russell girl
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A young woman discovers that she has leukemia and is convinced that her illness is the punishment for a tragic accident that happened to her neighbors many years ago.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
It is the summer of 1953 and Nurse Appleyard is rushed to a secret location where she discovers her patient is Winston Churchill, the elderly Prime Minister. Churchill has suffered a stroke and may not last the weekend. As Churchill's wife and family gather at his bedside, long-buried tensions rise to the surface.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Audrey's rain: Audrey has her hands full caring for her orphaned niece, nephew and younger sister who is mentally handicapped. When her old boyfriend returns to town, they are drawn together again, but there may be too many old wounds in the way.
Life on Liberty Street: A nurse, trying to salvage her life after her husband and job are gone, works in a halfway house for brain-damaged patients and receives help from those she helps.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Christmas Child : As Christmas draws near, Jack finds himself disconnecting from the holidays, his job, and ultimately his wife. His latest assignment as a journalist takes him to Dallas, but a mysterious photograph draws him to the town of Clearwater, Texas. It is here he discovers the town's life-sized, intricately carved nativity. As Jack delves into the mysteries surrounding the nativity and its creator, he uncovers secrets from his past, reunites...
17) Beat the drum
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
A young boy looks for his uncle after a mysterious illness strikes his village and leaves him an orphan. As he tries to survive and learn about the world around him, he finds a job and returns to teach the elders of his village about truth and compassion.
Series
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
November Christmas - November Christmas is the moving story of two families, a community, and the idea that Christmas doesn't have to come just once a year.This holiday story tells how neighbors come to help a family trying to cope with their young daughter's illness. The story is narrated by the healthy adult daughter who shares her story with a group of children through a children's book she has written and illustrated. The father's (John Corbett)...
19) Gold collection
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Homeless to Harvard: Liz Murray was raised in poverty by drug-addicted parents. Though they loved her, they were unable to care for her and Liz ended up living on the streets by the age of 15. Profoundly affected by her mother's AIDS-related death, Liz forced herself to look at her future and make some significant changes. Her prospects were dismal, yet she turned her life around by going back to high school. While still homeless, Liz earned her...
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