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1. The farewell
Publisher:
Lionsgate
Pub. Date:
2019
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
When a Chinese family finds out that their grandmother has only a short time left to live, they plan a family reunion before she dies without telling her.
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Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
"It's 1980, and Lillian Waters is hitting the road for the very last time. Jaded from her years in the music business, perpetually hungover, and diagnosed with career-ending vocal problems, Lillian cobbles together a nationwide farewell tour featuring some old hands from her early days playing honky-tonk bars in Washington State and Nashville, plus a few new ones. She yearns to feel the rush of making live music one more time and bask in the glow...
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Lexile measure:
730L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
Experience the power and passion of "A Farewell to Arms", Ernest Hemingway's unforgettable novel of love and war. Set against the brutal backdrop of World War I, this timeless classic follows the journey of Lieutenant Frederic Henry, an American ambulance driver in the Italian army, as he navigates the horrors of battle and the transformative power of love. When Frederic meets Catherine Barkley, a British nurse, their passionate romance becomes a...
Publisher:
First Run Features
Pub. Date:
2015
Language:
Hebrew
Description:
Tackling an extremely sensitive issue in a vibrant, humorous way, this is the story of Yehezkel and his wife Levana. Well into their 70s, they are living contented lives inside a Jerusalem retirement home. But they are shocked when their dear friend Max falls prey to an irreversible illness. Looking to escape a slow, painful death, Max asks Yehezkel for help to end his suffering.
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Publisher:
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date:
2018
Language:
English
Description:
"A profound and provocative examination of America in crisis, where unemployment, deindustrialization, and a bitter hopelessness and malaise have resulted in an epidemic of diseases of despair--drug abuse, gambling, suicide, magical thinking, xenophobia, and a culture of sadism and hate. America, says Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Chris Hedges, is convulsed by an array of pathologies that have arisen out of profound hopelessness, a bitter despair...
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Publisher:
Viva Editions
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
Description:
When her father was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, Jessica Cording's family turned their lives upside down to care for him during what he coined his "Farewell Tour"-a nod to his career in the music business. But when your loved ones need you most, who's taking care of the caregivers? Through the lens of this heartbreaking and intimate journey, Cording offers a funny, heartwarming, and unique approach to end-of-life care or caring for someone with...
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Publisher:
Wipf and Stock Publishers
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
Description:
The Farewell Suites is a collection of poems dealing with death and grief and arranged in sets focused on different members of the poet's family--a brother who committed suicide, a child who died before birth, a father who slipped into delirium as he slipped out of life. These finely crafted poems capture the movements of the heart and are stunning tributes to love, patience, acceptance, and forgiveness. Though focused on the poet's own loved ones,...
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Publisher:
Talewinds
Pub. Date:
[2000]
Language:
English
Description:
In 1772, with summer long gone and winter fast approaching, Joseph Haydn, court musician to Prince Nicholas of Esterhazy, creates a symphony that finally persuades his oblivious employer to close up his summer palace and allow the staff to return home.
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Publisher:
Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date:
2018
Language:
English
Description:
In this study, D. A. Carson illuminates Jesus's message to his disciples after the Last Supper, in which Jesus proclaims the coming of the Holy Spirit and prays for himself, his followers, and the world. D. A. Carson clearly explains what Jesus taught his disciples the night before his crucifixion. This exposition of John 14-17 helps students of the Bible appreciate Jesus's teaching on the coming and the work of the Holy Spirit, his high priestly...
Publisher:
Universal
Pub. Date:
[2014]
Language:
English
Description:
Get ready to say goodbye to Leslie Knope, the world's most dedicated government employee. The year is 2017, and Leslie's life has changed dramatically: she's now the mother of triplets and works for the National Parks Department, but, most shockingly, has become sworn enemies with her former friend and mentor, Ron Swanson. Join Leslie's final acts of determination (and sometimes desperation) to make Pawnee, "the greatest town in America," even better....
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Publisher:
Fantagraphics Books
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
Description:
The first act of this thrilling two-part adventure tale takes place in Beirut in 1941, when renegade journalist Marcel Labrume crosses paths with the beautiful and mysterious American millionaire Carol Gibson, who the Germans suspect of being a spy. With the help of Labrume, the young woman works to deliver a Jewish man wanted by the Germans to Palestine. Then, in 1942, Marcel Labrume is captured during the Battle of Bir Hacheim and becomes a prisoner...
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Series:
Midwife volume 3
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
The last book in the trilogy begun by Jennifer Worth's New York Times bestseller and the basis for the PBS series Call the Midwife. When twenty-two-year-old Jennifer Worth, from a comfortable middle-class upbringing, went to work as a midwife in the poorest section of postwar London, she not only delivered hundreds of babies and touched many lives, she also became the neighborhood's most vivid chronicler. Call the Midwife: Farewell to the East End...
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Series:
Easy Rawlins mystery volume 16
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
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"January 1970 finds Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins, LA's premier Black detective, at 50 years of age despite all expectations. He has a loving family, a beautiful home, and a thriving investigation agency. All is right with the world... and then Amethystine Stoller, his own personal Helen of Troy, arrives. Her ex-husband is missing. A simple enough case. But even as Easy takes his first step in the investigation he trips. He falls into the memory of things...