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"I don't know what to say" and "I don't know what to do" are common responses to a life-threatening diagnosis. Voices of Cancer is here to help. Every cancer story is different, but there is one commonality: both patients and the people supporting them often struggle to properly articulate their wants and needs through particularly challenging and… Continue reading Voices of Cancer: What We Really Want, What We Really Need by Lynda Wolters
Becki is fifty and a single mum to eleven-year-old Jemima, after being widowed five years ago. Dan is forty-eight and a single dad to eleven-year-old Freddie, after his wife left him five years ago. They have both given up on love. But when they all go to Silver Sands Bay on the Lincolnshire coast for… Continue reading Starting Again in Silver Sands Bay by Karen Louise Hollis
Bethany Cross is ready for the mother of all fresh starts. No more self-sacrifice. No more city smog. And definitely no more lying, cheating ex-husbands who make divorce proceedings an actual living hell. Instead: Cotswolds. Country air. Candle making. But when her Yorkshire Terrier, Poppy, makes the “acquaintance” of a rather virile Dachshund, the irritatingly… Continue reading Always Beth by Louise Hudson
Life is full of highs and lows, but it’s who helps us through that counts. Stumbling across her teenage diaries in her childhood home, Charlie is instantly transported to the 1990s. Charlie relives all the emotions and feelings as memories come flooding back, from first kiss to first love and everything in between. Back in… Continue reading I Love You, Always, Forever by Charlie Dean
With Jo's future changed forever, it's time to embrace a new chapter in her life. One which will take her away from her Cornish home and the ex-boyfriend who's living the life which should have been theirs. But crossing paths with local surfer Ben before she leaves wasn't part of the plan. Seven years ago… Continue reading A Perfect Cornish Sunset by Kelly Tink
She’s sworn off men. He’s too busy raising his daughter to be looking for love. When the two damaged hearts collide…how can they stay away? Walking in on her fiancé’s side piece wearing her dream wedding dress turned Charlotte Rowe’s heart to ice. So she focuses on becoming the best pediatric oncologist Chicago had ever… Continue reading Second Chance Heart (Second Chance #2) by Rebecca Barber
Seventeen years old. Rich. Hot. Captain of the Drone War team. Head prefect of a surreally elite boarding school. Tremmy is dying.His illness strips everything from him—including the support of his teachers and friends who once nurtured his bright future. Worst of all, his best friend’s meteoric rise has come at the expense of Tremmy’s… Continue reading The Momentous Expiration of Tremmy Sinclair by Michael F. Stewart
Once a man who lived by the letter of the law.Newt Tobias will do anything for his little girl. Even take early retirement, sell his city home, and move to cottage country, hoping that the simpler life will provide a better balance for his troubled teenage daughter.Yet, not long after they’ve settled, he finds himself… Continue reading A Change of Pace (Northern Lights, #3) by Freya Barker
They were friends—just friends. Now they’re something else entirely… JasonMaggie was my best friend’s girl. When he died… I don’t have the words. Indescribable pain.But we healed. Together. She got me through my illness and became my friend, my confidant, my family. She’s everything to me.And I ruined it all last night.One drunken night. That’s… Continue reading Lost on the Way (West Side #4) by Isabel Jolie
I am a man who wants to serve others. Charles "Chuck" Thompson had terminal brain cancer, and he had decisions to make. He had "climbed many mountains, but this one was going to take spiritual strength to conquer". He was determined to keep a positive attitude and keep going by giving everyone a smile, a… Continue reading The Mountain by Charles G. Thompson
This book is an epistolary novel which means it is written in letters. The interesting part is that the letters are written by one person only. You would think this would make it difficult to follow how the other characters are feeling, but Ms. Robinson does an excellent job of letting the reader know. The… Continue reading The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters by Elisabeth Robinson