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89) Hard hit
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A rising high school baseball star faces his most difficult challenge when his father is diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.
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Publisher Marketing: Kate Montclair is dying. She has arrived at late middle age loveless, childless, and having failed to achieve the career dreams of her youth. Now diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor, she sees the next fourteen months of suffering as an intolerable prospect. Kate is desperate -- not only for a miracle cure, but some sense that her life, and life itself, amounts to something more than a catastrophe. When she sees an advertisement...
92) Sort of forever
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Twelve-year-olds Cady and Nana explore the strengths of their special friendship as they cope with Nana's cancer.
93) The specter
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A seventeen-year-old orphan with Hodgkin's disease becomes very involved with her new hospital roommate, a nine-year-old girl who insists that the man who killed her father is trying to kill her.
94) Ida B-- y sus planes para potenciar la diversión, evitar desastres y (posiblemente) salvar el mundo
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In Wisconsin, fourth-grader Ida B spends happy hours being home-schooled and playing in her family's apple orchard, until her mother begins treatment for breast cancer and her parents must sell part of the orchard and send her to public school.
96) Upside-down cake
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A nine-year-old boy tries to come to terms with his grief and anger when his father develops cancer, gradually becomes weaker and weaker, and then dies.
97) Gold star sister
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While watching her grandmother cope with the last stages of cancer, thirteen-year-old Carrie comes to know her better through letters she and her long-dead brother wrote to each other during World War II.
98) The paper chain
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When Mom gets cancer all of the family's routines are disrupted, but with surgery, chemotherapy, radiation and rest, she eventually gets well enough to do the things they did before she got sick.
100) Pink October
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From domestic abuse and infidelity to second chances and a "different" relationship, the members of a south suburban-based support group learn that there's a lot more life to live after battling breast cancer.