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Much ado about dying [videorecording] / by Chambers, Simon,1960-film director,on-screen participant,screenwriter.; Gale, David N.,on-screen participant.; First-Run Features (Firm),publisher.;
Simon Chambers, David N. Gale.When the filmmaker Simon Chambers receives a call from his elderly gay uncle "I think I may be dying!" he takes it as a summons. As it turns out, eccentric Uncle David, a retired actor living alone in a cluttered, mouse-infested London house, is being dramatic, sort of: For the next five years, Chambers both cares for and documents him, through all his performative exuberance (constantly acting out passages of King Lear) and anarchic charisma (swinging from boisterous humor to short temper), as various people (including a sexy young hustler) possibly take advantage of him. As their lives become encumbered by hospital visits, a house fire, and Britain's inadequate eldercare system, the younger man (also single and queer) reflects with aching honesty on what may await him in the years to come, in this moving yet hilarious film.E.DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Biographical films.; Documentary films.; Nonfiction films.; Personal narratives.; Gale, David Newlyn.; Terminally ill; Older gay men; Older people; Shakespearean actors and actresses; Uncles.;
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Goodbye to clocks ticking : how we live while dying : a memoir / by Monninger, Joseph,author.;
"After thirty-two years of teaching, Joe Monninger, an avid outdoorsman in robust health, was looking forward to a long retirement with the love of his life in a cabin beside a New England estuary. Three days after his last class, however, he's diagnosedwith terminal lung cancer, even though he has not smoked for more than 30 years. It was May, and he might be dead by early fall. Soon Joe learned, however, that he was a genetic match for treatment with a drug that could not cure his cancer, but could prolong his life. With this temporary reprieve, he sets out to live life to the fullest and to write about the year of grace that follows, from his cancer treatments to his innermost thoughts"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Monninger, Joseph; Authors, American; Authors, American; Cancer; Terminally ill;
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Lampedusa : a novel / by Price, Steven,1976-author.;
In sun-drenched Sicily, among the decadent Italian aristocracy of the late 1950s, Giuseppe Tomasi, the last prince of Lampedusa, struggles to complete a novel that will be his lasting legacy. With a firm devotion to the historical record, 'Lampedusa' leaps effortlessly into the mind of the writer and inhabits the complicated heart of a man facing down the end of his life, struggling to make something of lasting worth, while there is still time. Steven Price lives in Victoria, BC.
Subjects: Biographical fiction.; Historical fiction.; Tomasi di Lampedusa, Giuseppe, 1896-1957; Aristocracy (Social class); Authors, Italian; Terminally ill;
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Likeness : fathers, sons, a portrait / by Macfarlane, David,1952-author.;
From the author of the classic 'The Danger Tree' comes a powerful new memoir about a fathers love for his dying son. 'Likeness' is a heart-wrenching but ultimately life-affirming book about fatherhood and identity, love and grief, memory and healing. David Macfarlane lives in Toronto, ON. A Dewey Diva Pick.Book Club. Please Note: The following title was included in a previous Bestseller list; libraries may need to re-order.
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Macfarlane, David, 1952-; Macfarlane, Blake.; Parents of terminally ill children; Cancer; Fathers and sons; Bereavement.; Authors, Canadian (English);
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Breaking bad. [videorecording] / by Cranston, Bryan,1956-; Gilligan, Vince.; Gunn, Anna,1968-; Paul, Aaron,1979-; Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm);
Disc 1. Pilot -- Cat's in the bag -- and the bag's in the river.Disc 2. Cancer man -- Gray matter -- Crazy handful of nothin'.Disc 3. A no-rough-stuff type deal.Bryan Cranston, Anna Gunn, Aaron Paul, Dean Norris, Betsy Brandt, RJ Mitte.Originally broadcast on television in 2008.Walter, a modest high school chemistry teacher, discovers a new purpose in life when he learns he has terminal cancer and turns to a life of crime using his chemical knowledge to provide for his family.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby digital.
Subjects: Chemistry; Crime; Criminal behavior; Drug dealers; Ice (Drug); Television programs.; Terminally ill; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.;
© c2009., Sony Pictures Home Entertainment,
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The fault in our stars [videorecording] / by Dafoe, Willem.; Dern, Laura.; Elgort, Ansel.; Trammell, Sam.; Verbeek, Lotte,1982-; Wolff, Nat,1994-; Woodley, Shailene.; 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc.;
Shailene Woodley, Laura Dern, Sam Trammell, Willem Dafoe, Nat Wolff, Ansel Elgort, Lotte Verbeek.Hazel and Gus are two teenagers who share an acerbic wit, a disdain for the conventional, and a love that sweeps them on a journey. Their relationship is all the more miraculous given that Hazel's other constant companion is an oxygen tank, Gus jokes about his prosthetic leg, and they met and fell in love at a cancer support group.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby digital 5.1.
Subjects: Cancer in adolescence; Cancer; Feature films.; Love; Teenagers; Terminally ill; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Young women;
© 2014., 20th Century Fox,
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Heartwood : the art of living with the end in mind / by Becker, Barbara(Barbara Anne),1967-author.;
Includes bibliographical references.""We can do extraordinary things when we lead with love," Barbara Becker reminds us in her debut memoir Heartwood. When her earliest childhood friend is diagnosed with a terminal illness, Becker sets off on a quest to immerse herself in what it means to be mortal. Can we live our lives more fully knowing some day we will die? With a keen eye towards that which makes life worth living, interfaith minister, mom and perpetual seeker Barbara Becker recounts stories where life and death intersect in unexpected ways. She volunteers on a hospice floor, becomes an eager student of the many ways people find meaning at the end of life, and accompanies her parents in their final days. Becker inspires readers to live with the end in mind and proves that turning toward loss rather than away from it is the only true way to live life to its fullest. Just as with the heartwood of a tree--the central core that is no longer alive but is supported by newer growth rings--the dead become the heart of the living. With life-affirming prose, Becker helps us see that that grief is not a problem to be solved, but rather a sacred invitation--an opportunity to let go into something even greater ... a love that will inform all the days of our lives"--
Subjects: Becker, Barbara (Barbara Anne), 1967-; Becker, Barbara (Barbara Anne), 1967-; Death; Terminally ill; Grief;
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Once upon a wardrobe / by Henry, Patti Callahan,author.;
"From the bestselling author of Becoming Mrs. Lewis comes another beautiful story inspired by C. S. Lewis's ability to change the world and captivate hearts-including those of a terminally ill boy and his logic-driven sister"--
Subjects: Biographical fiction.; Historical fiction.; Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples), 1898-1963; Brothers and sisters; Hope; Terminally ill children; Women college students;
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Breaking bad. [videorecording] / by Brandt, Betsy.; Cranston, Bryan,1956-; Cruz, Raymond.; Gilligan, Vince.; Gunn, Anna,1968-; Mitte, R. J.; Norris, Dewan.; Paul, Aaron,1979-; Porter, Dave.; Slovis, Michael.; Willingham, Lynne.; American Movie Classics Company.; Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm); Sony Pictures Television.;
Disc 1. Seven thirty-seven -- Grilled -- Bit by a dead bee -- Down.Disc 2. Breakage -- Peekaboo -- Negro y azul.Disc 3. Better call Saul -- 4 days out -- Over.Disc 4. Mandala -- Phoenix -- ABQ.Director of photography, Michael Slovis ; editor, Lynne Willingham ; music, Dave Porter.Bryan Cranston, Anna Gunn, RJ Mitte, Aaron Paul, Raymond Cruz, Dean Norris, Betsy Brandt.DVD release of episodes originally broadcast on AMC in 2009.After an unremarkable chemistry teacher learns he has terminal cancer, he turns to an exciting life of crime to provide for his loved ones.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD ; anamorphic widescreen (1.78:1) presentation ; Dolby digital 5.1 surround ; region 1.Emmy Awards, 2009: Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series (Cranston); Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Drama Series
Subjects: Cancer patients; Chemistry teachers; Drug traffic; Ice (Drug); Methamphetamine; Television programs.; Terminally ill; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.;
© c2010., Sony Pictures Home Entertainment,
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Penitence : a novel / by Koval, Kristin,author.;
"When their thirteen-year-old daughter Nora kills her terminally ill brother, Angie and David Sheehan struggle to pick up the pieces of their shattered lives. They turn to small-town lawyer Martine Dumont for help, but Martine isn't just legal counsel--she's also the mother of Angie's ill-fated first love Julian, a successful criminal defense attorney. Martine promptly draws him into the legal battle against an overreaching district attorney determined to try Nora as an adult. As the families grapple with the lasting strain of blame and the complexities of an often unfair criminal justice system, Julian and Angie must confront their own culpability in a long-ago accident and the guilt they still carry over how their prior life together in New York City ended"--
Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Domestic fiction.; Legal fiction (Literature); Novels.; Criminal defense lawyers; Families; First loves; Forgiveness; Fratricide; Guilt; Siblings; Siblings; Terminally ill; Women lawyers;
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