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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorTalk Before Sleep
Elizabeth Berg · 240 pages
What do women talk about when they know they don't have forever? They talk about what they have always talked about, only they go deeper and are more honest; with outrageous humor they try to mitigate pain. Intimate and uncensored sharing, the kind of connection women prize, is at the heart of this deeply moving novel about the grit and power of female friends. Ann and Ruth have always talked as
My Best Friend's Girl
Dorothy Koomson · 448 pages
Six Months to Live
Lurlene McDaniel · 144 pages
A Time for Dancing
Davida Wills Hurwin · 265 pages
Seventeen-year-old best friends Samantha and Juliana tell their stories in alternating chapters after Juliana is diagnosed with cancer.
Firefly Lane
Kristin Hannah · 552 pages
From the New York Times bestselling author of On Mystic Lake comes a powerful novel of love, loss, and the magic of friendship. . . . In the turbulent summer of 1974, Kate Mularkey has accepted her place at the bottom of the eighth-grade social food chain. Then, to her amazement, the “coolest girl in the world” moves in across the street and wants to be her friend. Tully Hart seems to have it a
The Probability of Miracles
Wendy Wunder · 360 pages
The Fault in Our Stars
John Green · 318 pages
Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel's story is about to be completely rewritten.
The Mother's Promise
Sally Hepworth · 390 pages
Before I Die
Jenny Downham · 332 pages
A terminally ill teenaged girl makes and carries out a list of things to do before she dies.
A Brief Chapter in My Impossible Life
Dana Reinhardt · 210 pages
Simone's starting her junior year in high school. Her mom's a lawyer for the ACLU, her dad's a political cartoonist, so she's grown up standing outside the organic food coop asking people to sign petitions for worthy causes. She's got a terrific younger brother and amazing friends. And she's got a secret crush on a really smart and funny guy--who spends all of his time with another girl.Then her b
The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot
Marianne Cronin · 352 pages
The Brilliant Light of Amber Sunrise
Matthew Crow · 396 pages
Francis is determined to forge his own way in school and life despite his loony, awkward, broken family ... and noticeable lack of friends. Then he is diagnosed with leukemia. It wasn t part of his strategy, but there are moments when he can see the upside. After all, people are nice to you when you re sick.
The Art of Saying Goodbye
Ellyn Bache · 335 pages
Paisley Lamm's terminal cancer helps her and her four friends suddenly appreciate their memorable life experiences, their own families and their lifestyles.
A Walk to Remember
Nicholas Sparks · 240 pages
There was a time when the world was sweeter....when the women in Beaufort, North Carolina, wore dresses, and the men donned hats.... Every April, when the wind smells of both the sea and lilacs, Landon Carter remembers 1958, his last year at Beaufort High. Landon had dated a girl or two, and even once sworn that he'd been in love. Certainly the last person he thought he'd fall for was Jamie, the s
The Memory Book
Lara Avery · 376 pages
When a rare genetic disorder steals away her memories and then her health, teenaged Sammie records notes in a journal to her future self, documenting moments great and small.
First Love
James Patterson, Emily Raymond · 336 pages
Runaways Axi, sixteen, and Robinson, seventeen, who met on a cancer ward, leave small-town Oregon on a cross-country trip to experience the best of life before it is too late.
Something Like Happy
Eva Woods · 424 pages
"Annie Hebden is stuck. Stuck in her boring job, with her irritating roommate, in a life no thirty-five-year-old would want. But deep down, Annie is still mourning the terrible loss that tore a hole through the perfect existence she'd once taken for granted--and hiding away is safer than remembering what used to be. Until she meets the eccentric Polly Leonard"--Amazon.com.
Before I Go
Colleen Oakley · 328 pages
On the eve of what was supposed to be a triumphant "Cancerversary" with her husband, Jack, to celebrate three years of being cancer-free, Daisy suffers a devastating blow: her doctor tells her that the cancer is back, but this time it's an aggressive stage four diagnosis. She may have as few as four months left to live. She's terrified of what will happen to her brilliant but helpless husband when
Wish You Were Here
Renee Carlino · 353 pages
"You know when you're looking at someone and you can't help but smile at how oblivious they are to their own charm? That's what was happening to me, and it was making me feel happy. Euphoric. Something indescribable. It was like we already knew each other, like we had met in a previous life. Memories that didn't exist began exploding in my mind like fireworks."
A Summer to Die
Lois Lowry · 154 pages
Thirteen-year-old Meg envys her sister's beauty and popularity. Her feelings don't make it any easier for her to cope with Molly's strange illness and eventual death.
Sign Language
Amy Ackley
Teenaged Abby must deal with her feelings about her father's cancer and its aftermath while simultaneously navigating the difficult problems of growing up.
One
Sarah Crossan · 393 pages
Despite problems at home, sixteen-year-old conjoined twins Tippi and Grace are loving going to school for the first time and making real friends when they learn that a cardiac problem will force them to have separation surgery, which they have never before considered.
The Girls
Lori Lansens · 412 pages
'I have never looked into my sister's eyes. I have never bathed alone. I have never stood in the grass at night and raised my arms to a beguiling moon. I've never used an aeroplane bathroom. Or worn a hat. Or been kissed like that...So many things I've never done, but oh, how I've been loved. And, if such things were to be, I'd live a thousand times as me, to be loved so exponentially' The girls,