Lurlene McDaniel books

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Reaching Through Time: Three Novellas (2011)

Not quite done this book yet, but Lurlene McDaniel never seems to disappoint me. This book includes three short stories which are not in the medical/life altering genre McDaniel usually contributes to. I have yet one more story to read and when I am finished this book, I will give my full thought...

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A Time to Die (1992)

Sixteen-year-old Kara Fischer hadn’t ever considered herself lucky. She doesn’t understand why she was born with cystic fibrosis. Each day she faces an uncertain future. But the close-knit bond she develops with Eric and Vince gives her the hope to live one day at a time. When an anonymous benefa...

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Let Him Live (2011)

Megan Charnell is a teenage girl who has just lost her best friend, Cindy, who died in a car crash. Her parents get very worried about her. During the summer, her father volunteers her to be a candy striper, and she reluctantly follows through with the plan. She unexpectedly finds a new friend...

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The Girl Death Left Behind (1999)

Readers will be touched and inspired by this latest novel from bestselling author Lurlene McDaniel: Beth's world has been torn apart. She cannot figure out how to go on when a car accident claims the lives of her entire family, and she is the only survivor. Things seem to get even worse when s...

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Sixteen and Dying (2010)

You don't know me, but I know about you....I can't make you live longer. I can't stop you from hurting. But I can give you one wish, as someone did for me.It's hard for Anne Wingate and her father to accept the doctors' diagnosis: Anne is HIV positive. Seven years earlier, before blood screening ...

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Until Angels Close My Eyes (2010)

This story is about a young girl who's mom remarried and she never really cared for her step father until, she found out he had cancer and she realized he was the second most important person to her, next to her mom. The book teaches you that you really don't know till its gone. I know that is a ...

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No Time to Cry (2003)

Approaching her sixteenth birthday, Dawn Rochelle is starting high school. She hopes that at a new school with new students she can put the stigma of cancer behind her. Dawn desperately wants to keep her school life separate from her cancer life. Dawn soon realizes that her desires won't easil...

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Mourning Song (1992)

Mourning Song is a dramatic modern day novel which explores the repercussions of death. Dani and Cassie have already lost their father at young ages when Cassie at seventeen is diagnosed with cancer. She has only a few months left in life and McDaniel explores the consequences of this for not onl...

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Angel of Mercy (2007)

One of these things is like all the others. True to the stereotypical Lurlene McDaniel story, this novel is a tale of eighteen-year-old Heather’s search for the greater meaning in life after death. Heather, having left her family as a volunteer to go help small daycares and schools in Africa, imm...

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Lifted Up by Angels (1997)

The companion to the Publishers Weekly bestseller Angels Watching Over Me.This inspirational novel follows the story of Leah and her friendship with the Amish family she met while hospitalized for cancer treatment. When Leah takes a summer job near their Amish community, she is happy to be near ...

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Angels Watching Over Me (1996)

Let's see...I sorta kinda forgot to write this review so we'll see what I can recall. Had I read this book when I was 8 or 9 or so, I probably would have loved this book. I'm not sure exactly what age group this book and others by this author are aimed for but everything was so simple, it seemed ...

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Please Don't Die (2010)

Katie O'Connor has always had a bad heart. She receives a call that says they have a heart for her, and she got a heart transplant. A few days later, she gets one last wish; money with a note attached to it. About a year later she received an invitation to come to Jenny House where there will be ...

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For Better, For Worse, Forever (1997)

Grief-stricken by the loss of Mark Gianni, April Lancaster and her parents have gone to the island of St. Croix for an extended vacation. One day on the beach, April meets bitter, lonely 18-year-old Brandon Benedict. Brandon blames his father for his mother's recent suicide. April is still trying...

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Reach for Tomorrow (1999)

Katie O'Roark is thrilled to learn that Jenny House is being rebuilt. After the fire last year, Katie thought she could never return to the camp, where she spent the summers with teens like her who faced medical odds stacked against them. But thanks to Richard Holloway's efforts, Katie and her lo...

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Briana's Gift (2006)

Thirteen-year-old Casey's mother always said that Casey's sixteen-year-old sister marched to the beat of a different drummer. But it isn't until Briana runs away with an older boy that Casey begins to understand what her mother meant. When Briana returns home alone and pregnant, Casey and her mot...

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All the Days of Her Life (1994)

Out of control - that's how Lacey Duval feels in almost every aspect of her life. There's nothing she can do about her parents divorce, there's nothing she can do about the death of her young friend, there's nothing she can do about having diabetes - that's what Lacey believes.After a special sum...

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The Legacy: Making Wishes Come True (1993)

Who is JWC and how was the One Last Wish Foundation created? Discover the tragic story behind a struggle for survival against impossible odds. Follow the interwining story of true love and friendships that compelled JWC to dedicate a life and legacy to helping others in this extraordinary novel o...

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The End of Forever (2007)

Somewhere Between Life and DeathFor sisters Amy and Erin, the night of their high school drama group's cast party starts out as fun, but their lives come crashing down when Amy takes the car to get more food and has a horrible accident. Now Amy lies somewhere between life and death. Erin and her ...

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When Happily Ever After Ends (2010)

Fifteen-year-old Shannon Campbell knew her father had been troubled since he served in the Vietnam War, but his violent suicide still shocks her. Shannon always shared so much with her father--why wasn't her love enough to make him want to live? As Shannon and her mother try to make sense of his ...

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The Time Capsule (2005)

In first grade, twins Alexis and Adam wrote down what they wanted to be when they grew up and put it in their teacher’s time capsule. Now entering their senior year in high school, they are surprised to find out what they wrote: Alexis wanted to “help people” and Adam wanted to be a fireman. But ...

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If I Should Die Before I Wake (Young Adult Fiction) (2004)

Fourteen-year-old Deanne decides to spend her summer vacation helping in the oncology ward of the hospital and risks having her heart broken when she befriends a young man dying of cancer.

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I'll Be Seeing You (1996)

Carley Mattea never expected to become friends with a boy as handsome as Kyle Westin--especially not in the hospital. Seventeen-year-old Kyle was blinded when a chemistry experiment exploded. His doctors don't know whether he'll get his vision back, and he's deeply depressed. Carley understands h...

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Mother, Please Don't Die (2005)

Feisty 13-year-old Megan McCaffery is proud to be a tomboy, and she just can't relate to the "southern belles" in her hometown of Charleston, South Carolina. Her older sister, Audrey, is driving her crazy with constant talk about her upcoming wedding. When a popular girl at school takes an intere...

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A Horse for Mandy (2004)

Mandy's greatest dream has just come true--she got her very own horse for her thirteenth birthday! But her best friend Laura is being kind of distant. Is she jealous?

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Why Did She Have to Die? (2001)

What do you do with an older sister who is smart, pretty, popular, and perfect? What do you do when you realize she's the best sister ever? What do you do when you find out she's gone...and you didn't get to say goodbye? Thirteen-year-old Elly Rowan asks herself those questions—and one more... W...

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Kathleen's Story (2006)

It's the summer after sophomore year and Raina has convinced her best friends since the sixth grade, Kathleen and Holly, to spend their summer as "pink angels" in Parker-Sloan General Hospital's summer volunteer program. Kathleen is reluctant to do it - she has enough responsibility at home carin...

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A Rose for Melinda (2002)

Told in letters, journal entries, e-mails, doctors’ reports, and instant messages, the heartbreaking story of an aspiring ballet dancer battling leukemia. From: Melinda Skye To: Readers Subject: Jesse Hi! I can’t believe it. What a surprise from Jesse. When he got my e-mail about being accepte...

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My Secret Boyfriend (Young Adult Fiction) (2004)

Jordan Sterling has had a boring summer, unlike the other girls at her high school. When she hears story after story of fun summer romances, Jordan decides she has to come up with her own special boyfriend. She brags about Ryan, a gorgeous guy she met "over the summer." But Ryan is a real person ...

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Don't Die, My Love (1995)

Julie Ellis and Luke Muldenhower have always been school sweethearts. Now both are in high school and deeply in love. Luke, a talented football player, is almost certain to receive an athletic scholarship to a top college. And no matter what her parents say, wherever Luke goes, Julie intends to f...

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Raina's Story (2009)

Raina is happy and relieved that her friends Kathleen and Holly found volunteering at the hospital rewarding. They loved their summers at the hospital so much they will be working for credit during their junior year. Raina is also looking forward to spending as much time as possible with Hunter d...

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So Much to Live for (2003)

Since her bone marrow transplant, Dawn Rochelle has been free of leukemia symptoms. It is summer, and she is off to cancer camp. Dawn had planned on working the whole summer with Rhonda in her uncle's ice cream parlor. She really wanted to put the whole idea of leukemia behind her, but Joan Cl...

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Six Months to Live (2003)

I bought this book when i was in the 3rd grade if i remember right (I Have the first published addition). I bought it and Mother Please Don't Die and Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep all at our Book Fair that year. The reason i bought the book was because when i was reading the back the word "CANCER"...

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Baby Alicia Is Dying (2010)

Desi thinks it's totally unfair that innocent baby Alicia was born HIV positive. Now the eight-month-old Alicia lives at Childcare because she was given away by her sick teenage mother. Desi can relate to feeling unloved. Her parents give her all the material things she needs, but there seems to ...

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Angel of Hope (2000)

When Heather Barlow returns from Africa, the joy she felt during her missionary trip fades. She's still suffering from unresolved grief over the death of her friend Ian, and now that she's back home in the United States, she feels directionless. And while Heather has changed a great deal, her f...

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A Season for Goodbye (1995)

Together again. It's been a year since Katie O'Roark, Chelsea James, and Lacey Duval shared a special summer at Jenny House. The girls have each spent the year struggling to fit into the world of the healthy. Now they're back, this time as "big sisters" to a new group of girls who also face life-...

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Saving Jessica (1996)

Jessica McMillian and Jeremy Travino are a perfect couple. But now Jessica has been diagnosed as having kidney failure. She is on dialysis three days a week and is so depressed that she's not sure she wants to live. Her one hope for a normal life is a kidney transplant, but she's an only chi...

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She Died Too Young (1994)

I think that this book is a very life changing book because of its realistic feel the book will catch your eye for those who are interested in books like this if you are in a situtation where you think life is to precious to live read this book. the story starts off with 3 girls named chealse,kat...

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Garden of Angels (2005)

Although this book had an overall cute storyline and generally likable characters, I didn't particularly enjoy the book. If it says anything, I enjoyed reading it mostly because it had a fun plastic cover that made noise every time I turned a page--a perk of checking out library books!Perhaps I a...

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Holly's Story (2007)

Pink Angels and best friends Holly, Raina, and Kathleen have been through a lot over the past year. The summer before their senior year promises to be busy but fun, as Holly and Raina return to their full-time volunteer jobs at the hospital, and Kathleen, who needs the money, works at the hospita...

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I Want to Live (2003)

I just picked this book up and finished it in one sitting. It is as good if not better than the first one, "Six Months to Live." The author specializes in writing about and for kids with tough diseases such as cancer, diabetes and even divorce. She takes Dawn through the end of her first year of ...

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How Do I Love Thee

He parked and went inside. The halls were painted a pale, institutional shade of green and smelled of chalk dust and floor wax. The old wooden floor creaked, and banks of battered lockers ran the length of the walls. He wasn't impressed, especially since his high school in the Keys had been newly...

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The Year of Luminous Love

It’s Rome.” Arie pressed her nose to the plane’s window, watching the clouds part and shred like paper as the plane descended over a great sprawling city. “Where? I can’t see a thing with your head in the way,” Eden grumbled. Arie leaned back, tears misting her eyes. She glanced across the aisle ...

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Prey

I wait at a certain bus stop, get into her car when she drives up and ride with her to another part of town, where we go into a coffee shop.“It's my favorite coffeehouse,” she says when we're inside, where it's dark and the walls are lined with booths for privacy.Blue lights shine over the coffee...

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Reaching Through Time

Organized and efficient. Tasks include cataloging artifacts for college professor. Good hourly wage. Applicant must apply in person. 13 Sandstone Mountain. Drake Iverson looked at the ad for the first job he’d been interested in pursuing in his two-week-long daily search. Not a lot out there for ...

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If I Should Die Before I Wake

The lake was large and deep navy blue in color. Its shoreline was lined with tall pines on its west bank and grass on its east bank. Homes and cottages dotted various clearings all around it. The long shadows of evening were stretching across the shores of the lake when th...

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Always and Forever (2010)

I want to talk to you.” Jory turned in the school’s crowded hallway and spotted Lyle. “What do you want?” She wasn’t in a good mood and knew it. “I heard Melissa is back in the hospital. Is that true?” “Doesn’t anyone have anything else to gossip about around this place?” “It’s not gossip, Jory. ...

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Breathless

Travis shakes his head. “Nothing. Guy talk.” Cooper won’t look me in the eye. He studies his hands. “I don’t believe you,” I say. “Believe what you want,” Travis says. “Why are you up?” “I heard voices.” Not true. I’m having trouble sleeping. I have bad dreams and wake up feeling scared to death....

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Losing Gabriel (2016)

Dawson stood in the doorway of his father’s hospital office, hands braced on either side of the door frame. Franklin, stuffing papers in his briefcase, looked up, startled. “Who’s gone?” “Sloan. She just up and left.” His eyes widened. “Are you sure?” “Hell yes, I’m sure! She promised me she woul...

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Heart to Heart (2010)

Elowyn’s favorite flavor. By the time Arabeth returned with a tray holding two water glasses and two bowls of ice cream, I had regained some composure. She set the tray on the table next to the scrapbook and handed me my dish of ice cream. I stared into the cold mixture, realizing I hadn’t eaten ...

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Keep Me in Your Heart

He slammed on the brakes and blasted the car’s horn, but the rider on the back, dressed in black leather and a streamlined helmet, flashed him an obscene gesture as the cycle’s driver sped off with a roar. Nathan took deep breaths. Another car snaked past him and a voice yelled, “Hey, buddy, park...

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Wishes and Dreams (2014)

Ciana Beauchamp had noticed the duo as she passed a window inside her house but hadn’t paid them much mind. Horseback riders often passed her property on the road fronting her land. Yet this pair had been motionless at the entrance for a while. She couldn’t see them clearly. Gloom from the darken...

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