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Billionaire Miles Cookson is diagnosed with a terminal illness, and there is a 50 percent chance that it can be passed on to the next generation. He finds out that he may have nine children from donating his sperm. As he begins to search for them, film documentarian Chloe Swanson sets out to find her biological father who she knows was a sperm donor. When Miles and Chloe eventually connect, their jubilation is overshadowed by the fact that the other...
4) Here and now
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Follows a singer in New York City after she receives a bleak medical diagnosis and struggles to process the news while preparing for a local performance and encountering family, friends, and colleagues.
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Sandrine's parents are dead-or they are about to be. Her father, certainly; her mother, not quite yet. Alone and suffering from an incurable disease, the eleven-year-old girl finds companionship in her doctor, Tiresias, who morphologically changes sex in unpredictable ways and seemingly without anyone noticing.
The Neptune Room, a melancholic tale about the mysteries of identity and the power dynamics associated with it, opens a door unto a universe...
7) Babyteeth
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"Milla, a seriously ill teenager falls in love with a drug dealer, Moses, her parents worst nightmare"--From www.imdb.com.
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Nic Pizzolatto, creator of HBO's True Detective, was a fiction finalist for the National Magazine Award and his story collection, Between Here and the Yellow Sea, was long-listed for the Frank O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. His story "The Guild of Thieves" was the Honorable Mention for the 2007 Pushcart Prize, and George Pelecanos selected his "Wanted Man" for inclusion in the Best American Mystery Stories 2009. Now Pizzolatto expands his talents...
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A wrenching novel of family, climate change, and the resilience of the human spirit-- an elegy to our disappearing world. In a world of perennial fire and growing extinctions, Anna's aged mother is dying-- if her three children would just allow it. Condemned by their pity to living, subjected to increasingly desperate medical interventions, she instead turns her focus to her hospital window, through which she escapes into visions of horror and delight....
15) My phantoms
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"Helen Grant, known to her acquaintances as Hen, is a mystery to her daughter. An extrovert with few friends who has sought intimacy in the wrong places; a twice-divorced mother of two now living alone surrounded by her memories, Helen has always haunted Bridget. Now Bridget sees Helen once a year, and considers the problem to be contained. As she looks back on their tumultuous relationship-the performances and small deceptions-she tries to reckon...
16) Ms. Purple
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When a woman learns that her father is dying, she and her brother reconnect over their shared past.
17) Song for hope
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When diagnosed with terminal cancer, a world-renowned trumpet soloist proves art is essential to survival.
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"The authoritative, informative, and practical follow up to BEING MORTAL, on end-of-life care for patients over the age of 65. Most people say they would like to die quietly at home. But overly aggressive medical advice, coupled with an unrealistic sense of invincibility, results in the majority of elderly patients misguidedly dying in institutions while undergoing painful procedures, instead of having the better and more peaceful death they desired....
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"When Joy Pride, a groovy 70's burn-out on the caboose of the flower power movement, learns she has weeks to live, her estranged children come together to do right by a mother who always did them wrong. Mother's Little Helpers is a funny dysfunctional-family drama, based on true events and inspired by true lies, about how family ties can twist and tear you - and though they may not break you, they might send you to prison. It explores the "OK, Boomer"...
20) Five days left
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Two different storylines about families having to come to terms with letting go of loved ones.
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