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From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans, comes an unforgettable edge-of-your-seat mystery that is at once heartbreakingly tender and morally courageous about what it means to be human. Hailsham seems like a pleasant English boarding school, far from the influences of the city. Its students are well tended and supported, trained in art and literature, and become just the sort of people the world wants...
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CRIME & MYSTERY. While the federal government is launching a national investigation on the equity of organ distribution, a female tech CEO flies across the country to get a liver transplant. Soon, well-respected transplant nurse Sarah Golden and her best friend, Jackie, find themselves tangled up in an intense plot to uncover the answer to the question on everyone s mind: Can you buy your way up to the top of the waiting list? Their pursuit of justice...
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Twenty-four-year-old Edward Warren, has been living in Thailand for five years, a prodigal son who left his family after an irreparable fight with his father, Luke. But he gets a frantic phone call: his dad lies comatose, gravely injured in the same accident that has also injured his younger sister Cara. With her father's chances for recovery dwindling, Cara wants to wait for a miracle. But Edward wants to terminate life support and donate his father's...
10) One perfect day
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This is the story of two mothers, strangers to one another.
The first has two children--twins, a boy and girl, who are seniors in high school. She wants their last Christmas as a family living in the same home to be perfect, but her husband is delayed returning from a business trip abroad. And then there's an accident--a fatal one involving a drunk driver.
Meanwhile, the other mother has a daughter who needs a new heart, and so the loss of one...
11) Sorry not sorry
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Janelle and Alyssa used to be friends. Best friends. They knew each other's deepest secrets and went through the hardest times together. But that was then. Now? Their status is somewhere between frenemies and full-on rivals. Janelle is all about making a difference in her community, while Alyssa reigns over the shallowest girls in school. Until the day Alyssa collapses and is rushed to the hospital. Suddenly, everyone knows about her declining health...
13) The story of a heart: two families, one heart, and the medical miracle that saved a child's life
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Scribner
Pub. Date
2024.
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First Scribner hardcover edition.
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xxi, 232 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"One summer day, nine-year-old Keira Ball was in a terrible car accident and suffered catastrophic brain injuries. As the rest of her body began to shut down, her heart continued to beat. In an act of extraordinary generosity, Keira's parents and siblings immediately agreed that she would have wanted to be an organ donor. Meanwhile nine-year-old Max Johnson had been in a hospital for nearly a year, valiantly fighting the virus that was causing his...
14) Pound of flesh
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Phase 4 Films
Pub. Date
[2015]
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Widescreen.
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1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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In China to donate his kidney to his dying niece, former black-ops agent Deacon awakes the day before the operation to find he is the latest victim of organ theft. Stitched up and pissed-off, Deacon descends from his opulent hotel in search of his stolen kidney and carves a blood-soaked path through the darkest corners of the city. The clock is ticking for his niece and with each step he loses blood.
15) 65_Redroses
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Virgil Films & Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
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Full screen
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1 videodisc (95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A true testament of the human spirit, 65_RedRoses redefines the traditional scope of documentary film in an electronic age. This personal and touching journey takes an unflinching look into the lives of Eva Markvoort and her two online friends who are all battling Cystic Fibrosis (CF) - a fatal genetic disease affecting the lungs and digestive system. For Eva (AKA 65_RedRoses) the clock is ticking as she waits at the top of the donor list for a double...
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Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
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Widescreen and Full screen versions.
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1 videodisc (ca. 101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Frank Conner is a dedicated officer and devoted father. He'll do anything to find a bone-marrow donor for his dying son, including break into the FBI's computer and solicit the help of a ruthless killer. But when the killer escapes from the prison hospital, leaving scorched bodies in his wake, Frank must endanger innocent people or kill the only man who can save his son.
17) Tokyo ghoul
Publisher
Funimation
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Blu-ray & DVD combo edition.
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray disc + 1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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日本語
Description
Ken Kaneki's only chance for survival is an organ donation that turns him into a ghoul-human hybrid. Confused and alone, he finds sanctuary at Anteiku, a café run by the people he once considered monsters. When the innocent members of this ghoul safe house are threatened by humanity's taste for vengeance, Kaneki will risk life and limb to protect the very world that changed his own.
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