Bitter and grief-stricken after the loss of his wife and daughter, a man loses his faith in God and becomes homeless, until he encounters a seven-year-old leukemia patient determined to reach out to him

The film tells the story of Skye, a spunky teenager with a terminal illness who befriends Calvin, a 19-year old hypochondriac who is afraid of his own shadow. Calvin helps Skye carry out her eccentric bucket list of things to do before she dies. In the process, he learns to confront and conquer his own fears, including falling in love with the beautiful, but seemingly untouchable, Izzy.

""Congratulations on the resurrection of your life," a colleague wrote to Emily Rapp Black when she announced the birth of her second child. The line made Emily pause. Her first child, a boy named Ronan, had died before he turned three years old from Tay-Sachs disease, an experience she wrote about in her first book, The Still Point of the Turning World. Since that time her life had changed utterly: She had left the marriage that fractured under the...

"Like all mothers, Emily Rapp had ambitious plans for her first and only child, Ronan. He would be smart, loyal, physically fearless, and level-headed, but fun. He would be good at crossword puzzles like his father. He would be an avid skier like his mother. Rapp would speak to him in foreign languages and give him the best education. But all of these plans changed when Ronan was diagnosed at nine months old with Tay-Sachs disease, a rare and always-fatal...

A terminally ill 10-year-old boy and his mother embark on a life-changing adventure when she persuades a renowned entomologist to take them to the Costa Rican rain forest to search for a beautiful, rare butterfly

An Irish fisherman catches a beautiful and mysterious woman in his trawler nets and, with the help of his ailing yet irrepressible daughter, he comes to believe that the woman might be a mermaid-like selkie of Gaelic myth

After an attack by a rogue missile takes out his team, Navy SEAL Commander Mack Bedford makes a decision that will jeopardize his career, and the resulting court-martial and the terminal illness of his young son force him to take bold action

"A graphic novel memoir recounting one parent's unique and wrenching journey caring for a child with a terminal diagnosis. When Rick and Emily's infant son Ronan is diagnosed with Tay-Sachs, an incurable neurological disorder, they are faced with the practical and emotional hurdles of parenting and loving their son--despite the shadow of inevitable loss. Rick Louis narrates this original graphic memoir, with illustrator Lara Antal translating the...