02008cam a2200337 i 4500 158474623 TxAuBib 20140423120000.0 130903s2014||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2013032644 9781455510092 pbk. $15.00 1455510092 pbk. $15.00 9781455510108 ebook 1455510106 ebook TxAuBib rda Milne, Kevin Alan. The winner's game : a novel / Kevin Alan Milne. First edition. New York : Center Street, 2014. 366 pages ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Ever since seventeen-year-old Ann Bennett was diagnosed with a life-threatening heart condition two years ago, her family has been pulling apart. Ann and her two younger siblings fight constantly, as do their parents. When the doctors announce that Ann's only hope of survival is a heart transplant by the end of the summer, the Bennetts decide to wait for news of a donor at a family vacation home on the Oregon coast, near Haystack Rock. But rather than healing their differences, the time away only widens the rifts between them. That is, until they learn about The Winner's Game, a game their great grandparents invented to save their marriage decades ago. It doesn't work immediately, it takes some time to figure out the right way to play, but little by little things start to change. It seems everything might be okay, until the day tragedy strikes, and they are confronted with what it really means to love--and to be a family"-- Provided by publisher. 20140423. Families Fiction. Teenage girls Family relationships Fiction. Heart Diseases Patients Fiction. Marital conflict Fiction. Life change events Fiction.