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Life after Loss
A Practical Guide to Renewing Your Life after Experiencing Major Loss
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
The grief and recovery classic fully revised and updated
Loss is overwhelming. After a loved one's death, a divorce, an injury or disease, or another major life change, recovery often seems daunting, if not impossible. Life after Loss is the go-to resource for anyone who has suffered a major...
by Carolyn Zahnow
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
"Beautiful Disasters" follows the downward spiral of the author's son from when his birth dad died when Cameron was 15 until his own untimely death at age 18. The author feels that her son's grief manifested into major depression which was the precursor to meth addiction, breaking the law, and finally...
Straight Talk about Death for Teenagers
How to Cope with Losing Someone You Love
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
If you are a teenager whose friend or relative has died, this book was written for you. Earl A. Grollman, the award-winning author of Living When a Loved One Has Died, explains what to expect when you lose someone you love.
Life Came to a Standstill
True Accounts of Loss, Love, and Hope
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
How does a parent live through the death of a child? This profound and poignant compilation of the courageous personal journeys of seven grieving mothers and one grieving sister offers a road map of how to cope with the anguish of traumatic, unexpected loss—giving inspiration for continuing to live....
Dear Charlie
Letters to a Lost Daughter
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2013
‘The writing is incredibly raw and…pulls no punches…What it does do is remind us that life is brief and to be valued, which is no small thing.’ The Observer ‘Extra-ordinarily beautiful book on love and loss.’ The Bookseller ‘…utterly compelling in its intimacy...
by Josie Varga
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
If you think you’re going to die, then you’re in for a big surprise. This book will not only challenge your assumptions, it will give you the proof that you never thought existed. Not only are there substantial scientific studies indicating that our consciousness survives death, but those on the...
At Peace
Choosing a Good Death After a Long Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
The authoritative, informative, and reassuring guide on end-of-life care for our aging population.
Most people say they would like to die quietly at home. But overly aggressive medical advice, coupled with an unrealistic sense of invincibility or overconfidence in our health-care system, results...
Lecretia's Choice
A Story of Love, Death and the Law
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
A successful young lawyer in Wellington, Lecretia Seales met and fell in love with Matt Vickers in 2003. In Lecretia’s Choice, Matt tells the story of their life together, and how it changed when his proud, fiercely independent wife was diagnosed with a brain tumour and forced to confront her own...
by Jim Henry
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2003
A "must have" for all pastors, this new handbook will help you as you minister to persons in the critical time of grief. Jim Henry is pastor of a 10,000-member church in Orlando, Florida. He has been a pastor in service for thirty-six years and also served as president of the Southern Baptist...
by C. S. Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2009
A classic work on grief, A Grief Observed is C.S. Lewis’s honest reflection on the fundamental issues of life, death, and faith in the midst of loss. Written after his wife’s tragic death as a way of surviving the “mad midnight moments,” A Grief Observed an unflinchingly truthful account of...
Wish You Were Here
Travels Through Loss and Hope
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
Wish You Were Here: Travels Through Loss and Hope is the story of Amy Welborn’s trip to the island of Sicily with three of her children five months after her husband’s sudden death from a heart attack. Her journey through city and countryside, small town and ancient ruins, opens unexpected doors...
The Fatherless Daughter Project
Understanding Our Losses and Reclaiming Our Lives
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
“This groundbreaking work will give voice to an enormous population of women who are struggling to understand themselves in the face of their fathers’ absence.” —Claire Bidwell Smith, author of The Rules of Inheritance and After This
When Motherless Daughters was published 20 years...
Colors of Goodbye
A Memoir of Holding On, Letting Go, and Reclaiming Joy in the Wake of Loss
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2016
2017 ECPA Christian Book Award Finalist (Biography and Memoir category)
What happens after the worst happens?
Before May 31, 2008, September Vaudrey’s life was beautiful. But on that day, with one phone call from the ER, her whole world—everything she knew and believed—was shaken to the core....
by Esther Goshen-Gottstein
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2002
"It slowly began to dawn on me that, like millions of other women all over the world, I had been left forever by my husband." An estimated eighty percent of married women can expect to be widowed in the future. In Surviving Widowhood, a clinical psychologist explores her experience after...