Death category: 2756 books
Relationship Obits
The Final Resting Place for Love Gone Wrong
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2009
Because We All Have a Relationship We Need to Put to Rest
From your basic lying, cheating, no-good scum to those relationships that were doomed from the start (they were married to different people), to a man who faked his death, Relationship Obits is a voyeuristic romp through the unexplored...
Resilient Grieving
Finding Strength and Embracing Life After a Loss That Changes Everything
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
“This book aims to help you relearn your world . . . to help you navigate the grieving process as best you can—without hiding from your feelings or denying the reality, or significance, of your loss.”
—from Resilient Grieving
The death of someone we hold dear may be inevitable; being...
How to Survive the Loss of a Parent
A Guide for Adults
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
We expect our parents to die before we do. Most of us agree that this is the “natural” order of things. Because of this assumption, people are often shocked by how deeply sad and even traumatized they feel when they lose a parent. They wonder why it takes so long to recover—how even months or...
by Jill Krementz
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
18 children from age 7 - 17, speak openly of their experiences and feelings. As they speak we see them in photos with their surviving parent and with other family members, in the midst of their everyday lives.
Midlife Maze
A Map to Recovery and Rediscovery after Loss
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2017
Have you found yourself wilting in midlife, and wondering what you might do to flourish in your remaining years? Have you lost your way in the midlife maze due to a significant loss? Did you lose your job or desired career advancement? Did you separate or divorce? Did your last child leave home? Did...
by Mary-Rose Hayes
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
A secret and desperate choice, made by young Imogene Sayle during the rigors of post-World War II England, triggers shockwaves through three generations of a family.
Almost fifty years later Imogene’s daughter Penelope, married and living in California, learns of her mother’s illness and...
by Madeleine Gagnon
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
Is an artist born, or rather, created by experience? From the moment in childhood when he is forced to take drastic action to defend his adoptive mother from a violent assault the only maternal figure that he has ever known it is evident that the life of Joseph Sully-Jacques is to be no ordinary...
Muhammad's Grave
Death Rites and the Making of Islamic Society
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
In his probing study of the role of death rites in the making of Islamic society, Leor Halevi imaginatively plays prescriptive texts against material culture and advances new ways of interpreting highly contested sources. His original research reveals that religious scholars of the early Islamic period...
Breathe
A Memoir of Motherhood, Grief, and Family Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
Kelly Kittel didn’t know the true meaning of the phrase “in the wrong place and the wrong time” until she fell victim to just such a circumstance—and lost her infant son as a result. In the wake of their son’s death, Kittel and her husband are overcome with grief—and they’re still trying...
Grief Diaries
Loss of a Spouse
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
When one loses a spouse, whether young or old, the emotional aftermath can take our breath away. The journey is sometimes a tumultuous one that challenges our fears, friendships, and even our future. While each loss is as unique as one’s own fingerprint, and grief tools aren’t one-size-fits-all,...
Perfection
A Memoir of Betrayal and Renewal
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2009
Julie Metz's life changes forever on one ordinary January afternoon when her husband, Henry, collapses on the kitchen floor and dies in her arms. Suddenly, this mother of a six-year-old is the young widow in a bucolic small town. And this is only the beginning. Seven months after Henry's death, just...
Give Sorrow Words
A Father's Passage Through Grief
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 1996
When Tom Crider's only child, Gretchen, died in an apartment fire at age twenty-one, there seemed to be no answers to his questions. Now Tom Crider has written the book he searched for in his grief and couldn't find, one that offers--without sermons or certainty--companionship in agony and an exploration...
by Marcia Aldrich, Supriya Bhatnagar
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
When Marcia Aldrich’s friend took his own life at the age of forty-six, they had known each other many years. As part of his preparations for death, he gave her many of his possessions, concealing his purposes in doing so, and when he committed his long-contemplated act, he was alone in a bare apartment.
In...
Does This Mean You'll See Me Naked?
Field Notes from a Funeral Director
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Why would someone want to hang out with dead bodies?
With curious anecdotes and unbelievable truth, funeral director Robert Webster reveals that answer and more, offering readers entertaining and quirky stories gleaned from a life lived around death. Webster tackles those embarrassing questions...