Death category: 2756 books
Missing Persons
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017
Missing Persons is a memoir about dealing with death in a culture that gives no help. As the last of her family, Greene’s losses are stark, first her aunt, then her mother, in quick succession. She is as ill-equipped for the challenges of caring for a dying person at home as she is for the other...
by Ashley Butler
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2009
“Explores the poetry in dynamic facts, and accumulates stories where life and life’s enterprises meet . . . A lovely debut” (Thalia Field, author of Experimental Animals).
In her daring essay collection, author Ashley Butler engages the reader in an exploration of her mother’s death...
Dying Without God
Francois Mitterrand's Meditations On Living and Dying
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 1998
Is one ever truly ready to face death? Can one, without faith, view death as a beginning rather than an end? François Mitterrand is the man "dying without God," and he offers these pages as his final, unforgettable testament.
by Eileen Douglas
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2014
Rachel and the Upside Down Heart is a magnificent and compelling true story that will open the hearts and minds of both children and parents. When Rachel is four years old, her daddy dies, and Rachel's life changes forever. She and her mommy travel from their house in Kentucky to the busy streets...
Jazz says Goodbye
A book for anyone who has lost someone
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2013
Jazz was my mother's close companion for many years—particularly after my father died in 2003. Given Jazzie's practice, therefore, in supporting someone through loss, it made perfect sense that she would help me along my own journey through grief when my mother died from a brain tumour in November...
Enduring Love
Inspiring Stories of Love and Wisdom at the End of Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
As a hospice nurse and photographer, Mary Landberg has the honor to witness and capture in photographs the unwavering expression of love that endures between people living with terminal illness and their loved ones. She has had the privilege of bringing her camera into a most sacred and vulnerable...
Healing a Parent's Grieving Heart
100 Practical Ideas After Your Child Dies
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2002
Presenting simple yet highly effective methods for coping and healing, this book provides answers and relief to parents trying to deal with the loss of a child. It offers 100 practical, action-oriented tips for embracing grief, such as writing a letter to the child who has died; spending time with...
Healing a Grandparent's Grieving Heart
100 Practical Ideas After Your Grandchild Dies
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
This heartfelt manual is an indispensable and easily referenced resource for grieving grandparents, offering them a way forward after the death of a grandchild. Whether they were close to their grandchild and keenly feeling his or her absence, or even if they were not close to the child and are mourning...
by Elsa Barker
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2008
Does life go on beyond the grave? With the recent surge in popularity of topics focused on life after death Letters from the Afterlife originally published in 1914 under another title takes up this age-old question from a unique perspective - that of a man who has undergone ''the great change''...
by Sean Davison
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
Eighty-four years old and terminally ill with cancer, psychiatrist Pat Ferguson wants nothing more than for her life, which no longer brings her joy, to be over. But when her ailing body refuses to let go, she asks her son Sean to do the unthinkable: to help her to die. Before We Say Goodbye is Sean...
A Time to Grieve
Meditations for Healing After the Death of a Loved One
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
A collection of truly comforting, down-to-earth thoughts and meditations -- including the authentic voices of survivors -- for anyone grieving the loss of a loved one.
All the Dead Yale Men
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Originally published in 1982 to wide acclaim, The Good Son remains Craig Nova’s undisputed masterpiece. This classic explored the complicated entanglements of fathers and sons -expressed in the story of nouvue-riche father Pop Mackinnon, who used his wealth to manipulate his son Chip into the right’...
by Nicol Louise, Cinda the Curly-Coated Retriever
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
Do you love dogs and nature?
Would you like to understand the soul energy of dogs on a conscious and higher soul level?
Would you like to know what happens to dogs following their life on earth?
Have you lost a special furry friend and found the grief immeasurable?
Have...
Limping But Blessed
Wrestling with God after the Death of a Child
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
After the unexpected death of his three-year-old son, Jason Jones went on a long, painful journey to make sense of how God could let this happen to his family. He struggled intensely with his faith after everything he thought about God disintegrated on June 12, 2011.
At some point in our lives,...