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A Grace Disguised
How the Soul Grows through Loss
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2009
With vulnerability and honesty, Jerry Sittser walks through his own grief and loss to show that new life is possible - one marked by spiritual depth, joy, compassion, and a deeper appreciation of simple blessings.
Loss came suddenly for Jerry Sittser. In an instant, a tragic car accident claimed...
The 13th Gift
A True Story of a Christmas Miracle
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
For readers of Richard Paul Evans and Greg Kincaid comes The 13th Gift, a heartwarming Christmas story about how a random act of kindness transformed one of the bleakest moments in a family's history into a time of strength and love.
After the unexpected death of her husband, Joanne Huist Smith...
Signs of Life
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
“I know. I know. No one says it but I know…” —from Signs of Life
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Twenty-four-year-old Natalie Taylor was leading a charmed life. At the age of twenty four, she had a fulfilling job as a high school English teacher, a wonderful husband, a new house and a baby on the way. Then, while...
A Bridge for Passing
A Meditation on Love, Loss, and Faith
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
The Nobel Prize–winning and New York Times–bestselling author’s memoir of making a movie in 1960s Japan, while mourning the loss of her husband.
Pearl S. Buck’s children’s story, The Big Wave, about two young friends whose lives are transformed when a volcano erupts and a tidal...
Healing After Loss
Daily Meditations For Working Through Grief
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2009
For those who have suffered the loss of a loved one, here are strength and thoughtful words to inspire and comfort.
The Golden Willow
The Story of a Lifetime of Love
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2009
Harry Bernstein started chronicling his life at the age of ninety-four, after the death of his beloved wife, Ruby. In his first book, The Invisible Wall, he told a haunting story of forbidden love in World War I-era England. Then Bernstein wrote The Dream, the touching tale of his family’s immigrant...
Final Gifts
Understanding the Special Awareness, Needs, and Co
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
In this moving and compassionate classic—now updated with new material from the authors—hospice nurses Maggie Callanan and Patricia Kelley share their intimate experiences with patients at the end of life, drawn from more than twenty years’ experience tending the terminally ill.
Through...
We Don't Die
George Anderson's Conversations with the Other Side
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2002
This is the phenomenal true story of the world-renowned psychic medium George Anderson—the groundbreaking book that first brought afterlife experience into the light. For over 12 years Joel Martin documented evidence of Anderson's powers—the ability to reach 'the other side'—and repeatedly astonished...
Being Mortal
Medicine and What Matters in the End
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
In Being Mortal, bestselling author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its ending
Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable....
Natural Causes
An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
A New York Times bestseller!
From the celebrated author of Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich explores how we are killing ourselves to live longer, not better.
A razor-sharp polemic which offers an entirely new understanding of our bodies, ourselves, and our place in the universe,...
Last Watch of the Night
Essays Too Personal and Otherwise
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
Tender and passionate autobiographical essays by the National Book Award–winning author of Becoming a Man.
“Does it go too fast?” Monette asks about life at the beginning of one piece. The answer is a resounding “yes” for the individuals who populate this stunning work of nonfiction....
Through a Mother's Eyes
Poems of Love, Loss and Moving Forward
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
How would you cope with losing not one, but two young children within three months of each other? This author did, and her inspiring story is weaved throughout the poems and quotes she has written. Based around grief and loss, this collection features breath taking images and honest, powerful, yet poignant...
by Evelyn Roberts Brooks
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2016
Message from the Author: Feeling overwhelmed by grief or divorce pain? If you or someone you know is experiencing grief or the silent ache of old emotional wounds that never healed fully, this book is for you. If you feel trapped in a fog of pain and sorrow, you’ve come to the right place. And if...
The Dead Moms Club
A Memoir about Death, Grief, and Surviving the Mother of All Losses
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
Kate Spencer lost her mom to cancer when she was 27. In The Dead Moms Club, she walks readers through her experience of stumbling through grief and loss, and helps them to get through it, too. This isn't a weepy, sentimental story, but rather a frank, up-front look at what it means to go through gruesome...