Death category: 2756 books
Healing Your Grieving Heart for Kids
100 Practical Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2001
With sensitivity and insight, this series offers suggestions for healing activities that can help survivors learn to express their grief and mourn naturally. Acknowledging that death is a painful, ongoing part of life, they explain how people need to slow down, turn inward, embrace their feelings...
Communicating at the End of Life
Finding Magic in the Mundane
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
This enlightening volume provides first-hand perspectives and ethnographic research on communication at the end of life, a topic that has gone largely understudied in communication literature. Author Elissa Foster’s own experiences as a volunteer hospice caregiver form the basis of the book. Communicating...
Planning Memorial Celebrations
A Sourcebook
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2013
Memorial services are not so much rites for the dead as celebrations by the living and for the living of the lives of those who have died. Such ceremonies are an important way of saying good-bye, yet most people are not sure exactly what to do when the task of arranging one falls to them.
Here...
After the Darkest Hour
How Suffering Begins the Journey to Wisdom
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2000
In the tradition of When Bad Things Happen to Good People, a book that explains the transformative power of suffering
Most people understand that suffering and sorrow are inevitable parts of every life and that illness, death, or loss of a loved one are universal experiences, not retribution...
Changing the Way We Die
Compassionate End of Life Care and The Hospice Movement
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
There’s a quiet revolution happening in the way we die. More than 1.5 million Americans a year die in hospice care—nearly 44 percent of all deaths—and a vast industry has sprung up to meet the growing demand. Once viewed as a New Age indulgence, hospice is now a $14 billion business and one...
Don't Think Twice
Adventure and Healing at 100 Miles Per Hour
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
A late-in-life coming-of-age escapade told with humor and heart, Don’t Think Twice is a moving and irreverent account of grief, growing up, and the healing power of adventure.
Within six months, Barbara Schoichet lost everything: her job, her girlfriend of six years, and her mother to pancreatic...
No Time to Say Goodbye
Surviving The Suicide Of A Loved One
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2011
Suicide would appear to be the last taboo. Even incest is now discussed freely in popular media, but the suicide of a loved one is still an act most people are unable to talk about--or even admit to their closest family or friends. This is just one of the many painful and paralyzing truths author...
Without My Mum
A Daughter's Guide to Grief, Loss and Reclaiming Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
When Leigh Van Der Horst lost her beloved mother to cancer in 2008, she faced her biggest battle yet. In Without My Mum, she invites us on a journey that is at times heartbreaking, others heartwarming, but ultimately comforting and inspiring. With warmth and candour, Leigh tells of her transformative...
Beyond the High Blue Air
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Market
Smart, literary-inclined avid readers who recommend books
Parents, book clubs and discussion groups, particularly ones centered around family book clubs
Those interested in politics around death with dignity movement
People coping with the experience of grief, particularly...
by Bill Sullivan
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2000
Eleven Miles South of Half Moon Bay is a shout of joy and a howl of grief. It is a single golden instant and all eternity. It is a story mundane as boys playing marbles yet vast as life and death. It is the story of two free spirits: cousins for a mortal moment, brothers forever.
The Little Way of Ruthie Leming
A Southern Girl, a Small Town, and the Secret of a Good Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
THE LITTLE WAY OF RUTHIE LEMING follows Rod Dreher, a Philadelphia journalist, back to his hometown of St. Francisville, Louisiana (pop. 1,700) in the wake of his younger sister Ruthie's death. When she was diagnosed at age 40 with a virulent form of cancer in 2010, Dreher was moved by the way the...
Hanging with the Elephant
A Story of Love, Loss and Meditation
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2014
'A compelling memoir. Absorbing and graced with a deceptive lightness of touch, [Hanging with the Elephant] is clever and brilliantly pieced together. Harding writes like an angel' Sunday Times
From the No.1 bestselling author of Staring at Lakes, Talking to S**trangers and On Tuesdays I'm...
Must You Go?
My Life with Harold Pinter
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
A moving testament to one of the literary world's most celebrated marriages: that of the greatest playwright of our age, Harold Pinter, and the beautiful and famous prize-winning biographer Antonia Fraser.
In this exquisite memoir, Antonia Fraser recounts the life she shared with the internationally...
Your Soul's Plan
Discovering the Real Meaning of the Life You Planned Before You Were Born
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2010
Would you like to understand the deeper spiritual meaning of physical illness, parenting handicapped children, drug addiction, alcoholism, the death of a loved one, accidents, deafness, and blindness?
Your Soul’s Plan (which was originally published under the title Courageous Souls: Do We...