Death category: 2756 books

After losing a loved one, "pay attention to the ways in which your relationship continues." So advised Sarah Horowitz in an interview she gave the day before her unexpected death. In A Cracking of the Heart, David Horowitz explores the legacy of his extraordinary daughter's short life, and narrates...

This book describes how parents lose, find, or relocate spiritual anchors after the death of their child. It describes how ordinary people reconstruct their lives after their foundations have shifted, and how they make sense of their world after one of their centers of meaning has been removed. Klass...

Renowned author and educator Alan Wolfelt redefines the role of the grief counselor in this guide for caregivers to grieving children. Providing a viable alternative to the limitations of the medical establishment’s model for companioning the bereaved, Wolfelt encourages counselors and other caregivers...

Eric's Story - Surviving A Son's Suicide is a mother's account of the sudden, unexpected death of her only child. Eric Michael Underwood was a highly successful 27 year-old engineer and actor living in Los Angeles when, in 1995, he took his own life. The book tells the story of his bouts with the...

Offering hope that you can amend your shattered dreams, Amending Dreams-Reflections and Meditations of a Widow, offers personal reflections concerning feelings, thoughts, moods, problems, joys and discoveries that were stored in journals after the death of Joyce George's husband of 28 years. In addition...

A compelling and emotional novel, for fans of Jojo Moyes and Jenny Colgan. **'With a style similar to David Nicholls, Gayle's writing is incisive, lyrical and very beautiful...It's impossible not to fall in love with the Hope family' Irish Independent Tom Hope is broken. Ever since his...

Part of the award-winning Grief Diaries series, Project Cold Case is a true crime anthology featuring the stories of 22 active cold cases. Readers are taken inside the chilling aftermath of unsolved kidnappings and murder, revealing how surviving loved ones are forced to travel down a road that torments the already tormented mind, facing fresh heartache at every turn.

When someone is grieving over the loss of a loved one, it is often hard to know how to be there for them, even though we want to. With the poetry and verse she wrote during her own journey through the grief of losing her son, along with beautiful photography that supports the emotion of her words, Terri...

Betsy Kelleher's world shattered after a phone call on Nov. 17, 2008. "Hi Mom, it's your son Bob," she heardand she smiled at the way he always began his calls. But her smile quickly faded; Bob was in the hospital. He had just learned he had multiple myelomaa cancer of the bone marrowand...

November 8th is forever etched in the minds of the Turnbow family. Valerie Henderson candidly tells the story of her parent's tragic and violent death through the eyes of a child. In what should have been the safest place on earth, her home became a place of fear and shattered innocence. In her poignant...

On November 18, 1999, a tragic accident at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas, claimed the lives of twelve young people and seriously injured twenty-seven others when the annual bonfire to celebrate the University of Texas versus Texas A&M Thanksgiving football game collapsed during...

Grief is often perceived as a dark and lonely journey; as a result, it is a topic we avoid in today’s society.  Within a 20-month period, Elizabeth Berrien endured the loss of her stillborn son and the subsequent death of her husband on active duty in Afghanistan. She found herself a 27-year-old...

When it comes to healing after the death of someone loved, our culture has it all wrong. We’re told to be strong when what we really need is to be vulnerable. We’re told to think positive when what we really need is to wallow in the pain. And we’re told to seek closure when what we really need...

Written in response to the current trend to deritualize death and funeral ceremonies, this book explores the ways in which caregivers and clergy can create heartfelt ceremonies that help the bereaved begin to heal. Explaining the purposes behind rituals, it reviews the many ways these have changed...