Grief category: 2356 books
Lecretia's Choice
A Story of Love, Death and the Law
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
A successful young lawyer in Wellington, Lecretia Seales met and fell in love with Matt Vickers in 2003. In Lecretia’s Choice, Matt tells the story of their life together, and how it changed when his proud, fiercely independent wife was diagnosed with a brain tumour and forced to confront her own...
by Judy Bodenheimer, Mary Green, Vickie Hepler
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011
About the Book We all have very special memories of our daddy. He was the first man we ever loved and we did everything we could possibly do to make sure he was cared for. For nine months we did a rotation and stayed with him and kept him at home until it was no longer physically possible. We stood...
A Year to Live
How to Live This Year as If It Were Your Last
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2009
In his new book, Stephen Levine, author of the perennial best-seller Who Dies?, teaches us how to live each moment, each hour, each day mindfully--as if it were all that was left. On his deathbed, Socrates exhorted his followers to practice dying as the highest form of wisdom. Levine decided to live...
Knocking on Heaven's Door
The Path to a Better Way of Death
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
In this visionary memoir, based on a groundbreaking New York Times Magazine story, award-winning journalist Katy Butler ponders her parents’ desires for “Good Deaths” and the forces within medicine that stood in the way.
Katy Butler was living thousands of miles from her vigorous and...
by Randy Evans
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
Red Sky Anthology: Reading Aloud in Northern Michigan/ Red Sky Series, Book 1
Refreshing, compassionate, funny, Randy Evans's border-crossing collection (light verse to novels) never loses Randy's voice or identity as he shifts from one genre to another.
Enjoy poetry about the beauty...
The Etiquette of Illness
What to Say When You Can't Find the Words
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2008
What should I say when I hear that my friend has cancer? How can I help but not get in the way? How do I let my loved ones know what I need?
The Etiquette of Illness is a wise, encouraging, and essential guide to navigating the complex terrain of illness. This collection of anecdotes and insights...
Letters from the Afterlife
A Guide to the Other Side
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2011
Does life go on beyond the grave? A growing body of evidence suggests that it does. Written through the hand of Elsa Barker, an established author in her own right, Letters from the Light presents a kind of "astral travelogue" that describes--often eloquently, sometimes humorously--life in the "invisible" world.
Wish You Were Here
Travels Through Loss and Hope
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
Wish You Were Here: Travels Through Loss and Hope is the story of Amy Welborn’s trip to the island of Sicily with three of her children five months after her husband’s sudden death from a heart attack. Her journey through city and countryside, small town and ancient ruins, opens unexpected doors...
Bearing Witness
Living with Ovarian Cancer
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
Bearing Witness is a collection of stories from women who went through the diagnosis of ovarian cancer, and treatment for it, only to find that the cancer recurred and any hope of recovery was gone. These women represent a spectrum of ages, ethnic backgrounds, marital circumstances, and professional...
Small Pieces
A Book of Lamentations
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
This is Joanne's account of coming to terms with her brother's suicide and through that process, the entirety of her family life. In Small Pieces Joanne explores her childhood, her Jewishness and her mother's death as well as that of her brother.The life and family Joanne describes is a complex combination...
Death Watch
A View from the Tenth Decade
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
Gerald Stern, National Book Award-winning poet, creates a powerful new prose book in his ninth decades, as he contemplates mortality. In his characteristic audacious, uncompromising, funny, and iconoclastic style, Stern looks back at his life and forward to how he will end his days.
Will he...
by Carol Orsborn
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2001
Saying the wrong thing in a delicate situation is a widespread fear. Its difficult for most people to find the right words when confronted with lifes most troubling moments: illness or death of a loved one. Many self-help books deal with the aftermath of death, but in Nothing Left Unsaid Carol Orsborn...
Just Breathe, Baby.
A mother's tale treating her toddler's terminal illness with cannabis.
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2017
A mother's love knows no end. Meagan Holt is a mom risking it all to save her daughter, Madeline. Through poetry, and intmiate journal entries, you will get a look at what it is like being a parent, saving your child's life with cannabis. This book is a collection of the real, raw emotions a parent...
Bruised and Wounded
Struggling to Understand Suicide
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2018
The New York Times bestselling author of The Holy Longing turns his attention to one of the stigmas of our time. “Unique insights on the nature of suicide, its devastating effects, and God’s embracing love throughout. Fr. Ron is exactly who I would have wanted at my side when my daughter died.”...