Bereavement category: 2356 books
Remembrances and Celebrations
A Book of Eulogies, Elegies, Letters, and Epitaphs
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
This rich anthology of memorial tributes serves as a welcome reminder that, although words cannot necessarily assuage grief, they can provide tremendous comfort and perspective during our times of loss. The likes of Dr. Martin Luther King, Benjamin Franklin, W.H. Auden and Diana, Princess of Wales,...
by Deborah Digges
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2009
These lush, rewarding reflections on a woman’s passage into midlife are grounded in our intimacy with nature and mortality. Deborah Digges, now in her fifties, looks back in such poems as “Boat” to see younger mothers and their children, and ponders her own “brilliant, trivial unmooring.”...
by Leigh Stein
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
"[A] thoughtful and compelling elegy to a troubled man, a broken love, and a broken dream of the west."—Leslie Jamison, New York Times bestselling author of The Empathy Exams
An MSN Best Book of 2016
Set against the stark and surreal landscape of New Mexico, Land of Enchantment...
The Journey After Life
What Happens When We Die
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
We all want to know what happens when we die. According to Cyndi Dale, we don't have to wait to find out. With The Journey After Life, this internationally renowned author presents a compelling investigation of the soul's journey—an evolutionary cycle of birth, death, and rebirth that we travel...
Death Makes Life Possible
Revolutionary Insights on Living, Dying, and the Continuation of Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Our beliefs about what happens when we die define how we live today. And more and more of us are discovering a radical truth: when we release our fear of death, we open to an immensely richer life right here and now. But how do we incorporate this profound insight into our everyday lives? With Death...
Not a Blueprint; It's the Shoeprints That Matter
A Journey Through Toxic Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016
Allowing us to learn lessons, let go of toxicity, and gain insight, relationship can play a powerful role in our lives. They are formed with people, alcohol, animals, battlefields, diseases, drugs, environments, and even our emotions. Whether toxic or nontoxic, relationships are an integral component...
by E. J. Gold, Claudio Naranjo, MD
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2005
With over 120,000 copies sold, this unique contemporary work brings the timeless Tibetan Bardo teaching into current American culture and language, with 49 days of readings for someone who has died or who is preparing for the dying experience. This book has been and still remains an important tool...
by Alice Eve Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
**“A riveting journey.” —Julie Metz, author of Perfection
“A perfect book. I want to tell everyone, every mother, every daughter, to read it.” *—*Abigail Thomas, bestselling author of A Three Dog Life
For the first time in decades I’m remembering Mom, all of her--the wonderful...
by Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
‘Let the dead live in peace. Don’t cling to your family and friends, don’t let your sorrow at their depature hold them down and, above all, don’t try to communicate with them by calling them back. This only troubles them and prevents them from breaking free. Pray for them, send them your love,...
The Sun Mystery and the Mystery of Death and Resurrection
Exoteric and Esoteric Christianity, 12 lectures, various cities, March 21-June 11, 1922 (CW 211)
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2006
These lectures were given in 1922, midway between World War I and Steiners death in 1925. They will be of particular interest to anyone wanting to comprehend Rudolf Steiners mature understanding of his mission: enchristing the world. The first two lectures constitute a call to arms or return to basics....
The Suicide Index
Putting My Father's Death in Order
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2009
National Book Award Finalist: “Wickersham has journeyed into the dark underworld inside her father and herself and emerged with a powerful, gripping story.” —The Boston Globe
One winter morning in 1991, Joan Wickersham’s father shot himself in the head. The father she loved would never...
by Jacquelynn Luben
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
A tribute to her lost baby, and our crusade to find out why.' -The Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths. In Jacquelynn Luben's quest to have a family, she suffers the disappointment of miscarriage and the tragedy of cot death. Set against an unusual background of family life, with a sprinkling of...
Green Nails and Other Acts of Rebellion
Life After Loss
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
Early in 2009, after more than a decade of marriage, Elaine Soloway's husband, Tommy, began to change—exhibiting inappropriate behaviors at times, becoming inexplicably weepy at others. More troublesome, he began to have difficulty finding words. Ultimately, Tommy’s doctors discovered that he...
The Dark Interval
Letters on Loss, Grief, and Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
From the writer of the classic Letters to a Young Poet, reflections on grief and loss, collected and published here in one volume for the first time.
“A great poet’s reflections on our greatest mystery.”—Billy Collins
“A treasure . . . The solace Rilke offers is uncommon, uplifting...