Bereavement category: 2356 books
Once Upon a Farm
Lessons on Growing Love, Life, and Hope on a New Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
National Bestseller
Sometimes it’s not only what we plant but where we’re planted.
Now raising their four-year-old daughter, Indiana, alone, after Joey’s passing, Rory Feek digs deeper into the soil of his life and the unusual choices he and his wife, Joey, made together and the...
The Golden Thread
Experiencing God’s Presence in Every Season of Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
Do you feel like you are barely holding on? Let the golden thread of God's presence be the calm on the other side of chaos. It could be that He is weaving a brilliant new beginning in the middle of your mess.
“I know your faith will be lifted and increased with this new treasure.” —Chris...
The Men in My Life
A Memoir of Love and Art in 1950s Manhattan
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Acclaimed biographer Patricia Bosworth recalls her emotional coming of age in 1950s New York in this profound and powerful memoir, a story of family, marriage, tragedy, Broadway, and art, featuring a rich cast of well-known literary and theatrical figures from the period.
From Bosworth—acclaimed...
In the Slender Margin
The Intimate Strangeness of Death and Dying
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
“Each of the wonderfully specific tales in this book feels like an antidote to the familiar Hallmark clichés about death and loss” (The Globe and Mail, Toronto).
Eve Joseph is an award-winning poet who worked for twenty years as a palliative care counselor in a hospice. When she was a...
Tuesdays with Morrie
An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson, 20th Anniversary Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2007
A special 20th anniversary edition of the beloved international bestseller that changed millions of lives
Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher, or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, helped you see the world as a more profound...
Life Will Be the Death of Me
. . . and you too!
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2019
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The funny, sad, super-honest, all-true story of Chelsea Handler’s year of self-discovery—featuring a nerdily brilliant psychiatrist, a shaman, four Chow Chows, some well-placed security cameras, various family members (living and departed), friends, assistants,...
A Train through Time
A Life, Real and Imagined
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
Farnsworth was chief correspondent and principal substitute anchor of The Newshour with Jim Lehrer
She has contributed to the San Francisco Chronicle, Mother Jones, Foreign Policy, World Policy Journal and The Nation (where she wrote a regular column for several years)
She has received three Emmy...
by Joan Didion
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2007
From one of America’s iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion. Joan Didion explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage–and a life, in good times and bad–that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child.
Several...
by Jean-Dominique Bauby
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2008
In December 1995, Jean-Dominique Bauby, the 43-year-old editor of French Elle, suffered a massive stroke that left him permanently paralyzed, a victim of “locked in syndrome.” Once known for his gregariousness and wit, Bauby now finds himself imprisoned in an inert body, able to communicate only...
History of a Suicide
My Sister's Unfinished Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
“It is so nice to be happy. It always gives me a good feeling to see other people happy. . . . It is so easy to achieve.” —Kim’s journal entry, May 3, 1988
On the night of April 15, 1990, Jill Bialosky’s twenty-one-year-old sister Kim came home from a bar in downtown Cleveland. She...
The Long Goodbye
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2011
"Anguished, beautifully written... The Long Goodbye is an elegiac depiction of drama as old as life." -- The New York Times Book Review
**From one of America's foremost young literary voices, a transcendent portrait of the unbearable anguish of grief and the enduring power of familial...
The Violet Hour
Great Writers at the End
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
From one of our most perceptive and provocative voices comes a deeply researched account of the last days of Susan Sontag, Sigmund Freud, John Updike, Dylan Thomas, Maurice Sendak, and James Salter—an arresting and wholly original meditation on mortality.
In The Violet Hour, Katie Roiphe...
by Calvin Trillin
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2006
BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Calvin Trillin's Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin.
In Calvin Trillin’s antic tales of family life, she was portrayed as the wife who had “a weird predilection for limiting our family to three meals a day” and the mother who thought that if you...
Half a Life
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
In this powerful, unforgettable memoir, acclaimed novelist Darin Strauss examines the far-reaching consequences of the tragic moment that has shadowed his whole life. In his last month of high school, he was behind the wheel of his dad's Oldsmobile, driving with friends, heading off to play mini-golf....