Bereavement category: 2356 books
Another Day in the Death of America
A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
A timely chronicle of what is now an ordinary day in America, where gun violence regularly takes the lives of children and teens, and leaves shattered families in its wake.
Winner of the 2017 J. Anthony Lukas Prize
Shortlisted for the 2017 Hurston/Wright Foundation Award
Finalist...
by Cory Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
**"Bracing and beautiful . . . Every human should read it." —The New York Times
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice and 2017 Critics' Pick
One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2017**
At the age of sixty, Cory Taylor is dying of melanoma-related brain cancer....
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...
A Leg to Stand On
An Amputee's Walk into Motherhood
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
When Colleen Haggerty lost her leg in an accident during her senior year of high school, she could have retreated from life and let her disability become her defining quality—and no one would have blamed her for it. Instead, she went the opposite way. In the years following her accident, Haggerty...
We Don't Die
A Skeptic's Discovery of Life After Death
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
If You Realized That You Could Never Die, How Would You Live Your Life? Every second, 4 human beings are born and every 1.8 seconds, one dies. As natural as death is, dying is the most common fear that we all share. With every loss comes the most painful emotion called grief, which can cause break...
I Shall Not Hate
A Gaza Doctor's Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
Search for Common Ground Award
Middle East Institute Award
Finalist, Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought
Stavros Niarchos Prize for Survivorship
Nobel Peace Prize nominee
"A necessary lesson against hatred and revenge" -Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize laureate
"In...
Kadian Journal
A Father's Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
In July 2012, Thomas Harding’s fourteen-year-old son Kadian was killed in a bicycle accident. Shortly afterwards Thomas began to write. This book is the result.
Beginning on the day of Kadian’s death, and continuing to the one-year anniversary, and beyond, Kadian Journal is a record of...
Middletown, America
One Town's Passage from Trauma to Hope
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
The single event that we know as 9/11 is over, but the shock waves continue to radiate outward, generated by orange alerts, terrorism lockdowns, and the shrinking of personal liberties we once took for granted. The stories in this book, of real people faced with extraordinary trauma and gradually...
by Alexandra Fuller
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2019
From bestselling author Alexandra Fuller, the utterly original story of her father, Tim Fuller, and a deeply felt tribute to a life well lived
Six months before he died in Budapest, Tim Fuller turned to his daughter: “Let me tell you the secret to life right now, in case I suddenly give up...
Warrior's Return
Restoring the Soul After War
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
War touches us all—leaving visible and invisible wounds on the warriors who fight, disrupting their families and communities, and leaving lasting imprints on our national psyche. In spite of billions spent on psychological care and reintegration programs, we face an epidemic of combat-related conditions...
As We Grieve
Discoveries of Grace in Sorrow
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Loss knows no boundaries. It arrives on our doorsteps all gussied up in the cruelest of fashions. A person we cherish dies. Someone we love falls terminally ill. Another is snatched away by dementia. “The presence of that absence is everywhere,” said Edna St. Vincent Millay. Amazingly, it is precisely...
by Joan W Higgs
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
"One Moment" chronicles the author’s experience with sudden loss in her personal life and inside her classroom. It is also her memoir of growing up in West Virginia, daughter to a working single mother for part of her life. Clearly, it is the loss of her granddaughter to stillbirth that dominates this memoir and helps inform the public about a little known epidemic.
Secrets of the Grand Canyon
A Spiritual Journey
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2010
The next step in the journey brought us to a sturdy Park Service bus waiting nearby. According to guidebooks, this bus would carry us to the top of the South Kaibab Trail. Amy and I climbed up the steps and down the narrow aisle lugging our backpacks loaded with sleeping mats, clothes and food. The...
The Kids Are All Right
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
A blisteringly funny, heart-scorching tale of remarkable kids shattered by tragedy and finally brought back together by love."—People
Somehow, between their father’s mysterious death, their glamorous soap-opera-star mother’s cancer diagnosis, and a phalanx of lawyers intent on bankruptcy...