Bereavement category: 2356 books
At Peace
Choosing a Good Death After a Long Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
The authoritative, informative, and reassuring guide on end-of-life care for our aging population.
Most people say they would like to die quietly at home. But overly aggressive medical advice, coupled with an unrealistic sense of invincibility or overconfidence in our health-care system, results...
Safe in the Arms of God
Truth from Heaven About the Death of a Child
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2003
"Is my baby in heaven?"
This is the most important question a grieving parent can ask. And even if the little one is someone else's child, the issue remains: What happens to children―those unborn, stillborn, or youngsters―when they die? Can you hope to see them again? Can you...
Circle of Grief
Healing to Hope
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2016
This book relates eight people's experience of life after the death of a spouse. It was written by a group of men and women that first met in 2007 and, bonded by grief, still meet to this day. Each person's account is unique and personal. The purpose of this book is to share knowledge with, and lend...
by James P. Emswiler, Mary Ann Emswiler
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2009
Give your child the help and support needed to cope with grief and loss.
Guiding Your Child Through Grief, by the founders of the New England Center for Loss & Transition and The Cove, a highly praised program for grieving children, takes away the uncertainty and helpless feelings we commonly...
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...
Grief Diaries
How to Help the Newly Bereaved
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016
When someone you know loses someone they love, what do you say? What can you do? **How to Help the Newly Bereaved** is a powerful etiquette guide that offers helpful suggestions, tips, and insight by 22 different grief educators and advocates who share what was most and least helpful when they lost...
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...
by Heather Hapeta
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
A practical guide for people who have had someone die by suicide. The first half is about a son's (Greg) motorbike accicent at 15 years old, then his suicide at 20 years.
The second half offers the family many helpful tips for surviving this grief and also shows friends of the bereaved ways...
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...
The Voice That Calls You Home
Inspiration for Life's Journeys
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2009
A positive, affirming collection of essays that teaches how to understand and accept life's darkest hours -- The Voice That Calls You Home will improve the way readers live each and every day.
As a hospice chaplain, cancer survivor, and a chaplain at Ground Zero following September 11, Andrea...
by Jim Henry
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2003
A "must have" for all pastors, this new handbook will help you as you minister to persons in the critical time of grief. Jim Henry is pastor of a 10,000-member church in Orlando, Florida. He has been a pastor in service for thirty-six years and also served as president of the Southern Baptist...