Bereavement category: 2356 books
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.
by C. S. Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2009
A classic work on grief, A Grief Observed is C.S. Lewis’s honest reflection on the fundamental issues of life, death, and faith in the midst of loss. Written after his wife’s tragic death as a way of surviving the “mad midnight moments,” A Grief Observed an unflinchingly truthful account of...
The Handbook for Companioning the Mourner
Eleven Essential Principles
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Partly a counseling model and partly an explanation of true empathy, this handbook explores the ways companionship eases grief. For caretakers who work with grieving people or for friends and family just hoping to stay close, 11 tenets are outlined for mourner-led care. These simple rules call for...
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...
Colors of Goodbye
A Memoir of Holding On, Letting Go, and Reclaiming Joy in the Wake of Loss
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2016
2017 ECPA Christian Book Award Finalist (Biography and Memoir category)
What happens after the worst happens?
Before May 31, 2008, September Vaudrey’s life was beautiful. But on that day, with one phone call from the ER, her whole world—everything she knew and believed—was shaken to the core....
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...
Hope and Help for the Widow
The Reality of Being Alone
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2011
According to U.S. government statistics there are currently 11.6 million widows in our country. They are in varying stages of grief. Little has been written on specifics of how to adjust to the stage of widowhood.In August, 1992, Dr. Jan Sheble became a widow overnight. Her husband contracted...
Living Through Grief
Strength and hope in time of loss
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2012
Sooner or later we all have to go through the grieving process. We do not fully understand grief until we walk through it ourselves. But grief has a common pattern, and it helps if we know what to expect. This carefully crafted book gently explains the stages of grief and suggests practical steps...
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...
by Dr. Nancy Copeland-Payton
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Find hope and renewal in lifes natural cycle of ordinary losses and new beginnings.When we intentionally enter into our everyday walk through small losses, the terrain of larger losses, the valley of the shadow of death, is not totally unknown. It is not completely unfamiliar, alien, terrifying, for...
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.”...