Grief category: 2356 books
Divine Renovations
A Carpenter, His Soul Mate and Their Story of Love and Loss
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Divine Renovations is a personal story of love, loss and faith. During a kitchen renovation, author Janice Beetle unexpectedly met her soul mate, only to lose him eight years later to cancer. Janice writes about the profound devastation that grief causes and how that manifests itself in everyday life. She also offers a story of hope.
Staying Connected While Letting Go
The Paradox of Alzheimer's Caregiving
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2005
When you’re living with a loved one who is suffering from Alzheimer’s disease you must be able to survive one emotional upheaval after another. What is most important during this difficult time is that you not only survive the physical demands placed on you as the primary caregiver, but that you...
Who Am I . . .Really?
A Journey to Heaven
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
What happens to a nine-year old child when she sees her father dying in the hospital? Then, forty years later, she is the caretaker for her mother and present as she passes from this world to the next. From there her own journey began in her search for truth and understanding the death process. ...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
What do you do when you're not ready for love, but love is ready for you?
Formerly "Malibu Betrayals". Hollywood screenwriter Samantha Dekker spent the last year picking up the pieces after her husband's suicide. Along with grief, guilt, and tabloid hell, she's had to watch helplessly...
Going Home
Finding Peace When Pets Die
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
In this invaluable guide and touchstone, New York Times bestselling author Jon Katz addresses the difficult but necessary topic of saying goodbye to a beloved pet. Drawing on personal experiences, stories from fellow pet owners, and philosophical reflections, Katz provides support for those in mourning....
by Betty Auchard
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
Married when she was barely 19, Betty Auchard went straight from her parent's home to her husband's bed. She raised four children, returned to college, taught art in public school, and became a grandmother, published artist, a retiree and then a widow.When she loses her husband of...
by Sam Turner
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2012
Reading this book might be your first step in the long walk through the valley of grief. Hopefully, you will discover new strengths along the way. We invite you to keep a journal of your passage through this valley. As you write, you might discover your own healing occurring.
by Marcia Aldrich, Supriya Bhatnagar
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
When Marcia Aldrich’s friend took his own life at the age of forty-six, they had known each other many years. As part of his preparations for death, he gave her many of his possessions, concealing his purposes in doing so, and when he committed his long-contemplated act, he was alone in a bare apartment.
In...
Being with Dying
Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2009
The Buddhist approach to death can be of great benefit to people of all backgrounds—as has been demonstrated time and again in Joan Halifax’s decades of work with the dying and their caregivers. Inspired by traditional Buddhist teachings, her work is a source of wisdom for all those who are charged...
Cycletherapy
Grief and Healing on Two Wheels
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Can you pedal your way through everything life throws at you?Taking on the bicycle as a means of making sense of life and death, contributors write about their experiences on a bicycle, enjoying the little things about everyday life, dealing with the most difficult, and overcoming loss, trauma, and...
Leaning into Sharp Points
Practical Guidance and Nurturing Support for Caregivers
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2012
Whether you’re coping with a loved one who has received a terminal diagnosis, has a long-term illness or disability, or suffers with dementia, caregiving is challenging and crucial. Those who face this responsibility, whether occasionally or 24/7, are brushing up against life’s sharpest point....
The Swan in the Evening
Fragments of an Inner Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
Rosamond Lehmann’s only autobiographical work recreates the events that shaped her life—from childhood to motherhood to the death of her daughter
Rosamond Lehmann was born during a violent February thunderstorm and lived a sheltered, privileged life with her parents, brother, and sisters....
Cherish on the Cape
an On the Cape novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2018
So close but so far was an understatement when it came to her love life…
Ever practical Claire Adams has been dealt an impossible blow, she’s lost her fiancé the night before their wedding, then shortly after, her unborn child. But for everyone else, it seems, life continues on, and...
Memoirs of a Teenage Angel
Comfort After the Storm of Losing My Dee Dee
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
A simple school program turned into a night that would change the heart of a mother and the life of a family forever… In this book you will join Sandra K. Wilkerson through the worst storm that a parent could ever experience—the loss of a young child. You will share the immense pain she experienced,...