Grief category: 2356 books
White Elephants
Yard Sales, Relationships, and Finding What Was Missing
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2012
White elephants are the odd, old, and discarded things that end up at yard sales and flea markets—and Katie Haegele loves them all. Well, an awful lot of them, anyway. She lives a few blocks from the house she grew up in, and every summer she and her mother scour the neighborhood tag sales, looking...
by David Payton
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2012
The inspiration of this book came from the death of my mother, Frances Edith Nix Tolliver. She died February 19th, 2007. She was born April 24th, 1920, I was fortunate enough to have her 56 years of my life. We are not raised to die, we are raised to live, even though the plot from mankind is like...
by Lee-Ann
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2016
How do you survive your best friend’s suicide?
Alyessa jumps to her death two days after her 16th birthday. Her best friend Lee-Ann blames the tragedy on her failure to answer Aly’s last phone call. Haunted by what-ifs, stressed out by the looming ‘O’ Levels, and troubled by fraught relationships...
Standing on the Edge
Dealing with the Aftermath of Suicide
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2015
Blessed with uncommon wit and natural good looks, armed with degrees from Brown and Duke, and engaged to a wealthy investor, Maysie Campbell seemed to have everything going for her. However, her outwardly faultless appearance and professional success masked deep inner turmoil. Her death by suicide...
Closer to Found: Unlocking Your Teen's Secret Life
A Reader's Guide to Loss and Found
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2009
Closer to Found: Unlocking Your Teens Secret Life, a companion piece to Karen Flyers memoir Loss and Found, offers readers real-life and relevant insights on surviving childhood and adolescent traumas; diagnostic and clinical advice for parents and mental health professionals on how to help a troubled...
Dying in Dubai
A Memoir of Marriage, Mourning, and the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
DYING IN DUBAI is a memoir of love, loss, reckoning, and renewal, set against the backdrop of a Rodeo Drive-on-Mars desert city. It tells of the sudden death of Roselee Blooston’s beloved husband, Jerry, and how her fifteen day journey through a profoundly disorienting environment, and the inner journey...
Turning Toward Tomorrow
Victories over Loss
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2002
In these true-life stories, men and women who lost a spouse or domestic partner (including gay relationships), reveal how they put their lives back together in positive and often dramatic ways. They share candid revelations about how they dealt with issues ranging from learning to live alone, coping...
Naked Mountain
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
This compelling memoir of one woman’s journey of enchantment, tragedy and romance unfolds against the backdrop of a stunning mountaintop in rural Virginia. Purchased on a lark for weekend camping by a clueless suburban couple, the mountain brings Marcia Mabee and her husband Tim surprising wildlife...
The Escort
Walking to Eternity With My Brother
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2015
No one can be adequately prepared to receive a phone call saying your loved one is dying a slow but inevitable death.Yet on that day, as I looked out my office window in Atlanta, savoring the changing of the seasons, the wonderful show of colors of the turning leaves, and a gradual shift to the approaching...
Heat Signature
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2008
Sam Brown sets out on a road trip from his home in a small California desert town to the cooler, greener climes of the Northwest. He tells himself he just needs a break, from his father, a dead-end relationship with a stripper, his job as a nurse, and his troubled best friend. But what he can't escape,...
by Peggy Chan
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2019
The colors of emotions: colors of happiness, conflict, despair, loss, sorrow and solitude, all the poignant moments in life will resonate with you even as you recognise the human psyche that soars in the joy of rekindled love and plummets in the agony of betrayal, that trembles in grief and despair...
by Judy Tatelbaum
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2018
Thank you my readers for your willingness to be inspired. We never know where our answers might lie. Our most important insights may come from a sentence in a book. I hope this is true for you.
Creating this book is the answer to a dream for me. I have wanted to be a writer since I was thirteen,...
Fatherless Daughters
Turning the Pain of Loss into the Power of Forgiveness
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
A moving, elegantly written, and exhaustively researched account of what it means for a girl to lose a father to death or divorce—with advice for fatherless daughters on how to cope.
“People who lose their parents early in life are like fellow war veterans. As soon as they discover that...
Warrior Mother
A Memoir of Fierce Love, Unbearable Loss, and Rituals that Heal
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
Warrior Mother is the true story of a mother’s fierce love and determination, and her willingness to go outside the bounds of the ordinary when two of her three adult children are diagnosed with life-threatening diseases. When Sheila Collins’s best friend, dying of breast cancer, asked her to...