Grief category: 2356 books
Tiny Beautiful Things
Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
This bestselling book from the author of Wild collects the best of The Rumpus's Dear Sugar advice columns plus never-before-published pieces. Rich with humor, insight, compassion—and absolute honesty—this bookis a balm for everything life throws our way.
Life can be hard: your lover cheats...
Signs of Life
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
“I know. I know. No one says it but I know…” —from Signs of Life
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Twenty-four-year-old Natalie Taylor was leading a charmed life. At the age of twenty four, she had a fulfilling job as a high school English teacher, a wonderful husband, a new house and a baby on the way. Then, while...
Slow Motion
A True Story
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2012
From one of the most gifted writers of her generation comes the harrowing and exquisitely written true story of how a family tragedy saved her life.
Dani Shapiro was a young girl from a deeply religious home who became the girlfriend of a famous and flamboyant married attorney—her best friend's...
Life with a Widower
Overcoming Unique Challenges and Creating a Fulfilling Relationship
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
If you're dating or married to a widower, you've encountered relationship issues that other couples just don’t have to deal with. Whether it’s the comments on his late wife’s Facebook page or the tattoo commemorating the love of his life, there are some situations that are unique to widower...
Madeleine
Our daughter's disappearance and the continuing search for her
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2011
'The decision to publish this book has been very difficult, and taken with heavy hearts ... My reason for writing it is simple: to give an account of the truth ... Writing this memoir has entailed recording some very personal, intimate and emotional aspects of our lives. Sharing these with strangers...
The Golden Willow
The Story of a Lifetime of Love
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2009
Harry Bernstein started chronicling his life at the age of ninety-four, after the death of his beloved wife, Ruby. In his first book, The Invisible Wall, he told a haunting story of forbidden love in World War I-era England. Then Bernstein wrote The Dream, the touching tale of his family’s immigrant...
Final Gifts
Understanding the Special Awareness, Needs, and Co
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
In this moving and compassionate classic—now updated with new material from the authors—hospice nurses Maggie Callanan and Patricia Kelley share their intimate experiences with patients at the end of life, drawn from more than twenty years’ experience tending the terminally ill.
Through...
We Don't Die
George Anderson's Conversations with the Other Side
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2002
This is the phenomenal true story of the world-renowned psychic medium George Anderson—the groundbreaking book that first brought afterlife experience into the light. For over 12 years Joel Martin documented evidence of Anderson's powers—the ability to reach 'the other side'—and repeatedly astonished...
No temas al duelo
Historias de vida, muerte y superación
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 23, 2018
Conceptos como muerte y pérdida continúan siendo temas tabú en nuestra sociedad, y la pena y el duelo que conllevan todavía son muy difíciles de sobrellevar.
Muchos de nosotros nos sentimos incómodos e inseguros acerca de la muerte, y evitamos hablar abierta y claramente sobre ello...
Making Friends with Death
A Field Guide for Your Impending Last Breath (to be read, ideally, before it's imminent!)
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
Death is a great and grand mystery, and the actual act of dying is the last physical act of our lives. We can do it well, like a graceful well-rehearsed piano solo—or we can do it like that first awkward dance with a middle-school crush. But if anything deserves our full attention, some preparation,...
The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
The Spiritual Classic & International Bestseller: Revised and Updated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
“A magnificent achievement. In its power to touch the heart, to awaken consciousness, [The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying] is an inestimable gift.”
—San Francisco Chronicle
A newly revised and updated edition of the internationally bestselling spiritual classic, The Tibetan Book of...
by Caitlin Doughty
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
"Morbid and illuminating" (Entertainment Weekly)—a young mortician goes behind the scenes of her curious profession.
Armed with a degree in medieval history and a flair for the macabre, Caitlin Doughty took a job at a crematory and turned morbid curiosity into her life’s work. She cared...
A Faithful Farewell
Living Your Last Chapter with Love
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
When the time comes for us to die, how do we say good-bye to our friends, our families, and the lives we have lived? How do we remain faithful -- to God, to ourselves, and to loved ones -- as we face our final journey?
As Marilyn McEntyre acknowledges, these questions are especially challenging...
The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning
How to Free Yourself and Your Family from a Lifetime of Clutter
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
A charming, practical, and unsentimental approach to putting a home in order while reflecting on the tiny joys that make up a long life.
In Sweden there is a kind of decluttering called döstädning, dö meaning “death” and städning meaning “cleaning.” This surprising and invigorating...