Grief category: 2356 books
Ce qui se passe après la mort
Michael Jackson, l'abbé Pierre, le pape Jean-Paul II, Hitler, Peter Deunov, Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov, Christian Rose-Croix, Saint Jean l'Essénien, Mozart et d'autres personnes moins célèbres
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2011
Il existe de nombreux livres relatant des expériences sur la mort, mais ils ne parlent pour la plupart que du « passage »tel qu’il est décrit par des personnes qui sont revenues dans leur corps. Ce livre est très différent, car l’auteur a accompagné de nombreuses âmes de l’autre côté...
by Sadhakas
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2013
"These short crisp phrases while guiding others have been a hallmark of Dr. Jayadeva Yogendra. Not only are they full of meaning but they possess an authority of an individual who leads his life the way he preaches.This small book consists of practical questions asked to Dr. Jayadeva and Hansaji....
Ready to Live, Prepared to Die
A Provocative Guide to the Rest of Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
Are you afraid of dying?
Are you hesitant to talk with those who you love about your last wishes?
Do you avoid the tasks that help you prepare for the future?
Or, are you helping someone--a spouse, parent, friend, patient, or client--who is working through the issues of death...
by Janet Stark
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2010
Final Scenes is a collection of moving stories concerning end-of-life. Janet Stark's narrative style is fresh, honest and personal. Told in a heart-warming way, and at times with humour, Janet seeks to express the hope and comfort that come from compassionate care. Helping someone die is a privilege,...
Peaceful Passages
A Hospice Nurse's Stories of Dying Well
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Joy is a word rarely associated with death. Yet joy is ultimately the effect in this collection of stories about Janet Wehr’s experiences in witnessing the death of her patients during her fifteen years as a hospice nurse. Her first-hand account gives illuminating and comforting insight into the...
by . Karen Karbo
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2008
The Oregon Book Awards presented the Sarah Winnemucca Award for Creative Nonfiction to Karen Karbo for The Stuff of Life.
When Karen Karbo's father, a charming, taciturn Clint Eastwood type who lives in a triple-wide in the Nevada desert, is diagnosed with lung cancer, his only daughter rises to the...
Splitting the Difference
A Heart-Shaped Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
At 18, Tré Miller-Rodríguez gave her newborn daughter up for adoption. At 19, her only sibling was killed in a car crash. At 34, she lost her husband to a sudden heart attack. Then, at 36, her now-teenaged daughter found her on Facebook—and began to reshape the course of Tré’s life. With sharp,...
by B. K. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
"I finally detached with the understanding that people cannot give to you what they don't have. I am not feeling the love because... And because of what was probably this unsatisfied need for affection, I have a history of trusting complete strangers, some of whom have, to their credit, risen...
by K.B. Stevens
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
I am going to unequivocally show you what the experience of death is and tell you how that knowledge can improve your life. I know that's a pretty tall order, but everyone of us has the innate capacity within ourselves to know and accept the truth about death, regardless of age, religion, culture...
by Susan Oakey-Baker
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
Finding Jim describes Susan Oakey-Baker’s struggle to confront the realities of life after the death of her husband, renowned mountain guide Jim Haberl, the first Canadian to summit the most difficult mountain in the world: K2. For fifteen years they had spent time adventuring together around the...
Death... And How To Survive It
A unique, practical and uplifting guide to coming to terms with the loss of your partner
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2009
'He passed away', 'She's gone', 'He died'...
As anyone who has ever lost a loved one will know, the wording doesn't affect the meaning. Nothing can shield you or prepare you for the brutal reality and crippling pain of a death and its repercussions.
Kate Boydell was widowed at the age...
All Things Consoled
A daughter's memoir
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
From Elizabeth Hay, one of Canada's beloved novelists, comes a startling and beautiful memoir about the drama of her parents' end, and the longer drama of being their daughter. Winner of the 2018 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonficiton.
Jean and Gordon Hay were a colourful, formidable...
Glimpses of Heaven
True Stories of Hope and Peace at the End of Life's Journey
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Drawn from her decades of experience as a hospice nurse, Trudy Harris shares stories that offer an incredible glimpse at what lies beyond this world--ethereal music, colors that did not exist on earth, angels, and loved ones who have gone on before. She has been with hundreds of patients as they took...
The End of Normal
A Wife's Anguish, A Widow's New Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
A New York Times bestseller, the explosive and heartbreaking memoir from the widow of Mark Madoff and the daughter-in-law of Bernard Madoff
When the news of Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme broke, no one was more shocked than the members of his own family. Before then, Madoff’s son, Mark,...