Grief category: 2356 books
The Day Donny Herbert Woke Up
A True Story
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2007
Donny Herbert was a hardworking Buffalo city firefighter who, in December 1995, was searching the attic of a burning house when the snow-laden roof collapsed. For six minutes he was without oxygen. A beloved husband, a father of four boys, a neighborhood fixture who was always willing to lend a helping...
Stillborn
Celebrities Who Have Suffered Infant Loss
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2013
In the United States alone, a child is born stillborn every 20 minutes; it is said that 10 to 25% of all pregnancies end in miscarriage. Your baby is not just a sad statistic. They are real. You are not alone. It can happen to anyone—even the famous. This book contains over 20 short profiles of...
Great Answers to Difficult Questions about Death
What Children Need to Know
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
Death is never an easy subject for discussion and adults often struggle to find the right words when talking about it with children. This book explores children's thoughts and feelings on the subject of death and provides parents and other caring adults with guidance on how to respond to difficult...
Finding Roger
An Improbably Theatrical Love Story
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Rick Elice, author of Jersey Boys, Addams Family, and Peter and the Starcatcher for Broadway, has penned a heartbreaking memoir of his 34 years with the inimitable Roger Rees. Some may recognize Roger as Nicholas Nickleby and others will know him as Kirstie Alley's boyfriend on Cheers. When he died...
Living Beyond
Making Sense of Near Death Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
"What happens when we die? This is one of humankind’s most important questions. Living Beyond brings a fresh and exciting perspective to this enduring question. Ivan Rudolph shares dramatic evidence supporting near-death experiences. This book is expertly written, remarkably easy to read, and...
Junkie Buddha
A Journey of Discovery in Peru
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
This is the story of one woman’s journey from her son’s revelation that he had been sexually abused in childhood through to the scattering of his ashes at Machu Picchu in Peru. Sacha had died of a heroin overdose. A journal Diane kept while traveling around Peru and her experiences, encounters...
by Nina Angela McKissock
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
I've had the honor of being a hospice nurse for the last fourteen years. When I read the current bestsellers describing their end of life experience they made me angry. Dying is not a religious experience; it's a spiritual experience!
From Sun to Sun is written without all the religious dogma...
Tough Transitions
Navigating Your Way Through Difficult Times
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2008
In TOUGH TRANSITIONS, Dr. Neeld takes the formula from her successful book Seven Choices and expands it to focus on adapting to changes of all kinds, from promotions to retirement, a new baby to empty nesting. Using a life map of her own creation, Neeld demystifies and illuminates the choices individuals...
The Little Way of Ruthie Leming
A Southern Girl, a Small Town, and the Secret of a Good Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
THE LITTLE WAY OF RUTHIE LEMING follows Rod Dreher, a Philadelphia journalist, back to his hometown of St. Francisville, Louisiana (pop. 1,700) in the wake of his younger sister Ruthie's death. When she was diagnosed at age 40 with a virulent form of cancer in 2010, Dreher was moved by the way the...
Hanging with the Elephant
A Story of Love, Loss and Meditation
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2014
'A compelling memoir. Absorbing and graced with a deceptive lightness of touch, [Hanging with the Elephant] is clever and brilliantly pieced together. Harding writes like an angel' Sunday Times
From the No.1 bestselling author of Staring at Lakes, Talking to S**trangers and On Tuesdays I'm...
The Letter
My Journey Through Love, Loss, and Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
In 2003, Pat Tillman, serving in the US Army, hastily wrote a "just in case" letter to his wife, Marie. When he returned on leave before his departure to Afghanistan, he placed the letter on top of their bedroom dresser. For months it sat there, sealed and ever-present, like a black hole...
A Journal for Jordan
A Story of Love and Honor
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2008
In 2005, First Sergeant Charles Monroe King began to write what would become a two-hundred-page journal for his son in case he did not make it home from the war in Iraq. Charles King, forty-eight, was killed on October 14, 2006, when an improvised explosive device detonated under his Humvee on an...
Final Salute
A Story of Unfinished Lives
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
They are the troops that nobody wants to see, carrying a message that no military family ever wants to hear. Since the start of the war in Iraq, Marines like Major Steve Beck found themselves charged with a mission they never asked for and one for which there can be no training: casualty notification....
Must You Go?
My Life with Harold Pinter
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
A moving testament to one of the literary world's most celebrated marriages: that of the greatest playwright of our age, Harold Pinter, and the beautiful and famous prize-winning biographer Antonia Fraser.
In this exquisite memoir, Antonia Fraser recounts the life she shared with the internationally...