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Jake White currently lives in Orlando, Florida with his family and two beagles. Jake wanted to help encourage his own children to Jake White currently lives in Orlando, Florida with his family and two beagles. Jake wanted to help encourage his own children to read and write. In this memorable, moving novel, Judith Guest takes the reader into their lives to share their misunderstandings, pain…and ultimate healing.
She began to create a record of her interior life as a mourner, trying to capture the paradox of grief—its monumental agony and microscopic intimacies—an endeavor that ultimately bloomed into a profound look at how caring for her mother during her illness changed and strengthened their bond.
With lyricism and unswerving candor, The Long Goodbye captures the fleeting moments of joy that make up a life and the way memory can lead us out of the jagged darkness of loss. Effortlessly blending research and reflection, the personal and the universal, it is a love letter from a daughter to a mother that will touch any reader who has felt the powerful ties of familial love.
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Swimming in a Sea of Death: His goal is to find the lock that matches a mysterious key that belonged to his father, who died in the World Trade Center on the morning of September This seemingly impossible task will bring Oskar into contact with survivors of all sorts on an exhilarating, affecting, often hilarious, and ultimately healing journey. Joan Didion explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: His parents and younger sister are left to wrestle with the awful questions: How could God let this happen?
And, Can we ever be happy again? They each fall into the abyss of grief in different ways. And in the days and months to come, they each find their faltering way toward peace. Giving Up the Ghost: Once married, however, she acquired a persistent pain that led to destructive drugs and patronizing psychiatry, ending in an ineffective but irrevocable surgery. There would be no children; in herself she found instead one novel, and then another. To be a good parent?
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To live a meaningful life? Emily Rapp thought she knew the answers when she was pregnant with her first child. But everything changed when nine-month-old Ronan was diagnosed with Tay-Sachs disease, a rare and always-fatal degenerative disorder. He was not expected to live beyond the age of three. Rapp and her husband were forced to re-evaluate everything they thought they knew about parenting and to learn to parent without a future. He marries her without hesitation, and they have a relatively happy, unremarkable marriage. But when a tree crashes into their house and Dorothy is killed, Aaron feels as though he has been erased forever.
Gradually, Aaron discovers that maybe for this beginner there is indeed a way to say goodbye. The monster in his backyard is different. And it wants something from Conor. Something terrible and dangerous. It wants the truth. From the final idea of award-winning author Siobhan Dowd— whose premature death from cancer prevented her from writing it herself— Patrick Ness has spun a haunting and darkly funny novel of mischief, loss, and monsters both real and imagined.
This work contains his concise, genuine reflections on that period: He has to be knocked silly before he comes to his senses. Only torture will bring out the truth. Only under torture does he discover it himself. The Best Day the Worst Day: The couple made a home at their New England farmhouse, where they rejoiced in rituals of writing, gardening, caring for pets, and connecting with their rural community through friends and church.
To pass the time, they would talk about the books they were reading. Once, by chance, they read the same book at the same time—and an informal book club of two was born. Through their wide-ranging reading, Will and Mary Anne—and we, their fellow readers—are reminded how books can be comforting, astonishing, and illuminating, changing the way that we feel about and interact with the world around us. What we as her audience take away from this remarkable drama is a keener sense that, while death is real and unavoidable, our lives are ours to cherish or throw away—a lesson that can be both uplifting and redemptive.
The collision resulted in her death. With piercing insight and stark prose, Darin Strauss leads us on a deeply personal, immediate, and emotional journey—graduating high school, going away to college, starting his writing career, falling in love with his future wife, becoming a father. Along the way, he takes a hard look at loss and guilt, maturity and accountability, hope and, at last, acceptance.
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The result is a staggering, uplifting tour de force. Many adults find it difficult to explain the concept of organ donation to children. This book of seven short stories along with the amazing artwork help to explain the beauty of donation to children in a way they can more easily understand. Can be purchased at http: The first is for adults, with engaging stories, information and resources covering everything from a terminal diagnosis to funerals, digital legacy, and grief, the second for adolescents and also contains stories and resources for young people in plain language they can easily understand.
Was thinking about ordering it. She lost her 5 year old daughter to cancer. A Grace Disguised, by Gerald Sittser.
He lost his mother, wife, and 4 year old daughter all in one vehicular accident in which he was driving and hit head-on by a drunk driver. Saved my sanity after we lost our daughter Lora Beth in a car wreck. Here are some beautifully written memoirs that I enjoyed on death and grief: I escaped into my journal five years ago after losing my daughter. I wrote voraciously to work out the contents of my heart and to find a way to emerge from the deep darkness.
I wrote for myself in an uncensored manner. I died my own death. I cried, I yelled, I collapsed and I was miraculously surrounded with the most incredible light. This week that journal became a book- Losing My Breath: From Loss to Transformation. The most moving part of publishing this book is the honest conversations that are surrounding it.
The vulnerability and authenticity as people begin to share their own stories.
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I am deeply touched. The Mindfulness Workbook for Addiction: This is a user friendly workbook that helps folks who have experienced a loss learn new behaviors rather than returning to addictions. Wonderful list which I have bookmarked and use when folks in my Congregation ask for resources. We have also been told that it speaks to non-Italian Americans and offers ways for readers to think about how their own culture affects their relationships and their grieving. I think I wept a bit with each and every interview.
Especially if you are still in the stages of anticipating the death of someone you love — it helped prepare me and give me new perspective on the process and cycle of life and death. This is one of my favorites. It is very practical, supportive, down to earth and normalizes a lot of thoughts, feelings and behaviors related to the grieving process. Self-care is emphasized as well. Plus, there are lots of helpful resources re: You are the second or third person to mention the Exact Replica book!
I need to read it. Thanks for your additions! Once I could again, I read many of your recommendations trying to find solace. I will certainly add many on this list. Thank you for compiling it. It helped me when little else could.
- The Wilton Circle (was it the birth place of Shakespeares plays?).
- Cooking 101: Basic Cooking Tips for the Beginner Cook!
- Route 5;
- Biofuels economics and policy. Agricultural and Environmental Sustainability (Economia - Ricerche).
- Partiality (Princeton Monographs in Philosophy)?
Ah, great recommendation Debra! That is an absolutely amazing book. I read it in high school in the first philosophy class I ever took and it had such a deep impact on me. Leaning In to Love by Elaine Mansfield.
Honest, direct and beautiful. I read it 6 weeks after my son was stillborn. It saved my life. It is fiction but a lovely read. Thank you for all these book titles. Are there any others that deal with grief due to losses that are not due to dying? The unmet dream of a second child was a difficult loss for me, and I know that grief can occur from many losses.
Do you have any titiles to recommend? Hmmm Anna, thanks for your question. Are you looking for memoirs most on this list are memoirs or practical support?? I forgot about Tears and Tequila. We have been writing together since after an all-day writing toward healing workshop for bereaved mothers sponsored by a local hospice, church and college. The book includes writing promots from our first five years, stories of our children, writings we have done.
Carol Henderson, also a bereaved mother and the author, also wrote Losing Malcolm: We continue to write at http: Four beautiful books in my collection I can totally recommend — Inthe Springtime of the Year by Susan Hill, a remarkable novel about sudden loss Swimmer in the Secret Sea by William Kotzwinkle and An Exact Replica of a Figment of my Imagination by Elizabeth McCracken these are both about stllbirth, the former an exquisite novella, the latter a stunning memoir and If You Sit Very Still, which is a luminous memoir of loss, violent death and forgiveness by Marian Partington.
Oh and a fifth! They have each made a profound impact on me. The grief story that begins when you know that your child, whom you love more than life itself, has a life limiting condition and you must prepare both yourself and them for a crushing parting. I was given a copy by my cousin who had suffered the loss of her husband 6 years before my husband died. It helped me more than any other book I read.