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Author
Publisher
HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
260 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"The creator of the viral hit "Empathy Cards" teams up with a compassion expert to produce a visually stunning and groundbreaking illustrated guide to help you increase your emotional intelligence and learn how to offer comfort and support when someone you know is in pain. When someone you know is hurting, you want to let her know that you care. But many people don't know what words to use--or are afraid of saying or doing the wrong thing. This thoughtful,...
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
A young girl reflects on a year of exploring and laughing with her beloved Grandpa, remembering many special moments as she seeks a way to honor him after his death.
Author
Series
Orphans of the tide volume 1
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
354 pages : map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When a mysterious boy washes in with the tide trapped inside the belly of a whale, Ellie must prove that he isn't ruled by the Enemy even if it means revealing her own dangerous secret.
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
275 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Estranged from the best friend whose brother killed her sister in a school shooting, a grieving Cora receives a message on her twelfth birthday from her friend, asking for her help with creating a time portal to prevent the tragedy.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"From Facebook's COO and Wharton's top-rated professor, the #1 New York Times best-selling authors of Lean In and Originals: a powerful, inspiring, and practical book about building resilience and moving forward after life's inevitable setbacks. After the sudden death of her husband, Sheryl Sandberg felt certain that she and her children would never feel pure joy again. "I was in 'the void, '" she writes, "a vast emptiness that fills your heart and...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
"The first ever practical, compassionate, and comprehensive guide to dying--and living fully until you do. "There is nothing wrong with you for dying," palliative care doctor BJ Miller and Shoshana Berger write in A Beginner's Guide to the End. "Our ultimate purpose here isn't so much to help you die as it is to free up as much life as possible until you do." Theirs is a clear-eyed and big-hearted action plan for approaching the end of life, written...
Author
Language
English
Description
"A divinity professor and young mother with a Stage IV cancer diagnosis explores the pain and joy of living without certainty. Thirty-five-year-old Kate Bowler was a professor at the school of divinity at Duke, and had finally had a baby with her childhood sweetheart after years of trying, when she began to feel jabbing pains in her stomach. She lost thirty pounds, chugged antacid, and visited doctors for three months before she was finally diagnosed...
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Despite the loving intentions of her mother and boyfriend, sixteen-year-old Astrid wants to make the decisions about her life and death when her cancer returns, including exploring the possibility of cryopreservation.
Astrid's cancer has returned. It's an "astrocytoma," a tumor in her brain. She hears about a radical technology called cryopreservation that may allow her to have her body frozen until a future time when-- and if-- a cure is available....
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
244 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A master of the personal essay candidly explores love, death, and the counterfeit rituals of American life In her celebrated 2001 collection, My Misspent Youth, Meghan Daum offered a bold, witty, defining account of the artistic ambitions, financial anxieties, and mixed emotions of her generation. The Unspeakable is an equally bold and witty, but also a sadder and wiser, report from early middle age. It's a report tempered by hard times. In "Matricide,"...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"After Kitty's mother dies on an inappropriately sunny Tuesday, all Kitty wants is for her life to go back to "normal"--whatever that will mean without her mum. Instead, her dad announces that he, Kitty, and her sister are moving from their home in London to New York City, and Kitty will need to say goodbye to the places and people that help keep her mother's memory alive. New York is every bit as big and bustling as Kitty's heard, and as she adjusts...
Author
Publisher
Viva Editions
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
xxv, 260 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The issues that surround the loss of a spouse are numerous and complex. A very small sampling of these issues include helping children cope with a parent's death, re-entering the workplace and eventually re-entering the world of dating, love and intimacy; as well as moving through a profoundly emotional period. The widowed must find a way to accept and deal with these oftentimes conflicting and confusing emotions while being expected to "carry on...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
"An inspiring, informative, and practical guide to navigating end of life issues, by a groundbreaking expert in the field and the New York Times bestselling author of Knocking on Heaven's Door. In the mid-1400s, an unnamed Catholic monk composed a popular self-help book called Ars Moriendi, or The Art of Dying. Written in Latin, this medieval death manual taught people how to navigate the trials of the deathbed, using simple rituals of repentance,...
15) On my own
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
"In a deeply personal and moving book, the beloved NPR radio hostess speaks out about the long drawn-out death (from Parkinson's) of her husband of 54 years, and of her struggle to reconstruct her life without him"-- Provided by publisher.
16) Aerie
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Formats
Description
The stunning sequel to Maria Dahvana Headley's bestselling, critically acclaimed Magonia tells the story of one girl who must make an impossible choice between two families, two homes—and two versions of herself.
Aza Ray is back on earth. Her boyfriend, Jason, is overjoyed. Her family is healed. She's living a normal life, or as normal as it can be if you've spent the past year dying, waking up on a sky ship, and discovering
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Language
English
Formats
Description
"Amanda Kloots ... reflects on love, loss, and life with her husband, Broadway star and Tony Award nominee Nick Cordero, whose public battle with COVID-19 and tragic death made headlines around the world"-- Provided by publisher.
In March 2020, Tony Award nominee Nick Cordero was hospitalized for what he and his wife, Amanda Kloots, believed to be a severe case of pneumonia. An eventual diagnosis of COVID-19 led to Nick's being placed on a ventilator,...
Author
Publisher
HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
vi, 217 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The star of Long Island Medium counsels readers on how to recognize deeply rooted sources of emotional pain while explaining the power of established healing rituals in managing loss and pursuing a more fulfilling life.
"In today's constantly changing world we all face daily losses, big and small, but these everyday setbacks often go unrecognized and unmourned. This unacknowledged grief consumes the soul, creating an invisible pain that the "Long...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xii, 209 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The star of Long Island Medium shares inspiring, spirit-based lessons on how to work through and overcome grief in a guide that also offers example testimonies about the experiences of her clients.
20) The dependents
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After the sudden death of his wife, Maida, Gene is haunted by the fear that their marriage was not all it appeared to be. Alongside Ed and Gayle Donnelly, friends since college days, he tries to resurrect happy memories of the times the two couples shared, raising their children in a small New Hampshire town and vacationing together at a lake house every summer. Meanwhile, his daughter, Dary, challenges not only his happy version of the past but...