One late September day, amid the year’s first snowfall, the winter child is born. He does not breathe. His mother watches helplessly until “at least the baby uttered a first tentative croak like a frog unsure of spring’s arrival.”
...Bereavement
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Author:Pésémapéo Bordeleau, VirginiaSummary: -
Author:Maxwell, MarySummary:These poems are steeped in loss and lament as they concern the death of the poet’s family members, particularly her father and the premature death of two brothers two years apart. The collection’s tone is often elegiac, but rarely...
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Author:Dohaney, M.T.Summary:One Friday, Walter Dohaney, novelist M.T. (Jean) Dohaney's husband, went out as usual to play hockey with his friends. She never saw him alive again. Without warning, Jean was plunged into the most painful and disorienting experience of...
- Author:Canciani, KatiaSummary:
«J’avançais, émue. Ce lieu m’habitait depuis des années. J’avais si souvent rêvé de me retrouver ici. Ces chemins, je les avais usés du bout des doigts sur les pâles photos des livres, j’y déambulais alors en pensée, la main lovée dans...
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Author:Looten, WouterSummary:The Widowers' Manual is a practical guidebook for men who have lost their wives and are looking for a way out of the chaotic situation they find themselves in. The Widowers' Manual offers an effective methodology, and addresses the...
- Author:Worth, LizSummary:
Pulling from raw themes of grief and death, regret and discomfort, sadness and failure, Worth wears these poems down to their bones. Straddling dreamy, ethereal images and brutal honesty, The Truth is Told Better This Way unravels its...
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Author:SEBOLD, AliceSummary:This is the tale of family, memory, love, and living told by 14-year-old Susie Salmon, who is already in heaven. Through the voice of a precocious teenage girl, Susie relates the awful events of her death and builds out of her family...
- Author:Udall, BradySummary:
This novel tells of Golden Richards, a man who, despite having four wives and 28 children, hasn't quite found fulfillment in life. And even after he falls in love again and takes a mistress, life continues to fall short of...
- Author:MCGREGOR, ElizabethSummary:
Jo Harper, a successful young journalist, has only her two-year-old son, Sam, to remind her of her late partner. When Sam falls ill, there is only one hope-that his stepbrother John could be a match for a bone marrow transplant.
- Author:Carr, RobynSummary:
New York Times best-selling author Robyn Carr is beloved for her charming, romantic fiction. In this touching work, four women-all writers-come together after a painful loss. Recently deceased Gabby Marshall leaves behind a letter...
- Author:James, John W.Summary:
Incomplete recovery from grief can have a lifelong negative effect on your capacity for happiness. Drawing from their own stories, as well as from others, the authors illustrate what grief is and how it is possible to recover and regain...
- Author:Conroy, Pat.Summary:
Leopold Bloom King, the narrator, is the son of an amiable, loving father who teaches science at the local high school. His mother, an ex-nun, is the high school principal and a well-known Joyce scholar. After Leo's older brother...
- Author:Olsson, LindaSummary:
After the unexpected death of his daughter, musician Adam Anker loses all sense of direction in his life. Adrift, he embarks on a journey of self-discovery, one that will take him from New Zealand, to Poland, and finally to Sweden for a...
- Author:Kushwaha, AnitaSummary:
Kavita Gupta is a woman in transition. When her troubled older brother, Sunil, disappears, she does everything in her power to find him, convinced that she can save him. Ten days later, the police arrive at her door to inform her that...
- Author:Diehl, CharlenlSummary:
Out of Grief, Singing is an achingly beautiful account of how a woman comes to terms with the loss of her newborn. After a bewildering series of rapid diagnoses and emergency interventions, Charlene's daughter Chloe is born. But...
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Author:Comeau, JoeySummary:Jackie has a map of the city on the wall of her bedroom, with a green pin for each of her trees. She has a first-kiss tree and a broken-arm tree. She has a car-accident tree. There is a tree at the hospital where Jackie’s mother passed...
- Author:Deits, BobSummary:
Loss can be overwhelming, and recovery sometimes seems terribly daunting, if not impossible. But Bob Deits demonstrates that the only way past grief is through it. In this newly revised edition of "Life after loss," Deits...
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Author:Jennings, SharonSummary:My name is Lee Mets (honest), and this is my book I’m part of the writing club, which is fantastic, since what I want to be most is a writer. My mother says that girls don’t grow up to be writers, they can only be nurses or teachers....
- Author:McKinnon, Hannah MarySummary:
When Josh's longtime partner, Grace, dies in a tragic accident, he is left with a mess of grief and full custody of her seven-year-old son, Logan. Wanting to do right by Logan, Josh begins the process of becoming his legal guardian,...
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Author:Eon de BeaumontSummary:Terry is grieving the loss of his former lover, Dante, when an enigmatic and very attractive stranger named the Professor drags him into an Airstream trailer/time machine. Together with his trusty hedgehog companion, Thigden, the...
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