Whether the death of a loved one is sudden or expected, grieving the loss is a difficult yet transformative process. Grieving For Dummies approaches this very important subject with sensitivity, helping readers who are grieving the loss...
Bereavement
- Author:Harvey, GregSummary:
- Author:Doughty, CaitlinSummary:
The best-selling author of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes expands our sense of what it means to treat the dead with "dignity." Fascinated by our pervasive terror of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty set out to discover how other cultures...
- Author:Jones, Adam GarnetSummary:
How can Shane reconcile his feelings for David with his desire for a better life? Shane is still reeling from the suicide of his kid sister, Destiny. How could he have missed the fact that she was so sad? He tries to share his grief...
- Author:Longaker, ChristineSummary:
Christine Longaker's experience with death and care of the dying began in 1976 when her husband was diagnosed with acute leukemia at the age of twenty-four. Since his death, she has devoted her life to ease the suffering of those facing...
- Author:Walton, CrystalSummary:
Twenty-one-year-old Emma Matthews lost the song in her heart the same night she lost her dad. With an unfulfilled promise and an ultimatum shadowing her junior year of college, maybe it’s better that way. You can’t hurt if you can’t...
- Author:Christensen, AndréeSummary:
Un énigmatique carnet. Un cousin ignoré d’une petite île de la mer du Nord. D’entrée de jeu, intrigué, le lecteur se laisse entraîner par la narratrice dans le monde sombre et mystérieux de Thorvald Sørensen, archéologue danois. Une...
- Author:Jennings, SharonSummary:
After years of being passed around to various relatives, Cassandra Jovanovich has found a home where she feels she belongs. All she wants to do is forget her past and pursue her dream of becoming an actress. But her new friend, Leanna...
- Author:Kidwell, AlexSummary:
After Quinn O’Malley loses his partner of ten years, Aaron, to cancer, he withdraws from everything. In a single tragic moment, he goes from an artist with a loving partner and a future to an uninspired comic book store owner who barely...
- Author:Oates, Joyce CarolSummary:
On a February morning in 2008, Joyce Carol Oates drove her ailing husband, Raymond Smith, to the emergency room of the Princeton Medical Center where he was diagnosed with pneumonia. Both Joyce and Ray expected him to be released in a...