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2) Saving Zoë
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Instead of a fresh start, high school provides more grief and isolation to Echo, whose older sister died a year earlier, but insights gained from Zoë's diary--a fifteenth birthday gift from Zoë's boyfriend--about her sister's life and death change Echo in ways she could have never expected.
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In 1911, when orphaned ten-year-old Inge comes to live with her stern grandmother in a remote island village in Bornholm, Denmark, she ends up changing the climate of the town, bringing joy and laughter to her grandmother's life and finding a new family for herself to help assuage her grief over losing her mother.
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"A Song Interrupted: Resuming Life After Loss," a guide crafted to navigate the profound and complex journey of losing a mother. This book is born from a place of deep empathy and understanding, aiming to serve as a companion through the silent void left by such an irreplaceable loss. The loss of a mother is unlike any other; it is an interruption of the most fundamental melody of our lives, a song that begins with our first breath and is expected...
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It is not polite conversation to bring up death at weddings and dinner parties. So how do you authentically navigate soul-crushing, bone-crumbling, heart-wrenching, asphyxiating grief? You cannot alchemize what you are unwilling to face. So treat this poetry collection like a melancholic music playlist when you are in a place to feel all the feelings that come with someone you love dying. It's written through the lens of losing a child, but with...
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With searing honesty Henri J. M. Nouwen describes the events leading up to his near fatal accident and recalls the transformative experience at the portal of death. Beyond the Mirror helps us contact the powerful reality of unconditional love that Nouwen experienced as he touched eternity. His insight inspires us to live our lives freely with confidence and trust that we belong to God.
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As a child, born into an abusive/dysfunctional family environment, Lin Tillman became The Invisible Girl who received GOD's inspiration. However, from her father's verbal and physical abuse, she still had poor self-esteem into her mid-thirties. Lin thought she had escaped her painful beginnings, by making academic strides, but her Emotional Foundation (Inner-Child Self) lacked true parental LOVE. Unfortunately this plagued her subconscious with no...
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When People Grieve offers guidance for some of the hardest moments of our lives. Caring for those facing the death of a loved one can be a challenging labor of love. This helpful book offers guidance that every counselor or friend of the bereaved should have. An internationally renowned expert on grief counseling, D'Arcy draws on her own experience of the loss of her husband and daughter. She distills the wisdom that she gained through the process...
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Los abuelos son la casa del pueblo, las vacaciones de verano, las propinas a escondidas.
Los abuelos son el tiempo que nos falta, y los recuerdos que aparecen en los cajones.
Hay personas que marcan tu vida y te hacen sentir de una forma especial y única. Esa era mi abuela.
Estas páginas encierran miles de momentos que viví a su lado, miles de conversaciones que ahora son recuerdos, y que un día necesité escribir para que nunca se borrasen de...
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Near death experiences are not that new, but never has a doctor working in Lourdes, and enlightened by deep respect for science and a faithful understanding of the 2,000 year-old Catholic approach to life developed such coherent, hopeful explanations. The task of the Lourdes medical office is to document and evaluate miracles and other supernatural experiences scientifically. Dr. Theillier has worked at that office for many years, and has witnessed...
15) Silencer: Poems
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"Tough talk for tough times. Silencer is both lyrical and merciless–Wicker's mind hums in overdrive, but with the calm and clarity of a marksman."
-Tim Seibles, author of One Turn Around the Sun and finalist for the National Book Award
A suburban park, church, a good job, a cocktail party for the literati: to many, these sound like safe places, but for a young black man these insular spaces don't keep out the news-and the actual threat-of...
16) Wounded Poems
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The 2nd edition of Joel's infamous book depicting insanity
"Watch me be born, watch me bloom and then die, watch me resurrect." - Elliotté P. Joel on Wounded Poems "Deep poems and conceptual metaphors!" - Alisa Velaj
"Very interesting, refreshing, paradoxically natural!" - Ida Sieciechowicz
The debut poetry collection of Slovak-American author Elliotté P. Joel offers a time-lapsing observation of young poet's works captured from the age of 15 to...
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With the exquisite prose and poetry that has always graced her writing, Joyce Rupp mines the multiple meanings of important images in the Bible, in order to get us through our own rough moments. Included are: the prophecy of Simeon, the flight into Egypt, Jesus lost in the temple, Mary seeing Jesus carrying the cross, Mary at the foot of the cross, Mary receiving Jesus' dead body, and Jesus being laid in the tomb.
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Grief is a small word for a BIG experience. Grief affects us emotionally, but also physically, socially, spiritually, and really in every part of our lives. The important thing to know is that grief is natural, normal, and healthy, and it's an experience we all have because we're human.
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Hope, Feelings, Life, Trauma
Meet A Kids Co., a new kind of media company with a collection of beautifully designed books that kickstart...
19) Flying Solo
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When the substitute for Mr. "Fab" Fabiano never shows up and his sixth-grade students are on their own, they set out to prove that they can run the class by themselves. With a little ingenuity and some careful planning, they might just succeed. But when a fight breaks out between Bastian Fauvell and Rachel White over a classmate, Tommy Feathers, who died six months earlier, everything begins to fall apart. Can Rachel deal with the anxieties that plunged...
20) Patience
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Have you been alive for the past few years? You may remember the g l o b a l p a n d e m i c and also want to think about it in the form of free verse poetry written by a very tired EMT in the Pacific Northwest. These poems were composed to capture life as it turned a particular series of corners. None of them are formally structured in any particular way because I don't have an MFA and lack discipline, although I make up for it at the gym. Some...
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