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2541) Every Atom
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Across distance, the speaker of these poems wrestles with the way her mother's loss of memory changes the narrative between them. By interrogating the past, fissures in language, and the vagaries of identity, the speaker comes to a recognition that we are all more alike in our humanity than we are different.
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In this well-researched work, Dr Albín Masarik explores various features of funeral sermons arising from their unique context and homiletic process. While funeral sermons are an important element in pastoral care of churches and the wider community, theological reflection of this weighty responsibility can be hard to find. Addressing the definition of a funeral sermon, their categorization, purpose and context, this book brings clarity to inform...
2543) Imagine Us, The Swarm
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Following the death of the poet's father, Imagine Us, The Swarm contemplates vengeance, eschews forgiveness, and cultivates a desire for healing beyond the reaches of this present life. In this collection of essays in verse, Leung reconciles a familial history of violence and generational trauma across intersections of Asian American, queer, and gendered experiences. Moving between the past and the present, Leung imbues memories with something new...
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What happens after a suicide?
Ten years after the suicide of a close friend, Sabrina Muller writes about her personal mourning process in short blogs and in-depth analyses. She tells of her numbness after the bad news, of the unbearable moments, of her phases of grief. She tells of rage, her own life tiredness, disappointment, and loneliness. Where were friends, community, even the church, when she herself urgently needed support?
Muller speaks openly...
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The prize-winning, "exceptionally moving" memoir of a family boat trip, an IRA bombing, and a teenager's loss of his twin brother (The Telegraph).
Christopher Ewart-Biggs Literary Award Winner and PEN/JR Ackerley Prize Nominee
On an August weekend in 1979, fourteen-year-old Timothy Knatchbull joined his family on a boat trip off the shore of Mullaghmore in County Sligo, Ireland. By noon, an Irish Republican Army bomb had destroyed the boat,...
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In this poetry debut Mosab Abu Toha writes about his life under siege in Gaza, first as a child, and then as a young father. A survivor of four brutal military attacks, he bears witness to a grinding cycle of destruction and assault, and yet, his poetry is inspired by a profound humanity.
These poems emerge directly from the experience of growing up and living in constant lockdown, and often under direct attack. Like Gaza itself, they are filled with...
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"Finalist for the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, PEN America" "Ottilie Mulzet, Winner of the Tibor Déry Prize, Tibor Déry Foundation" Szilárd Borbély (1963–2014) wrote in a wide variety of genres. His books include the novel The Dispossessed and the poetry collection Berlin-Hamlet. Ottilie Mulzet is a literary critic and the translator of The Dispossessed and Berlin-Hamlet, among other books. Her translation of the novel Seiobo There Below...
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How far would you go for your best friend? Raquel's lifelong best friend, Sasha, has just died of cancer, and Raquel is overcome with grief … until she discovers that Sasha spent her final weeks planning an elaborate scavenger hunt for the friend she would have to leave behind. When Raquel follows Sasha's instructions, a mysterious stranger with striking eyes is waiting for her. There's a secret attached to him that only Sasha - and now Raquel -...
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Grieving doesn't mean you must be consumed by grief.
If you're looking for unique ways to cope with the loss of a spouse, parent, child, family member or close friend, Have a Good Mourning is the book for you. You'll discover transformational ways to mourn as you avoid the perpetual darkness that sometimes follows grief and heal even as you keep your loved one's memory alive.
In Have a Good Mourning, you'll hear the tales of others whose journeys...
2550) When God Seems Silent
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WHEN GOD SEEMS TO BE SILENTHave you ever wondered why sometimes God seems silent when His children are undergoing difficulties,or why sometimes bad things happen to good people?Does it sometimes look like your prayers are unanswered, or does it look like things have delayed in your life?Then you are holding the answers in your hands. In this amazing and timely book,the author has used biblical and real-life examples to address these andmany other...
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There is always a plan.
Joe Gibbs has dedicated his life to helping the "average Joe" apply Biblical principles to everyday situations, using the Bible as a game plan. But in 2019, when his son, J.D., lost his battle with a degenerative brain disease at the age of 49, Joe realized that while he did have a game plan for life, he did not have a game plan for dealing with loss.
Reeling, he set out to find answers to the 5 questions that plagued...
2552) The Weight of Ghosts
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• ARAB AMERICAN memoir about a mother's grief woven and coming to terms with her identity
• TIMELY TOPICS of immigration, identity, and suicide. Halaby isn't afraid to tackle challenging topics in lyrical prose that moves readers
• AWARD WINNING Novelist and Poet, Laila Halaby is a PEN Beyond Margins Winner for her novel West of the Jordan, and a Fulbright recipient.
• FOR FANS OF Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America by Laila Lalami...
2553) The Anti-Grief
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What to do with everything crossing one's path? Everything for and against, upside down and inside out, grief first then its dogged shadow life, which could be joy. In The Anti-Grief, Marianne Boruch challenges our conceptions of memory, age, and time, revealing the many layers of perception and awareness. A book of meditations, these poems venture out into the world, jump their synapse, tie and untie knots, and misbehave. From Emily Dickinson's chamber...
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Forensic science provides information and data behind the circumstances of a particular death, but it is culture that provides death with meaning. With this in mind, Rite, Flesh, and Stone proposes cultural matters of death as its structuring principle, operating as frames of the expression of mortality within a distinct set of coordinates. The chapters offer original approaches to how human remains are handled in the embodied rituals and social performances...
2555) Maisy's Memories
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Dealing with loss is a difficult thing for anyone to go through, no matter what the age. For adults dealing with the loss of a loved one, it can add even more stress to an already difficult situation, while having to take care of their children as well. Most adults try to put on a 'brave face' in front of their children and pretend that everything is okay. This heart-warming story explains how the deceased can always live on in our memories and conveys...
2557) Aftershock
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Daniel was the sole survivor of a road accident that propelled three young people into the afterlife. Now he's back, and ready to convince his friends and family that Jesus is their only hope before they face judgement after death. Profoundly changed by his experience, he's nevertheless shocked to discover that other people can't share his certainty.
In writing the story of Daniel and his friends, as they wrestle with the arguments for and against...
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In I'm Glad My Parents Died: 10 Tough Life Lessons I Learned From An Abusive Childhood, the author takes us on an extraordinary journey of resilience, healing, and self-discovery. With unflinching honesty and raw vulnerability, they delve into the darkest corners of their past and emerge with invaluable insights and lessons that inspire and captivate readers.This gripping memoir explores the complex emotions that arise when confronted with the death...
2559) Soul Searcher
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Along this journey called life, we experience strength and weakness, ups and downs, gains and losses, friends and enemies; yet wisdom is to realize that it all has its purpose, place and time. So, you see it is after facing our deepest despair that we are able to realize our greatest joy.
It is our challenges that award us with knowledge. And the muddled mixed moments of doubt and confusion gives truth and clarity its radiant glow. However, to finally...
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Ramón de la Cruz entrega en éste, su primer poemario, un canto a la desolación y a la rabia al tiempo que su mirada, parpadeante, como la luz de las luciérnagas, se entrega al misticismo de la contemplación y así, poder escribir(se) en la distancia. No es, sino la sensación sentida, su verso más simple. Y el más profundo.
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