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The Giant and the Olive
The giant couldn’t believe it. He had found the perfect Olive. So round, so shiny, so black—he must show all of his friends! So starts the journey of The Giant as he runs to share his happiness with everyone and the sorrow and joy that grows from his jubilation. Leo Daly, the son of iconic South...
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O Brother
An instant Sunday Times bestseller, O Brother is by turns heart-breaking and hilarious - evoking a working-class childhood of the 1970-80s and trying to answer the questions that often haunt the survivors of suicideSHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZEA GUARDIAN BEST MEMOIR OF 2023A WATERSTONES B...
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Radical Acts of Love
A profoundly moving account of an oncology nurse's conversations with the dying
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The Orange Notebooks
Told through a mother’s journals written while interned in a French psychiatric ward, this is a novel about love, and the lost language and rituals of mourning.The siesta hour, France. Bees fly in lavender bushes. Anna has just come home, but something is wrong, and she fears nothing will ever be...
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The Life of a Creature
An astonishing debut story collection about the interconnection between humans and animals navigating love, loss, and healing Creatures swim, slither, and soar their way through this stunning short story collection about the inextricable nature of humans and animals that celebrates and bears witn...
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Something, Not Nothing
A poignant graphic memoir about the power of art to transform and heal after the death of a loved one In April 2020, cartoonist Sarah Leavitt's partner of twenty-two years, Donimo, died with medical assistance after years of severe chronic pain and a rapid decline at the end of her life. About a ...
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Super Castle Fun Park
A wild, beguiling novel about isolation, technology, and raising the dead by the co-editor of Queer Little Nightmares The dead want to speak to you. But are you ready to hear their words? Super Castle Fun Park explores a group of people tending wistfully to their precarious lives. Dario is an aim...
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Oma's Bag
A gentle and loving book that helps children navigate an Alzheimer’s diagnosis in their family The five Lim children—Jessica, Jocelyn, Jeffrey, Jacob, and Kenzie—are thrilled when their parents tell them that Oma and Opa, their beloved grandparents, are coming to town for a visit. But this time,...
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The Inner Life of the Dying Person
This unique book recounts the experience of facing one's death solely from the dying person's point of view rather than from the perspective of caregivers, survivors, or rescuers. Such unmediated access challenges assumptions about the emotional and spiritual dimensions of dying, showing readers ...
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Shattered Grief
Shattered Grief is an intimate portrait of how COVID-19 changed the ways Americans approach, understand, and mourn death.
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Living Through Loss
Living Through Loss provides a foundational identification of the many ways in which people experience loss over the life course, from childhood to old age. This second edition features new and expanded content on diversity and trauma, including discussions of gun violence, police brutality, suic...
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Dying
Offers a process-based, patient-centered approach to palliative care that substantiates a radical reconsideration of our transition to death
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No More Fridays
A witty, humorous and slightly magical novel about navigating the end of high school after losing a parent to ALS.
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Approaches to Death and Dying: Bioethical and Cultural Perspectives
A catalogue of works devoted to end-of-life themes. The volume consists of eleven articles arranged in four parts corresponding to a broad range of issues: law, ethics, philosophy, and cultural studies. The arrangement of the book is thus constructed around various perspectives upon which any ref...
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Letting Grief Speak
Letting Grief Speak is a creative writing craft book on the art of telling our hardest stories.
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Time of Death
Addressing a gap in social science research to explore the meanings, understandings, and experiences of time at life’s most critical point, this book takes a thoughtful sociological approach to questions about how humans use and experience time in relation to when someone dies.
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Death and Delusion
This book argues that Freudian psychology has overlooked the complexity of death anxiety and its role in creating illusions and delusions. It contends that death anxiety is a normal emotional threat, requiring defensive techniques to prevent overwhelming terror.
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Skin, Meaning, and Symbolism in Pet Memorials
This book looks at changes to the ways Western culture memorialises the dead. Specifically, it considers the changing relationship between people and domestic animals. Rather than focusing on how these bonds have changed in day to day life, it examines these relationships by considering how, afte...
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Death, The Dead and Popular Culture
Portrayals of death and the dead are everywhere within popular culture revealing much about contemporary society’s engagement with mortality. Drawing upon celebrity posthumous careers, organ transplantation mythology and the fictional dead, this book considers how representations of the dead in p...
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Death, Memorialization and Deviant Spaces
How can we understand the relationship between death and heritage? Using three case studies, Death, Memorialization and Deviant Spaces adapts contemporary spatial theory to develop a new conceptual toolbox, complementing existing work on dark tourism and difficult heritage, to explore the multifa...
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The Evolution of the British Funeral Industry in the 20th Century
This book examines the shifts that have taken place in the funeral industry since 1900, focusing on the figure of the undertaker and exploring how organizational change and attempts to gain recognition as a professional service provider saw the role morph into that of 'funeral director'.
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Social Perspectives on Death and Dying, 4th Edition
A leading Canadian text on death and dying, now in its 4th edition — updated and expanded to help readers explore mortality with clarity, compassion, and cultural insight.
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From the Roots Up
In this sequel to Surviving the City, Dez is grieving their grandmother's death, living in a group home, and navigating their identity as a Two-Spirit person. Will Miikwan learn how to be a supportive ally to her best friend? Will Dez be comfortable expressing their full identity? And will the co...
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We Dream Medicine Dreams
When a little girl dreams about a bear, her grandfather explains how we connect with the knowledge of our ancestors through dreams. Bear, Hawk, Caribou, and Wolf all have teachings to share to help us live a good life. But when Grampa gets sick and falls into a coma, the little girl must lean on ...
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The Moth Dreamer
Grief, guilt, and dark visions won’t let Aubrey go in this coming-of-age novel for young adults. The Moth Dreamer is a gripping tale that blends Anishinaabe traditions with a haunting journey through the physical and spiritual realms.
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Little Moons
In this moving graphic novel, thirteen-year-old Reanna grieves the loss of her missing older sister. She feels lonely, abandoned… but she is not alone. There are little moons everywhere. Can Reanna find comfort through her family’s Ojibwe traditions?
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I Will See You Again
When the author learns of the death of her brother overseas, she embarks on a journey to bring him home. Through memories and dreams of all they shared together and through her Dene traditions, she finds comfort and strength.The lyrical art and story leave readers with a universal message of hope...
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A Blanket of Butterflies
A mysterious suit of armour. A man in search of redemption. A butterfly tattoo. Can Shinobu regain his lost samurai sword and, with it, his family’s honour? Can 10-year-old Sonny and his grandmother help Shinobu while keeping the peace in their community? Find new historical and cultural context ...
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Dancing With Our Ancestors
The invitations have been sent. The food has been prepared. The decorations have been hung. And now the day of the potlatch has finally arrived! Guests from all over come to witness this bittersweet but joyful celebration of Haida culture and community.
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A Little Book of Self-Care for Caregivers
Being responsible for another person’s well-being is a challenge, an honor, and a breathtaking act of commitment. It is also at turns mundane and complex, demanding and rewarding, heartbreaking and joyful. Caregiving for loved ones is something nearly everyone will experience during their lifeti...
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The Wholeness of a Broken Heart
This book shares a lived experience of loss, hope, meaning, and spiritual courage in Judaism. Pessah’s book is rooted in honesty and compassion, emphasizing the need to meet life as it is—without denial—while cultivating meaning, connection, and joy. All humans will experience trials, tribulation...
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Unlearning Jewish Anxiety
Confronting the reality, habits, and healing of Jewish anxiety. Jewish anxiety is not all in our heads. Nor is feeling anxious simply a Jewish stereotype, even though many Jews tout anxiety as a stereotypical virtue and ascribe it as a motivator for success. Jewish anxiety is real. We inherit it ...
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Sinkhole
Now in Paperback!“A literary triumph.”—Terry Tempest Williams“A master class in the way truth can pry open the deepest cellar, how language can calm a raw, ragged soul.”—Margaret RenklA haunting and sublimely elegant memoir that reckons with the violence we inflict on the land and ourselves. Whe...
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Holistic Wealth (Expanded and Updated)
In this revised and updated edition of her award-winning book, Keisha Blair will teach you to master the tenets of a happy and joyful life, giving you a greater sense of wholeness and resilience in times of difficulty.
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We're So Lucky to Live Here
From the award-winning author of In the Field, an inquiry into grief, love, housing affordability, and the transformative power of art, in the story of a young theater director who, after her mother’s death, stages Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard in her childhood home.Gwen Rivlin moves back home to ...
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The River of Birds
In this gentle, honest story about the enduring force of love in the face of grief, a young child and a grandmother share a love of birds. Every day after school they watch the birds outside her window and draw them with colored pencils, the scent of ginger tea hanging in the air. When they find ...
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A Little Book of Self-Care for Those Who Grieve
A thoughtful and gentle approach to working through grief, specifically created for those in the overwhelming early days of loss.
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Other People’s Words
What if the great love of your life is friendship?In their twenties, Lissa Soep and her boyfriend forged deep friendships with two other couples—Mercy and Christine; and Emily and Jonnie—until, decades later, Jonnie died suddenly, in an accident, and Christine passed away after a mysterious illne...
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A Heart That Works
New York Times Bestseller * New Yorker Best Books of 2022 * Entertainment Weekly Best Books of 2022 * USA Today Best Books of 2022 * Time 100 Must-Read Books of 2022 * Mother Jones Books We Needed in 2022 * People Fall Must Read * 2022 BuzzFeed Fall Reading Pick * New York Post Best Books of 2022...
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Soar
The posthumous memoir of Gail Campbell Woolley, an acclaimed journalist who, after being diagnosed with sickle cell anemia at age seven, made a conscious decision to live a full, eventful, ambitious life and exceeded her life expectancy by more than 20 years.
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Grief Connects Us
In his exceptionally thought-provoking and moving memoir, neurosurgeon Joseph D. Stern explores how personal loss influences the way physicians relate to patients and their families.
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We Regret to Inform You
A compassionate guide to help Gold Star parents cope with the grief and loss of their military son or daughter.
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The Blessing of Sorrow
An empathetic look at the grieving process providing a path to acceptance and peace for those who must continue their life journey after a loved one dies.
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Dark Wine Waters
One woman’s struggle with her husband’s addiction and her path of recovery as a result of the tragic outcome.
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Life's Last Gift
A practical, compassionate end-of-life resource that explores the reciprocal and healing relationship between the living and the dying.
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The Nature of Things Fragile
In his debut poetry collection, The Nature of Things Fragile, Peter Vertacnik depicts a world fraught with vulnerability and loss. Utilizing a wide range of both received and nonce poetic forms, including sonnets, villanelles, triolets, a sestina, epigrams, blank verse, and word-count, he confron...
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Living with Our Dead
A MAJOR INTERNATIONAL BEST-SELLER A timely, powerful reflection on our relationship to death and an invitation to accept loss and vulnerability as essential and enriching parts of life, from France’s most prominent female rabbi and a leading intellectual. The New York Times describes Delphine Ho...
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Mom Goes to War
Winner at the 2013 International Latino Book AwardsAn unspeakable illness: Cancer. A mother who wants to explain to her children what is happening, and how their lives will change over the coming months... A queen who begins a lengthy war with many battles, together with an army of allies who ...
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Isaac's Laugh
A heartening story that celebrates the power of dreaming and having fun, despite the difficulties we may encounter along the way.Despite having plenty of reasons to be sad, there’s always a smile on Isaac’s face thanks to the incredible stories his grandpa tells him, stories that helped him to fo...
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Ivan's Fear
Winner at the 2014 International Latino Book Awards. Little Ivan has so many fears that he has forgotten to dream. An encouraging story that will kindle the strength to overcome our fears.The sea, mist, loud noises… Ivan’s afraid of everything! There are times when he dreams about having great ad...
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With a Butterfly's Wings
Winner of the 2023 Independent Publisher Books Award and awarded at the 2023 Cuatro Gatos Foundation AwardsWith a Butterfly’s Wings is a tender story about a girl who loses her beloved grandmother and finds comfort in remembering her through what she learned from her.It was my grandmother who tau...
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Cipariso (Cyparissus)
Gold Medal at the 2015 Independent Publisher Book Awards. A tender story based on Greek mythology that will help us face death and loss.Irene and her dog Lucy were inseparable. But one day, everything changed… When Irene arrived home from school, she couldn’t find her friend anywhere. She asked w...
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El miedo de Iván (Ivan's Fear)
Winner at the 2014 International Latino Book Awards. Little Iván has so many fears that he has forgotten to dream. An encouraging story that will kindle the strength to overcome our fears.The sea, mist, loud noises… Iván’s afraid of everything! There are times when he dreams about having great ad...
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Cyparissus
Gold Medal at the 2015 Independent Publisher Book Awards. A tender story based on Greek mythology that will help us face death and loss.Irene and her dog Lucy were inseparable. But one day, everything changed… When Irene arrived home from school, she couldn’t find her friend anywhere. She asked w...
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Little Cloud Lamb
Winner at the 2011 Living Now Book Awards. A touching and sensitive story for all ages about accepting differences and dealing with the loss of a loved one.On a spring night, under the light of the full moon, a little lamb was born. Molly, her mother, decided to call him Lambkin. Lambkin was a ve...
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Con ojos de niño (Through the Eyes of a Child)
Gold Medal at the 2016 International Latino Book Awards. William was split in two the day his parents separated. That day he became two different children, he became Will and Liam.José Luis was a happy little boy who lived with his parents in a green house with a lovely little garden, decorated w...
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Mamá se va a la guerra (Mom Goes to War)
Una reina cuyo territorio es invadido y que tiene un ejercito de aliados que luchara sin condiciones a su lado. Una historia alegorica cargada de positivismo para explicar a los niños la enfermedad del cancer. Ideal para padres, medicos y educadores. Transmite valores como el coraje, la solidarid...
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La risa de Ignacio (Isaac's Laugh)
A heartening story that celebrates the power of dreaming and having fun, despite the difficulties we may encounter along the way.Despite having plenty of reasons to be sad, there’s always a smile on Isaac’s face thanks to the incredible stories his grandpa tells him, stories that helped him to fo...
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Cuerpo de nube (Little Cloud Lamb)
Winner at the 2011 Living Now Book Awards. A touching and sensitive story for all ages about accepting differences and dealing with the loss of a loved one.On a spring night, under the light of the full moon, a little lamb was born. Delia Derito, her mother, decided to call him Kor Derito. Kor wa...
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