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Author
Publisher
Bridge City Books, an imprint of PESI Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"In Keep Breathing, Dr. Kate Truitt, a renowned psychologist, applied neuroscientist, and trauma expert, shares her story of unimaginable loss, trauma, and, ultimately, healing. Faced with the sudden, gut-wrenching death of her fiancé just one week before their wedding day, Kate found her world shattered, catapulting her into a deep void of profound grief, trauma, shock, and guilt. Part memoir and part scientific exploration, Keep Breathing uses...
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Sara Daniele Rivera's award-winning debut is a collection of sprawling elegy in the face of catastrophic grief, both personal and public. From the lead-up to the 2016 presidential election through the COVID-19 pandemic, these poems memorialize lost loved ones and meditate on the not-yet gone -- all while the wider-world loses its sense of connection, safety, and assurance. In those years of mourning, The Blue Mimes is a book of grounding and heartening...
Author
Publisher
W Publishing Group, an imprint of Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Veteran hospital chaplain to the sick, dying, and bereaved, J.S. Park offers you both the permission and the process for how to grieve and heal at your own pace. In As Long As You Need, J.S. offers an honest and unrushed engagement with grief, decoding four types of grieving-spiritual, mental, physical, and relational-and offering compassionate self-care and soul-care along the way. If you are struggling to process loss, pain, or grief from the last...
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"It's 1989 and Amos Fielding, onetime sheriff of Oscar, Iowa, is in his early seventies and grieving the recent loss of his wife, Sara. He packs up his few belongings and heads to a ranch in the far northwest corner of Washington State. The farther he can get from Oscar and his years there as sheriff, the better. Eager to escape painful memories, Fielding throws himself into the daily chores of a gentleman rancher. But there is evil afoot, as dark...
Author
Publisher
Amicus Learning, an imprint of Amicus Ink
Pub. Date
[2024]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Meet Peyton! She likes art and science. She also lost her brother to cancer. Peyton is real and so are her experiences with death and grief. Learn about her life in this illustrated narrative nonfiction picture book for elementary students"--
Author
Publisher
Grijalbo
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Español
Description
A Carmen le encantaría cogarse un cartel que dijera "Cerrado por obras". Desde que perdió a su abuela hace unos meses ni trabaja ni se encuentra, y lo único que la mantiene cuerda es escribir su historia. Bruno es topógrafo, pero está más perdido que nunca. Últimamente sus días tienen un regusto amargo y, aunque sabe que no puede seguir así, es miedo (y su madre) no lo dejan encarrilar su vida como a él le gustaría. Carmen y Bruno son...
10) Mid-Air
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Isaiah grapples with the loss of his best friend as he strives to fit into a world that expects him to toughen up, which leads him on a exploration of identity and vulnerability.
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A genre-bending story about love and loss, hope and heartbreak, and the healing to be found in life's little limbos, those in-between spaces where you're no longer who you were and not yet the person you will be. About her debut, Out of Love, Hazel Hayes said, "The journey from writing horror to writing love stories was a short one. There is nothing more horrific than love." In her new novel, she sets out to prove it. This genre-defying, meta-modern...
Author
Publisher
Forefront Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
By the Time You Read This is the story former Miss USA Cheslie Kryst was about to publish before her tragic suicide. Her mother, April, wraps up the narrative by exploring the mental illness and depression that took her daughter's life. The text read, "By the time you get this . . ." This is the story of Cheslie Kryst, a former Miss USA, in her own words. When the world awoke on the morning of January 30, 2022, many were shocked to learn of the tragic...
Author
Publisher
AK Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
All In is a queer feminist memoir of cancer and what it means to survive. After years of experiencing painful periods that she was led to believe were normal, Caitlin Breedlove was diagnosed with ovarian cancer -- the deadliest of all gynecological cancers, which disproportionately impacts queer women, trans men, Jewish women of Eastern European descent, and older women. As she writes, "It feeds on those who can't go to a doctor and those who convince...
Author
Publisher
Crooked Lane Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Maple Bishop is ready to put WWII and the grief of losing her husband, Bill, behind her. But when she discovers that Bill left her penniless, Maple realizes she could lose her Vermont home next and sets out to make money the only way she knows how: by selling her intricately crafted dollhouses. Business is off to a good start--until Maple discovers her first customer dead, his body hanging precariously in his own barn. Something about the supposed...
Author
Publisher
Worthy/Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Donna Freitas wants to believe. Raised Catholic, she sang songs about Jesus as a child and lived in a house where nuns and priests were regular guests, yet she found herself questioning the faith of her family, examining the reasons none of it added up, and distancing herself from the God of Christianity. Despite her questions -- or perhaps because of them -- she made a career out of trying to understand God, pursuing a Ph.D. in religion and writing...
Author
Publisher
Minotauro
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"Cuando Louise se enterade que sus padres han muerto, teme volver a casa. No quiere dejar a su pequeña con su ex y volar a Charleston. No quiere enfrentarse a la residencia donde se amontonan los restos de la vida académica de su padre y de la constante obsesión de su madre por los títeres y los muñecos. No quiere aprender a vivir sin las dos personas que mejor la han conocido y más la han querido del mundo entero. Sobre todo, no quiere tener...
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