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22) Blue: a novel
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Language
English
Description
Ginny Carter was once a rising star in TV news, married to a top anchorman, with a three-year-old son and a full and happy life in Beverly Hills until her whole world dissolved in a single instant on the freeway two days before Christmas. In the aftermath, she pieces her life back together and tries to find meaning in her existence as a human rights worker in the worst areas around the globe. Then, on the anniversary of the fateful accident and wrestling...
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English
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Mothers and daughters, sisters and cousins--they lived for summers at the lake house until a tragic accident changed everything. The Summer That Made Us is an unforgettable story about a family learning to accept the past, to forgive and to love each other again. That was then ... For the Hempsteads, two sisters who married two brothers and had three daughters each, summers were idyllic. The women would escape the city the moment school was out to...
25) Float plan
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Critically acclaimed author Trish Doller's unforgettable and romantic adult debut about setting sail, starting over, and finding yourself. Since the loss of her fiancé, Anna has been shipwrecked by grief--until a reminder goes off about a trip they were supposed to take together. Impulsively, Anna goes to sea in their sailboat, intending to complete the voyage alone. But after a treacherous night's sail, she realizes she can't do it by herself and...
Author
Publisher
BenBella Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Normal Broken was born out of a desire to meet people where they are in their grief journeys, to lend a hand, or maybe to just sit in the dark with them. To acknowledge your brokenness and to feel broken together-never pressured to "move on" or "think positive.""--
Author
Publisher
Shadow Mountain Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"An extended greeting-card to help those struggling with grief feel supported and comforted"--
"Everyone experiences loss differently and grieves in their own way, but author Jason F. Wright, has learned from his own life, and from counseling others, that there are key principles to regaining your footing and finding tranquility after a devastating loss. This beautifully illustrated book is like an extended sympathy card, helping to remind those...
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Series
Charlotte Holmes volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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Description
A year after August's death, Jamie and Charlotte are manipulated into reforming their detective team by someone who wants to see them suffer.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Description
Living with her warden father in an apartment above a 1950s prison, Cammie O'Reilly struggles to come to terms with the loss of her mother, who died saving her from harm when she was a baby, and interacts with some of the reformed inmates.
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English
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Description
American Charles Hayden came to England to forget the past. Failed father, failed husband, and failed scholar, Charles hopes to put his life back together with a biography of Caedmon Hollow, the long-dead author of a legendary Victorian children's book, In the Night Wood. But soon after settling into Hollow's remote Yorkshire home, Charles learns that the past isn't dead.
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Experiencing grief at the death of a person we love or who matters to us-as universal as it is painful-is central to the human condition. Surprisingly, however, philosophers have rarely examined grief in any depth. In Grief, Michael Cholbi presents a groundbreaking philosophical exploration of this complex emotional event, offering valuable new insights about what grief is, whom we grieve, and how grief can ultimately lead us to a richer self-understanding...
34) Under the harrow
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Language
English
Description
"When Nora takes the train from London to visit her sister in the countryside, she expects to find her waiting at the station, or at home cooking dinner. But when she walks into Rachel's familiar house, what she finds is entirely different: her sister has been the victim of a brutal murder. Stunned and adrift, Nora finds she can't return to her former life. An unsolved assault in the past has shaken her faith in the police, and she can't trust them...
Author
Publisher
Workman Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Welcome to the Grief Club -- a place where one human who experienced a terrible loss, Janine Kwoh, is at the door to welcome other humans who are grieving. It is not an instruction manual, or a step-by-step playbook, or a memoir. It is, rather, a fresh, empathetic approach to all of the surprising, confusing, brutal, funny, and downright bizarre parts of grief. Combining her own experiences with grief -- the author's partner died when both were in...
36) Stella Maris
Author
Series
Passenger novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Road returns with the second volume of The Passenger series: Stella Maris is an intimate portrait of grief and longing, as a young woman in a psychiatric facility seeks to understand her own existence. 1972, BLACK RIVER FALLS, WISCONSIN: Alicia Western, twenty years old, with forty thousand dollars in a plastic bag, admits herself to the hospital. A doctoral candidate in mathematics at the University...
Author
Publisher
One World
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Adam Mansbach -- a young and mostly unknown jazz musician, rapper, poet, screenwriter, and novelist - had just had his first brush with fame from a most unlikely source: a book of rhyming couplets about putting his young daughter to sleep that had improbably sold millions of copies and shot to the top of bestseller lists. Just as his dreams of writing success were coming true -- interviews on late-night and morning shows, standing-room only events,...
Author
Publisher
Harper Wave
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Inspired by the website that the New York Times hailed as "redefining mourning," this book is a fresh and irreverent examination into navigating grief and resilience in the age of social media, offering comfort and community for coping with the mess of loss through candid original essays from a variety of voices, accompanied by gorgeous two-color illustrations and wry infographics." -- From Amazon.com summary.
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Prism
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Use yoga movement, breath, and sound to release pain and suffering without expectation or judgment and to reconnect to life, love, and strength. Grief Yoga is a concentrated and gentle opening and stretching of the body with a deep connection to the breath. Through meditations, clear compassionate instruction, and informative photographs, Healing Through Yoga helps readers process their grief and use it as fuel for transformative healing"--
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