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On a hot, New England summer day in 2014, tragedy befell author Lindsey Rogers-Seitz and her family when her husband inadvertently left their fifteen-month-old son, Benjamin, in the back seat of their car all day where he then passed away from the heat.
With raw emotion and grit, Lindsey chronicles the aftermath of her son's death in this debut memoir as she and her husband explore the intricacies of unimaginable pain, love, and the challenges...
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Are you stressed and exhausted because someone you love is seriously ill?
Do you wish you felt less overwhelmed and more certain about how to help?
Coping Courageously will be your guide. You will learn:
• The most important things to do, and not do, when a loved one is sick
• Insider strategies for getting the best medical care
• A simple and effective approach for managing your own stress
• Skills to confidently talk about tough topics
You...
4203) Circadian
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Winner of the 2015 Red Hen Press Nonfiction Award, Circadian is a collection of essays that weaves together personal account with cultural narrative, only to unravel them and explore the brilliant and destructive cycles of who we are. Using poetic language and lyric structures, Clammer dives into her stories of trauma, mental illnesses, and a wide spectrum of relationships in order to understand experience through different of frameworks of thought....
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Rosamond Lehmann's only autobiographical work recreates the events that shaped her life-from childhood to motherhood to the death of her daughter Rosamond Lehmann was born during a violent February thunderstorm and lived a sheltered, privileged life with her parents, brother, and sisters. Writing from the distance of decades, she reveals why no adult would ever apologize to a child, shares thoughts on her "first conscious memory," and discusses the...
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« Le silence n'exprime pas forcément le vide et le vide n'est pas toujours silencieux. Notre silence est parfois l'expression du vide qui est en nous. Chaque vide peut être comblé ou rempli mais pas par ce qui existait avant. Devant ce grand vide, à savoir demain, chacun devrait dans le silence se fixer des objectifs et des défis à la hauteur de ses moyens et capacités. »
4206) Siempre Puedo Continuar
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La pérdida de un ser querido es, quizás, una de las mayores adversidades que se pueda experimentar. El duelo y la recuperación son procesos individuales, personales, únicos en cada quien. No se puede establecer un manual de instrucciones para hallar una salida al dolor cuando este es tan íntimo y exclusivo. Sin embargo, el conocimiento de experiencias ajenas puede servir de guía, de orientación hacia el camino de salida. Este libro trata precisamente...
4207) Deciduous Qween
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Through the creaking of bedazzled branches and the soft rustle of jeweled leaves, deciduous qween explores the queer world all around us-how we, like our environment, wear and shed different identities in our performance as human, as drag queen, as ancient tree. This collection reveals in the natural world those ephemeral moments, which reflect our own truths and confront our fear of death, of loneliness, and of failure. With an air of Southern Gothic...
4208) Come in from the Cold
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Wartime love and murder throw a long shadow.
Annie Devereux, humiliated and bruised by her divorce, retreats to David Mackenzie's cottage in the Scottish Highlands to research the mysterious wartime history of her grandfather, serving on the Arctic convoys supplying Russia in World War 2.
In 1942 John Elliott comes off convoy a sick man and is billeted on nineteen-year-old Mhairi to recuperate. But Mhairi's relationship with a dangerous and manipulative...
4209) Unflappable
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Cole thought he had his school routine all figured out. He could muck around and draw all day in Mr. Jenkins' easygoing class. But when the teacher gets sick, everything changes. The substitute, Miss Evans, assigns a family tree art project that hits too close to home for Cole. Ever since losing his mum last year, Cole's family life has felt broken. So he hatches a plan to get Miss Evans to cancel class and avoid the painful assignment. But no matter...
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Grief as a lifelong human experience is the scope of this absorbing book. Kenneth Mitchell and Herbert Anderson explore the multiple dimensions of the problem, including the origins and dynamics of grief, loss throughout life, caring for those who grieve, and the theology of grieving. This examination is enriched by vivid illustrations and case histories of individuals whose experiences the authors have shared.
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Explorez le moi profond de la poétesse avec ces envolées lyriques !
Évasion poétique est un recueil de poésie qui aborde des questions diverses, l'amour, la mort, la folie, la jeunesse, le mariage, la femme. C'est également l'expression du voyage vers la poésie et vers le moi profond de la poétesse à travers des envolées lyriques, le ton mélancolique et le rêve. Une poésie au cœur des tourments de la femme et du monde qui mêle jeux...
4212) Absence of Light
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A collection of poems illustrating the darkness that lurks within our hearts caused by the world colluding against us. The light bulb, depicted on the cover, symbolizes the light at the end of a dark tunnel. Only time will tell if you can make it out unscathed or if therapy for loved ones is needed after your wake.
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In English and Spanish. As a nurse and a father, Rosso poignantly reflects on his grueling struggle and a search for life's meaning after enduring seven harrowing years stoically supporting his "soul teacher," 13-year-old daughter Julieta, who died after being diagnosed with cancer at age 6. Following his loss, Rosso begins a courageous trek through an unchartered territory of chaos, despair, forgiveness, and unknowns, which leads him to confronting...
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Two hundred poems of hope and empowerment in a time of tumult and darkness, from Instagram's Lost Poets community.
Crown Anthology is a new collection of verse from an online subculture of poets, with a foreword by Tyler Knott Gregson, one of the movement's foremost authors. By celebrating self-love, self-worth, and empowerment, these two hundred poems examine life in a dynamic and transformative poetry compilation that speaks soft words reminding...
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At 68, my mother calls me crying. She's been hiding a distended abdomen. It turns out she has ovarian cancer. We schedule surgery to remove the mass in her stomach, but her platelet count makes the prospect too high risk. We postpone. Days later, they again determine she is too weak for surgery. I am livid. We still don't have an official diagnosis confirmed with a biopsy. The possibility of chemotherapy is discussed, instead of surgery. The fluid...
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A universal narrative on the significance of distance with love; remember to hold on to what you believe in. Ideal for those "whose love knows no bounds," The Space Between Us is full of profound anecdotes and messages, illustrating the courage and heartache of enduring physical distance.
The Space Between Us explores the trials of love and what it's like to live a life separated by distance from someone you care about. Its content is thoughtfully...
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The First Book to Marry the Science Behind Tiny Habits to Christian Spiritual Formation and Trauma Recovery.
For too many people, spiritual growth-an increasing confidence that God loves you, is for you, and all of life is an act of worship to God-is inhibited by the hard experiences of the past. It starts with accepting basic truths: You are created by God; the past is not the end of your story; and you are worth it to God.
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4218) Learning to Twirl
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Two devout teenagers faced love amid tragedy circa 1969. An Army enlistment during the Vietnam Conflict promised career opportunities but tore their dreams apart.
As a Roman Catholic, Nancy knew better than to succumb to temptation. She was following the example of her two older sisters: one a nun, and the other a wife who'd had three children in quick succession. But when a sweet-talking devilishly-handsome boy began charming her, it wasn't...
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This memorable collection, designed to offer comfort and inspiration to the bereaved, contains about 90 poems including the 23rd Psalm, "Death Be Not Proud," "Crossing the Bar," "Because I Could Not Stop for Death," "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night," plus works by Shakespeare, Shelley, Wordsworth, Longfellow, Browning, Whitman, Swinburne, Kipling, Frost, and Auden. Includes a selection from the Common Core State Standards Initiative: "Because...
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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. It examines the interventions most effective at each phase of life, combining theory, sound clinical practice, and empirical research with insights emerging from powerful accounts of personal experience.
The authors emphasize that loss and grief are universal yet highly individualized. Loss comes...
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