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Estamos todos en lo mismo: al momento de nacer, la muerte está en nuestra agenda en alguna parte. Sin embargo, enfrentar este hecho es aterrador para la mayoría de nosotros; o simplemente no entendemos por qué es necesario ver qué significa la muerte ahora, mientras estamos tan ocupados viviendo. Si miras un poco más de cerca notaras que, de hecho, vivir y morir no están separados; que nuestra actitud hacia la muerte afecta la forma en que vivimos,...
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"I cannot breathe, I claw upward towards a flicker of light, creating the resistance that pulls me deeper. I am drowning in a swirling, angry sea. I struggle, intensely fighting the powerful pull that drags me deeper into the abyss, until… I am pulled under."
For anyone who's been tasked with caregiving for another, or anyone who's beside someone struggling with dementia, this book is for you. When Kath DeLorme assumed the role as caregiver for...
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"Somewhere in Germany" is the story of a soldier's ultimate sacrifice during the Second World War and the resulting new reality for his wife and daughter in the aftermath of his loss. It chronicles their struggles and culminates thirty-five years later with the discovery of his letters written home to them during his service. While reading those letters together during the final week of her mother's life, a daughter finally gets to know her father...
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Gerome Singleterry is a born-again Christian that has received salvation from God, he has always wanted to do something to help advance his kingdom. Gerome has written over three hundred contemporary Christian songs and had his own Christian band called Faith. God blessed him to write all of the songs for that group. He also writes a daily Facebook devotion called "Think About?" He is proposing to publish it also.
God and his family are the most important...
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Fifteen-year-old Dawn Rochelle has survived cancer not once, but twice. No one knows the battle better than she does. That's why Dawn agrees to be a camp counselor for young kids with cancer-the same camp she and her best friend Sandy had attended. Now Sandy is gone. Can Dawn handle the memories? How can she help the kids if she is still hurting so much?
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Are you the 'Other Women', stuck in a relationship with a married man? Do you desperately want to know if he is ever going to leave his wife?This book will help you answer the many burning questions you have about your relationship with a married man so that you can be clearer, calmer, and empowered, ready to take responsibility for your life and achieve the happiness you deserve.In this unique and ground-breaking book, Martess offers a step-by-step...
8) Girlhearts
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Some families you're born into, some you have to find for yourself Sarabeth Silver knows that her mom is different. Jane Silver is younger, prettier, harder working, and poorer-making just enough money cleaning houses for her and Sarabeth to live in a little trailer. It's always been just the two of them, but when tragedy suddenly strikes, Sarabeth will have to figure things out on her own. Sarabeth has never known either of her parents' families,...
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How Big Is Your Umbrella? helps those who have lost–lost children, lost jobs, lost marriages, lost dreams, even lost hope–have it out with God, and emerge, whole, on the other side.Growing out of the pain the author felt when she lost her son, and drawing from others' stories of loss, this small, easy-to-read book takes readers through a journey of conversation with God. The book walks through the things we yell at God when life is tough, and...
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When Nick Dewhurst experienced the ending of a friendship, he felt a great sense of loss and grief. With I've Finally Lost It, Nick takes a look at many different types of grief that often go overlooked. Many books will focus on the loss of a parent or loss of a spouse, while this book covers those topics it also dives into some very personal stories regarding the loss of a job, a pet, a best friend, faith and even an entire identity.
Nick leverages...
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Resetting shares the story of a personal grief journey and helps transform today's understanding of the human condition.
Although grief and loss are universal human conditions around since the beginning of time, the idea of loss is still greatly feared, ignored, distained, undiscussed, and certainly not prepared for. It is no wonder people feel alone and isolated in their feelings and thoughts when loss comes to them. Longtime nurse, Susan Beth Hassmiller,...
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Un soir d'octobre 2022, la professeure et romancière Catherine Mavrikakis accueille à l'Université de Montréal deux écrivains qui se connaissent à peine: Mathieu Bélisle et Alain Vadeboncoeur. Ils sont invités à parler de la mort, de ce que la pandémie nous a révélé à son sujet, chacun à partir de son expérience, celle de la médecine et des sciences pour Vadeboncoeur, celle de la littérature et des humanités pour Bélisle.
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13) Ghost Work
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How do we redefine the self when memory begins to deteriorate?
This question is at the heart of Ghost Work, a suite of poems that explores a son's gradual loss of his father from dementia. In compassionate, well-crafted pantoums, triolets, ghazals, and sonnets, Rob Colman probes family connection, digging into the liminal space memory preserves between our natural and built environments. Ghost Work is at once a tribute to a lost family member, and...
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"Con la Palabra que ilumina cada día y que encuentra su anclaje en lo cotidiano de quienes vivimos en 'la maraña de los ruidos y mentiras de este mundo', monseñor Fernández no deja ningún tema sin abordar y profundizar".
"Como un experto en el corazón humano, se zambulle en la vida y hace de cada meditación un canto delicioso de leer y de guardar en el corazón para hacerlo vida fecunda y compartida".
"Luego de cumplirse quince años de la...
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Dugan's poetry collection, A Record of Change, is a tapestry woven with the threads of age, love, and the poignant weight of loss. The author's words remind us that vulnerability is the wellspring from which true metamorphosis emerges. Join Dugan on a voyage, where the soul's evolution is illuminated through powerful writing that challenges, heals, and ultimately celebrates the resilience of the human spirit. "Attuned to the bluesy frequency of both...
16) Dark Wild Realm
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The award-winning poet Michael Collier's elegiac fifth collection is haunted by spectral figures and a strange, vivid chorus of birds: From a cardinal that crashes into a window to a gathering of turkey vultures, Collier engages birds as myth-makers and lively messengers, carrying memories from lost friends. The mystery of death and the vital absence it creates are the real subjects of the book. Collier juxtaposes moments of quotidian revelation,...
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A POWERFUL STORY HELPING ABUSE AND TRAUMA VICTIMS FIND HEALING
"For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, [...] plans to give you hope and a future." (Jeremiah 29:11, NIV)
When we go through life's storms, we can feel life has been unfair, taking us through deep valleys of despair and damaged emotions with no direction on how to get out of the dark places. What have we done to deserve this abuse, pain, suffering, and heartache? The...
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Our love of life makes the inevitability of death very difficult to accept. Death is a comprehensive examination of that inevitable and universal human experience. To better our understanding of death--and so perhaps fear it less--the book explains the biological processes and the different causes of death, and examines the human perceptions of death throughout history and across cultures. Death is abundantly illustrated with masterpieces of art,...
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What happens when a child dies? How does society treat parents after they have lost a child?
Was death any different in the Victorian era than in today's world? This thoughtful analysis examines child death in Victorian Scotland.
Questions around money, child safety, class prejudices, and societal shortcomings are examined here in depth, focusing on wide-ranging historical and literary primary sources such as Scottish folktales, children's...
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