Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"How does life go on after losing a child? Life from the Ashes shares the dark and raw story of Shari O'Loughlin's loss of her 14-year-old son, Connor, who was shockingly killed in an airplane crash on his way home from a four-day vacation. Like all parents, Shari was struck with the most unimaginable nightmare when her family received the soul-numbing news. Parents trying to navigate the perilous journey of traumatic loss know the path is agonizing....
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Help through the mourning process using self-healing methods. How do you make sense of loss and tragedy? After the sudden and devastating loss of her infant daughter, Lily Dulan (a marriage and family therapist, psychotherapist and certified yoga teacher) meditated, prayed, and ruminated on the only thing she had left-her baby girl's name. In Lily's courage to address and move through her pain, she developed a cross pollination of proven psychological...
3) Girlhearts
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thirteen-year-old Sarabeth Silver's life is turned upside-down when her mother dies suddenly, leaving her orphaned, confused, and at the mercy of everyone who seems to know what is best for her.
4) The orphaned adult: understanding and coping with grief and change after the death of our parents
Author
Lexile measure
1120L
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's never to late to grieve about being a adult orphan. This books helpsus to understand what a healthy part of life that grief can be.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Jessica Handler was eight years old, her younger sister Susie was diagnosed with leukemia. To any family, the diagnosis would have been upending, but to the Handlers, whose youngest daughter, Sarah, had been born with a rare, fatal blood disorder, it was an unimaginable verdict. Struck by the unlikelihood of siblings sick with diametrically opposed illnesses, the medical community labeled the Handlers' situation a bizarre coincidence. By the...
6) Saving Zoë
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
1040L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Instead of a fresh start, high school provides more grief and isolation to Echo, whose older sister died a year earlier, but insights gained from Zoe's diary--a fifteenth birthday gift from Zoe's boyfriend--about her sister's life and death change Echo in ways she could have never expected.
8) Last wish
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Discusses the author's seventy-six-year-old mother's prolonged bout with cancer and ultimate decision to end the agonizing pain by committing suicide.
Author
Language
English
Description
"A Song Interrupted: Resuming Life After Loss," a guide crafted to navigate the profound and complex journey of losing a mother. This book is born from a place of deep empathy and understanding, aiming to serve as a companion through the silent void left by such an irreplaceable loss. The loss of a mother is unlike any other; it is an interruption of the most fundamental melody of our lives, a song that begins with our first breath and is expected...
Author
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Language
Español
Description
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,...
Author
Language
English
Description
Now available in paperback -- Jan Hatanaka's powerful, life-enhancing book on how six people, encountering significant adversity, made a conscious choice to work to build a life of meaning. Using six stories from her casebook as a therapist, Hatanaka explores and illustrates the complex relationships that exist between death and grief and the path that can lead to reconciling that grief. Included in her stories is her own heart-wrenching and dramatic...
Author
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Throughout the journey of my worst nightmare-my descent into a dark, sad valley-the Holy Spirit would remind me of truths that comforted my soul and sustained my life."
After the sudden death of their three-year-old son, Cameron Cole and his wife found themselves clinging to Christ through twelve key theological truths-truths that became their lifeline in the midst of unthinkable grief. Weaving together their own story of tragic loss and abiding...
Author
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Language
English
Description
Their love story is not one of fairy tales. It is one of faithfulness from the beginning through to its tragic ending.
Richard and Margaret Baxter had been married only nineteen years before she died at age forty-five. A prominent pastor and prolific author, Baxter sought consolation and relief the only true way he knew- in Scripture with his discipline of writing. Within days he produced a lover's tribute to his mate and a pastor's celebration of...
Author
Language
English
Description
Writing from a biblical perspective, Carol Cornish helps readers to discover how God is working in the midst of the deep distress of losing a spouse. She provides the reader with direction in finding true and lasting comfort in Christ. Cornish, who lost her husband of 38 years to lung cancer, encourages widows to use their widowhood for God's glory. Ministry to widows needs to be a priority for Christian communities, and Cornish equips churches, families,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
We want to say or do something that helps our grieving friend. But what?
When someone we know is grieving, we want to help. But sometimes we stay away or stay silent, afraid that we will do or say the wrong thing, that we will hurt instead of help.
In this straightforward and practical book, Nancy Guthrie provides us with the insight we need to confidently interact with grieving people. Drawing upon the input of hundreds of grieving people, as well...
Author
Language
English
Description
Its 1989. Jason and Chery were dating for almost nine months in Phoenix, Arizona. She was setting up for a reunion party with all her friends from Alaska that went to college in Arizona or California. His friend Joe invites them to go three-wheeling on the same day, but earlier allowing them to still make the party on time. She is not excited about the trip, but gives in. On the last run of the day, there is a terrible accident. The events to follow...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request