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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) Briarpatch
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"America's best storyteller." -The New York Times Book Review
From Edgar Award-winning author Ross Thomas comes Briarpatch, a thrilling mystery of one man's personal mission to find justice for his family. Now the basis for the USA Network television series executive produced by Sam Esmail, creator of Mr. Robot.
A long-distance call from his small Texas hometown on his birthday gives Benjamin Dill the news that his sister Felicity-born on the same...
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"Centers on Abel and Vera Paisley, a working-class Jamaican couple striving to build a better life for their children. Abel travels to London in the early 1960s in search of fortune. Instead, he sees an opportunity to escape the drudgery of his life by faking his death and assuming a new identity. Vera, now a widow, is racked with guilt over her husband's "death" and takes out her grief on her children, Irene and Vincent. The effects of Abel's decision...
5) Spindrift
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New York Times bestseller: A New Year's Eve suicide in a Newport mansion could be hiding a sinister family conspiracy. Was it fear of scandal, threat of disgrace, or loss of his job that drove Rhode Island newspaper magnate Adam Keene to take his own life? His daughter, Christy, refuses to accept her father's death as a suicide. When she returns to her mother-in-law Theodora's stately Newport mansion, Christy is determined to find out who killed...
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Haunted by the spirit of her mother and memories of the past, a grieving woman struggles to make sense of her world, her unfulfilling marriage and her estrangement from family members before uncovering an ancestral inheritance that reveals why her brother was separated from the family at a young age.
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This is a recounting of the Meredith Kercher case, from her murder to the acquittal of Raffaele Sollecito and Amanda Knox. Shortly after 12:30 p.m. on November 2, 2007, Italian police were called to the Perugia home of twenty-one-year-old British student Meredith Kercher. They found her body on the floor under a beige quilt. Her throat had been cut. Based on four years of reporting and access to the complete case files, and hundreds of first hand...
8) Beyond Death
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" Beyond Death: Living a Meaningful Life " by Benak is a comprehensive exploration of the multifaceted aspects of death, addressing its philosophical, spiritual, and practical dimensions. The book delves into the challenges and opportunities presented by mortality, offering insights into how individuals can lead meaningful lives while acknowledging the inevitability of their finitude. The text is divided into several sections, each dealing with a...
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Wolves, swans and French angelfish are among a litany of species which mate forever. If a partner dies, the survivor literally becomes a lost soul and gives up all interest in continuing alone.Humans, too, often embrace the mindset of there being only one true love allotted to each of us per lifetime. In Eve's Diary by Mark Twain, an inconsolable Adam weeps at her grave with the words, "Wheresoever she was, there was Eden." Even if Eve had been the...
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize: A gripping poetry collection mapping the thorny journey from madness to hope With her emotionally raw and deeply resonant third collection, Live or Die, Anne Sexton confirmed her place among the most celebrated poets of the twentieth century. Sexton described the volume, which depicts a fictionalized version of her struggle with mental illness, as "a fever chart for a bad case of melancholy." From the halls of a psychiatric...
11) 24 Years Later
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24 Years ago, I lost my best friend, I was 11 years old. This story is about my personal reflection, my emotion, my feeling and how I cope at 34 years old. This story is not just about me, but also about the victims. John was my best friend, he died too young, 24 years later, I try to reflect, I try to remember and I try to resolve.
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Les poèmes de ce recueil naissent souvent en réaction à des événements que nous avons tous observés, comme la tragédie des tours jumelles de Manhattan ou les discours controversés d'un certain président de la République. Parfois, ils s'inspirent de la présence ignorée d'un SDF. Ces vers peuvent prendre la forme de cris d'alarme, d'humour, de nostalgie, de mélancolie, voire de colère, mais jamais de haine. L'auteur maintient constamment...
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Todos disfrutamos de una buena historia de fantasmas. Quizá la fascinación humana con lo sobrenatural provenga del hecho de que la mayoría de nosotros, en algún punto de nuestras vidas, hemos vivido algo que no pudimos explicar del todo. Desde una edad temprana, James Van Praagh fue conciente de una dimensión que la mayoría de nosotros no puede ver, y ha dedicado su vida a explicárnosla. Fantasmas entre nosotros es un viaje increíble al mundo...
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"Voyage dans l'infini" est un périple marqué par une succession d'émotions, oscillant entre la joie et l'amertume. Entre le jour et la nuit, cet ouvrage nous entraîne sur les traces d'un poète en quête d'amour, de paix et de liberté. C'est le cri d'un jeune homme vivant dans la chambre de l'injustice, de la souffrance et du dégoût, qui aspire à provoquer un changement structurel à l'échelle mondiale, en particulier dans son pays. Ce texte...
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Poussé par une séparation inattendue, un homme commence à écrire sur ses futures rencontres tout en conservant sa passion pour son ex-femme. Malgré son désir de vivre pleinement et d'aimer sans condition, il ressent une amertume persistante. Son parcours explore le dilemme entre l'affection et la tentation de vendre son âme au diable pour des gains matériels. Pourra-t-il privilégier l'amour véritable ?
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Fervent passionné...
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"Toujours debout II – Re - Écueil de Poésie – Mon combat" célèbre la passion, l'affection et rend hommage au corps féminin. Il est composé de textes et d'illustrations qui évoquent une quête inlassable du bonheur et de l'amour. Tout cela en contraste avec les douleurs et les souffrances d'un homme confronté à l'évolution implacable de sa maladie et à la lente érosion de ses capacités neurologiques.
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19) Hypnosis for Grief and Loss: A Comprehensive Guide to Coping With Loss, Grief Feeling, Pains and Fin
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Shock, pain, suffering and sorrow. Such life events will stop us in our tracks. Unfortunately life is over and we are overcome by feelings such as rage, sorrow, disappointment and heartbreak. It's all right!... That you're not all right! Have you ever felt humiliated or confused by a society that seeks to "resolve" grief?Grief needs a cure that is NO more than LOVE needs a cure. Instead, we will understand that there is absolutely no "right way" to...
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Prozac has side effects, drinking gives you hangovers, therapy's expensive. For quick and effective relief -- or at least some literary comfort -- from everyday and exceptional problems, try a poem. Over the ages, people have turned to poets as ambassadors of the emotions, because they give voice and definition to our troubles, and by so doing, ease them. No matter how bad things get, poets have been there, too, and they can help you get over the...
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