Griffin, Gail B.
Summary: "Gail Griffin had only been married for four months when her husband's body was found in the Manistee River, just a few yards from their cabin door. The terrain of memoir is full of stories of grief, though Grief's Country: A Memoir in Pieces is less concerned with the biography of a love affair than with the lived phenomenon of grief itself-what it does to the mind, heart, and body; how it...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GRIFFIN, GAIL B. GRIStreeter, Leslie Gray
Summary: "Leslie Gray Streeter is not cut out for widowhood. She's not ready for hushed rooms and pitying looks. She is not ready to stand graveside, dabbing her eyes in a classy black hat. If she had her way she'd wear her favorite curve-hugging leopard print dress to Scott's funeral; he loved her in that dress! But, here she is, having lost her soulmate to a sudden heart attack, totally unsure of how...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 STREETER, LESLIE GRAY STRPorizkova, Paulina
Summary: "Writer and former model Paulina Porizkova pens a series of intimate, introspective, and enlightening essays about the complexities of womanhood at every age, pulling back the glossy magazine cover and writing from the heart"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Open Field/Penguin Life 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PORIZKOVA, PAULINA PORJaycox, Victoria.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 646.7 JAYAikman, Becky.
Summary: Describes the author's experiences as a young widow and the pivotal relationships she forged with five other widows, recounting the stories of their losses and bravery as exchanged throughout a year of monthly Saturday night meetings.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.8 AIKAscher, Barbara Lazear
Summary: "Ascher writes passionately about her unlikely marriage, her husband's illness and death and her ensuing sorrow. A witness to the insanity that grief visits upon its victims with a seeming determination to destroy, she gazes straight into the eye of grief and does not blink. In time she moves beyond that grief -- her voyage out. Ghosting is, by turns, moving and funny, tender and brutal"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ASCHER, BARBARA LAZEAR ASCNowak, Pat.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1stBooks 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.937 NOWFleet, Carole Brody.
Summary: "The issues that surround the loss of a spouse are numerous and complex. A very small sampling of these issues include helping children cope with a parent's death, re-entering the workplace and eventually re-entering the world of dating, love and intimacy; as well as moving through a profoundly emotional period. The widowed must find a way to accept and deal with these oftentimes conflicting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viva Editions 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.88 FLERoiphe, Anne Richardson
Summary: "Widowed novelist, near seventy, ex-Park Avenue girl, ex-beatnik, ex-many other things too complicated to list here, loves big parties, summers at the beach, grandchildren, seeks interesting man for dinner and a movie." Anne Roiphe was not quite seventy years old when her husband of nearly forty years unexpectedly passed away. But it was not until her daughters placed a personal ad in a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 813.54 ROIBarnard, Robert.
Summary: Seventeen mystery stories feature everyday characters who discover their potential for murder, including a young woman who weds a string of old men and develops a penchant for widowhood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARBergen, Candice
Summary: "Candice Bergen shares the big events in her life: her marriage to a famous French director, the birth of her daughter, Murphy Brown, widowhood, falling in love again, and watching her daughter blossom"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2015