Peters, David W.
Summary: "Accidental injury is the leading cause of death for Americans under forty-five. Those who have caused accidents walk among us. They are us. Episcopal priest David W. Peters unintentionally killed someone in a traffic accident as a young man, and in Accidental, he guides readers through the aftermath of these tragedies toward healing and recovery"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadleaf Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.6 PETWarner, Jan
Summary: In Grief Day by Day, Jan Warner draws on her own extensive experience and the experiences of the 2 million followers on her Grief Speaks Out Facebook page to offer hope in its most practical form. This book does not look to offer a solution to grief. Rather, it provides supportive, useful guidance to help you create a life in which peace, and even gratitude, can coexist with your grief.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Althea Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.937 WARMarta, Suzy Yehl.
Summary: This intimate and powerful book offers ground-breaking techniques and concrete strategies to help children of any age, such as: Games, activities, and play-based exercises that help children and teens process their emotions when they don't have the words to describe what they are feeling. Inspiring stories from two decades of Rainbows groups will comfort and encourage adults trying to cope and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale 2003
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Publisher / Publication Date: High Tide Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.937 VANKessler, David
Summary: "In this groundbreaking new work, David Kessler-an expert on grief and the coauthor with Elisabeth Kübler-Ross of the iconic On Grief and Grieving-journeys beyond the classic five stages to discover a sixth stage: meaning"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 155.9 KESKübler-Ross, Elisabeth.
Summary: One of the most famous psychological studies of the late twentieth century, On Death and Dying grew out of an interdisciplinary seminar on death, originated and conducted by Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross. In On Death and Dying, Dr. Kübler-Ross first introduced and explored the now-famous idea of the five stages of dealing with death: denial and isolation, anger, bargaining, depression, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan 1997
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Summary: "...Finish Strong is for those of us who want an end-of-life experience to match the life we've enjoyed. We know we should prepare, but are unsure how to think and talk about it, how to live true to our values and priorities, and how to make our wishes stick. The usual advice about advance directives and conversations is important but woefully inadequate. This book describes concrete action in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Compassion & Choices 2022
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Summary: Marie de Hennezel is a gifted psychologist who works as part of a remarkable team of doctors and nurses in a hospital for the terminally ill in Paris. The men and women who come there, some alone with no one to help, some with their families, do not always know that they are dying. It is Marie de Hennezel's aim first to bring them - and their loved ones - to this knowledge and then to encourage...
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Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.937 HENSummary: Birth is not inevitable. Life certainly isn't. The sole inevitability of existence, the only sure consequence of being alive, is death. In these eloquent and surprising essays, twenty writers face this fact, among them Geoff Dyer, who describes the ghost bikes memorializing those who die in biking accidents; Jonathan Safran Foer, proposing a new way of punctuating dialogue in the face of a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 810.9 SHIKane, Jeff.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperSan Francisco 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649.8 KANBecvar, Dorothy Stroh.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Guilford Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.937 BEVLogsdon, Gene.
Summary: A cancer survivor and farmer writes about the struggles of his childhood and life as a parent, the resilience of nature, and nature's cycles of life and death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea Green Pub Co 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LOGSDON, GENE LOGKübler-Ross, Elisabeth.
Summary: Focuses on the patient as a human being and a teacher, able to impart knowledge about the final stages of life. Examines the attitudes of the dying and the factors that contribute to society's anxiety over death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Audio Renaissance 2005
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Summary: "In this remarkable book, Welshons weaves together his own personal awakening with those of others he's counseled to create a deeply felt & beautifully expressed primer on dealing with grief. A must read for the soul. If you are grieving, this book will comfort you. If not, it will prepare you for that which is not small stuff. Personal awakening."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Inner Ocean 2003