Warner, Melanie
Summary: Grief knows no age. Death of a child is devastating, whether it's a young mother with a stillborn baby or an elderly father mourning the loss of his middle-aged son from cancer. For parents who have suffered the loss of a child, the path to recovery is often scattered with deep emotional struggle with few known comforts or resources. Stories of Hope and Healing from Other Parents After the loss...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Heritage Builders Publishing 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155 WARDeVita-Raeburn, Elizabeth.
Summary: Ted is Elizabeth DeVita-Raeburn's older brother, best friend, and the "ringmaster of her days." On a September morning when she is six, she wakes up and Ted is gone. Her parents explain that he went to the hospital for a while. "A while" turns out to be eight years in a plastic bubble, where he dies of a rare autoimmune disease at age seventeen. The Empty Room is DeVita-Raeburn's unflinching,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.937 DEVKauffman, Rebecca
Summary: "The seven Shaw siblings have long been haunted by two early and profoundly consequential events. Told in turn back and forth over time, from the early twentieth century through the 1950s, each sibling relays their own version of the memories that surround both their mother's mysterious death and the circumstances leading up to and beyond one sister's scandalous teenage pregnancy. As they move...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2022