Roe, Gary
Summary: "Unthinkable. Unbelievable. Heartbreaking. Whatever words we choose, they all fall far short of the reality. The loss of a child is a terrible thing. How do we survive this? Can we? Shattered: Surviving the Loss of a Child was written to help."--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Self-help Grief RoeWarner, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heritage Builders Publishing 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155 WARSummary: Still grieving the death of nine-year-old Alice who was killed by a savage dog, Pat and Louise relocate to the remote town of Wake Wood where they learn of a pagan ritual that will allow them three more days with Alice. The couple find the idea disturbing and exciting in equal measure, but once they agree to the terms with the village's leader, a far bigger question looms: what will they do...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Reel Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY HORROR WAKSummary: Jude Fawley is a poor stone carver who is tricked into a loveless marriage and ultimately forced to give up his dreams of a university education. After his wife deserts him, he begins a scandalous relationship with his cousin Sue Bridehead.
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Publisher / Publication Date: KOCH Vision 2006
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV JUDBrennan, Allison
Summary: "US Marshal Regan Merritt never bought the FBI's theory that her ten-year-old son's murder was tied to her job. Yet as leads went cold, she'd had to walk away from the marshals, the case, and her now ex-husband, Grant, who blamed her for Chase's death. After Regan receives a chilling voice mail from her former boss, Tommy, claiming new information about Chase's murder, she can no longer stay...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC BREJohncock, Benjamin
Summary: "Jim Harrison is a test pilot in the United States Air Force in the post-World War II era and a young husband and father, but when his family is faced with a sudden inexplicable tragedy, his instincts as a father and a pilot are put to test as the family experiences both fear and hope"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2015
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC JOHLohman, Rachel
Summary: "No grief is quite like the grief of pregnancy loss. For any woman who feels alone, doubtful, and overwhelmed with sorrow, this book invites you on a guided journey to rediscover the redemptive hope of the Gospel after experiencing miscarriage"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 248.8 LOHMackintosh, Clare
Summary: "The grieving book that New York Times bestselling author Clare Mackintosh needed herself years ago, this is a modern, accessible approach to grief when you don't know how to help or what to do, inspired by a viral social media post that touched millions as it assures the reader that there is a path through their darkness"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: Unimaginable loss yields to the power of human connection in this simple, moving story from the filmmakers of the eponymous Oscar-winning film. An elegy on grief. Based on the Academy Award-winning animated short by the same name, If Anything Happens I Love You is a young adult graphic novel that follows two parents as they reckon with the loss of their young daughter, Rose, in a school...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McMeel Publishing 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 MCCKing, Nikki
Summary: The pain of losing a child to death is real. Friends, family, and parents of children of all ages who have passed on will find an empathetic voice in this book full of real-life advice from parents who've been there. Learn what to do as a parent, what not to say as a friend, and how to preserve precious memories during times of mourning and moving forward.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Plain Sight Publishing, An imprint of Cedar Fort, Inc. 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155 KINRoser, Mark C.
Summary: "After the death of his son, the author kept his sanity by writing, as he wrestled with questions as profound as life itself"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paraclete Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 248.8 ROSSummary: Patrik and Erica are expecting their first child when the body of a woman is found in a rock cleft - with two more skeletons hidden underneath. A lobster net brings up the body of a child off the coast. At first she appears to be a victim of an accidental drowning, but the investigation soon points to murder. Patrik and Erica are making wedding plans when a deadly car crash occurs. The case is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV CAMLin, Chia-Chia
Summary: A searing debut novel that explores community, identity, and the myth of the American dream through an immigrant family in Alaska In Chia-Chia Lin's debut novel, The Unpassing , we meet a Taiwanese immigrant family of six struggling to make ends meet on the outskirts of Anchorage, Alaska. The father, hardworking but beaten down, is employed as a plumber and repairman, while the mother, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LINSummary: In 1880s Kansas, sharpshooter turned rancher, Clay Travis, goes from happily married father of two to a man on a mission after the tragic death of his son and the disappearance of his daughter. Determined to bring his daughter home, and to protect what little family he has left, Clay leaves his quiet ranch and heads to Wichita and on to Dodge City with help of unlikely companion Billy, leaving...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TRAGreene, Jayson
Summary: "As the book opens: two-year-old Greta Greene is sitting with her grandmother on a park bench on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. A brick crumbles from a windowsill overhead, striking her unconscious, and she is immediately rushed to the hospital. But although it begins with this event and with the anguish Jayson and his wife, Stacy, confront in the wake of their daughter's trauma and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 GREENE, JAYSON GREReina, Miquel
Summary: "Harold y Mary Rose Grapes son un matrimonio que, tras la trágica muerte de su hijo, dejó a un lado sus sueños de juventud y se resignó a vivir en una isla remota, alejados de todo. Sin embargo, el destino les vuelve a poner a prueba: deben abandonar su hogar de una manera que nunca habrían imaginado, por un problema de delimitación de costas. La noche antes de ser desahuciados, mientras...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Espasa 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 FIC REIKübler-Ross, Elisabeth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Collier Books 1985
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.937 KUBBestor-Siegal, Amanda
Summary: Paris, 2015. A crowd gathers outside the Chauvet home in the affluent suburban community of Maisons-Larue, watching as the family's American au pair is led away in handcuffs after the sudden death of her young charge. The grieving mother believes the caretaker is to blame, and the neighborhood is thrown into chaos, unsure who is at fault--the enigmatic, young foreigner or the mother herself,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BESSummary: Ponette is a sad little girl. She has survived a car crash that killed her mother and left her with a broken arm. Her father takes to live with an aunt, who has two children roughly her age, explaining to his tearful, disbelieving daughter that her mother is not coming back. Not understanding the finality of death in an adult way, Ponette wonders why if Jesus gets to rise from the dead, why...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1998
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PONWorden, J. William (James William)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Guilford Press 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.937 WORMundy, Michaelene.
Summary: Teaches children fourteen reassuring lessons about grief, explaining, for example, that crying and mixed-up feelings are okay, and features illustrations of a young elf going through the same process as the young reader.
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Publisher / Publication Date: One Caring Place, Abbey Press 1998
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Emo Intel MundyKing, Roberta F.
Summary: "In He Plays a Harp, stories and essays about Noah Miesch's life are intermixed with pieces about his illness, death and the after effect of his death on his parents and family."--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Self H Grief KingSummary: Two years after his wife's unexpected death, Yusuke Kafuku arrives in Hiroshima to direct a production of Uncle Vanya for a theater festival and, through relationships with an actor with whom he shares a tangled history and a chauffeur with whom he develops a surprising rapport, finds himself confronting emotional scars. This quietly mesmerizing tale of love, art, grief, and healing is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DRIDeraniyagala, Sonali.
Summary: A memoir of the author's experiences as a survivor of the 2004 tsunami that killed her parents, husband, and two young sons recounts her struggles with profound grief and survivor's guilt and her gradual steps toward healing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2013