Gerson, Merissa Nathan
Summary: A book needed now more than ever. The world is soaked in grief right now, as we are quickly approaching a million deaths from COVID-19. Grief is common to the point of moving beyond an occasional weight—it feels now like a perpetual state of being. This book helps teach self-care and self-worth; it shows when and how to ask for love and attention in your communities and how to provide it for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mandala 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.9 GERFournier, Melissa
Summary: A mother’s worst fear is realized at 23 weeks into the pregnancy, and a baby girl is born at the edge of viability. Melissa Fournier shares her incomprehensible grief for her daughter’s brief life in these intimate poems that reflect the power of grace to transform sorrow into resilience and hope.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Poetry Box 0000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 FOUGonzalez, Elisa
Summary: Grand Tour, the debut collection of poetry by Elisa Gonzalez, dramatizes the mind in motion as it grapples with something more than an event: she writes of a whole life, to transcendent effect. By the end, we feel we have been witness to a poet remaking herself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 GONSummary: "Ignore. Suppress. Hide. Work in high-loss healthcare environments commonly demands turning away from one's interior experiences in order to rapidly turn toward the next patient. In a culture that discourages vulnerability, how can a care provider effectively deal with the challenging emotions that naturally arise when faced with death, especially now in this critical time of pandemic?...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 HEACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Self H Greif FournierHugo, Lynne
Summary: After losing her husband, Harold, and her beloved grandson, Cody, within the past year, Louisa has two choices. She can fade away on her Indiana family farm, where her companionship comes courtesy of her aging chickens and an argumentative cat. Or, she can concoct A Plan. Louisa, a retired schoolteacher who's as smart, sassy, and irreverent as ever, isn't the fading away type. The drunk driver...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HUGSummary: Ordinary. Typical. Routine. NORMAL. These are the words we often use to describe our lives, until… the accident, the diagnosis, the discovery, the death. Until The Thing That Changed Everything. Only then do we understand what we thought was normal was in fact Before, and we are now living After. The true stories and poems collected here are stories about life after loss—but these...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barnwood Books 0000