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Author
Publisher
Createspace
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Teens Dealing With Death is written by young people for young people. Their brave voices in this book and their teacher Susan Romero have taken a courageous step in sharing their eye-opening stories of death. These young people talk openly about the loss of their loved one to illness, substance abuse, murder, suicide, accidents and war. They discover that despite their separate circumstances, they are not alone in their pain.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
One of America's most beloved storytellers, #1 New York Times best-selling author Richard Paul Evans continues the saga he began with The Walk and Miles to Go. Following a series of personal tragedies, Alan Christoffersen decided to walk from Seattle to Key West carrying only a backpack. Now halfway through his journey, Alan discovers more hard-won wisdom from the folks he meets on his life-changing journey.
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
For a parent, losing a child is the most devastating event that can occur. Most books on the subject focus on grieving and recovery, but as most parents agree, there is no recovery from such a loss. This book examines the continued love parents feel for their child and the many poignant and ingenious ways they devise to preserve the bond. Through detailed profiles of parents, Ann Finkbeiner shows how new activities and changed relationships with their...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A novel about a young African-American woman coming of age... Raised in Pennsylvania, Zinzi Clemmons's heroine Thandi views the world of her mother's childhood in Johannesburg as both impossibly distant and ever present. She is an outsider wherever she goes, caught between being black and white, American and not. She tries to connect these dislocated pieces of her life, and as her mother succumbs to cancer, Thandi searches for an anchor - someone,...
85) Miles to go
Author
Series
Walk novels volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Alan Christoffersen has lost everything he loves. Searching for hope, Alan embarks on a walk across America. As he continues on his journey, he encounters many interesting people from whom he learns lessons about love, life, and loss.
Author
Publisher
Tantor Audio
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
In the wake of a tragedy that tore her life down to the foundations, Dr. Alison McAdams has lost her way. So when she's summoned to Napa to care for her ailing father, she's not sure she has anything to offer him-or anyone else. What Ali finds in Northern California wine country is a gift-an opportunity to rest, and distance from her painful memories. Most unexpectedly, she finds people who aren't afraid of her grief or desperate for her to hurry...
Author
Publisher
Peachtree
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Eight months after a freak accident took her best friend's life, Sara Jones is having trouble at home, at school, and with her boyfriend, but she gains an understanding of interconnectedness while working for Roy, an eccentric Christmas tree-farm owner dealing with his own tragedy.
Author
Language
English
Description
"There's plenty about the grownup world that six-year-old Aoife doesn't understand. Like what happened to her big brother Theo and why her mama is in the hospital instead of home where she belongs. Uncle Donny says she just needs to be patient, but Aoife's sure her mama won't be able to come home until Aoife learns what really happened to her brother. The trouble is no one wants to talk about Theo because he was murdered. But by whom? With her imaginary...
Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Still grieving over the death of her hero, and missing her stolen horse and kidnapped younger sister, Kaya tries to earn the trust of a lone and starving dog who is about to have puppies. Includes historical notes on Nez Perce children.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A smart, haunting tale of psychological suspense from the award-winning New York Times bestselling author of Turn of Mind. Jane loses everything when her teenage daughter is killed in a senseless accident. Jane is devastated, but sometime later, she makes one tiny stab at a new life: she moves from San Francisco to the tiny seaside town of Half Moon Bay. She is inconsolable, and yet, as the months go by, she is able to cobble together some version...
Author
Publisher
Torrey House Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In wide-ranging personal essays at the crossroads of place and perspective, Phyllis Barber challenges and celebrates her Great Basin roots. From a backwoods church in Arkansas to the disappeared town of St. Thomas, buried beneath the waters of Lake Mead, award-winning essayist Phyllis Barber travels roads both internal and external, reflecting upon place and perspective, ambition and loss in The Precarious Walk. As a child growing up in the Mojave...
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Simon Pulse hardcover edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
After a boating accident takes her beautiful singing and speaking voice from her, Elyse d'Abreau, the youngest of six sisters, leaves her home in Tobago to stay in an Oregon seaside town where Christian Kane, a notorious playboy, challenges her to express herself and to overcome her fear of the sea.
Author
Publisher
Naxos AudioBooks
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
An influential twentieth-century novel admired for its philosophical and psychological introspection The Ramsay family is on holiday on the Isle of Sky in Scotland. As the family and their guests decide on whether or not to visit a nearby lighthouse, Virginia Woolf spins a tale that focuses on the intricate web of family life and the conflict that occurs between genders.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow & Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First William Morrow paperback edition.
Language
English
Description
Chris, a film composer and widower, returns to the Yorkshire Dales to grieve his wife and write his piano sonata. He soon finds himself distracted, though, when he discovers that a murder was committed in his rented house by a woman who was one of the last women hanged in England.
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
Unabridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Declan O'Brien always had a gentle word to share, odd phrases he liked to repeat, and songs to sing while he played basketball. His favorite song was Dona Nobis Pacem, 'Grant Us Peace.' His family loved him deeply and always knew they were loved in return. but a terrible accident one day changes their lives forever, and Fiona and Finn O'Brien are left without a father. Their mother is at a loss. What words are there to guide them through such overwhelming...
Author
Series
Everything we keep volume 1
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Sous chef Aimee Tierney has the perfect recipe for the perfect life: marry her childhood sweetheart, raise a family, and buy out her parents' restaurant. But when her fiancé, James Donato, vanishes in a boating accident, her well-baked future is swept out to sea. [Struggling] to reconstruct her life, she delves deeper into James's disappearance. What she uncovers is an ocean of secrets that make her question everything about the life they built...
100) The Last Train
Publisher
Echo Bridge Acquisition Corp. LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Two strangers meet at a New York subway station as both are contemplating jumping in front of the train. Since they both can't jump at once they decide to get together to try and work through their despair. Rain is a stripper who has no friends or family. Anthony lost his son in a car accident and doesn't want to carry on. At first it looks like the two have nothing in common but they can't seem to stop from meeting up Eventually the two find...
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