Topical/Death/Dying
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Reliquaria
$17.95 Add to cartIn his prize-winning poetry collection Reliquaria, R. A. Villanueva embraces liminal, in-between spaces in considering an ever-evolving Filipino American identity. Languages and cultures collide; myth
- Series: Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry
- Author: Villanueva, R. A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 82
- Publish Date: September 01 2014
- ISBN10: 080329638X
- Language: English
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Accompany Them with Singing–The Christian Funeral
$28.00 Add to cartThomas Long begins this fascinating volume by describing how the Christian funeral developed historically, theologically, and liturgically, and then discusses recent cultural trends in funeral practic
- Author: Long, Thomas G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: April 24 2013
- ISBN10: 0664239706
- Language: English
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How to Help Children Through a Parent’s Serious Illness: Supportive, Practical Advice from a Leading Child Life Specialist
$22.00 Add to cartHow to Help Children Through a Parent’s Serious Illness has become the standard work on an important subject. A classic for over fifteen years, it continues to be a go-to book for supportive, practica
- Author: McCue, Kathleen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: December 20 2011
- ISBN10: 0312697686
- Language: English
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The Complete Poems
$22.00 Add to cart“O pure of heart! thou need’st not ask of me What this strong music in the soul may be!”
One of the major figures of English Romanticism, Samuel Taylor Coleridge created works of remarkable diversity- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: October 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0140423532
- Language: English
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The Last Dive: A Father and Son’s Fatal Descent Into the Ocean’s Depths
$18.99 Add to cart“Superbly written and action-packed, The Last Dive ranks with such adventure classics as The Perfect Storm and Into Thin Air.”–Tampa Tribune
Spurred on by a fatal combination of obsession and ambition
- Author: Chowdhury, Bernie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 19 2002
- ISBN10: 0060932597
- Language: English
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The Dead Beat: Lost Souls, Lucky Stiffs, and the Perverse Pleasures of Obituaries
$14.99 Add to cartA light-hearted look at the history and practice of “the ultimate human-interest story,” the obituary.
“What a wonderful surprise–a charming, lyrical book about the men and women who write obituaries.
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Johnson, Marilyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0060758767
- Language: English
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The Empty Form Goes All the Way to Heaven
$18.95 Add to cartA timely reissue, the typographical experiments of The Empty Form Goes All the Way to Heaven make visible the hidden experience of chronic pain and illness. During uninsured and ineffectual medicaliza
- Author: Teare, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 106
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1643621599
- Language: English
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Stemmy Things
$17.95 Add to cartFINALIST for the 2023 Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature
A kaleidoscopic debut collection of poems performing queer excess and lyric ecstasy.
This flirty collection trace
- Author: Smith, Imogen Xtian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1643621505
- Language: English
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A Portrait of Grief: Hope and healing after the loss of a child
$17.99 Add to cartWhen the unthinkable happens…how will we survive?
Surviving the loss of a child is the hardest of journeys. There is only one way and that is through.
But what does that even mean?
“I can only show and
- Author: Christopher, Cheryl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 234
- Publish Date: March 07 2022
- ISBN10: 1637699247
- Language: English
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The Loneliest Places: Loss, Grief, and the Long Journey Home
$19.95 Add to cart“A child’s suicide pitches you into a hellish place of fragmentary images, the deepest depression imaginable, efforts to destroy yourself, and an almost complete break with what’s happening in the wor
- Author: Dickinson, Rachel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: October 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1501766090
- Language: English
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Who Am I: Mending a Lost Identity
$11.95 Add to cartAnvil Long was devastated to learn he had been conceived during a date rape incident. His lineage, which he had once believed to be an essential element of his being, was lost forever. The pain and in
- Author: Long, Anvil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 62
- Publish Date: March 15 2023
- ISBN10: 9798218148218
- Language: English
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Running Rebel and Mad Dog: A Memoir of Heirlooms Left Behind
$14.99 Add to cartIsobella Jade details her emotional journey through sudden loss and the objects found in her father’s car after he unexpectedly died in a fire at his home. Jade’s bittersweet tale is at once a meditat
- Author: Jade, Isobella
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 172
- Publish Date: June 18 2023
- ISBN10: 9798987562253
- Language: English
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The Price of a Small Hot Fire
$18.60 Add to cartA careful study on estrangement and loss, The Price of a Small Hot Fire excavates the archetypal horrors of monstrous motherhood, from abandonment and unsteady reconciliation to the grave. Experimenta
- Author: Schraeder, E. F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 106
- Publish Date: July 13 2023
- ISBN10: 1947879618
- Language: English
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Grief: A Philosophical Guide
$16.95 Add to cartAn engaging and illuminating exploration of grief–and why, despite its intense pain, it can also help us grow
Experiencing grief at the death of a person we love or who matters to us–as universal as- Author: Cholbi, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 16 2024
- ISBN10: 0691232733
- Language: English
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Finding Peace and Purpose Amidst the Tears: My Journey of the Love and Loss of My Son Through His Mental Illness and Addiction
$41.27 Add to cartDebbie Gail Zanes’s life changed forever when she received a telephone call informing her that her twenty-six-year-old son, Alex, had been found dead. Just nine years before, he had been diagnosed wit
- Author: Zane, Debbie Gail
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 188
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 9798765239162
- Language: English
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Chasing Time: A Journey Through Grief
$27.98 Add to cartGrief can feel so lonely.
After her father died, Lena Marocco Paulauskas found healing in sharing her story with others walking through loss. Now in a debut collection of poetry, C
You are not alone.- Author: Paulauskas, Lena Marocco
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: July 13 2023
- ISBN10: 1664299742
- Language: English
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Relative Sanity: Poems
$28.95 Add to cartAn elegiac array of poems, with nostalgic themes of loss, longing, betrayal and forgiveness, Relative Sanity reflects on a lifetime in Michigan’s north country.
“This lovely collection is a kind of t
- Author: Lord, Ellen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 52
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1615997687
- Language: English
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The Sorrow Apartments
$17.95 Add to cartAbout Andrea Cohen’s poems, Christian Wiman has said: “One is caught off guard by their cumulative force. This is work of great and sustained attention, true intelligence, and soul.” In The Sorrow Apa… [more below]
- Author: Cohen, Andrea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 140
- Publish Date: March 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1954245785
- Language: English
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Dragonfly Notes: On Distance and Loss
$16.00 Add to cartWhen a seemingly routine medical procedure results in her mother’s premature death, Anne Panning is left reeling. In her first full-length memoir, the celebrated essayist and short story writer draws
- Author: Panning, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: September 18 2018
- ISBN10: 0996981691
- Language: English
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The Candle: Poems of Our 20th Century Holocausts
$18.00 Add to cartThe Candle is a record, unlike any other in literature, of an American poet’s staring into the central atrocities of our Twentieth Century, of his struggle against soul-sickness as he attempts, over a
- Author: Heyen, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0990322173
- Language: English
