Topical/Death/Dying
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Semiautomatic
$15.95 Read morePoetry that acts as a fierce and loving resistance to violence
Art can’t shield our bodies or stabilize the earth’s climate, but Evie Shockley’s semiautomatic insists that it can feed the spirit and re
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Shockley, Evie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: June 05 2018
- ISBN10: 0819577448
- Language: English
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The Hour of Our Death: The Classic History of Western Attitudes Toward Death Over the Last One Thousand Years
$26.00 Add to cartAn “absolutely magnificent” book (The New Republic)–the fruit of almost two decades of study–that traces the changes in Western attitudes toward death and dying from the earliest Christian times to … [more below]
- Author: Aries, Philippe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: July 22 2008
- ISBN10: 0394751566
- Language: English
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Death
$18.95 Add to cartThere is one thing we can be sure of: we are all going to die. But once we accept that fact, the questions begin. In this thought-provoking book, philosophy professor Shelly Kagan examines the myriad … [more below]
- Series: Open Yale Courses
- Author: Kagan, Shelly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: May 15 2012
- ISBN10: 0300180845
- Language: English
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It’s Hard Being You: A Primer on Being Happy Anyway
$17.99 Add to cartSurviving your life – making your way through the good and bad – nudges you to make a record of it, to leave signposts for those who come after, especially your children.
That was Sharon Emery’s plan
- Author: Emery, Sharon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 286
- Publish Date: March 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1954786565
- Language: English
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The Book of Grief and Hamburgers
$19.95 Add to cartWinner of the 2023 Trillium Book Award
A poignant meditation on mortality from a beloved Canadian poet
A writer friend once pointed out that whenever Stuart Ross got close to something heavy and “re
- Author: Ross, Stuart
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1770416560
- Language: English
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Little and Often: A Memoir
$16.99 Add to cartA USA TODAY BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR (★★★★)
“Little and Often is a beautiful memoir of grief, love, the shattered bond between a father and son, and the resurrection of a broken he
- Author: Preszler, Trent
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 26 2022
- ISBN10: 0062976656
- Language: English
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The Clearing: Poems
$16.00 Add to cartWinner of the 2020 Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, The Clearing navigates the ever-shifting poles of violence and vulnerability with rich imagination and a singular incisiveness, “asserting feminist viewpoint… [more below]
- Series: Max Ritvo Poetry Prize
- Author: Adair, Allison
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 1639550232
- Language: English
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Chasing My Cure: A Doctor’s Race to Turn Hope Into Action; A Memoir
$19.00 Add to cartLOS ANGELES TIMES AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BESTSELLER – The powerful memoir of a young doctor and former college athlete diagnosed with a rare disease who spearheaded the search for a cure–and became a … [more below]
- Author: Fajgenbaum, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1524799637
- Language: English
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Vampires, Hearts & Other Dead Things
$18.99 Read moreAn ALA Morris Award Finalist!
In this “equal parts heartbreaking and joyful” (School Library Journal) debut YA novel that’s The Coldest Girl in Coldtown meets They Both Die at the End, a teen g- Author: Fuston, Margie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 24 2021
- ISBN10: 1534474579
- Language: English
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Brand New Spacesuit
$17.00 Add to cartWith wry humor and acute attention to detail, John Gallaher’s latest poetry collection captures the pain and joys of caretaking.
- Series: American Poets Continuum
- Author: Gallaher, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: April 21 2020
- ISBN10: 1950774031
- Language: English
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Helen Or My Hunger
$18.00 Add to cartHelen or My Hunger is a looping, serial sequence that explores the relationship between memory, language, the body, and power. In dialogue with H.D.’s 1961 epic Helen in Egypt, these poems address the
- Author: Thompson, Gale Marie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1936919842
- Language: English
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Lemons on Friday: Trusting God Through My Greatest Heartbreak
$19.99 Add to cartWhen your life is suddenly full of questions, how do you move forward in faith?
After being married for less than a year, country music legend Alan Jackson’s daughter Mattie was faced with navigating a
- Author: Selecman, Mattie Jackson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 30 2023
- ISBN10: 1400339863
- Language: English
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Living On the Edge of a Scalpel
$16.95 Add to cartAfter years of hearing that she was an inspiration to family and friends, Heather decided to strive to inspire a larger audience by writing. Citing a lifetime of personal experiences, she gives her re
- Author: B, Heather
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 140
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 9.79889E+12
- Language: English
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Don’t Cry Mommy…: A Search For Profundity: God
$24.95 Add to cartThis book is an event that proves beyond any shadow of a doubt for me that God is indeed alive and well and living within each of us. Every day, we are given a choice, before our feet hit the floor in
- Author: Ketchum Hulsey, Linda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 166
- Publish Date: October 13 2023
- ISBN10: 9.79889E+12
- Language: English
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Know I Loved You Today
$15.00 Add to cartKnow I Loved You Today is a deeply personal collection of Kenneth Francis Pearson’s haiku and free verse reflecting on loss and commemoration. The concise haiku find solace through images from the nat
- Author: Pearson, Kenneth Francis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 0976854333
- Language: English
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Psalms of Lament
$20.00 Add to cartHere beloved poet Ann Weems offers a poignant rendering of her own personal psalms of lament. She draws from the rich heritage of Scripture to give voice to the grief and anguish she has felt. Her wor
- Author: Weems, Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: February 01 1999
- ISBN10: 066425831X
- Language: English
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The Divine Comedy: Volume 1: Hell
$17.00 Read moreThe first volume of Dante’s Divine Comedy
Guided by the poet Virgil, Dante plunges to the very depths of Hell and embarks on his arduous journey towards God. Together they descend through the nine cir- Series: Divine Comedy
- Author: Alighieri, Dante
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 30 1950
- ISBN10: 140440062
- Language: English
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Miscarriage Grief Journal: 48 Journaling Prompts to Process the Loss of a Baby
$12.99 Add to cartYou. Your grief.
No one knows exactly how you feel after your miscarriage, but this journal is designed to help you process some of the complex emotions that come in the days and weeks after you lose a
- Author: Floyd, Rachel J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 76
- Publish Date: January 06 2020
- ISBN10: 1956614222
- Language: English
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The Silk the Moths Ignore
$15.00 Add to cartThe Silk the Moths Ignore animates the liminal, sometimes gothic, spaces of miscarriage, pregnancy, and early parenthood with exquisite defamiliarizing detail. Weaving together prose versets, sonnets,
- Author: Tate, Bronwen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 102
- Publish Date: September 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1734497777
- Language: English
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Widowed Walk: Experiencing God After the Loss of a Spouse
$17.99 Add to cartA beloved spouse dies. Your husband, wife, and life partner is gone. Your world is upended. The emotional pain can be intense.
Your heart begins asking questions. “Am I going crazy? Am I going to make
- Author: Roe, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: March 19 2021
- ISBN10: 1950382400
- Language: English
