Topical/Death/Dying
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Desgraciado: (The Collected Letters)
$17.95 Read moreA collection of epistolary poems that exorcises and explores the material violence and generational trauma of colonization and systemic racism stored within queer Latinx memory.
Includes a Foreword fr
- Author: Dominguez, Angel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: February 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1643621149
- Language: English
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A Monster Calls
$12.99 Add to cartLarge Print�s increased font size and wider line spacing maximizes reading legibility, and has been proven to advance comprehension, improve fluency, reduce eye fatigue, and boost engagement in
- Author: Ness, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: April 11 2020
- ISBN10: 1432875841
- Language: English
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Musical Morphine: Transforming Pain One Note at a Time
$17.95 Add to cartRobin Russell Gaiser became a Certified Music Practitioner after a career as a performing musician and teacher. As she learned how valuable music could be in easing patients’ pain — both physical and
- Author: Gaiser, Robin Russell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: June 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1942016174
- Language: English
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Death and the Idea of Mexico
$31.00 Add to cartDeath and the Idea of Mexico is the first social, cultural, and political history of death in a nation that has made death its tutelary sign. Examining the history of death and of the death sign from
- Series: Mit Press
- Author: Lomnitz, Claudio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 584
- Publish Date: January 04 2008
- ISBN10: 1890951544
- Language: English
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Grief in Our Seasons: A Mourner’s Kaddish Companion
$20.99 Add to cartHelps those who are mourning heal at their own pace and cherish the memory of their loved ones each and every day. Each section is devoted to a stage of mourning, providing inspiration, understanding,… [more below]
- Author: Olitzky, Kerry M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 01 1998
- ISBN10: 1879045559
- Language: English
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The Southern Sympathy Cookbook: Funeral Food with a Twist
$23.99 Read more“He had a life-long love affair with deviled eggs, his homemade canned fig preserves, and buttermilk served in martini glasses garnished with cornbread.” –Obituary from Gulfport, Mississippi
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- Author: Magness, Perre Coleman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 16 2018
- ISBN10: 168268038X
- Language: English
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Death in the Great Smoky Mountains: Stories of Accidents and Foolhardiness in the Most Popular Park
$16.95 Add to cartIt’s no surprise that fatalities occur every year in Great Smoky Mountains National Park due to the sheer number of visitors–more than ten million annually In these cautionary tales, Bradley recount… [more below]
- Author: Bradley, Michael R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: May 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1493023756
- Language: English
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The Veil Between Two Worlds: A Memoir of Silence, Loss, and Finding Home
$17.95 Read moreJanuary 2021, mid-pandemic, Christina Vo-single, childless, and in her early forties–sets off on a road trip with a close friend in search of a new place to call home. What ensues is an illuminating … [more below]
- Author: Vo, Christina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 164742397X
- Language: English
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I Am the Dead, Who, You Take Care of Me
$16.00 Read moreWith tender attention and a keenly embodied curiosity, the poems in I am the dead, who, you take care of me are acutely aware of the ways in which language communes the living and the dead.
Following … [more below]
- Author: McCann, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1950268888
- Language: English
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Tranquility Teetering on Tears: Tears of Sorrow Tears of Joy An Incident in Faith, Hope, and Love
$17.95 Add to cartTranquility Teetering on Tears is an insightful observation of a nontraditional society and written by a nontraditional student formed and scripted in a traditional Lutheran University that is current
- Author: Pence Aka Gpb, Robert A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 174
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1662466978
- Language: English
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The Far Unlit Unknown
$17.95 Add to cartIn this collection of poems, Mary Lou Kayser guides readers through some of life’s biggest moments. Falling in love. Working through grief. Healing old wounds. Losing someone dear to us. Deciding it’s
- Author: Kayser, Mary Lou
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 172
- Publish Date: March 20 2023
- ISBN10: 9798987792315
- Language: English
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Living with the Dead: How We Care for the Deceased
$25.00 Read moreSpanning geographies, cultures, and the ages, a moving journey into the physical facts and metaphysical mysteries of how the living care for the dead.
Death is universal. It will meet us all. But it- Author: Viestad, Vibeke Maria
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1789147689
- Language: English
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Light Me Down: The New & Collected Poems of Jean Valentine
$39.95 Add to cartMulti-award winner, including a National Book Award, Jean Valentine published twelve full-length collections of poetry during her lifetime, and all of them–plus an entirely new, unpublished manuscrip
- Author: Valentine, Jean
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1949944603
- Language: English
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Searching for Home
$17.00 Add to cartSearching for Home, Pack’s splendid twenty-second collection of poems, written largely during his last year of life, centers on the search for meaning. At its heart are sequences of poems about three
- Author: Pack, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1639821473
- Language: English
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What Our Friends Left Behind: Grief and Laughter in a Pandemic
$21.99 Add to cartGrieving a friend is hard.
Grieving a friend during a pandemic is a lot harder.
What Our Friends Left Behind: Grief and Laughter in a Pandemic is a powerful and compassionate exploration of friend grie
- Author: Noe, Victoria
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 214
- Publish Date: September 08 2023
- ISBN10: 9798988240501
- Language: English
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And the Stars Flew with Us
$12.99 Add to cartEssays on the absurdity and elegance of the “Great American Road Trip”
and a celebration of the man who steered mine.
Ride “shotgun” on a celebration of the open road that will resonate with all who re
- Author: Young, Randy B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 170
- Publish Date: July 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1890586765
- Language: English
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When You Don’t Know What to Say, 2nd Edition: How to Help Your Grieving Friends
$9.99 Add to cartFor those who have a friend that has been devastated by the loss of a loved one. When others care enough to rub shoulders with grieving friends and are willing to be inconvenienced. It requires someon… [more below]
- Author: Smith, Harold Ivan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0834127997
- Language: English
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Releasing the Light: A Journal of Caring
$19.95 Add to cartAnn FitzGerald and I had been close friends and writing partners for 27 years when Ann was diagnosed with lung cancer. Almost immediately I began to write extensively in my journal about what I feared
- Author: McPhee, Carol Alma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 412
- Publish Date: October 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0989523470
- Language: English
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The May Queen Murders
$9.99 Add to cartStay on the roads. Don’t enter the woods. Never go out at night. Those are the rules in Rowan’s Glen, a remote farming community in the Missouri Ozarks where Ivy Templeton’s family has lived for cent… [more below]
- Author: Jude, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 09 2017
- ISBN10: 0544937252
- Language: English
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Creatures of a Day: And Other Tales of Psychotherapy
$18.99 Add to cart“The publication of Creatures of a Day is reason to celebrate.” — Steven Pinker
In this stunning collection of stories, renowned psychiatrist Irvin D. Yalom describes his patients’ struggles — as w- Author: Yalom, Irvin D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 08 2016
- ISBN10: 046509743X
- Language: English
