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El fin de las relaciones amorosas es algo normal y frecuente. Hoy en día es raro tener una única relación para siempre; y de hecho lo más habitual es tener varias parejas a lo largo de la vida. Pero por otro lado, la experiencia emocional negativa que sufrimos al romper con la persona con la que teníamos una relación sentimental puede pesarnos mucho. Y a veces eso nos impide incluso disfrutar de nuevas relaciones tras la ruptura. Sin duda es...
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24 Years ago, I lost my best friend, I was 11 years old. This story is about my personal reflection, my emotion, my feeling and how I cope at 34 years old. This story is not just about me, but also about the victims. John was my best friend, he died too young, 24 years later, I try to reflect, I try to remember and I try to resolve.
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Comfort Words for Loss, Grief, and Bereavement
"Here is a book of exquisite honesty and profound depth. Along the way, grief becomes a dance in the dark and suffering turns to love"-Sue Monk Kidd, Author of The Secret life of Bees and The Dance of the Dissident Daughter
Too many of us are familiar with the feelings of grief and bereavement. For those new to and for those long suffering from loss, Safe Passage is a grief handbook to heal loss of...
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A stunning collection of work from beloved poet John Ashbery, his first posthumous book
Renowned for his inventive mind, ambitious play with language, and dexterity with a wide range of tones and styles, John Ashbery has been a major artistic figure in the cultural life of our time. Parallel Movement of the Hands gathers unpublished, book-length projects and long poems written between 1993 and 2007, along with one (as yet) undated work, to showcase...
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Love, in its purest form, is a beautiful and powerful force. However, the path of love is not always smooth sailing. When a relationship falters and heartbreak sets in, it can feel like your emotional compass has been shattered, leaving you lost and disoriented in a sea of uncertainty. You might question everything you thought you knew about love, relationships, and even yourself. Love's Broken Compass is not just another "get over it" guide. This...
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Todos disfrutamos de una buena historia de fantasmas. Quizá la fascinación humana con lo sobrenatural provenga del hecho de que la mayoría de nosotros, en algún punto de nuestras vidas, hemos vivido algo que no pudimos explicar del todo. Desde una edad temprana, James Van Praagh fue conciente de una dimensión que la mayoría de nosotros no puede ver, y ha dedicado su vida a explicárnosla. Fantasmas entre nosotros es un viaje increíble al mundo...
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A therapist shares her memoir of survival after the death of her infant daughter and the process she developed to cope with her grief.
How do you make sense of loss and tragedy? After the sudden and devastating loss of her infant daughter, Lily Dulan (a marriage and family therapist, psychotherapist, and certified yoga teacher) meditated, prayed, and ruminated on the only thing she had left-her baby girl's name. In Lily's courage to address and move...
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"One summer's day we started a business called Funerals Ltd., to help all the poor dead animals in the world. Esther did the digging, I wrote the poems, and Esther's little brother, Puttie, cried."
Early readers will love the dry humor and wonderfully rounded story of All the Dear Little Animals. Nilsson perfectly captures the child's perspective, balancing compassion and humor. This is a very funny story about a topic that touches all of us.
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Prozac has side effects, drinking gives you hangovers, therapy's expensive. For quick and effective relief -- or at least some literary comfort -- from everyday and exceptional problems, try a poem. Over the ages, people have turned to poets as ambassadors of the emotions, because they give voice and definition to our troubles, and by so doing, ease them. No matter how bad things get, poets have been there, too, and they can help you get over the...
12) Aye of the Tiger
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LIFE IS ABSURDALL ROADS LEAD TO DEATHHOW DOES ONE LIVEA GOOD LIFE? The pandemic rages on, but the world has changed the channel. Society has inoculated the working class: by normalizing dying of COVID. Millions develop long-lasting neurological damage and disabilities, and immune systems battered by SARSCOV2 are now hosting opportunistic infections that keep healthcare systems beleaguered and overwhelmed. To put it very simply: the young party and...
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Returning to the form of Stuff I've Been Feeling Lately, Sorry I Haven't Texted You Back is a poetic mixtape dedicated to those who struggle or have struggled with their mental health. Divided into two parts, "Side A" holds 92 poems, titled as "tracks," and "Side B" holds the "remixes," or blackout-poetry versions, of those 92 poems. The book includes the evergreen themes of love, grief, and hope. Named after Cook's viral Instagram poem, Sorry...
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She promised her mama she'd keep them safe.
It's been six months since Mama died, and Chanda is struggling to raise her little brother and sister. Determined to end a family feud, she takes them to her relatives' remote rural village.
But across the nearby border, a brutal civil war is spreading. Rebels led by the ruthless General Mandiki attack at night, stealing children. All that separates Chanda from the horror is a stretch of rugged bush and...
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A debut collection of poetry exploring themes of religion, human behavior, identity, marriage, family, and loss.
The mind and the body. The heavens and earth. God and animal. The speaker in God had a body considers how the image of a higher power is presented to her, beginning with a Catholic upbringing in Kentucky. Speckled with stars and peopled with creatures, these poems employ a trinity of sequences that address a present, past, and possible...
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One winter morning in 1991, Joan Wickersham's father shot himself in the head. The father she loved would never have killed himself, and yet he had. His death made a mystery of his entire life. Who was he? Why did he do it? And what was the impact of his death on the people who loved him? Using an index-that most formal and orderly of structures-Wickersham explores this chaotic and incomprehensible reality. Every bit of family history, every encounter...
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¿Vives atrapado en el pasado?¿Luchas cada día por liberarte de recuerdos o relaciones que te impiden avanzar?¿Te gustaría poder soltar esa pesada carga emocional y encontrar la paz y la felicidad en tu vida? El reconocido psicólogo y autor bestseller, Daniel J. Martin, te invita a un viaje transformador de 30 días con su libro "Dejar Ir: 30 días para aprender a soltar".Basado en su profunda comprensión de la psicología humana y su experiencia...
18) El crossover
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Un rayo de luz en mis kicks...
La cancha está QUEMANDO.
Mi sudor está LLOVIZNANDO.
Ya 'stuvo con eso de estar temblando.
Es que esta noche voy entregando.
El fenómeno del básquetbol, Josh Bell, y su hermano gemelo, Jordan, son los reyes de la cancha, con esos crossovers inesperados que hacen llorar a los jugadores más duros. Pero cuando Jordan conoce a la nueva chica del colegio, lazos entre los gemelos se empiezan a desanudar. El baloncesto...
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In January 2014, Elise Schiller's youngest child, thirty-three-year-old Giana Natali, died of a heroin overdose while a resident in a treatment program in Boulder County, Colorado. Even if Your Heart Would Listen is about Giana's life, which was full of accomplishments, and her mental illness, addiction, and death. Using excerpts from the journals, planners, and letters Giana left behind, as well as evidence from her medical records, Schiller dissects...
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