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1801) When God Gives a Gift
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In this thoughtful, beautiful, and enlightening memorial to their son, Layke, parents Taylor and Candace Miller pay tribute to their son and to the grace by which God granted them this gift. Their story of love and loss is built around the included Biblical scriptures that give them strength even today, and that guided and taught them through their grace-filled journey with Layke, creating a memorial we can all enjoy, reflect upon, find God's grace...
1802) Steering Blind: What Patients Teach Their Doctors about Life, Death, and the Balance in Between
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From the OR to the ICU, Dr. David Alfery brings you into a hidden world of medicine that has never before been seen. You will witness the exhilaration a physician feels when a life is miraculously saved, the terror when a life is on the line, the shock of an unexpected demise, the grace patients evidence when facing the end of life, the anguish one suffers when a family member is perilously close to dying, and much more.
Saving Grace illuminates what...
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Why doesn't Berra have a grandfather? And how can he get one? Ulf suggests that there are plenty of old men at the retirement home. Berra and Ulf go there together to find one-ideally one who eats pig's trotters, invites you to tea, and can teach you to whistle.
A funny, sensitive, illustrated chapter book about a friendship across generations. Stark's writing covers every emotion, sometimes in the same sentence.
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Camino de Héroes es la continuación de Déjame llorar. En esta obra, su autora nos lleva por el camino del duelo con sus distintos parajes. Es una profundiza-ción en los sentimientos que afloran como la rabia, la culpabilidad, la soledad y la tristeza permitiendo comprenderlos para ir superando poco a poco la pérdida de ese ser tan querido. Es el compañero fiel en el viaje de búsqueda y recupera-ción de una realidad que se ha visto trastocada...
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Anna and her husband John, a master saddlemaker, have created a quiet existence for themselves in rural Vermont. When John disappears in the woods near their home, Anna hides what she finds there in a desperate effort to ensure her own survival. She must learn to live alone in a landscape where poachers trespass, coyotes roam, bears menace livestock, and winter starves the wild animals-while debilitating illness and long—buried secrets threaten...
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Are you ready to live your best life? To harness the loving power of God's Spirit, regardless of the physical and emotional circumstances you face? No matter how high the mountain you have to climb, let the empowering mystery of one of the most transformative psalms in the Bible provide hope in seemingly hopeless situations. Praying Psalm 46 provides support and wisdom for meeting the challenges of the stinkin' stuff of this world. It is the path...
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Étude des impacts psychologiques provoqués par le travail du deuil.
La psychologie du deuil est un champ de la psychologie en constante évolution. Classiquement, on dit que les personnes endeuillées passent par une série d'étapes ou de stades de deuil, que le « travail de deuil » consiste essentiellement en une confrontation à la réalité de la mort, aux pensées et sentiments liés au défunt ou encore que, pour « faire son deuil »,...
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Times of Perseverance: Hope and Healing on the Battlefields of Life is a phenomenological narrative chronicling a Jewish man's tenacious survival from personal and family Traumatic Brain Injury, while capturing a transparent glimpse into the soul of a wounded man. His brother's severe Traumatic Brain Injury reveals that God leads a person to himself in times of tragedy. Moreover, his near death experience, which was a result of human error, teaches...
1809) Don't Forget Your Roots
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Sylvain Routhier was a remarkably successful police sergeant with a struggle that would uproot everything.
He was dedicated to his career with the Ontario Provincial Police, and active in his community. Affectionately known as "Roots", he was adored by friends and family, yet no one knew the weight he silently began to carry PTSD and a mental illness were gripping his thoughts and overtaking his life, which ended sadly, in the summer of 2018.
This...
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Discover hope and HEALING after child loss.
Do you feel lost and alone, since your child died? Are you unsure how to move forward? Journey to HEALING answers, the fears and doubts, experienced by bereaved mothers, who want to learn to live again and offers honest, heartfelt advice.
Author Lisa K Boehm shows you how to:
• Cope with your heartache
• Overcome self-limiting beliefs about HEALING
• Determine helpful strategies that work best for...
1811) Intersections
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When a car accident kills Chloe, a vibrant and beautiful teen with everything to live for, the lives of her family, friends, and even those who barely knew her are irreversibly changed. As the people connected with Chloe wrestle with her death and the role they may have played in the accident, their lives become increasingly intertwined. While they grapple with guilt, loss, forgiveness, and redemption, hard truths surface, relationships fracture,...
1812) The Garden of Eve
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Evie reluctantly moves with her widowed father to Beaumont, New York, where he has bought an apple orchard, dismissing rumors that the town is cursed, and the trees haven't borne fruit in decades. Evie doesn't believe in things like curses and fairy tales anymore-if fairy tales were real, her mom would still be alive. But odd things happen in Beaumont. Evie meets a boy who claims to be dead and receives a mysterious seed as an eleventh-birthday gift....
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The death of someone we love cracks us open inviting us to become the person we were born to be. This is the book Tom Zuba wishes he had read after his daughter Erin died. And after his wife Trici died. It's the book he wishes he'd been handed following his son Rory's death. But Tom had to live it. First. Before he could write it. For you. In the beginning, Tom did grief the old way. Repressing, denying, pretending, numbing and stuffing every feeling...
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Part of the 5-star book series, Grief Diaries: Surviving Loss of a Child shares the journeys of mothers seeking to find hope and healing in the aftermath of losing a child.
Offering 22 firsthand accounts of the aftermath including facing the holidays, sorting our child's belongings, navigating birthdays and death anniversaries and more, readers who share the same path will find comfort and compassion, family and friends will gain better understanding,...
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In this powerful book, Biebel leaves behind the all-too-familiar platitudes and instead offers the unvarnished truth about the pain of illness, death, divorce, financial ruin, and more. With keen insight and a Christian outlook, Biebel puts God right by your side to help you sort through your hurt and see the value in your trials. His real-life examples and honest approach will help you turn pain into a meaningful journey toward hope and happiness.
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In the heart-wrenching journey of loss, where shadows of sorrow loom large, "From Mourning to Morning" offers a beacon of hope, illuminating a path towards healing. Drawing from the timeless wisdom of biblical narratives, this book delves deep into the human experience of grief, providing solace, guidance, and a compassionate understanding of the mourning process.From the raw emotions of grief to the transformative power of faith, this book captures...
1817) These Very Big Feeling
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Amusing toys and snuggly blankets are wonderful, but the greatest gift a newborn receives is the love and support of his or her parents. In this guide to a joyful and low-stress first year with baby, Karyn Siegel-Maier presents hundreds of simple ideas for bonding, playing, learning, and nurturing. Start cutting sponges into fun shapes for bath time, making homemade baby food your little one will love, and gearing up for another session of "baby bicycle"...
1818) Teen Spirit
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Francesca Lia Block, critically acclaimed author of Weetzie Bat, brings this eerie and redemptive ghost story to life with her signature, poetic prose. It's perfect for fans of supernatural stories with a touch of romance like the Beautiful Creatures series by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl. After Julie's grandmother passes away, she is forced to move across town to the not-so-fancy end of Beverly Hills and start over at a new school. The only silver...
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An incredibly vulnerable self-portrait of life, death, grief, love, regret, and adolescence relayed with poignancy and humor. Letts' perspective transcends just her experience.
Sometimes Madison allowed herself to think the thoughts you're not supposed to think. Quietly, she'd let her mind slip and imagine a world after he died. It's funny, the way your imagination will alter reality.
There's a fine line between denial and hope...
Madison...
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Every single day, someone you know is thinking about committing suicide. It isn't just one or two-ten million Americans will consider killing themselves in the upcoming year. Dr. Matthew Sleeth believes Christians-and our churches-should be the first to offer hope. Are we prepared to do so?
As a physician and minister, Dr. Sleeth shares his personal and professional experiences with depression and suicide, challenging Christians to become part of...
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