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5321) Coming Back Alive
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A girl. A boy. Bridget. Dylan. Very bad things can happen to families. And when very bad things--the worst--do happen to their families, Bridget and Dylan believe they must escape a cruel world that threatens even them. Together they run away to the deep isolated wilderness of northern California, far away from other people. To survive there is brutally hard yet always surrounded by great beauty. Painfully they learn the lessons of the mountains....
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The Bereavement Companion Journal for The Day My Heart Turned Blue is meant to complement Karla J. Noland's book, The Day My Heart Turned Blue: Healing After the Loss of My Mother. However, it can also be used on its own to guide you on your bereavement journey. The purpose of the companion journal is to guide the bereaved through the process of healing, reflecting, and honoring their parent so they can move forward.
The journal is composed of three...
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Hoa Nguyen's latest collection is a poetic meditation on historical, personal, and cultural pressures pre- and post-"Fall-of-Saigon" and comprises a verse biography on her mother, Diep Anh Nguyen, a stunt motorcyclist in an all-woman Vietnamese circus troupe. Multilayered, plaintive, and provocative, the poems in A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure are alive with archive and inhabit histories. In turns lyrical and unsettling, her poetry sings...
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"This was supposed to be an exciting moment, the announcement that my baby was coming. I realized that I was going through labor, but at the end of it, I would have nothing."
(Mis)carriage is one woman's honest, intimate journey through the loss of her child after eight weeks of pregnancy. Her candid account of loss, grief, and new beginnings shines as comforting proof that hope awaits in the aftermath, and that the loss of her baby matters.
Although...
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In 1975, Dr. James Moody introduced us to the enigmatic world of the "near-death experience" (NDE), where individuals touch the spiritual realm during or near the brink of death. But these remarkable encounters aren't limited to religious believers alone; they affect us all, transcending boundaries of race, creed, and culture, weaving a puzzling tapestry of commonalities and contradictions.
Prepare for an exhilarating expedition of discovery....
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Theresa Caputo, TLC's Long Island Medium and the three-time New York Times bestselling author, teaches us how to ritualize and recover from the daily losses in our lives.
Life on earth comes with losses that often go unrecognized, unacknowledged, and un-mourned. This invisible pain causes deeper emotional damage- devastation that Theresa Caputo has witnessed in many of her clients. Though they are suffering, they rarely understand where the anguish...
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HOW TO GRIEVE is a how-to guide with practical tips on every page and resource lists at the back of the booklet. Specifically designed with the death of a partner or spouse in mind, HOW TO GRIEVE: EVEN WHEN YOU DON'T WANT TO is applicable to any loss: a child, friend, pet, or divorce.
5328) Red is for Remembrance
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Blue is for nightmares volume 4
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I know you're alone . . . Shattered by her boyfriend's tragic death, Stacey is struggling in her first year of college, hoping that somehow, somewhere, Jacob is still alive. Now her nightmares are back, haunted by ghosts and misery. Casting healing spells brings Stacey closer to Porsha-a troubled girl who's also dreaming of death-and to a strange boy whose life is in danger. To save him, it'll take all the strength and magic they've got. And maybe...
5329) The Scarlet Alchemist
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New from the author of The Keeper of Night comes a YA fantasy duology set in an alternate Tang Dynasty China, where a poor biracial girl with the ability to raise the dead gets caught up in the dangerous political games of the royal family.
Zilan dreams of becoming a royal alchemist, of providing for her family by making alchemical gold and gems for the wealthy to eat in order to stay young forever. But for now, she's trapped in her impoverished...
5330) Séjour à Mbenseke
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Séjour à Mbenseke est une expérience forgée à partir de nombreuses circonstances qui ramènent l'Homme à la rencontre de l'amour, à la découverte de son identité et à l'essence de la vie. Par l'épreuve, il découvre ses limites et ses capacités. Grâce à l'amour, il découvre sa fragilité ainsi que sa sensibilité. Face à la mort, il retrouve son identité, car il naît poussière, redevient poussière et a pour dernière demeure un...
5331) Racing Hearts
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To honor the death of her best friend, teen Sienna signs up to do a triathlon and finds a connection with an unexpected training partner in this body-positive romance exploring first love, grief, perseverance and trusting in yourself.
Five months ago, Sienna Shoring lost her best friend, Stacey, to suicide. Now Sienna's back at school, struggling-and failing-to find her new place in the social hierarchy. Awkward and alone, Sienna is still dealing...
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Author Tristan Smith offers an insightful guide through two dozen of Houston and Galveston's most historic cemeteries. Houston and Galveston's historic cemeteries lie scattered amongst the neighborhoods and thoroughfares of the nation's fourth largest city. Some of these portals to the past nestle in hidden pockets of the bustling metropolis. Other cemeteries carve out the kind of contemplative sanctuary that rivals the city's largest greenspaces....
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I AM NOT MY SO-CALLED ILLNESS
This celebration of Samuel Laties braids his visionary and humorous fiction, poetry, and essays together with Andrew Laties' reminiscences-along with the tale of Andy's struggle to invest Sam's death with meaning by rescuing a legendary bookstore. In counterpoint, son and father explore mortality and redemption, mental illness and creativity, education and exploitation, morality and hypocrisy, and the transcendent power...
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When you feel God has abandoned you...
When your life just does not make sense...
When you have unsatisfied soul desires...
You need answers. You need healing!
You have taken the metaphoric red pill; this will lead you down the rabbit hole into darkness first and then to light. Your journey in the darkness or your suffering process is your Dark Night of the Soul.
Most of the great beings in our history who have a positive legacy have a story of suffering...
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A memoir of a parent's sudden passing from ALS, recalling life lessons learned and regaining faith in the process.
Kevin P. Martin, Sr. was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's Disease, better known as ALS, in August 2019. He died only a month later. Over a thousand people would attend the wake and funeral in South Boston, after all, Kevin Sr. was a leader in the Southie community and in the Catholic Church, both as a business owner and family man. But Kevin...
5336) An Error in Judgement
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In 1979, a Native girl died of a ruptured appendix in an Alert Bay, B.C. hospital. Dara Culhane Speck uses interviews and public records to describe how this small, isolated community took on the local hospital, provincial and federal ministries of health, and national media, because the tragedy's implications reached beyond one child, one physician, one town, even one century.
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Change Maker is Rebecca Austill Clausen's story of her discovery that she could communicate with her brother after he died. Following this realization, a world she never imagined opened up to her-even as she doubted her sanity and feared she would lose the respect of her colleagues, as well as the love and support of her family. Austill Clausen struggled with how her spiritual awakening and eventual spiritual transformation could mesh with the practical...
5338) Prelude to Bruise
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HOW DO WE RECKON OUR PAST WITHOUT BEING RAVAGED BY IT? HOW DO WE USE PEOPLE, AND THEIR BODIES, TO EXPRESS OURSELVES? Saeed Jones’s debut poetry collection Prelude to Bruise was the winner of the 2015 Stonewall Book Award/Barbara Gittings Literature Award and a finalist for the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award.
5339) Tethered to Stars: Poems
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A collection born of polyphony and the rhythms of our cosmos-intimate in its stakes, celestial in its dreams.
Tethered to Stars inhabits the deductive tongue of astronomy, the oracular throat of astrology, and the living language of loss and desire. With an analytical eye and a lyrical heart, Fady Joudah shifts deftly between the microscope, the telescope, and sometimes even the horoscope. His gaze lingers on the interior space of a lung, on a butterfly...
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There's Healing After Hurt is a story written from the authors point of view, detailing the raw emotions and breakthroughs she experienced while grieving the loss of her daughter, Jayla. She shares her true, unfiltered journey from broken to wholeness, realized through her personal relationship with God.
The true story tells all the roller coaster of emotions endured and overcome to reach healing after the life changing hurt of her unsuspected and...
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