Police officer Kevin Manning feels responsible for his partner's death, and Nikki Welles is grieving the loss of her brother. One night of shared passion leads to much more than either anticipated.
Bereavement
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Auteur:Pésémapéo Bordeleau, VirginiaSommaire:One late September day, amid the year’s first snowfall, the winter child is born. He does not breathe. His mother watches helplessly until “at least the baby uttered a first tentative croak like a frog unsure of spring’s arrival.”
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Auteur:Cassidy, SaraSommaire:Thirteen-year-old Liza is having trouble coping with the death of a local homeless man when she learns that her family’s apple tree will need to be chopped down. If that wasn’t enough, the new principal at school keeps blocking her...
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Auteur:Maxwell, MarySommaire:These poems are steeped in loss and lament as they concern the death of the poet’s family members, particularly her father and the premature death of two brothers two years apart. The collection’s tone is often elegiac, but rarely...
- Auteur:Dohaney, M.T.Sommaire:
One Friday, Walter Dohaney, novelist M.T. (Jean) Dohaney's husband, went out as usual to play hockey with his friends. She never saw him alive again. Without warning, Jean was plunged into the most painful and disorienting experience of...
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Auteur:Roberts, JillianSommaire:A nonfiction picture book that introduces very young children to the concept of death in a way that is gentle, age-appropriate and comforting. This edition combines both written and spoken words.
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Auteur:Austen, CatherineSommaire:When Josh's mother dies in a phobia-induced car crash, she leaves two questions for her grieving family: how did a snake get into her car and how do you mourn with no faith to guide you? Twelve-year-old Josh is left alone to find the...
- Auteur:Canciani, KatiaSommaire:
«J’avançais, émue. Ce lieu m’habitait depuis des années. J’avais si souvent rêvé de me retrouver ici. Ces chemins, je les avais usés du bout des doigts sur les pâles photos des livres, j’y déambulais alors en pensée, la main lovée dans...
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Auteur:Looten, WouterSommaire:The Widowers' Manual is a practical guidebook for men who have lost their wives and are looking for a way out of the chaotic situation they find themselves in. The Widowers' Manual offers an effective methodology, and addresses the...
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Auteur:Worth, LizSommaire:Pulling from raw themes of grief and death, regret and discomfort, sadness and failure, Worth wears these poems down to their bones. Straddling dreamy, ethereal images and brutal honesty, The Truth is Told Better This Way unravels its...
- Auteur:Coleman, JaQuavisSommaire:
Mourning the death of his wife, a painter finds an escape through the drawings in his work. Not until he gets an unexpected knock at his door does his life take a drastic turn.
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Auteur:Little, AshleySommaire:Tamar Robinson knows a lot about loss, more than any teenager should. Her younger sisters are dead, her parents are adrift in a sea of grief, and now Tamar is losing her hair. Nevertheless, she navigates her rocky life as best she can,...
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Auteur:SEBOLD, AliceSommaire:This is the tale of family, memory, love, and living told by 14-year-old Susie Salmon, who is already in heaven. Through the voice of a precocious teenage girl, Susie relates the awful events of her death and builds out of her family...
- Auteur:Udall, BradySommaire:
This novel tells of Golden Richards, a man who, despite having four wives and 28 children, hasn't quite found fulfillment in life. And even after he falls in love again and takes a mistress, life continues to fall short of expectations...
- Auteur:MCGREGOR, ElizabethSommaire:
Jo Harper, a successful young journalist, has only her two-year-old son, Sam, to remind her of her late partner. When Sam falls ill, there is only one hope-that his stepbrother John could be a match for a bone marrow transplant.
- Auteur:Carr, RobynSommaire:
New York Times best-selling author Robyn Carr is beloved for her charming, romantic fiction. In this touching work, four women-all writers-come together after a painful loss. Recently deceased Gabby Marshall leaves behind a letter...
- Auteur:James, John W.Sommaire:
Incomplete recovery from grief can have a lifelong negative effect on your capacity for happiness. Drawing from their own stories, as well as from others, the authors illustrate what grief is and how it is possible to recover and regain...
- Auteur:Wat, Eric C.Sommaire:
Carson Chow is a high-functioning addict, using crystal meth on weekends. One Friday night, as he's passed out from a binge, he misses thirty-eight calls from his father detailing the death of his mother.
- Auteur:Conroy, Pat.Sommaire:
Leopold Bloom King, the narrator, is the son of an amiable, loving father who teaches science at the local high school. His mother, an ex-nun, is the high school principal and a well-known Joyce scholar. After Leo's older brother...
- Auteur:Olsson, LindaSommaire:
After the unexpected death of his daughter, musician Adam Anker loses all sense of direction in his life. Adrift, he embarks on a journey of self-discovery, one that will take him from New Zealand, to Poland, and finally to Sweden for a...
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