An inspiring book for readers of Sheryl Sandberg and Arlene Dickinson
Lisa Lisson’s life seemed perfect: she had married her high school sweetheart, applied her marketing degree to a position at FedEx Express...
Loss (Psychology)
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Author:Lisson, LisaSummary: -
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Some people wait their whole lives to find their soul mates. But not Holly and Gerry. Childhood sweethearts, they could finish each other's sentences and even when they fought, they laughed. No one could imagine Holly and Gerry...
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Author:Jose, StephanieSummary:Twenty years ago, Stephanie Jose became well acquainted with grief when she suddenly lost her friend. She has experienced firsthand many of the same feelings as her patients. This book provides practical methods for coping with...
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Lee Child says it's "stunning... certain to be a book of the year." Kathy Reichs calls it "extraordinary... a major achievement." Gillian Flynn says of Karin Slaughter: "I'd follow her anywhere."...
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PORTRAITS D’ANCIENNES JEUNES FILLES, c’est l’histoire de la rencontre fortuite de trois inconnus esseulés dans les rues de Montréal. Rebelle, la jeune Josée a quitté sa famille et son village pour venir s’installer en ville avec sa...
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Author:Schindler, HollySummary:Star basketball player Chelsea "Nitro" Keyes had the promise of a full ride to college—and everyone's admiration in her hometown. But everything changed senior year, when she took a horrible fall during a game. Now a metal plate holds...
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Piranesi's Figures is a romp through the magnificent psychological ruins of at least two marriages and one attempt at child rearing, and a gleefully reckless contortion of novelistic conventions, sexual practices, and family dynamics....
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Phantompains is a visceral, imaginative collection exploring disability, grief and life by interweaving stark memories with magic surrealism. Taking inspiration from Filipino horror and folk tales, Estacion incorporates some Visayan...
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Author:Kvorning, NinaSummary:A beautiful story of a child's loss of a toy monkey, and the magic of imagination through which the loss is restored.
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Author:Baldacci, DavidSummary:It's almost Christmas, but there is no joy in the house of terminally ill Jack and his family. With only a short time left to live, he spends his last days preparing to say goodbye to his devoted wife, Lizzie, and their three children....
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Author:Harrison, RichardSummary:In his final years, Richard Harrison's father suffered from a form of dementia, but he died without ever forgetting the poems he had memorized as a student and had taught to Richard as a child. In 2013, the poet feared his father's...
- Author:Levine, LizSummary:
A genuinely moving, funny, and inventive account of loss and grief, mental illness and suicide, from film and TV producer Liz Levine (Story of a Girl), written in the aftermath of the deaths of her sister and best friend.
I feel...
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Author:Anderson-Dargatz, JennySummary:On the anniversary of her mother's death, Rhonda receives a mysterious package in the mail. And it's from her deceased mother! As she tries to figure out how this is possible, Rhonda turns to the people around her, reconnects...
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Author:Wright, Richard B.Summary:James Hillyer, a retired university professor whose life was evocatively described in Wright's novel October, is now barely existing after the death of his beloved daughter in her forties. On a whim, he tries to locate the woman he fell...
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Nora Bondurant is divorced--unfathomable for a woman in 1933--and has inherited a house from a dead aunt she never even knew existed. But when she travels to Mississippi to claim her inheritance, she finds her eccentric neighbors would...
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Provivdes a fresh and irreverent examination into navigating grief and resilience in the age of social media, offering comfort and community for coping with the mess of loss through candid original essays from a variety of voices. This...
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Author:Young, BerylSummary:A powerful and poignant story of two young girls' friendship, family, loss, and loyalty, set in 1940s Saskatchewan. "Beryl Young's novel Miles to Go is sparse, poetic and, at times, perfectly heart wrenching. It subtly captures the...
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Author:Kennedy, JakeSummary:In 1981 Jake Kennedy accidentally burnt down an abandoned house. Years later as an adult, he read a story about how Kurt Schwitters' "interior house-sculpture" ("Merz Structure No. 2") was destroyed in 1951 after some children playing...
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Magpies have an eye for shiny things. They search for bright bits of meaning amongst the dirt and filth of their world. Living in a small town on the outskirts of Saskatoon with his emotionally distant and alcoholic father, Ben...
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