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...
Loss (Psychology)
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Author:James, MichaelSummary: - Author:Ashworth, DonnaSummary:
Those cast adrift in the lonely sea of grief will find something on every page to cling to, when that water gets too rough. Loss is a collection of poems, for those looking to soothe their soul and find an anchor to guide their spirit....
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Author:Crosbie, LynnSummary:From the author of the wildly controversial books Liar and Paul's Case comes one of the most anticipated — and perhaps, in some quarters, feared — books of the year. This is author Lynn Crosbie at her most honest, most cutting, most...
- Author:Deits, BobSummary:
Loss can be overwhelming, and recovery sometimes seems terribly daunting, if not impossible. But Bob Deits demonstrates that the only way past grief is through it. In this newly revised edition of "Life after loss," Deits offers sound...
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Author:Buffie, ErnaSummary:At the heart of the novel is 74-year-old Pearl Calder, a woman who has thrown away her past and kept it a secret from her daughters. But as Pearl confronts her own mortality, she begins to understand what her dead husband, Henry, has...
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Author:Peterson, Tanya J.Summary:In this insightful and evocative novel, Tanya J. Peterson delves deeply into the world of post-traumatic stress disorder, depression and schizophrenia. When Oliver Graham's suicide attempt fails, he is admitted to Airhaven Behavioral...
- Author:Roig, DeniseSummary:
Denise Roig met en scène le combat quotidien d’êtres qui essaient de survivre, sans tambour ni trompette, aux tragédies qui sont le lot des vies qu’on prétend « ordinaires ». Survivre à la perte d’un homme, d’un enfant. Marie Labrecque...
- Author:Côté, GuySummary:
Sommes-nous vraiment responsables de tout ce qui nous arrive ? Parfois oui ; mais à d’autres moments, nous ne pouvons contrôler le fait que la vie nous confronte à des murs qui, à première vue, nous semblent infranchissables. Vous êtes-...
- Author:Grimaldi, VirginieSummary:
"Je ne t'aime plus." Il aura suffi de cinq mots pour que l'univers de Pauline bascule. Installée avec son fils de quatre ans chez ses parents, elle laisse les jours s'écouler en attendant que la douleur s...
- Author:Racine, LouiseSummary:
Le deuil, une blessure relationnelle est le premier d’une série de trois ouvrages qui portent sur le processus du deuil, (le deuxième traite de l’acceptation, il conduit à choisir la vie, et le troisième de la renaissance, de la...
- Author:Racine, LouiseSummary:
« En se créant une nouvelle vie, l’endeuillé retrouve son identité, ce qui l’aide à préciser son chemin de vie, la direction qu’il souhaite donner à son existence, en se créant une vie qui lui ressemble. On voit donc apparaître un...
- Author:Moody, Raymond A.Summary:
TREIZE MILLIONS D’EXEMPLAIRES VENDUS dans le monde plus tard, le méga-succès planétaire de Raymond Moody revient dans une édition spéciale bonifiée d’une nouvelle préface d’Eben Alexander, neurochirurgien et auteur des best-sellers...
- Author:Hage, RawiSummary:
1978. La guerre civile bat son plein et ravage Beyrouth. Pavlov, fils d'un entrepreneur de pompes funèbres, habite une rue surplombant le cimetière de l'enclave chrétienne de la ville. À la mort de son père, il reçoit la visite d'...
- Author:Danticat, EdwidgeSummary:
In a land where vicious dictators crush dreams and lives on a whim, Haitian people have only faith and hope to sustain them. Perhaps it is the faith that a tiny, leaky boat packed with refugees will successfulyly navigate the ocean and...
- Author:Hynes, JamesSummary:
With a defeated sigh, ex-college professor Paul Trilby faces the downward spiral that is his existence. After his wife and three subsequent girlfriends dump him, and he loses just as many jobs, he's sure he's a pawn in some vast...
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Author:Nixon, RosemarySummary:Shortlisted, George Bugnet Award for Fiction. Kalila chronicles the lives of Maggie and Brodie, whose joy collides with devastation when their daughter’s birth also heralds the news of her congenital heart condition. In this startlingly...
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Author:Frizzell, ColinSummary:At thirteen, Jenevieve has some life issues, some death issues, and some everything-in-between issues. Her mother is dead, she's an outcast at school, her dad's an idiot and her little brother can be pretty annoying. Aunt Guin, who...
- Author:Devine, MeganSummary:
Megan Devine reveals a path for navigating grief and loss not by trying to escape it, but by learning to live inside of it with more grace and skill. On this unabridged audiobook read by Megan herself, she offers a unique guide through...
- Author:Forman, GayleSummary:
A powerful display of empathy and friendship from the #1 New York Times Bestselling author of If I Stay. Around the time that Freya loses her voice while recording her debut album, Harun is making plans to run away from home to find the...
- Author:Couture, ChristaSummary:
A powerful testament to resilience by performing and recording artist Christa Couture. Christa Couture has come to know every corner of grief--its shifting blurry edges, its traps, its pulse of love at the centre and the bittersweet...
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