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3) Parentless parents: how the loss of our mothers and fathers impacts the way we raise our children
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
282 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Discusses how an increase in the average age at which women give birth has resulted in greater numbers of children growing up without grandparents and examines how the absence of grandparents affects the way parents raise their children.
Author
Publisher
Harper Horizon
Physical Desc
ix, 262 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eight years after his news legend father died unexpectedly, the Emmy Award-winning journalist embarked on a three-plus-year odyssey across six continents to discover the world and, ultimately, find himself, providing a narrative of that journey and the emotional story of a young man taking charge of his life and finally grieving his larger-than-life father.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
An award-winning best-seller from the UK recounts how the author, an experienced falconer grieving the sudden death of her father, endeavored to train for the first time a dangerous goshawk predator as part of her personal recovery.
"As a child Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer. She learned the arcane terminology and read all the classic books, including T.H. White's tortured masterpiece, The Goshawk, which describes White's struggle...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxi, 195 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The author sets out to make a sweater from scratch--shearing, spinning, dyeing wool--and in the process discovers how we find our deepest selves through craft.
Author
Publisher
Crown
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxxiv, 310 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"With her mega-bestseller Quiet, Susan Cain urged our society to cultivate space for the undervalued, indispensable introverts among us, thereby revealing an untapped power hidden in plain sight. Now, she employs the same mix of research, storytelling, and memoir to explore why we experience sorrow and longing, and the surprising lessons these states of mind teach us about creativity, compassion, leadership, spirituality, mortality and love. Bittersweetness...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Formats
Description
"From the indie rockstar of Japanese Breakfast fame, and author of the viral 2018 New Yorker essay that shares the title of this book, an unflinching, powerful memoir about growing up Korean-American, losing her mother, and forging her own identity. In this exquisite story of family, food, grief, and endurance, Michelle Zauner proves herself far more than a dazzling singer, songwriter, and guitarist. With humor and heart, she tells of growing up the...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
240 pages : 20-25 B&W ILLUS. THRU/OUT ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"A renowned doula and co-founder of Moms in Color shares powerful lessons on healing and thriving through the murky seasons of life in this moving, intimate guide to self-care, identity, mental health, and radical joy. Safe spaces, communion, knowing that we are loved-these are the things we long for. Brandi Sellerz-Jackson found them when she started exploring her encounters with loss and trauma as a way to confront her own grief, and she ended up...
13) I wasn't ready to say goodbye: surviving, coping, and healing after the sudden death of a loved one
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
Updated ed.
Physical Desc
xxxiv, 292 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
A practical guide to help those who have suffered a sudden death of a loved one cope with the pain and loss and help them to rebuild their lives.
14) Notes on grief
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Notes on Grief is an exquisite work of meditation, remembrance, and hope, written in the wake of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's beloved father's death in the summer of 2020. As the COVID-19 pandemic raged around the world, and kept Adichie and her family members separated from one another, her father succumbed unexpectedly to complications of kidney failure. Expanding on her original New Yorker piece, Adichie shares how this loss shook her to her core....
16) Green burial guidebook: everything you need to plan an affordable, environmentally friendly burial
Author
Publisher
New World Library
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
195 pages : illustrations, charts ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"A funeral home director discusses the environmental impact of common burial practices and provides ecologically sound alternatives that minimize the use of chemicals and non-biodegradable materials; also covers the financial and legal aspects of green burial methods"--
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown, and Company
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A devoted Christian family woman recounts the wrenching loss of her first husband and her joyful years of raising a blended family before confronting fears surrounding her son's decision to enlist in the military.