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Books

As Big as it Gets: Supporting a Child when a Parent is Seriously Ill This booklet provides a range of ideas for parents and carers so that they feel able to involve their children in what is...

Being with Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death Using a Buddhist approach to death, the author affirms that we can open and contact our inner strength, and that we can help...

The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying An exquisite memoir about how to live—and love—every day with “death in the room,” from poet Nina Riggs, mother of two young...

Close to the Bone: Life-Threatening Illness and the Search for Meaning This book follows patients and their loved ones on a path that brings them into a kind of underworld of experience that has...

The Courage to Laugh: Humor, Hope and Healing in the Face of Death and Dying This book offers insights and anecdotal stories about how humor can be present and also embraced in difficult times, particularly...

Death: The Final Stage of Growth Dr. Kubler-Ross provides answers to questions about Death and dying. She includes the viewpoints of ministers, rabbis, doctors,...

Deconstruction/Reconstruction: A grief journal for teens The Dougy Center's first journal specially created for grieving teens. Whether a teen has experienced the death of a parent,...

Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved Kate Bowler is a professor at Duke Divinity School with a modest Christian upbringing, but she specializes in the study of...

The Four Things that Matter Most: A Book About Living Four simple phrases can help us through the unpredictability of daily life.

The Healing Circle This book follows the format of a “Skills for Healing Weekend Retreat” developed and led by the authors. The chapters alternate...