“A gripping and beautiful book about the power of love in the face of unimaginable loss.” --Cheryl Strayed For readers of The Bright Hour and When Breath Becomes Air, a moving, transcendent memoir of loss and a stunning exploration of marriage in the wake of unimaginable grief. As the book opens: two-year-old Greta Greene is sitting with her grandmother on a park bench on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. A brick crumbles from a windowsill overhead, striking her unconscious, and she is immedi...
An existential manual for tragic optimists, can-do pessimists, and compassionate doomers With global heating projected to rocket past the 1.5°C limit, lifelong activist Andrew Boyd is thrown into a crisis of hope, and off on a quest to learn how to live with the "impossible news" of our climate doom. He searches out eight of today's leading climate thinkers — from activist Tim DeChristopher to collapse-psychologist Jamey Hecht, grassroots strategist adrienne maree brown, eco-philosopher Joana Ma...
A Grief Observed (Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, #3) (Linford Inspirational Library)
by C. S. Lewis
This intimate portait of bereavement and death recalls the author's experiences of the loss of his wife, as well as his evolving belief in God and his acceptance of a new life.
A Mother's Worst Fear Becomes a Healing Journey
by Melanie Barton Bragg
Grief F*cking Hurts Write That Sh*t Down Grieving The Loss
by Ales Luise
Integrating Our Losses and the Pending Tasks Of Our Sadness (Sub Ner Connection in 8 Steps, #2)
by Montse Hurtado Cancini
The Riven Country of Senga Munro (The Riven Country, #1)
by Renee Carrier
Jenni has fought for what she believes in and what she knows to be right no matter how much the odds were against her - Jordan Henderson, Liverpool FC CaptainA profoundly personal, painful and moving account of unimaginable loss - Professor Phil Scraton, Author of Hillsborough: The TruthThis book is utterly gripping - Jimmy McGovern, Screenwriter and Producer-----On the morning of Saturday 15 April 1989, Jenni Hicks, her husband, and their two teenage daughters, Sarah and Vicki, went to watch a...
Josh Morris privileges the voices of veterans to argue that returning soldiers need families, friends, and religious communities to listen to their stories with compassion to avoid amplifying the effects of moral injury. When society greets returning soldiers in ways that reinforce cultural norms that frame military service as heroic, rather than acknowledging its ambiguities and harmful effects, it exacerbates moral injury and keeps veterans from resolving inner conflicts and coping effectively...