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Par Will Schwalbe. 2012
Journalist and publishing professional chronicles the conversations he had with his mother as he accompanied her on treatments for advanced…
pancreatic cancer. Discusses books such as Crossing to Safety (DB 49441), The Hobbit (DB 48978), The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (DB 67759), and others. Bestseller. 2012Par Georgia Bragg, Kevin O'Malley. 2011
Guide to the deaths of nineteen notable people begins with King Tut, who died of malaria. Also covers King Henry…
VIII, whose corpse exploded; George Washington; Marie Curie, who literally worked to death; and Albert Einstein. Includes facts, oddities, and resources. Some violence. For grades 5-8 and older readers. 2011Par Cheryl Strayed. 2012
Author of the bestselling Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (DB 74646) compiles selections from her…
advice column published in the online magazine The Rumpus. Addresses pain-medication addiction, dead-beat dads, and relationship woes. Strong language and some explicit descriptions of sex. Bestseller. 2012Par Susan Jacoby. 2011
Social critic and author of The Age of American Unreason (DB 66150) paints a pessimistic, yet realistic, overview of old…
age. Combines social, economic, and historical analyses as well as personal experience to portray the issues--with special attention to Alzheimer's disease--that aging baby boomers will encounter. 2011Par Sarah Levete. 2010
Discusses customs surrounding death that are practiced by six major religions: Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Sikhism, and Buddhism. Examines issues…
being debated about these customs, such as whether environmental concerns should outweigh the Hindu funeral pyre tradition. For grades 3-6. 2010Par Joan Didion. 2011
Didion, who wrote about her husband John Gregory Dunne's death in The Year of Magical Thinking (DB 61740), here focuses…
on her adopted daughter Quintana Roo, who died at age thirty-nine in 2005. Didion reflects on Quintana's childhood, her own role as a mother, adoption issues, and aging. Bestseller. 2011Par Jenna Glatzer, Susan Markowitz. 2010
Describes the 2000 murder of the author's fifteen-year-old son Nick. Explains that the killers were young men who had a…
drug dispute with Nick's half-brother. Discusses Nick's life and the nine-year search for Jesse James Hollywood, who fled the country after arranging Nick's death. Strong language and some violence. 2010Par Shaun Usher. 2022
An immensely moving collection of letters on the theme of Grief, curated by the founder of the globally popular Letters…
of Note website.The first volume in the bestselling Letters of Note series was a collection of hundreds of the world's most entertaining, inspiring, and unusual letters, based on the seismically popular website of the same name--an online museum of correspondence visited by over 70 million people. From Virginia Woolf's heartbreaking suicide letter, to Queen Elizabeth II's recipe for drop scones sent to President Eisenhower; from the first recorded use of the expression 'OMG' in a letter to Winston Churchill, to Gandhi's appeal for calm to Hitler; and from Iggy Pop's beautiful letter of advice to a troubled young fan, to Leonardo da Vinci's remarkable job application letter. Now, the curator of Letters of Note, Shaun Usher, gives us wonderful new volumes featuring letters organized around a universal theme. In this volume, Shaun Usher turns to the theme of grief. Contributors to be confirmed.Par Jamie Raskin. 2022
A #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. In this searing memoir, Congressman Jamie Raskin tells the story of the forty-five days…
at the start of 2021 that permanently changed his life—and his family's—as he confronted the painful loss of his son to suicide, lived through the violent insurrection in our nation's Capitol, and led the impeachment effort to hold President Trump accountable for inciting the political violence. On December 31, 2020, Tommy Raskin, the only son of Maryland Congressman Jamie Raskin, tragically took his own life after a long struggle with depression. Seven days later on January 6, Congressman Raskin returned to Congress to help certify the 2020 Presidential election results, when violent insurrectionists led by right wing extremist groups stormed the U.S. Capitol hoping to hand four more years of power to President Donald Trump. As our reeling nation mourned the deaths of numerous people and lamented the injuries of more than 140 police officers hurt in the attack, Congressman Raskin, a Constitutional law professor, was called upon to put aside his overwhelming grief—both personal and professional—and lead the impeachment effort against President Trump for inciting the violence. Together this nine-member team of House impeachment managers riveted a nation still in anguish, putting on an unprecedented Senate trial that produced the most bipartisan Presidential impeachment vote in American history. Now for the first time, Congressman Raskin discusses this unimaginable convergence of personal and public trauma, detailing how the painful loss of his son and the power of Tommy's convictions fueled the Congressman's work in the aftermath of modern democracy's darkest day. Going inside Congress on January 6, he recounts the horror of that day, a day that he and other Democrats had spent months preparing for under the correct assumption that they would encounter an attempted electoral coup—not against a President but for one. And yet, on January 6, he faced the one thing he had failed to anticipate: mass political violence designed to block Biden's election. With an inside account of leading the team prosecuting President Trump in the Senate, Congressman Raskin shares never before told stories of just how close we came to losing our democracy that fateful day and lays out the methodical prosecution that convinced Democrats and Republicans alike of Trump's responsibility for inciting insurrectionary violence against our government. Through it all, he reckons with the loss of his brilliant, remarkable son, a Harvard Law student whose values and memory continually inspired the Congressman to confront the dark impulses unleashed by Donald Trump. At turns, a moving story of a father coping with his pain and a revealing examination of holding President Trump accountable for the violence he fomented, this book is a vital reminder of the ongoing struggle for the soul of American democracy and the perseverance that our Constitution demands from us allPar Kathryn Schulz. 2022
An enduring account of joy and sorrow from one of the great writers of our time, The New Yorker &’s…
Kathryn Schulz, winner of the Pulitzer Prize &“Our lives do indeed deserve and reward the kind of honest, gentle, brilliant scrutiny Schulz brings to bear on her own life. The book is profound and beautiful.&”—Marilynne Robinson, author of Housekeeping and Gilead ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2022— Oprah Daily, The Washington Post, Vogue, Los Angeles Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, BuzzFeed, Esquire, Chicago Review of Books, Town & Country, Electric Lit, The Millions, Lambda Literary, The Rumpus, Lit Hub, The Week, Kirkus Reviews Eighteen months before Kathryn Schulz&’s beloved father died, she met the woman she would marry. In Lost & Found , she weaves the stories of those relationships into a brilliant exploration of how all our lives are shaped by loss and discovery—from the maddening disappearance of everyday objects to the sweeping devastations of war, pandemic, and natural disaster; from finding new planets to falling in love. Three very different American families form the heart of Lost & Found : the one that made Schulz&’s father, a charming, brilliant, absentminded Jewish refugee; the one that made her partner, an equally brilliant farmer&’s daughter and devout Christian; and the one she herself makes through marriage. But Schulz is also attentive to other, more universal kinds of conjunction: how private happiness can coexist with global catastrophe, how we get irritated with those we adore, how love and loss are themselves unavoidably inseparable. The resulting book is part memoir, part guidebook to living in a world that is simultaneously full of wonder and joy and wretchedness and suffering—a world that always demands both our gratitude and our grief. A staff writer at The New Yorker and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Kathryn Schulz writes with curiosity, tenderness, erudition, and wit about our finite yet infinitely complicated lives. Crafted with the emotional clarity of C. S. Lewis and the intellectual force of Susan Sontag , Lost & Found is an uncommon book about common experiencesPar Roger Rosenblatt. 2010
Prize-winning essayist Rosenblatt discusses the sudden death of his thirty-eight-year-old daughter Amy, which led him and his wife Ginny to…
move in with their three young grandchildren and son-in-law. Relates becoming reaccustomed to a kid's world, reconstructing their family, and preparing toast to each child's liking. Some strong language. 2010Par Sue Vander Hook. 2010
Discusses the forced migration of American Indians from their ancestral homeland to faraway areas set aside by the U.S. government…
as Indian Territory. Focuses on the removal of the Cherokee Nation from Georgia in the 1830s and the lingering emotional and physical toll on tribe members. For grades 5-8. 2010Par Norine Dresser, Fredda Wasserman. 2010
Offers guidelines and advice for coping with an imminent death. Explains the function of hospices and discusses caregivers' challenges, end-of-life…
decisions, funerals, and the ways children grieve. Includes personal examples that illustrate the topics covered. 2010Par James Ellroy. 2010
Mystery writer continues his memoir begun in My Dark Places (DB 44271). Ellroy confesses having difficulties with women after the…
murder of his mother, Jean Hilliker, in 1958 when he was ten years old. Describes his relationships, love affairs, and marriages. Strong language and descriptions of sex. Bestseller. 2010Par Judy Shepard. 2009
Shepard discusses her gay son Matthew's life, events surrounding his brutal 1998 murder, and her gay-rights activism. Describes the conviction…
of two Laramie men for beating the slightly built, twenty-one-year-old student unconscious--supposedly for flirting with them--and leaving him tied to a fence to die. Violence and some strong language. 2009Par Jessica Kelley. 2016
When her young son was diagnosed with brain cancer, Jessica Kelley couldn't stomach Christian cliches. God's will? Divine design? The…
Lord's perfect plan? She meditated on "If God is all-powerful and all-loving, why do we suffer?" For Kelley, this question takes on an even more painful and personal form: Did God lack the power or the desire to spare her four-year-old son? UnratedPar Caleb Wilde. 2017
Death. It happens to everyone, yet most of us don't want to talk about this final chapter of existence. Sixth-generation…
funeral director Caleb Wilde intimately understands this reticence and fear. The son of an undertaker, he hesitated to embrace the legacy of running his family's business. Confessions of a Funeral Director is the story of one man learning how death illuminates and deepens the meaning of existence--insights that can help us all pursue and cherish full, rich lives. 2017Par Corinne Chilstrom, E. Corinne Chilstrom. 1993
After her son died by suicide in 1984, Chilstrom, a Lutheran pastor and registered nurse, wrote this book to share…
her story in order to help others through the painful and grief-filled path one travels after the death of a loved one by their own handPar Joanne Cacciatore. 2017
As a grief counselor, associate professor at ASU and Zen priest, Cacciatore has spent more than two decades helping others…
process, integrate, and deeply honor their grief of a loved one. She shares stories of some of her clients and her own loss of a child, while presenting tools to help readers with their own griefPar Gordon Livingston. 1995