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Books

African American Grief By capturing stories and observing practices, the authors reveal how racism affects quality of life, the manner and rate...

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...

Caring For Dying People of Different Faiths This book provides information about the beliefs, customs and practices of the world's major religions, with particular regard...

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...

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,...

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.

Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness [Paperback] Based on Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn’s renowned mindfulness-based stress reduction program, this book shows you how to use this natural,...

A Grief Observed C. S. Lewis accounts for his personal loss of his wife, with a selection of his journal recordings during her passing. An...

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