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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...

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...

Conversations on Dying: A Palliative Care Pioneer Faces His Own Death Dr. Larry Librach was a well known leader in the field of Palliative Care, including being the Director of the Tammy Latner...

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...

Finding Your Voice: Our Journey with Cancer Through the Health System Patients and their families are key members of the health care team. Based on her own experience throughout her husband's...

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

How to Be an Even Better Listener: A Practical Guide for Hospice and Palliative Care Volunteers Using a combination of compelling vignettes and reflective exercises, Robert Mundle provides readers with practical strategies...

I Don't Know What to Say, 2nd ed. The author discusses the challenges he experienced when caring for a terminally ill family member. Very practical suggestions...

The Secret C: Straight Talking About Cancer This booklet is aimed at supporting parents or carers and encourages open communication and questions about cancer within...

Stay, Breathe with Me: The Gift of Compassionate Medicine This book presents serious illness as a drama of body, mind, and soul. In this drama symptoms and suffering cannot be separated...