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Books

Straight Talk about Death for Teenagers: How to Cope with Losing Someone You Love Advice and answers to the kinds of questions that teens are likely to ask themselves when grieving the death of someone close.

The Suitcase & The Jar: Travels with a Daughter's Ashes When a brain tumour takes the life of Becky Livingston’s twenty-three-year-old daughter Rachel, her life makes an unconventional...

Tear Soup, a recipe for healing after loss Tear Soup is a family story book that centers around an old and somewhat wise woman, Grandy. Grandy has just suffered a...

Understanding Your Grief: Ten Essential Touchstones for Finding Hope and Healing Your Heart Explaining the important difference between grief and mourning, this book explores every mourner's need to acknowledge death...

When Breath Becomes Air This inspiring, exquisitely observed memoir finds hope and beauty in the face of insurmountable odds as an idealistic young...

When Dinosaurs Die This book allows adults to enter into the world of children to explain death. Topics include: what alive and dead means,...

When Someone Very Special Dies: Children Can Learn to Cope with Grief This workbook gives children brief information with useful images. Can be used by parents, school counselors and bereavement...

When things fall apart: heart advice for difficult times (20th anniversary edition) Pema Chodron draws from traditional Buddhist guidance and provides considerations contrary to what one might expect when...