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Kate is a bit of a mess. Two years after losing her young husband Cameron, she's grieving, solo parenting, working like mad at her university fundraising job, always dropping the ball--and yet clinging to her sense of humor. Lurching from one comedic crisis to the next, she also navigates an overbearing mom and a Tinder-obsessed best friend who's determined to matchmake Kate with her hot new neighbor. When an in-flight problem leaves Kate and her...
2) Here after
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"Amy Lin never expected to find a love like the one she shares with her husband, Kurtis, a gifted young architect who pulls her toward joy, adventure, and greater self-acceptance. But on a sweltering August morning, only a few months shy of the newlyweds' move to Vancouver, thirty-two-year-old Kurtis heads out to run a half-marathon with Amy's family. It is the last time she sees her husband alive. Ten days after this seismic loss, Amy is in the hospital,...
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New York Times and international bestselling mystery author Clare Mackintosh makes her nonfiction debut with this deeply felt memoir of unfathomable loss, and infinite hope.
"Grief has run through my life like thread through fabric; at times gossamer-thin and barely there, other times weaving thick, clumsy darns across the rips. In my grief I am a mother, a child, a sister, a wife, a woman, a friend. I am also a writer."
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...4) Plot Twist
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In life, the one thing we can be certain of is that it will never remain linear for long. One minute, everything is as we know it. Next minute - PLOT TWIST - we find ourselves scrambling for a foothold, trying to make sense of the shifting landscape and the changing tides. Sometimes, these deviations from the course can be the shift we needed to push us into our next chapter of life. Others can throw us off balance, send us spiralling into despair...
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As he attempts to fulfil a list left behind by his deceased best friend, nineteen-year-old Case meets eighteen-year-old Winnie, a hardworking ranch hand with aspirations of her own, and together they embark on an unexpected journey as they chase down their rodeo dreams.
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May is a carefree girl who likes nothing better than singing along to the Spice Girls, roller blading and eating cheese on toast with her friends. But then May's family moves to a new town and May's world is turned upside down.
Out of the blue, an imaginary friend Anna comes along to help May out of her predicament, but Anna's 'solutions' only isolate May from her family and lead her into unhealthy habits.
Author Maddy Tyers knows only too well...
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In 1954, Sunni Sinclair breaks free of Australia's gangland, reinventing herself as a pub owner in a lawless mining town near Sydney. A champion of justice, she challenges societal norms, advocating for women's rights and downtrodden miners, but soon feels confined by the expectations of society. Fueled by vengeance and seduced by the sirens of illegal adventure, Sunni masterminds a stunning heist that echoes through the underworld and leaves a trail...
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Ser vivo, ¿acaso los duelos, las pérdidas y las decepciones no afectan a todos de cerca o de lejos? Para mí, el fallecimiento de mi esposa Sylvie creó la apertura a ser vivo y, en última instancia, por primera vez desde mi nacimiento, a amar la vida. Estoy profundamente conmovido y emocionado de que este libro sea un regalo precioso para todos los miembros de la familia. ¿Se enseña a los niños y a los jóvenes adultos en transición de vida...
10) ¿Por qué a mí?
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Muchas de las personas que hemos tenido que enfrentar una pérdida de salud, nos hacemos esta pregunta: ¿Por qué a mí? En diversas ocasiones la respuesta más exacta puede ser la más triste y lastimera, y es que simplemente no hay una contestación a lo ocurrido, por lo cual uno debe de emprender un laborioso recorrido que le permita llegar hasta la aceptación.¿Por qué a mí? es un libro deja ver que, aunque no exista una respuesta, sí hay...
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Life is full of love, but it is also full of loss. Like paper cuts to the heart, every big and seemingly insignificant loss-the loss of friendships, faith, dreams, health, community, and everything in between-grieves us more than we think it will, and often more than we let on. Why? Because they matter.
In this compassionate and deeply personal book, Rachel Marie Kang invites you to see and be seen in the midst of your sorrow, your suffering-your...
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The death of a child immerses parents into a life-long challenge of living with one of life's most heartbreaking losses. Pilgrimage through Loss tells the story of one family's journey, along with interviews from thirty other mothers and fathers who add their voices to the silences that often surround suffering in our 'mourning-avoidant' culture. Hunt illuminates the varied pathways parents eventually discover that open their lives to strength and...
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Nadie nace preparado para morir y muy pocas son las personas que finalmente realizan una adecuada preparación. Somos una sociedad que vive de espaldas a la muerte por puro terror. Rehuimos hablar de ella, nos prohibimos reflexionar sobre ella y negamos por sistema su existencia, por si, de esta manera, logramos evitarla.
Asumámoslo, nacemos, crecemos, asistimos a un sinfín de sitios por compromiso a los que no queremos ir, algunos insensatos nos...
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Beyond the Skies of Blue and Pink is a follow-up to K. L. Nelson's first book A Life Spiritually Guided by Faith, Daisies, and Sky Blue Pink. After the heart-wrenching loss of her husband, K. L. Nelson has spent the last three years soul-searching for who she is without him and what her destination will be now that she is on her own. K. L. Nelson shares a compelling story of how her view of the world around her has changed so dramatically after such...
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Christy Droog is a young woman broken in pieces. Abandoned at birth by her biological mother, sexually assaulted at age five, an unwed mother at nineteen, her life at age twenty-two is shattered by the tragic drowning of her infant son. By forty, Christy is in the midst of a full-blown spiritual crisis-her body a battleground of multiple agonizing surgeries, her beloved mother lost to cancer, and facing the scars of a failed marriage and looming divorce....
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Grief Healing Techniques Helps You Recover in Your Own Way, at Your Own PaceAfter losing a loved one, grief can be overwhelming and seem impossible to conquer. Grief Healing Techniques gives you manageable, effective steps you can take to work through your grief on a daily basis, so you can start to find your new "normal." Grief Healing Techniques speaks to anyone who has ever suffered a major loss. With Grief Healing Techniques, you will be able...
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There are many highs and lows in a woman's life. When thinking about highs, marriage and children are often the first things mentioned. But another, the death of her spouse or significant other, can be the lowest of the lows. One of the reasons it is so devastating is that she is often trying to navigate through it either by herself or with the "help" of others who may not understand what she's going through or how she really feels,
"A Widow's...
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Widowed at 40 and left to raise her four-year-old twin sons alone, the author is thrust into confronting an unexpected and traumatic reality. With heart, hope, and a focus on healing, she shares, through 12 lessons, how she successfully navigated the highs and lows of her grief journey to raise her sons as a single mother. With heartfelt emotion and a unique ability to capture the intricacies of life's moments, Franka's insights about the grief journey...
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A Life Complete explains how the choices we make in midlife can become distilled and irreversible by the time we reach our last years. Having worked intimately and rewardingly with countless people in the last years of their lives, psychological counselor and ordained minister Sallirae Henderson offers a practical plan for healing in middle age so we can avoid elderly regret, unexpressed grief, and unresolved spiritual issues before it's too late....
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