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2581) When Somebody Dies
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Everyone feels sad when somebody dies, and people with intellectual disabilities have the same feelings of grief as anyone else. This book tells the story of Mary, who is very upset when someone she loves dies. She is encouraged by a friend to go and see a counsellor. Her counselling sessions help her to feel less sad. Later on in the book, Mary's friend Frank also loses someone he is close to. He is given comfort and companionship by his friends,...
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Ellie Mercer lost the three most important women in her life to untreated cancer. Her mother, Berta Sager, and her older sister, Jean Sutton, died because of their adherence to Christian Science beliefs. That same pattern of treating disease without medical help led her younger sister, Perry MacFarlane, to ignore her cancer until it was too late. These women never spoke of their losses or their conditions with each other, creating a downward spiral...
2583) Clearwater Summer
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It's 1959 in the town of Clearwater, there are no cell phones or laptops, Eisenhower is President and the country is at peace. Or is it? Three seemingly aimless teenagers, Wellesley Baker, wise guy Taylor Clark, the story's narrator Will Bradford, and Laddie Tilford, the deaf-mute who watches the town from his bike, see a different world. It's a summer vacation from high school that ends in two ugly deaths and a climactic trial.
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Someone special is missing. Your heart is broken.
The world is upside down. Everything is shaking.
What is going on? How do you handle this? What's next?
Your heart longs for safety, significance, and love. Your soul yearns for truth, certainty, and peace.
You need hope. Real hope. Sure and certain hope.
That's what this book is about.
Multiple award-winning author, speaker, and grief specialist Gary Roe is a trusted voice in grief recovery,...
2585) A propósito de
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Español
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No hay definición para este libro, quizá por ello debas sumergirte en él sin ninguna duda.
Pero sí hay paz en sus palabras, la calma de quien ha amado y sido amada. Hay conocimiento y razón y la madurez de quien ya ha vivido y aun así, aún le queda mucho por vivir. Hay pasión y libertad y gritos de cambio, de revolución y de justicia de quien ha mirado al orgullo a los ojos y le ha plantado cara a la muerte. Hay superación y alas, siempre...
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Today is Alyssa's first day at Lee Ponder Intermediate School. Along with learning new names, faces, and classrooms, she has to maintain her secret. One that she doesn't want anyone to know, not even her new best friend, Onika.
When Alyssa's teacher gives the class an assignment to write a letter to a student living in Alabama, whose school and home were destroyed by a tornado, she bears her soul. However, when the note is lost and believes the school's...
2587) Angel Bones
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Angel Bones has an introspective voice that maintains a bright understanding of the temporal. As we read, we are painfully aware the speaker is dying from cancer and death is imminent. The attempt to not only explain, but understand how to welcome and embrace death is a bittersweet calm. How can one leave willingly when there is so much left behind?
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High and Wide is the intimate story of grief and healing, leading up to and proceeding the earthly farewell of Nadine's husband Michael. Nadine shares the wonder of prayer and the reservoir of comfort she experiences during the ongoing grieving process, while embracing God's continual plan for her life, which, to her surprise, included opening her heart and allowing the love of another man inside. For her, the journey of grief and love is a never-ending...
2589) Heart over Time
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Heart over Time encapsulates the sense of intrigue, of appointed times and of personal election that permeates the writer's work throughout. Marie Barrett's poetry and prose has a 'Jacob's ladder' type feel to it, the journey of life winding and rewinding itself with new revelations revealed in old themes. From her first book, The Witnesses, which was written under instructions from the words in a dream: 'Write about your experiences in London and...
2590) Walk With Me
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A collection of poems that were written at St. Mary's Abbey in West Malling, Kent where James spent seven days in solitude and silence with the nuns.
It was a life-changing experience and helped him through a very troubled period of his life.
The Abbey brought him peace and enhanced the creative side of his brain.
During the seven days, not only did he write these nine poems, but he also wrote three children's books and created the character Albert...
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Every tragedy has the potential to leave dreams and destiny in tatters. The death of someone we love, and indeed serious loss of any kind, crushes, paralyzes and immobilizes us. It empowers doubt, releases hopelessness, robs us of energy, and makes us sit down by the wayside in tears and give up.
Deep Night, Bright Morning reminds readers that nobody goes entirely untouched by hurt, grief, or pain. As it guides people toward the light and love of...
2592) Wilder
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A prize-winning debut poetry collection touching on themes of nature, loss, and history.
In Wilder-selected by Rick Barot as the winner of the 2018 Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry-Claire Wahmanholm maps an alien but unnervingly familiar world as it accelerates into cataclysm. Here refugees listen to relaxation tapes that create an Arcadia out of tires and bleach. Here the alphabet spells out disaster and devours children. Here plate tectonics...
2593) The Hunted
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 16
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The Hunted is Charlie Higson's sixth terrifying installment in the thrilling The Enemy series. The sickness struck everyone over fourteen. First it twisted their minds. Next it ravaged their bodies. Now they roam the streets - Crazed and hungry The others had promised that the countryside would be safer than the city. They were wrong. Now Ella's all-alone except for her silent rescuer, Scarface - and she's not even sure if he's a kid or a grown-up....
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This bright, gentle, thoughtful picture book explores friendship and natural life cycles for readers young and old.
Cactus and Flower spend their days in the desert, side by side.
They watch the sun come up; they watch the sun go down. They play with their animal friends. And they grow, slowly but surely. Then one day, Flower loses a petal.
Cactus and Flower know what this means. But they know, too, that this is the way life goes: Slowly but...
2595) Discarding the Rag Doll
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Embark on a journey from bitter to sweet in a romantically macabre immersive novel-in-poems. Take the gift of a difficult journey walking barefoot on the scorched earth and arriving unscathed. Allow yourself to be tricked through the gates of the dark with the promise of love. Explore poetry, art, and photography telling the story of faded scars. Each syllable was painfully earned along the treacherous roads traveled and left behind. Now is not the...
2596) Love and Metaxa
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Christina Strigas takes you on a ride through the Greek celebrations and devastations of life, love, loss, song, and death. Using the underlying theme of Metaxa, the popular Greek amber spirit, Strigas explores through memory, events, and narratives, poems that dissect human nature. These are dark poems, written with a combination of stream of consciousness, evoking the confessional poets of our time. With nuances, imagery and crystal prose, these...
2597) Widowed Parents Unite: 52 Tips to Get Through the First Year, From One Widowed Parent to Another
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Are you a widowed parent navigating the overwhelming world of raising kids or teens after profound loss? You're not alone. Dive into heartfelt reflections and invaluable insights from those who truly understand: parents who've faced the unexpected sorrow of losing their partners during the prime of their lives. When your spouse or partner passes away, it can feel like you're the only one in your age group dealing with such immense grief and the challenges...
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Rabbi Simeon Schreiber, Senior Staff Chaplain at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach, translates his many years of experience into a greater understanding of the emotions surrounding death, grieving, mourning, and bereavement in Judaism. From Mourning to Morning presents these principles in a comprehensive format. Focusing on the Shiva, the seven-day period of mourning in Judaism, Rabbi Schreiber explains the foundation of visiting a house of...
2599) Ben the Inventor
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Inventors invent inventions! That's what Ben and his best friend Jack like to say. So when Ben discovers that Jack's family is planning to move to another city, he decides they should put their inventions to work. The boys figure that if no one buys Jack's house, Jack won't have to move away, so all they need is a plan to scare off potential buyers! Inventors are good at coming up with plans. But when Plans A, B and C fail to bring the results the...
2600) Spyhole Secrets
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After her father dies, a lonely eleven-year-old finds a solution to her grief when she discovers a secret window into another life Hallie Meredith is furious with God. First, her adored father died in a car accident. As if that weren't horrible enough, Hallie had to move away, leaving school and all her friends behind. Now she and her mother live in a cramped apartment in a stuffy old mansion. The only bright spot is the crack in a boarded-up window...
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