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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “A hauntingly beautiful account of a family fractured by war . . . filled with vivid and heartbreaking details.”—The New York Times Book Review NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE “Full of wonderful treasures offered by a unique and spirited father . . . written...

A grieving widow discovers a most unexpected form of healing—hunting for mushrooms. “Moving . . . Long tells the story of finding hope after despair lightly and artfully, with self-effacement and so much gentle good nature.”—The New York Times Long Litt Woon met Eiolf a month after...

From the globally acclaimed, best-selling novelist and author of We Should All Be Feminists, a timely and deeply personal account of the loss of her father: “With raw eloquence, Notes on Grief … captures the bewildering messiness of loss in a society that requires serenity, when you’d...

In You Can Heal Your Heart, self-empowerment luminary Louise Hay and renowned grief and loss expert David Kessler have come together to start a conversation on healing after loss. Louise and David discuss the emotions and thoughts that occur when a relationship leaves you brokenhearted, a...

A courageous, life-changing memoir that teaches us to apply the lessons learned by those nearing their death to our own life. After too many years of unfulfilling work, Bronnie Ware began searching for a job with meaning. Despite having no formal qualifications or experience, she found herself working in palliative care. During the time she spent tending to the needs of those who were dying, Bronnie's life was transformed.

For Alice and Hanna, saint and sinner, growing up is a trial. There is their mother, who takes a divide-and-conquer approach to child-rearing, and their father, who takes an absent one. There is their older brother, Michael, whose disapproval is a force to be reckoned with. There is the catastrophe that is never spoken of but has shaped everything. As adults, Alice and Hanna must deal with disappointments in work and in love, as well as increasingly complicated family tensions and lives that look dismayingly dissimilar to what they'd intended.

Read by the author, Michelle Zauner, lead vocalist of Japanese Breakfast. 'A story that is both beautiful and heartbreaking; it is as raw as it is precious. I bawled my eyes out, but I also loved it and I hope you do too.' – Dua Lipa 'Incredible . . . It absolutely wrecked me . . . So, so...

It’s hard to imagine anyone else being able to make understanding the grieving process...well, funny, while also being genuine and compassionate. As always, Faith nails it. This zine contains words of solace and helpful wisdom for when you’re dealing with grief…but most of all it’s full of helpful advice for when you are trying to figure out how to support someone else in their grief and what to say. Grieving is a natural part of life, and having the space to do it the way you need to is vital.

Letting go is not a process that comes naturally to us. In a world that teaches us to cling to what we love at all costs, there is an undeniable art to moving on - and it's one that we are constantly relearning. In this series of honest and poignant essays, Heidi Priebe explores the harsh reality of what it means to let go of the people and situations we love most - often before we are ready to - and how to embrace what comes next. 

Eleanor Bennett won't let her own death get in the way of the truth. So when her estranged children - Byron and Benny - reunite for her funeral in California, they discover a puzzling inheritance. First, a voice recording in which everything Byron and Benny ever knew about their family is upended. Their mother narrates a tumultuous story about a headstrong young woman who escapes her island home under suspicion of murder, a story that cuts right to the heart of the rift that's separated Byron and Benny. Second, a traditional Caribbean black cake made from a family recipe.

THE BRAND NEW NOVEL FROM THE AUTHOR OF TIKTOK SENSATION MAGNOLIA PARKS **** London-based Georgia Carter has long been estranged from her wealthy, conservative South Carolina family. Until she gets the text: dad's dead. As Georgia returns for the funeral, she is reunited with her favourite...

Le 21 février 1976, à Saint‑Gérard‑des‑Laurentides, une mère met fin à ses jours, laissant derrière elle trois enfants. Jacinthe n’a que cinq ans. Dès le lendemain, c’est l’omerta: interdiction de nommer la disparue, d’en pleurer l’absence. Le père s’éclipse des semaines et revient avec sa maîtresse; pour la fillette, commencent l’alcoolisme, la violence et les abus. Des décennies plus tard, à l’aube de la cinquantaine, Jacinthe vacille. Pour ne pas sombrer, elle entame une démarche thérapeutique exigeante et cherche à percer le mystère entourant le décès maternel.

'The reality is, none of us know how much time we have, but we do get to choose what we do with it. So this book is about cultivating the right mindset and knowing we can adapt to whatever life brings. It explores what it means to be a man in the modern world, while also celebrating love, fun...

'Not only practical, it's also somehow a great meditation on death. Telling me all sorts of practical stuff in a way I can bear to read. More than bear, I loved it.' - PHILIPPA PERRY 'A vitally important book for anyone who thinks they might die at some point. Do not buy this book if you are...

Johnny Day is a young boy with a heart full of questions and a deep ache for his mother, whose memory feels just out of reach. When a mysterious clock tower catches his eye, he sets out on an unforgettable journey to uncover its secrets. Inside the tower, Johnny meets a man who shares his pain...

From the critically acclaimed author of The Sense of Wonder and Craft in the Real World comes a deeply personal, poignant memoir, weaving together Salesses' multiple identities: adoptee, Asian American, orphan, husband, father, and, finally, widower Matthew Salesses has spent his career writing...

Love Transcends Death. While Cheryl Lafferty Eckl navigated the rough waters of grief after the passing of her beloved husband and twin soul, Stephen, many experiences proved to her that Love is not only stronger than death, Love transcends death. Although Stephen was no longer alive on earth, their souls could communicate through the veil separating this world and the next. Over the years, their communion has grown even stronger. Cheryl suggests that Love is grief’s unfailing companion and that to fully know one, we must know the other.

For readers of The Basketball Diaries, Girl, Interrupted, Beautiful Boy, and Just Kids: A memoir of growing up, soaring, shattering, and recovering Growing up in SoCal in the early 2010s, Nolan Trowe spent his early teenage years living largely on his own, exiled from his family, skateboarding...

A Practical Guide for Grief & Loss: How to find your pathway to peace and purpose is a guide to understanding the process of grief and grieving for any kind of loss, but with a focus on major loss. Because the author is a grief counsellor, with an extensive knowledge of different areas, it is both informative and provides practical and real examples of situations of loss that her clients have generously shared. Names have been changed for confidentiality.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Passionate advocate for end-of-life care and TikTok star Hadley Vlahos shares moving stories of joy, wisdom, and redemption from her patients’ final moments in this “brilliant” (Zibby Owens, Good Morning America) memoir. “This extraordinary book helps...