Animal Loss

This award-winning book has been hailed as the seminal work in the field. And now the fourth newly revised and expanded edition offers so much more to the bereaving pet owner. This edition also includes a significant new way of considering the meaning of afterlife for us and our pets. It discusses the topic from a 21st-century scientific perspective that is very different from existing religious or metaphysical ones, offering a new comfort to skeptics and agnostics as well.  

While grief is a normal, healthy response to losing a beloved pet, it is important to work through its various stages and eventually find a way to move forward. Understanding the depth of your bond and learning to celebrate rather than mourn your years together helps memorialize your pet. It also equips you with perspective and the capacity to love again. This book is your compassionate and comforting guide throughout the healing process—an understanding companion as you explore the depths of your grief. The journey to peace and recovery starts here.

A monumental history of the Gulf Coast’s creation and destruction—and the battle over who will control its future—from the New York Times bestselling author of Rising Tide and The Great Influenza In Water and Oil, John Barry tells the story of how the Louisiana coast was shaped—and...

When a beloved dog dies, the silence left behind feels impossibly loud. The empty bed. The missing paw-steps. The ache that others may not understand. After losing her beautiful boy Herbie, author Jeannie Wycherley found herself devastated by grief, struggling to navigate a world that expected her to simply “move on.” Instead, she discovered that countless dog lovers carry the same hidden heartbreak—guilt, sadness, confusion, and the painful feeling that their loss isn’t recognized.

For fans of Ada Limón and Kate Baer, Make Me Good Soil is a luminous, intimate new poetry collection from celebrated author Sophie Strand that explores personal love, loss, trauma healing, and illness through the lens of interspecies connection. Sophie Strand's poetry is attuned to the...

Tras conmover a miles de lectores con Espérame en el arcoíris, Laura Vidal vuelve con su audiolibro más íntimo, profundo y revelador: un viaje lleno de amor, ciencia y espiritualidad que ilumina el misterio de las señales después de la muerte, los mensajes del otro lado del arcoíris y la extraordinaria conexión entre humanos y animales que continúa más allá de la vida física.

Bella’s Light: A Story About Pet Loss and Love That Never Ends is a heartfelt children’s story about love, loss, and the invisible bonds that never truly fade.

A humorous and heartwarming novel that explores life, love, and loss through the eyes of Little Mister, a mischievous and curious cat who mingles with a wide range of human and animal friends in his Amsterdam neighborhood over the course of one year. Little Mister, a charming and curious cat...

Healing Hearts: A Guide to Coping with Pet Loss tenderly navigates the depths of grief with compassion and insight for those mourning the loss of a beloved animal companion. Author Jameson Evan Salas shares his own experience, reminding us that it's normal to struggle, to ache, and to yearn for one more moment with our non-human.

How do we reckon with our losses? In Animal Bodies Suzanne Roberts explores the link between death and desire and what it means to accept our own animal natures, the parts we most often hide, deny, or consider only with shame-our taboo desires and our grief.

"Una huella eterna" es un cuaderno para autotrabajar el duelo, que guiará y acompañará en el camino a todos los que hayan tenido que despedirse de un compañero de vida de otra especie.