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This book is based on the true story of Jonathan Ned Cole, a deaf adopted son of Mary Carol Cole and Ned M Cole. Much of the story is factually about Jon's rather tragic life. Some of the story about his biological parents are works of my imagination. Jon never knew who his biological parents were. Other parts are dramatized to better portray who Jon was, a black, deaf boy raised in an all-white family. The last chapter is about Jon's time in Heaven...
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#1 Grief is like fear. It feels like being afraid, but for different reasons. It is difficult to take in what others say, and it is hard to want to take it in. It is so uninteresting. Yet I want the others to be about me.
#2 Marriage has done wonders for me. I can never again believe that religion is manufactured out of our unconscious, starved desires and is a...
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"After Grandpa dies, a girl and her mother take the trip he had planned for her, kayaking along the Pacific west coast to look for the whales that he loved. The trip will do them good, Mom says, but the girl isn't sure. How can that be true when grandpa isn't there? And how will they find a whale in all that water, anyway? There is so much to see as they paddle through white-tipped waves and calm coves: glowing moon jellies, fluttering anemones and...
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Called "the best preacher in the family," by her father, Billy Graham, Anne Graham Lotz speaks around the globe with the wisdom and the authority of years spent studying God's Word. In her latest book, Anne shares her heart and God's teachings on the universal problem of suffering. Drawing her characteristically keen insights from the familiar story of Lazarus in the ninth and eleventh chapters of the Gospel of John, Anne offers Jesus' reassuring...
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Losing means grieving.
Grieving means choices.
Choices mean hurt or healing.
You've lost someone you love. Or you're on the brink of losing your marriage. Your dreams. Your health. Or perhaps the trauma of your past pursues you into the present.
Your life's going to change. Which way it goes won't be decided by your loss, but by the choices you make.
At the crossroads of grief, one road will lead to hope and healing. The other, to more hurt....
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Find fullness of joy during the holidays-especially for the brokenhearted. Divorce. Financial stress. Chronic illness. Losing a loved one. Experiencing any of these situations during the year is already difficult. But the holiday season, once joyful and happy, can heighten this pain even more. Author Bo Stern has spent the past two Christmases struggling to connect with the joy of the season. As she has watched her husband, Steve, struggle with terminal...
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Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting to engage reluctant readers! Feisty, thirteen-year-old Megan McCaffery is proud to be a tomboy, and she just can't relate to the southern belles in her hometown of Charleston, South Carolina. Her older sister, Audrey, is driving her crazy with constant talk about her upcoming wedding. When a popular girl at school takes an interest in Megan's best friend, John-Paul,...
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What happens when your worst fears as a parent come true, when you receive that dreaded phone call, the one you have always prayed you would never get? Your child has passed away, and now you are living a real-life nightmare. You suddenly beg God and bargain for just five more minutes with your child. You want to hold them again, tell them you love them, and that everything will be all right. In reality, you must now face the truth. You will never...
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Estamos todos en lo mismo: al momento de nacer, la muerte está en nuestra agenda en alguna parte. Sin embargo, enfrentar este hecho es aterrador para la mayoría de nosotros; o simplemente no entendemos por qué es necesario ver qué significa la muerte ahora, mientras estamos tan ocupados viviendo. Si miras un poco más de cerca notaras que, de hecho, vivir y morir no están separados; que nuestra actitud hacia la muerte afecta la forma en que vivimos,...
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Rising Above the Ashes will compassionately guide you through your grief and help you to identify what brings you joy. You will learn how to grieve your loss-whether it's of a loved one, your beloved family pet, a business relationship, or big job or client-and identify and reignite your joy. You will also learn that grief doesn't define who you are. This book will help you to grieve on your own terms-to cry through it, lift you up, and reignite your...
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"I cannot breathe, I claw upward towards a flicker of light, creating the resistance that pulls me deeper. I am drowning in a swirling, angry sea. I struggle, intensely fighting the powerful pull that drags me deeper into the abyss, until… I am pulled under."
For anyone who's been tasked with caregiving for another, or anyone who's beside someone struggling with dementia, this book is for you. When Kath DeLorme assumed the role as caregiver for...
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"What in the world am I going to say?" is one of our first thoughts when a friend loses a loved one. Everyone feels unprepared and at a loss. A Friend In Grief: Simple Ways to Help gives you the words and actions to reach out and support your friend with confidence and compassion. Author Ginny Callaway draws on her personal experience and the stories of the people she interviewed to give you the honest answers you're looking for. Those who have lived...
14) The Notes of Adam's Song: A Surviving Parent's Journey through the Valley of the Shadow of Death
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This poignant, powerful, practical, and sometimes-funny book is written from the unique perspective of a veteran police officer and crisis intervention counselor, whose son, Adam, was shot and killed by another police officer, during an emergency mental health crisis. Adam Joshua Johnson was a gifted & talented musician and grass-roots humanitarian who suffered from mental illness. Yet, in spite of his own psychological and emotional pain, Adam never...
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#1 The author, Barbara Coombs Lee, began her medical career as a candy striper at St. Joseph Hospital in Joliet, Illinois. She has been working in health care for almost fifty-five years, specializing in intensive care and emergency rooms.
#2 The sad truth is that advance directives are often ignored, particularly in situations like Maria's, when a sudden catastrophe...
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#1 Beginnings are delicate or explosive. They can start almost invisibly or arrive with a big bang. They hold the promise of new lessons to be learned, new territory to be explored, and old lessons to be recalled, practiced, and appreciated.
#2 Don't judge the journey of others, and don't let them judge yours. All persons are free to have the experiences their souls...
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From the moment he first woke up out at sea in the crow's nest of fisherman Gaston Angelo Noel's purse seiner, the eagle Hali knew the adventures he had longed for since leaving his nest in Anchor Point, Alaska for life on the Homer Spit were about to begin.Sad that his hatchmate, Leuc, would not be able to join him, Hali finds himself on a journey more interesting than he ever imagined while learning a few life's lessons about courage, loyalty, and...
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Grief is a personal journey, never the same for any two people and as unique as your life and your relationships. Although loss is an inevitable part of life, how you approach this fact can make the difference between meaningless pain and the manifestation of understanding and wisdom. This book describes a mindful approach to dealing with grief that can help you make that difference. By walking this mindful path, you will discover that you are capable...
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Almost every religious mythology contains the primordial motif of death and rebirth and portrays the posthumous journey of the deceased following death. Myths of the afterlife exist in all cultures, including that of the ancient Greeks and Egyptians, Babylonians, Romans and Celts and continue to manifest in living faiths such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Although human consciousness has evolved over time, the mystery of...
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In what was the most devastating event of their lives, Tom and Pat Monahan lost their nine-year-old grandson, Tommy, in a house fire in December of 2007. This unimaginable tragedy rocked their lives with pain and sorrow beyond description, of a kind and strength they had never dreamed of.
As a way of dealing with this unspeakable grief, Pat Monahan practiced what she preached as a professional bereavement counselor: she began journaling her feelings...
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