Books
Materials That You May Find Helpful
Select books on bereavement and loss for Adults, Families, Children and Caregivers recommended by staff, clients, peers support volunteers and professionals.
For Adults & Others
- Life's Last Gift: Giving and Receiving Peace When a Loved One is Dying - Charles Garfiled (2017)
- The Unspeakable Loss: How Do You Live After a Child Dies - Nisha Zenoff (2017)
- The Year of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion (2005)
- Grief - Andrew Holleran (2006)
- A Grief Observed - C.S. Lewis (1961)
- Grieving Dads: To the Brink and Back - Kelly Farley (2012)
- The Grieving Garden: Living with the Death of a Child - Suzanne Redfern and Susan K. Gilbert (2008)
- Swallowed by a Snake: The Gift of the Masculine Side of Healing - Thomas R. Golden (2010)
- The Disappearance - Genevieve Jurgensen (1999)
- Disenfranchised Grief - Kenneth J. Doka, Editor (1989)
- Kitchen Table Wisdom - Rachel Remen (2006)
- Comfort: A Journey Through Grief - Ann Hood (2008)
- Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End - Atul Gawande (2014)
- Explorer's Odyssey: Up a Spiritual Creek Without a Paddle - Mary Hughes Allen (1995)
- Supersurvivors: The Suprising Link Between Suffering and Success – Feldman and Kravetz (2014)
- Spiritual Life Rafts: Women's Stories of Profound Loss, Courage and Healing - Judy Wolf (2008)
- Letting Go With Love: The Grieving Process - Nancy O'Connor (2007)
- The Last Lecture - Randy Pausch (2008)
- Hannah's Gift: Lessons from a Life Fully Lived - Maria Housden, (2002)
- Good Grief - Lolly Winston (2004)
- Sometimes My Heart Goes Numb - Charles Garfield (1997)
For Families & Children
- The Goldfish Went on Vacation - A Memoir of Loss (and Learning to Tell the Truth about It) - Patty Dann (2007)
- Sibling Grief - Healing after the Death of a Sister or Brother -P. Gill White PhD. (2006)
- The Empty Room: Surviving the Loss of a Brother or Sister at Any Age - Katherine DeVita- Raeburn (2004)
- After the Death of a Child - Ann K. Finkbeiner (1996)
- If Only - Carol Geithner (2012)
- Nest - Esther Ehrlich (2014)
- My Yellow Balloon - Tiffany Papageorge (2014)
- Angel Birthdays - Erin Garay (2013)
- National Bereavement Resource Guide - Books for Children, Teens, Adults and Professionals
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