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Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
: :This true story about the love between a spiritual mentor and his pupil has soared to the bestseller list for many reasons. For starters: it reminds us of the affection and gratitude that many of us still feel for the significant mentors of our past. It also plays out a fantasy many of us have entertained: what would it be like to look those people up again, tell them how much ...
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Final Salute: A Story of Unfinished Lives
: :Based on his Pulitzer Prize-winning story, Jim SheelerÂ’s unprecedented look at the way our country honors its dead; Final Salute Is a stunning tribute to the brave troops who have lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan and to the families who continue to mourn them They are the troops that nobody wants to see, carrying a message that no military family ever wants to hear. It begins with a ...
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Merle's Door: Lessons from a Freethinking Dog
: :While on a camping trip, Ted Kerasote met a dog—a Labrador mix—who was living on his own in the wild. They became attached to each other, and Kerasote decided to name the dog Merle and bring him home. There, he realized that Merle’s native intelligence would be diminished by living exclusively in the human world. He put a dog door in his house so Merle could live both outside and ...
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Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life
: :In his follow-up to Full Catastrophe Living--a book in which he presented basic meditation techniques as a way of reducing stress and healing from illness--here Jon Kabat-Zinn goes much more deeply into the practice of meditation for its own sake. To Kabat-Zinn, meditation is important because it brings about a state of 'mindfulness,' a condition of 'being' rather than 'doing' during which you pay attention to the moment rather than the ...
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Final Gifts: Understanding the Special Awareness, Needs, and Communications of the Dying
: :Five years after its first publication, with more than 150,000 copies in print, Final Gifts has become a classic. In this moving and compassionate book, hospice nurses Maggie Callanan and Patricia Kelley share their intimate experiences with patients at the end of life, drawn from more than twenty years experience tending the terminally ill. Through their stories we come to appreciate the near-miraculous ways in which the dying communicate their ...
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Here If You Need Me: A True Story
: :Ten years ago, Kate Braestrup and her husband Drew were enjoying the life they shared together. They had four young children, and Drew, a Maine state trooper, would soon begin training to become a minister as well. Then early one morning Drew left for work and everything changed. On the very roads that he protected every day, an oncoming driver lost control, and Kate lost her husband. Stunned and grieving, ...
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Healing After Loss: Daily Meditations For Working Through Grief
: : For those who have suffered the loss of a loved one, here are strength and thoughtful words to inspire and comfort.
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A Grief Observed
: :C.S. Lewis joined the human race when his wife, Joy Gresham, died of cancer. Lewis, the Oxford don whose Christian apologetics make it seem like he's got an answer for everything, experienced crushing doubt for the first time after his wife's tragic death. A Grief Observed contains his epigrammatic reflections on that period: 'Your bid--for God or no God, for a good God or the Cosmic Sadist, for eternal life or ...
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How to Survive the Loss of a Love
: :C.S. Lewis joined the human race when his wife, Joy Gresham, died of cancer. Lewis, the Oxford don whose Christian apologetics make it seem like he's got an answer for everything, experienced crushing doubt for the first time after his wife's tragic death. A Grief Observed contains his epigrammatic reflections on that period: 'Your bid--for God or no God, for a good God or the Cosmic Sadist, for eternal life or ...
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Waking the Tiger : Healing Trauma : The Innate Capacity to Transform Overwhelming Experiences
: :Nature's Lessons in Healing Trauma...Waking the Tiger offers a new and hopeful vision of trauma. It views the human animal as a unique being, endowed with an instinctual capacity. It asks and answers an intriguing question: why are animals in the wild, though threatened routinely, rarely traumatized? By understanding the dynamics that make wild animals virtually immune to traumatic symptoms, the mystery of human trauma is revealed.Waking the Tiger normalizes ...
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