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By: Adams, Nehemiah
Price: $30.00 $24.00
Publisher: S.K. Whipple and Company: 1857
Edition: Second Edition
Seller ID: 2260294
Second edition. No jacket, a few light spots to boards, ink note on front endpaper. 1857 Hard Cover. vii, 191, [4] pp. Reverend Nehemiah Adams (February 19, 1806 – October 6, 1878) was an American clergyman and writer. He was born in Salem, Massachusetts,[1] in 1806 to Nehemiah Adams and Mehitabel Torrey Adams. He graduated from Harvard University in 1826, and from Andover Theological Seminary in 1829. That same year, he was ordained as co-pastor, with Abiel Holmes, of... View more info
Price: $5.00 $4.00
Publisher: Llewellyn Publications: 2012
Seller ID: 2205723
A fine copy. 2012 Trade Paperback. xiii, 321 pp. Our Children Live On is an award-winning collection of powerful, true stories that prove our children are with us forever. Eighty-two heartfelt, moving testimonials from bereaved parents, grandparents, siblings, friends, and caregivers clearly demonstrate that love and life are eternal.Anyone who has suffered the unimaginable loss of a loved one--especially a child--will find hope and comfort in each miraculous story. F... View more info
By: Brown, Jeffrey
Price: $7.00 $5.60
Publisher: Top Shelf Productions: 2013
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2200220
First edition. Fine. No Jacket - Pictorial Cover. 2013 Hard Cover. 93 pp. After the acclaimed indie film Save the Date and the bestselling all-ages humor book Darth Vader and Son, graphic novelist Jeffrey Brown (Clumsy, Unlikely) returns to the autobiographical work that first made his reputation. In A Matter of Life, Jeffrey Brown draws upon memories of three generations of Brown men: himself, his minister father, and his preschooler son Oscar. Weaving through time... View more info
By: Collison, Gary
Price: $8.00 $6.40
Publisher: Association for Gravestone Studies: 2006
Seller ID: 2266605
Bottom edge of front wrapper lightly bumped. 2006 Trade Paperback. v, 158 pp. CONTENTS: Obituary: Barbara Rotundo (1921-2004); Pictorial Headstones: Business, Culture, and the Expression of Individuality in the Contemporary Cemetery; Suitable Grave Stones: The Workshop of Moses David of Nashua (Nashville), New Hampshire; Smith, Leather Britches--Slain: Interpreting an Outlaw Legend through His Gravestone; Singapore's Multicultural Cemetery and Its Chinese Section; Isolat... View more info
Price: $5.00 $4.00
Publisher: Beacon Press: 1995
Seller ID: 2205724
Faint red smudges to front wrapper. 1995 Trade Paperback. xi, 113 pp. When someone you love dies, Earl Grollman writes, there is no way to predict how you will feel. The reactions of grief are not like recipes, with given ingredients, and certain results. . . . Grief is universal. At the same time it is extremely personal. Heal in your own way.If someone you know is grieving, Living When a Loved One Has Died can help. Earl Grollman explains what emotions to expect when... View more info
By: Gunther, John
Price: $5.00 $4.00
Publisher: Perennial Classics: 1999
Seller ID: 2201164
Reprint. Ink name and date on half-title page. 1999 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 205 pp. Johnny Gunther was only seventeen years old when he died of a brain tumor. During the months of his illness, everyone near him was unforgettably impressed by his level-headed courage, his wit and quiet friendliness, and, above all, his unfaltering patience through times of despair. This deeply moving book is a father's memoir of a brave, intelligent,... View more info
By: Johnson, Kirk
Price: $8.00 $6.40
Publisher: Warner Books: 2001
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2267499
First edition. Pages lightly toned. 2001 Hard Cover. 287 pp. After his brother commits suicide, the author starts running to escape the pain and embarks on the ultimate test of phyiscal endurance, the 135-mile Death Valley marathon, where he overcomes his limitations and confronts his personal loss. View more info
By: Jupp, Peter C.; Howarth, Glennys
Price: $100.00 $80.00
Publisher: Macmillan/St. Martin's: 1997
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2206886
First edition. Ink name on top page ridge and front paste-down endpaper.Jacket in very nice condition. 1997 Hard Cover. xiv, 202 pp. The taboo on death is at last breaking down. There is far greater receptivity to informed discussion about death and dying. Dying with dignity is one major issue: euthanasia and the 'natural death movement' are the latest stages in a debate first stimulated by the hospice movement. Media treatment of the bereaved, especially after disasters... View more info
By: Kincaid, Jamaica
Price: $15.00 $12.00
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 1997
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2271851
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Security tag on jacket reverse. 1997 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 197 pp. Jamaica Kincaid's incantatory, poetic, and often shockingly frank recounting of her brother Devon Drew's life is also the story of her family on the island of Antigua, a constellation centered on the powerful, sometimes threatening figure of the writer's mother. Kincaid's unblinking record of a life that ended too ear... View more info
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Publisher: Scribner: 2003
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2204209
Reprint. Very light toning to pages. 2003 Trade Paperback. What the dying have to teach doctors, nurses, clergy, and their own families. View more info
By: McManners, John
Price: $10.00 $8.00
Publisher: Clarendon Press/Oxford University Press: 1981
Seller ID: 2206888
Edges rubbed, a few faint stains to top page ridge, minor marginalia to page two.One-inch tear to top edge of jacket rear, jacket edges lightly rubbed. 1981 Hard Cover. vii, 619 pp. Death and the Enlightenment is an unusual survey of the daily rituals, customs, and attitudes surrounding death and dying in 18th-century France. Focusing on the tension between the faithful and the growing ranks of unbelievers bred on Enlightenment philosophy, McManners charts the course of... View more info
By: Mezey, Robert
Price: $10.00 $8.00
Publisher: Kayak Books, Inc.: 1970
Seller ID: 2279791
Numbered 400 (handwritten on spine) of 1500 copies. Wrapper corners lightly creased. 1970 Soft Cover. 52 pp. One of 1500 copies. Drawings by Dane Olson. A collection of poetry on death and dying. View more info
Price: $12.95 $10.36
Publisher: Journal Arts Press: 2010
Seller ID: 1896351
Brand new, direct from author. 2010 Trade Paperback. xx, 227 pp. Beginning with her father's broken hip, the author's transcription of her journal became a series of 300 vignettes portraying the stages of caring for and saying goodbye to a loved one, as seen through the eyes of a daughter and her terminally ill parents. The intense grief of an adult losing a parent needs a stronger voice to be appreciated in our culture, and this book validates the pain that adult parent... View more info
By: Pausch, Randy; Zaslow, Jeffrey
Price: $5.00 $4.00
Publisher: Hyperion: 2008
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2201736
Reprint. Includes original jacket. An exceptional copy. 2008 Hard Cover. 206 pp. A lot of professors give talks titled The Last Lecture. Professors are asked to consider their demise and to ruminate on what matters most to them. And while they speak, audiences can't help but mull the same question: What wisdom would we impart to the world if we knew it was our last chance? If we had to vanish tomorrow, what would we want as our legacy When Randy Pausch, a computer scienc... View more info
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Publisher: Three Rivers Press: 2001
Seller ID: 2205725
Red smudges to rear wrapper. 2001 Trade Paperback. x, 246 pp. Thank you, Catherine Sanders, for giving us a book that few others could have written. Every page speaks both the depth of your compassion and the breadth of your knowledge. This book will be a wise companion on the difficult journey from loss to recovery.— Robert Kastenbaum, Ph.D., author of The Psychology of DeathHow to Survive the Loss of a Child is a godsend to those in the field as well as to those ... View more info
By: Strassman, Rick
Price: $10.00 $8.00
Publisher: Park Street Press: 2001
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2286362
Spine creased, light stain and faint smudge on page ridges. 2001 Trade Paperback. xviii, 358 pp. A clinical psychiatrist explores the effects of DMT, one of the most powerful psychedelics known. A behind-the-scenes look at the cutting edge of psychedelic research. Provides a unique scientific explanation for the phenomenon of alien abduction experiences. From 1990 to 1995 Dr. Rick Strassman conducted U.S. Government-approved and funded clinical research at the University... View more info
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Publisher: Kamkyi Books: 2000
Edition: Revised Edition
Seller ID: 2204070
Revised edition. Near fine. 2000 Trade Paperback. xviii, 199 pp. A collection of poems inspired by grief and written to ease the healing proccess. View more info
