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"Two parents, desperate to find their missing daughter, stand accused of murder. How far will they go to find the truth? Someone is guilty. For the last seventeen years, everything Harry and Zara King have done has been for their crown jewel, Sophie, their one and only daughter. When she goes missing, Harry and Zara will stop at nothing to find her. Someone knows what happened. The police have no leads, and as the weeks pass there's little news. Harry...
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Broussard and Fourcade novels volume 2
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English
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When Detective Nick Fourcade enters the home of Genevieve Gauthier outside the sleepy town of Bayou Breaux, Louisiana, the bloody crime scene that awaits him is both the most brutal and the most confusing he's ever seen. Genevieve's seven-year-old son, P.J., has been murdered by an alleged intruder, yet Genevieve is alive and well, a witness inexplicably left behind to tell the tale. There is no evidence of forced entry, not a clue that points to...
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2023.
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English
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"Five-year-old Milad Salama is excited for the school trip to a theme park on the outskirts of Jerusalem. On the way, his bus collides with a semitrailer in a horrific accident. His father, Abed, gets word of the crash and rushes to the site. The scene is chaos-the children have been taken to different hospitals in Jerusalem and the West Bank; some are missing, others cannot be identified. Abed sets off on an odyssey to learn Milad's fate. It is every...
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Soaring Kite Books
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"A guardian angel sibling sends a well-wishing message to the newest addition of their family. But how is it delivered? Filled with whimsical illustrations and a touch of magic, Rainbow Letters celebrates rainbow babies--children born after pregnancy or infant loss--while capturing the beauty of life and beyond."--Amazon website.
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Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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"No one is prepared for the loss of a child. No one. It feels completely unnatural for children to predecease their parents. Although it is not widely known, each year there are over 135,000 under 40-year-old deaths in the U.S. alone. And, according to one study, 19% of parents outlive their children? often carrying the weight of horrendous grief to their own graves. 'Isolated and alone' is how parents often describe the grief process. Well-meaning...
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Central Recovery Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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"Good news never follows the words 'We regret to inform you.' Author Joanne Steen had it all--a happy marriage to a handsome Navy pilot, an exciting engineering career, and a new home with a sunny bedroom that begged for a crib. But one day, fate caught up with her and, suddenly, she was a military widow, an identity she never sought. The impact of a military death has a ripple effect that is felt well beyond the immediate family, extending to the...
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2021.
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English
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"I HAD A MISCARRIAGE is Dr. Jessica Zucker's account of her miscarriage that occurred sixteen weeks into her pregnancy, and her journey of recovery following it. Drawing from her psychological expertise and her work as the creator of the viral #IHadaMiscarriage campaign, this book uses Zucker's and other women's experiences to explore grief, healing, and the power of speaking one's truth"--
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"A thrilling departure: a short, piercing, deeply moving novel about the death of Shakespeare's 11 year old son Hamnet--a name interchangeable with Hamlet in 15th century Britain--and the years leading up to the production of his great play. England, 1580. A young Latin tutor--penniless, bullied by a violent father--falls in love with an extraordinary, eccentric young woman--a wild creature who walks her family's estate with a falcon on her shoulder...
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Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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"Written by a mother who lost her 21 year old son to suicide, this book deals with the themes of suicide loss through the lens of the author's personal grief. Addressing the process of post-traumatic growth, this memoir provides the bereaved with therapy exercises and creative activities to help them come to terms with their loss. Although it deals directly with losing a child, much of the book pertains to grief generally, especially complicated grief...
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Coffee House Press
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Medical interventions become an exercise in patience, desire, and delirium in this intimate account of bodily transformation and disruption. In candid, graceful prose, Isabel Zapata gives voice to the strangeness and complexities of conception and motherhood that are rarely discussed publicly. Zapata frankly addresses the misogyny she experienced during fertility treatments, explores the force of grief in imagining possible futures, and confronts...
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2023.
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"Award-winning Yellowstone photographer and documentary filmmaker Brad Orsted's seven-year search for refuge and redemption in America's greatest wilderness. When Brad Orsted's fifteen-month-old daughter, Marley, died mysteriously at the home of Brad's mother, he descended into madness. Blaming himself, he plunged into an abyss of grief, guilt, and self-recrimination, fueled by prescription drugs and alcohol. He planned his suicide as his wife, Stacey,...
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2023
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English
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When her fifteen-year-old daughter Lydia ends her life, Eileen finds support in a community of bereaved parents who understand her pain on a level others cannot. No one in the group places a time limit on this grief. As the years pass, Eileen finds ways to honor the memories. She even learns to laugh again. In Love in the Archives, a collection of linked narrative essays incorporating themes of surviving suicide loss, Judaism, interfaith marriage,...
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"It's been two months since private investigator Cal Weaver's teenage son Scott died in a tragic accident. Ever since, he and his wife have drifted apart, fracturing a once-normal life. Cal is mired in grief, a grief he can't move past. And maybe his grief has clouded his judgment. Because driving home one night, he makes his first big mistake. A girl drenched in rain taps on his car window and asks for a ride as he sits at a stoplight. Even though...
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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Amanda Mallorie wakes at 5 a.m. to the knowledge that her son is gone. After four desperate years trying to understand what put Robbie on death row and to change his fate, she must find a way, and a reason, to move forward. Before what unfolded in a South Dakota mall, he was like other kids. Sometimes troubled, but sweet and full of goodness too. Among his childhood treasures, she discovers a class ring. Whose is it, and why did he have it? So begins...
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Editorial Planeta Mexicana, S.A
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2018.
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Español
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"La Casa Blanca, febrero de 1862. Mientras Abraham Lincoln intenta hacer frente a una guerra civil que aenas acaba de comenzar, su hijo Willie fallece con tan sólo once años. Incapaz de dejarlo ir, el presidente visita la tumba en la que descansa el cuerpo, mientras el pequeño, atrapado entre la vida y la muerte, en un limbo habitado por fantasmas que ignoran su destino, se enfrenta a su propia lucha en lo más profundo de su alma."--cover.
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