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Description

"Journalist Cody Delistraty reflects on his experience with loss and explores what modern science, history, and literature reveal about the nature of our relationship to grief and our changing attitudes toward its cure"--

2) An unfinished story

Author

Walker, Boo

Publisher

Lake Union Publishing

Pub. Date

[2020]

Language

English

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Description

Three years after Claire Kite lost her husband David, an aspiring novelist, she finally finds the courage to move on. While going throug David's things, she finds his last, unfinished, manuscript. Whitake Grant is famous for his one and only best-sellingnovel and is now suffering through a deep midlife crisis. When Claire reaches out to him to finish her husband's novel, he undertakes to understand the man who wrote it and the women he left behind....

3) In an instant

Author

Redfearn, Suzanne

Publisher

Lake Union Publishing

Pub. Date

[2020]

Language

English

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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.

Description

After a devastating car accident takes her life, 16-year-old Finn Miller, trapped between worlds, watches helplessly as those she loves struggle to survive after the tragedy and finds herself unable to move on.

4) Glimmers of grace: a doctor's reflections on faith, suffering, and the goodness of God

Author

Butler, Kathryn

Publisher

Crossway

Pub. Date

[2021]

Language

English

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Description

"Encouragement for those struggling with questions of grief and suffering during illness and hospital circumstances"--

5) This ordinary stardust: a scientist's path from grief to wonder

Author

Townsend, Alan R

Publisher

Grand Central Publishing

Pub. Date

2024.

Language

English

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Description

"A decade ago, Dr. Alan Townsend's family received two unthinkable, catastrophic diagnoses: his 4-year-old daughter and his brilliant and vivacious wife developed unrelated, life-threatening forms of brain cancer. As he witnessed his young daughter fightduring the courageous final months of her mother's life, Townsend - a lifelong scientist - was indelibly altered. He began to see scientific inquiry as more than a source of answers to a given problem,...