The Dead Moms Club: A Memoir about Death, Grief, and Surviving the Mother of All Losses
By: Kate Spencer
4.33
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Kate Spencer lost her mom to cancer when she was 27. In The Dead Moms Club, she walks readers throu…
Want to Read $ 11.99"And I am still mad. So mad. I can starve it, avoid it, rationalize it, manage it, talk about it in therapy, and eat it up in neat little points value. No matter how much weight I lose, I will never lose this one simple truth: I want my mom. I am so f***ing mad that she's gone. And that feeling will never, ever die."-Kate Spencer, The Dead Moms Club: A Memoir about Death, Grief, and Surviving the Mother of All Losses
"Most days now, [the feelings] lie dormant in me. Sometimes it gets so quiet in my brain I think they've finally packed up and left. But every year as the calendar rounds the corner to March and the anniversary of her death approaches, anger bubbles again...I rage over the smallest of things, screaming behind the steering wheel of my car when another driver forgets to use their blinker. At first I'm perplexed, and then I remember: it's here again. And I am still mad."-Kate Spencer, The Dead Moms Club: A Memoir about Death, Grief, and Surviving the Mother of All Losses
"These feelings don't just go away. They linger. Hover. They are with me always. Even at my most functioning...they are there, watching me. These emotions are my roommates now, bunking up beside me at night. They do not pay any rent...they are determined to ruin me, and yet I can never fully evict them from my brain. I have tried -- really tried -- to chip away at my grief...But lately, I've just given up. I'm finally giving it permission to breathe and exist... Most days now, they lie dormant in me. Sometimes it gets so quiet in my brain I think they've finally packed up and left. But every year as the calendar rounds the corner to March and the anniversary of her death approaches, anger bubbles again...I rage over the smallest of things, screaming behind the steering wheel of my car when another driver forgets to use their blinker. At first I'm perplexed, and then I remember: it's here again. And I am still mad. So mad. I can starve it, avoid it, rationalize it, manage it, talk about it in therapy, and eat it up in neat little points value. No matter how much weight I lose, I will never lose this one simple truth: I want my mom. I am so f***ing mad that she's gone. And that feeling will never, ever die."-Kate Spencer, The Dead Moms Club: A Memoir about Death, Grief, and Surviving the Mother of All Losses
"These feelings don't just go away. They linger. Hover. They are with me always. Even at my most functioning...they are there, watching me. These emotions are my roommates now, bunking up beside me at night. They do not pay any rent...they are determinded to ruin me, and yet I can never fully evict them from my brain. I have tried -- really tried -- to chip away at my grief...But lately, I've just given up. I'm finally giving it permission to breathe and exist... Most days now, they lie dormant in me. Sometimes it gets so quiet in my brain I think they've finally packed up and left. But every year as the calendar rounds the corner to March and the anniversary of her death approaches, anger bubbles again...I rage over the smallest of things, screaming behind the steering wheel of my car when another driver forgets to use their blinker. At first I'm perplexed, and then I remember: it's here again. And I am still mad. So mad. I can starve it, avoid it, rationalize it, manage it, talk about it in therapy, and eat it up in neat little points value. No matter how much weight I lose, I will never lose this one simple truth: I want my mom. I am so f***ing mad that she's gone. And that feeling will never, ever die."-Kate Spencer, The Dead Moms Club: A Memoir about Death, Grief, and Surviving the Mother of All Losses
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1. The Orphaned Adult: Understanding and Coping with Grief and Change After the Death of Our Parents
By: Alexander Levy
4.12
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
This "wise and caring book" ( Library Journal ) is a guide to understanding and coping with grief a… read more
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2. Sunshine
By: Norma Klein
4.08
Format: 223 pages, Paperback
Sunshine is about a young woman with terminal cancer and was based upon a true story, taken from th… read more
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"Dying is beautiful- even the first time around, at the ripe old age of 20. It’s not easy most of the time, but there is real beauty to be found in knowing that your end is going to catch up with you …"-Norma Klein, Sunshine
3. When Dad Killed Mom
By: Julius Lester
3.64
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Despite knowing that their relationship was strained, Jeremy and Jenna could have never imagined th… read more
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4. Things I Wish I Knew Before My Mom Died: Coping with Loss Every Day (Bereavement or Grief Gift)
By: Ty Alexander
3.80
Format: 154 pages, Paperback
“I wish I had read this before I lost my mom a few years ago and a dear friend soon after…" – Nina … read more
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5. Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss
By: Hope Edelman
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
An instant bestseller in both hardcover and paperback, Hope Edelman's Motherless Daughtersexplores … read more
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6. Whatever Life Throws at You
By: Julie Cross
4.19
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Life loves a good curveball... Seventeen-year-old Annie Lucas's life is completely upended the mome… read more
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7. The Temple of My Familiar
By: Alice Walker
4.02
Format: 293 pages,
A visionary cast of characters weave together their past and present in a brilliantly intricate tap… read more
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8. The Mercy Papers
By: Robin Romm
3.37
Format: 40 pages, Hardcover
From the critically acclaimed author of The Mother Garden comes a stirring and intimate memoir abou… read more
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9. It's Okay to Laugh
By: Nora McInerny Purmort
3.51
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Joining the ranks of Let's Pretend This Never Happenedand Carry On, Warrior, a fierce, hysterically… read more
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10. The Long Goodbye
By: Meghan O'Rourke
5.00
Format: 30 pages, Hardcover
What does it mean to mourn today, in a culture that has largely set aside rituals that acknowledge … read more
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11. Houses Are Fields
By: None
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
Taije Silverman's debut collection chronicles her family's devotion and dissolution through the dea… read more
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12. How to Weep in Public: Feeble Offerings on Depression from One Who Knows
By: None
3.85
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
In her hilarious memoir-meets-guide-to-life, comedian (and depressed person) Jacqueline Novak revea… read more
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13. Signs: The Secret Language of the Universe
By: Laura Lynne Jackson
4.16
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A renowned psychic medium teaches us how to recognize and interpret the… read more
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"We are all leaves on different branches of the same tree."-Laura Lynne Jackson, Signs: The Secret Language of the Universe
"Sometimes, the sign is the whisper in our heart, the deep and undeniable pull, the inherent knowing that the answer is already there.... If we are open to this, it will truly enrich our lives. Becaus…"-Laura Lynne Jackson, Signs: The Secret Language of the Universe
"Souls have deep connections and unique contracts that span centuries, exist back and forth in time, and bind us in ways we can't really understand.... These connections are ancient and everlasting, a…"-Laura Lynne Jackson, Signs: The Secret Language of the Universe
14. Grief Is for People
By: Sloane Crosley
3.91
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Following the death of her closest friend, Sloane Crosley explores multiple kinds of loss in this d… read more
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"Grief is for people, not things."-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
"Suicide is a tax on human consciousness."-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
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"Pictures should be of what you see, not of what the world sees when it sees you."-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
15. Loss: Poems to better weather the many waves of grief
By: Donna Ashworth
4.51
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF I WISH I KNEW For those cast adrift in the lonely sea o… read more
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16. Grief Is Love: Living with Loss
By: Marisa Renee Lee
4.17
Format: 178 pages, Hardcover
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17. Dancing at the Pity Party: A Dead Mom Graphic Memoir
By: Tyler Feder
4.51
Format: 202 pages, Hardcover
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18. The In-Between: Unforgettable Encounters During Life's Final Moments
By: Hadley Vlahos
4.51
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Passionate advocate for end-of-life care and TikTok star Hadley Vlahos shares moving stories of joy… read more
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19. Did I Ever Tell You?
By: Genevieve Kingston
4.34
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Based on her "Modern Love" piece ("She Put Her Unspent Love in a Cardboard Box"), this extraordinar… read more
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20. The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss
By: Mary-Frances O'Connor
4.19
Format: 236 pages, Hardcover
A renowned grief expert and neuroscientist shares groundbreaking discoveries about what happens in … read more
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"In humans as well, it is because your loved one existed that certain neurons fire together and certain proteins are folded in your brain in particular ways. It is because your loved one lived, and be…"-Mary-Frances O'Connor, The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss
"Grief is a heart-wrenchingly painful problem for the brain to solve, and grieving necessitates learning to live in the world with the absence of someone you love deeply, who is ingrained in your unde…"-Mary-Frances O'Connor, The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss
21. I'm Not a Mourning Person: Braving Loss, Grief, and the Big Messy Emotions That Happen When Life Falls Apart
By: Kris Carr
4.23
Format: 221 pages, Kindle Edition
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22. As Long as You Need: Permission to Grieve
By: J.S. Park
4.63
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Veteran hospital chaplain to the sick, dying, and bereaved, J.S. Park offers you both the permissio… read more
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"It wasn't until I sat with patient after patient, from emergency room to deathbed, that I saw what they saw: In their illness or injury, I saw a memory loss of the future. This is called intrapsychic…"-J.S. Park, As Long as You Need: Permission to Grieve
"She asks me, "How do you grieve someone you never met?" With each patient, I hear similar questions. It keeps emerging, this pulse. It presses in every room, leans on every shoulder, demands an answe…"-J.S. Park, As Long as You Need: Permission to Grieve
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23. The Dead Moms Club: A Memoir about Death, Grief, and Surviving the Mother of All Losses
By: Kate Spencer
4.33
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
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24. So Sorry for Your Loss: How I Learned to Live with Grief, and Other Grave Concerns
By: Dina Gachman
3.98
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
A searching, heartfelt exploration about what it means to process grief, by a bestselling author an… read more
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25. Instructions for Traveling West: Poems
By: Joy Sullivan
4.45
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A vivid and inspiring poetry collection about what’s possible when we heed our instincts and honor … read more
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26. All the Rage: Mothers, Fathers, and the Myth of Equal Partnership
By: Darcy Lockman
4.16
Format: 355 pages, Kindle Edition
Why do men do so little at home? Why do women do so much? Why don't our egalitarian values match ou… read more
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"I became my own worst enemy, conflicted about my right to ask, self-conscious about my rising anger, and too often stuck with the choice between fighting or just taking care of it, whatever it was, o…"-Darcy Lockman, All the Rage: Mothers, Fathers, and the Myth of Equal Partnership
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27. Moving On Doesn't Mean Letting Go: A Modern Guide to Navigating Loss
By: Gina Moffa
4.34
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Licensed grief and trauma therapist Gina Moffa illuminates a non-linear path through grief, with to… read more
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28. The Last Ocean: A Journey through Memory and Forgetting
By: Nicci Gerrard
4.01
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
After a diagnosis of dementia, Nicci Gerrard’s father, John, continued to live life on his own term… read more
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"We each live in a tiny pool of light, and around us lies the darkness of our un-seeing. We see what we look for and what we look at. (...) It is not possible to see the world we live in, only minute,…"-Nicci Gerrard, The Last Ocean: A Journey through Memory and Forgetting
29. Healing After the Loss of Your Mother: A Grief & Comfort Manual
By: Elaine Mallon
4.33
Format: 187 pages, Kindle Edition
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30. Big Fan
By: Alexandra Romanoff
4.09
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
A political strategist, tainted by a scandalous ex, finds an unexpected career detour when her teen… read more
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