Heartwood: The Art of Living with the End in Mind
By: Barbara Becker
4.25
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
“We can do extraordinary things when we lead with love,” Barbara Becker reminds us in her debut mem…
Want to Read $ 13.99"We can do extraordinary things when we lead with love."-Barbara Becker, Heartwood: The Art of Living with the End in Mind
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1. The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief
By: Francis Weller , Michael Lerner
4.40
Format: 224 pages, ebook
Noted psychotherapist Francis Weller provides an essential guide for navigating the deep waters of … read more
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- self help
- nonfiction
- spirituality
- death
"Grief keeps the heart flexible, fluid, and open to others."-Francis Weller, The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief
"Ritual is able to hold the long-discarded shards of our stories and make them whole again. It has the strength and elasticity to contain what we cannot contain on our own, what we cannot face in soli…"-Francis Weller, The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief
"Grief and love are sisters, woven together from the beginning. Their kinship reminds us that there is no love that does not contain loss and no loss that is not a reminder of the love we carry for wh…"-Francis Weller, The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief
"To alter the amnesia of our times, we must be willing to look into the face of the loss and keep it nearby. In this way, we may be able to honor the losses and live our lives as carriers of their unf…"-Francis Weller, The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief
2. Jesus Land: A Memoir
By: Julia Scheeres
3.50
Format: 262 pages,
For Julia Scheeres and her adopted brother David, "Jesus Land" stretched from their parents' fundam… read more
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3. After This: When Life Is Over, Where Do We Go?
By: Claire Bidwell Smith
4.17
Format: 510 pages, Hardcover
In After This, acclaimed author, and therapist Claire Bidwell Smith confronts the question she enco… read more
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4. The Five Invitations: Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully
By: None
3.20
Format: 192 pages,
Death is not waiting for us at the end of a long road. Death is always with us, in the marrow of ev… read more
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5. Georgia: A Novel of Georgia O'Keeffe
By: Dawn Tripp
5.00
Format: 29 pages,
A novel about the life of American master painter Georgia O'Keeffe, her love story with photographe… read more
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6. After Annie
By: Anna Quindlen
4.03
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
When Annie Brown dies suddenly, her husband, her four young children and her closest friend are lef… read more
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- death
- audiobook
7. The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year
By: Margaret Renkl
4.37
Format: 270 pages, Hardcover
From the beloved New York Times opinion writer and bestselling author of Late Migrations comes a “h… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
- audiobook
8. Tom Lake
By: Ann Patchett
3.99
Format: 309 pages, Hardcover
In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again prov… read more
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- audiobook
"You can’t pretend this [Covid] isn’t happening,"-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake
"In the summer the pear trees were fine. In the summer, all that is hideous about a pear tree is hidden by leaves and pears. But once those disguises were removed they were nothing but acres of murder…"-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake
"Hazel, listen to me. I'm going to tell you something important, you need to be brave.' I then explained to the dog how I have told myself for so many years that my career fell apart because I wasn't …"-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake
"It's as if someone bought all the diamonds at Tiffany's, and crushed them into dust, then spread that dust across the water so that it sifts down evenly, filtering through the shards of light that cu…"-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake
9. 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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- self help
- biography
- memoir
- death
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
"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
"How will he know you loved him," she asks, "unless you try to destroy yourself?"-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
"Pictures should be of what you see, not of what the world sees when it sees you."-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
10. Somehow: Thoughts on Love
By: Anne Lamott
3.95
Format: 204 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Dusk, Night, Dawn and Help, Thanks, Wow , a joyful celebration of lo… read more
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- self help
- memoir
- nonfiction
- spirituality
- essays
- audiobook
"I don’t know"-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
"…nobody in isolation becomes who they were designed to be."-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
"Sometimes it all just sucks, as Jesus says somewhere in the Gospels (although off the top of my head I can’t recall chapter and verse."-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
"When I first got sober, a man told me that upon waking every morning, instead of reciting the standard flowery recovery prayer, he said, “Whatever,“ and at night when he turned off his lights to go t…"-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
11. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
By: James McBride
4.00
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new housing de… read more
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- audiobook
12. Nothing to Fear: Demystifying Death to Live More Fully
By: Julie McFadden
4.50
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
What if we didn’t consider death the worst possible outcome? What if we discussed it honestly, embr… read more
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- audiobook
- death
- nonfiction
- spirituality
- self help
13. Microjoys: Finding Hope (Especially) When Life Is Not Okay
By: Cyndie Spiegel
3.78
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Bighearted and hopeful. Unflinchingly honest and healing. A profound compendium of intimate, inspir… read more
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- self help
- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
14. The Days I Loved You Most
By: Amy Neff
4.13
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Unforgettable and utterly romantic, The Days I Loved You Most is a heart-wrenching, life-affirming … read more
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- audiobook
15. Have a Beautiful, Terrible Day!: Daily Meditations for the Ups, Downs & In-Betweens
By: Kate Bowler
4.34
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Witty, honest, and wise spiritual reflections that invite readers to embrace the bad, not just the … read more
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- self help
- nonfiction
- spirituality
- audiobook
16. We Should Not Be Friends: The Story of a Friendship
By: Will Schwalbe
3.89
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A warm, funny, irresistible book that follows an improbable and life-changing college friendship ov… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
17. 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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- self help
- death
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"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
18. In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife
By: Sebastian Junger
3.92
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A near-fatal health emergency leads to this powerful reflection on death—and what might follow—by t… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- death
- nonfiction
- spirituality
- audiobook
"Everyone has a relationship with death whether they want one or not; refusing to think about death is its own kind of relationship. When we hear about another person's death, we are hearing a version…"-Sebastian Junger, In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife
19. Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End
By: Alua Arthur
4.26
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A deeply transformative memoir that reframes how we think about death and how it can help us lead b… read more
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- self help
- memoir
- death
- nonfiction
- spirituality
- audiobook
20. Advice for Future Corpses (And Those Who Love Them): A Practical Perspective on Death and Dying
By: Sallie Tisdale
4.15
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Former NEA fellow and Pushcart Prize-winning writer Sallie Tisdale explores all the heartbreaking, … read more
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- self help
- death
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"We share a grand social agreement about mortality. We choose not to notice, if we can."-Sallie Tisdale, Advice for Future Corpses (And Those Who Love Them): A Practical Perspective on Death and Dying
"Our ideals about a so-called good death are constricting. Death is not something at which we succeed or fail, something to achieve. Life and death are not possessions."-Sallie Tisdale, Advice for Future Corpses (And Those Who Love Them): A Practical Perspective on Death and Dying
"…grief is not a disease to be cured. Grief is a wound, not unlike that from a knife or a bludgeon. The injury will heal in time leaving a scar but the tissue is never quite the same. One moves forwar…"-Sallie Tisdale, Advice for Future Corpses (And Those Who Love Them): A Practical Perspective on Death and Dying
21. A Wild and Heavenly Place
By: Robin Oliveira
3.91
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of My Name is Mary Sutter comes a sweeping story of star… read more
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- audiobook
22. The Meth Lunches: Food and Longing in an American City
By: Kim Foster
4.18
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
James Beard Award–winning author Kim Foster reveals a new portrait of hunger and humanity in Americ… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
- audiobook
23. Sacred Struggle: Seeking Christ on the Path of Most Resistance
By: Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye
4.60
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
We are part of a complex Church community―full of people who think differently than we do, behave i… read more
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- nonfiction
- spirituality
- audiobook
24. Here After
By: Amy Lin
4.25
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Here After is an intimate story of deep love followed by dizzying loss; a stunning, taut memoir fro… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- death
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
25. 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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- self help
- biography
- memoir
- death
- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
26. Heartwood: The Art of Living with the End in Mind
By: Barbara Becker
4.25
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
“We can do extraordinary things when we lead with love,” Barbara Becker reminds us in her debut mem… read more
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- self help
- biography
- memoir
- death
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- spirituality
- essays
- illness
- audiobook
"We can do extraordinary things when we lead with love."-Barbara Becker, Heartwood: The Art of Living with the End in Mind
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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- self help
- nonfiction
- audiobook
28. Awakening Together: The Spiritual Practice of Inclusivity and Community
By: Larry Yang
4.39
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
“ Awakening Together combines the intimately personal, the Buddhist and universal into a loving, co… read more
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- nonfiction
- spirituality
29. Getting to Know Death: A Meditation
By: Gail Godwin
3.23
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times -bestselling, three-time National Book Award finalist Gail Godwin, a considerat… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
30. Lovely One: A Memoir
By: Ketanji Brown Jackson
4.64
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In her inspiring, intimate memoir, the first Black woman to ever be … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
31. Drawn Testimony: My Four Decades as a Courtroom Sketch Artist
By: Jane Rosenberg
4.27
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A penetrating, compulsively readable memoir about the four-decade career of America's top courtroom… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
