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I Will Carry You
The Sacred Dance of Grief and Joy
by Angie Smith
In 2008, Angie Smith and her husband Todd (lead singer of the group Selah) learned through ultrasound that their fourth daughter had conditions making her “incompatible with life.” Advised to terminate the pregnancy, the Smiths chose instead to carry this child and allow room for a miracle. That miracle came the day they met Audrey Caroline and got the chance to love her for the precious two-and-a-half hours she... (more)
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Love and Other Impossible Pursuits
by Ayelet Waldman
In this moving, wry and candid novel, widely acclaimed novelist Ayelet Waldman takes us through one woman’s passage through love, loss and the strange absurdities of modern life. Emilia Greenleaf believed that she had found her soulmate, the man she was meant to spend her life with. But life seems a lot less rosy when Emilia has to deal with the most neurotic and sheltered five-year-old in New York City: her new... (more)
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The Weight of Heaven
by Thrity N. Umrigar
When Frank and Ellie Benton lose their only child, seven-year-old Benny, to a sudden illness, the perfect life they had built is shattered. Filled with wrenching memories, their Ann Arbor home becomes unbearable, and their marriage founders. But an unexpected job half a world away offers them an opportunity to start again. Life in Girbaug, India, holds promise—and peril—when Frank befriends Ramesh, a bright,... (more)
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The Red Thread
by Ann Hood
From the best-selling author of The Knitting Circle , a mother’s powerful journey from loss to love. “In China there is a belief that people who are destined to be together are connected by an invisible red thread. Who is at the end of your red thread?” After losing her infant daughter in a freak accident, Maya Lange opens The Red Thread , an adoption agency that specializes in placing baby girls from... (more)
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Puddlejumpers
by Mark Jean
Ernie Banks, named for the legendary Chicago Cub shortstop, is a troubled, 13-year-old juvenile delinquent. Abandoned on the doorstep of the Lakeside Home for Boys when he was three years old, he's now considered a " lifer," a permanent ward of the state. His only proof that he once belonged to somebody is a vintage Ernie Banks baseball card, a crystal acorn he wears on a string around his neck, and a strange... (more)
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Entering Normal (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
by Anne D. LeClaire
In the tradition of The Good Mother and The Deep End of the Ocean , Anne D. LeClaire delivers a heartbreaking–and breathtaking–novel of two very different but equally loving mothers who face the most painful of losses and then find the courage not only to go on but to find meaning and hope in their lives. Rose Nelson is a middle-aged woman with a broken past, a sorrow from which she cannot recover. Secretly... (more)
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The Grieving Garden
Living with the Death of a Child
by Suzanne Redfern
Every year, some two million parents in the U.S. suffer the death of a son or daughter. The unnatural sequence of the child's preceding the parent in death creates a wrenching loss and overwhelming emotional and spiritual disorientation. Most of these bereaved parents find relief from their isolation only in the company of others like themselves. The Grieving Garden offers the support, understanding, and... (more)
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The Household Guide to Dying
by Debra Adelaide
A freshly insightful, hopeful, and dramatic novel full of heart and life—told from the perspective of a household advice columnist, wife, and mother who is determined to finish a lifetime’s worth of tasks even though she doesn’t have a lifetime left to live. T he Household Guide to Dying is a moving, witty, and uplifting novel about Delia, who writes an acerbic and wildly popular household advice column. When... (more)
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Letters to Gabriel: The True Story of Gabriel Michael Santorum
by Karen Garver Santorum
The book is a series of letters that Karen wrote to her son, Gabriel Michael, who was born prematurely and died two hours after birth. Karen expresses the bond between mother and child with incredible tenderness and love. Through her lived experience and deep faith, Karen makes a bold and profound statement about the gift of life, family values, the bond between parent and child, the grieving process and the... (more)
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How to Hold a Woman
by Billy Lombardo
An emotionally powerful book; it is organic, surprising, and edgy in a way that will appeal to male readers as well as female readers. It has the potential to be groundbreaking in its raw, honest portrayal of a just-barely-functioning family. Billy Lombardo is interested in the beauty of words. He is also a great observer of the world around him, and he is exquisite and precise in getting that world onto the page.... (more)
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Nine Lives
by Dan Fox
A deep and powerful love story, beautiful and emotional in the way it is written, Nine Lives is an exciting romantic adventure taking the reader across exotic locations, whilst also raising a variety of thought-provoking issues along the way; and as such, it is, truly, a journey through life. The story follows Dan Roberts in this journey, following his experiences of first love; of grief; despair; facing his past;... (more)
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To Honor
by D.F. Krieger
Everyone has their breaking point and Evelyn has finally reached hers. In an attempt to escape her life, and the events that broke her heart and killed her dreams, she tries to commit suicide. Now, at R&R Resort, she must find the strength to love and trust again. But can she trust the person who betrayed her the most? Derek made the wrong decision, one that damn near cost him everything he ever loved. When... (more)
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The Art of Mending: A Novel (Berg, Elizabeth) 1st (first) edition by Berg, Elizabeth published by Random House (2004) [Hardcover]
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A Journey to Heaven: A Daughter's Short Life Gives a Family Lessons in Love and Miracles
by Tammy Brodowski Mott, Bruce Brodowski
Four year old Emmy Mott was diagnosed with brain stem cancer. Doctors gave her eight weeks to live. Her mom Tammy was devastated. God had other plans. During the next 41 weeks, Emmy’s story touched thousands of hearts all over the world through her Facebook page. Many came back to Christ and began to pray. Emmy’s story changed their lives.
Nemesis / The Mirror Crack'd From Side to Side. Heron Collected WorksAgatha Christie
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Nemesis / The Mirror Crack'd From Side to Side. Heron Collected Works
by Agatha Christie
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Good Harbor
by Anita Diamant
When Kathleen meets Joyce, each woman has come to a turning point in her life. Kathleen, whose sister died of breast cancer fifteen years earlier, has just been diagnosed herself and finds her world abruptly thrown into terrifying turmoil. While Joyce, increasingly distant from her awkward, adolescent daughter, is taking stock of her marriage and family, and struggling to get to grips with a burgeoning career as a... (more)
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She's Come Undone
by Wally Lamb
In this extraordinary coming-of-age odyssey, Wally Lamb invites us to hitch a wild ride on a journey of love, pain, and renewal with the most heartbreakingly comical heroine to come along in years. Meet Dolores Price. She's 13, wise-mouthed but wounded, having bid her childhood goodbye. Stranded in front of her bedroom TV, she spends the next few years nourishing herself with the Mallomars, potato chips, and... (more)
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Empty Cradle, Broken Heart
Surviving the Death of Your Baby
by Deborah L. Davis
The heartache of miscarriage, stillbirth, or infant death affects thousands of U.S. families every year. Empty Cradle, Broken Heart offers reassurance to parents who struggle with anger, guilt, and despair after such tragedy. Deborah Davis encourages grieving and makes suggestions for coping. The book includes information on issues such as the death of one or more babies from a multiple birth, pregnancy... (more)
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Folly
by Laurie R. King
An acclaimed master of suspense creates a heroine you will never forget in this superbly chilling novel of a woman who begins a desperate undertaking that may transform her life--or end it. WHAT HAPPENS IF YOUR WORST FEARS AREN’T ALL IN YOUR MIND? Rae Newborn is a woman on the edge: on the edge of sanity, on the edge of tragedy, and now on the edge of the world. She has moved to an island at the far reaches... (more)
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The Intruder
by Peter Blauner
When his family is harassed by a psychotic vagrant, prominent Manhattan attorney Jacob Schiff is forced to take matters into his own hands to protect them. Reprint. AB. NYT. PW.

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