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2481) The Dug-Up Gun Museum
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Traveling the nation, Matt Donovan examines the paradox of a country plagued by gun violence yet consumed with protecting the right to bear arms.
Matt Donovan's The Dug-Up Gun Museum confronts our country's obsession with guns to explore America's deep-seated political divisions and issues linked to violence, race, power, and privilege. Taking its title from an actual museum located in Wyoming, this collection of poems interrogates our country's...
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Walking at the Speed of Light is a perceptive offering of memoir and reflections that can be taken one at a time and provide insight and healing for all kinds of darkness. Although many books have addressed grief and depression related to Christian faith, a book that gives readers a Christian perspective on these subjects through forward thinking including organ donation and positive life building offers a unique opportunity. Walking at the Speed...
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After a loved one dies, each day can be a struggle. But each day, you can also find comfort and understanding in this daily companion. With one brief entry for every day of the calendar year, this little book by beloved grief counselor Dr. Alan Wolfelt offers small, one-day-at-a-time doses of guidance and healing. Each entry includes an inspiring or soothing quote followed by a short discussion of the day's theme. This compassionate gem of a book...
2484) Calling Cobber
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Eleven-year-old Jacob 'Cobber' Stern has the world on his shoulders. He is still grieving for his mother six years after her death; frustrated by his distant workaholic father; abandoned by his best friend Boolkie, who now has to study for his bar mitzvah; and overwhelmed by his sense of responsibility for his ailing almost one-hundred-year-old great-grandfather, Papa-Ben. On top of that, Boolkie is pressuring him to perform his magic act at the school...
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"Estas en mi corazón" quiere acompañar, aliviar y apoyar, separando los temas en estaciones del año, no para ser aplicadas según el calendario oficial, sino de acuerdo con el calendario interno, que es el único que vale en este tránsito que lleva desde el duro invierno de la pérdida, hasta el liberador encuentro en ese otro invierno. Invierno del reencuentro que tardará todo un ciclo vital para hacer su aparición, pero que nos regala con...
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Carlos es consultor de empresas y su vida transcurre en la rutina de Barcelona hasta que dos acontecimientos repentinos lo remueven todo: la muerte reciente de un amigo y un accidente de tráfico en el que una joven resulta atropellada. Laura, así se llama la chica, permanece en coma en un hospital y nadie parece saber nada sobre ella.
A Carlos se le ocurre una idea audaz para ayudarla aplicando sus conocimientos profesionales. Analiza cómo el individuo...
2488) The Art of Farewell
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Do you struggle with releasing your loved ones to the unknown? A global pandemic has escalated farewells-to family members, friends, freedoms, health, even civility. Empathy and encouragement from a fellow traveler who has said more than her fair share of goodbyes and learned to move on with gratitude.
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A newly revised and updated edition of the internationally bestselling spiritual classic, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, written by Sogyal Rinpoche, is the ultimate introduction to Tibetan Buddhist wisdom. An enlightening, inspiring, and comforting manual for life and death. This is the essential work that moved Huston Smith, author of The World's Religions.
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Ready to sharpen your Spiritual ear to hear God's voice through all the noise?
Have you ever said, "Something told me," but you are not sure what that "Something" is?
God is closer to us than we often realize, assisting us with His loving grace.
Believers encounter many forces at work causing their flesh to scream louder than God's voice. A real-life tactic from the enemy plugging your Spiritual ear from hearing that one critical voice that speaks...
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Our love of life makes the inevitability of death very difficult to accept. Death is a comprehensive examination of that inevitable and universal human experience. To better our understanding of death--and so perhaps fear it less--the book explains the biological processes and the different causes of death, and examines the human perceptions of death throughout history and across cultures. Death is abundantly illustrated with masterpieces of art,...
2492) Strangers
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"It makes no sense. You would be strangers / if not for this."
In Strangers, Rob Taylor makes new the epiphany poem: the short lyric ending with a moment of recognition or arrival. In his hands, the form becomes not simply a revelation in words but, in Wallace Stevens' phrase, "a revelation in words by means of the words." The epiphany here is not only the poet's. It's ours. A book about the songlines of memory and language and the ways in which...
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Les grandes migrations, les épidémies ravageuses, les guerres meurtrières, font soudain prendre conscience à l'humanité que la vie ne tient qu'à un fil et la mort n'attend que cela pour faucher dans la fleur de l'âge ceux et celles qui viendraient à croiser son chemin. Pourquoi fait-elle assez peur pour que l'on renonce à en parler librement, alors même que nous prétendons fonctionner dans une société évoluée?
L'auteur, a tenu, avant...
2494) Self-Care for Morticians
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In "Self-Care for Morticians," Elena Blackwood, a seasoned mortician with a deep understanding of the demands and complexities of the deathcare profession, offers a compassionate and practical guide to prioritizing wellness in a field often overlooked in discussions of self-care.Drawing from her own experiences and insights gained from years of serving both the departed and the bereaved, Blackwood provides invaluable tools, techniques, and strategies...
2495) Text 4 Revenge
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Three boys are getting text messages from their friend Adam. The weird thing is, Adam is dead!
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When it comes to healing after the death of someone loved, our culture has it all wrong. We're told to be strong when what we really need is to be vulnerable. We're told to think positive when what we really need is to wallow in the pain. And we're told to seek closure when what we really need is to welcome our natural and necessary grief. Dr. Wolfelt's new book seeks to dispel these misconceptions that we hold on to so tightly and help people everywhere...
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Lorsque l'on ne sait pas exprimer ce que l'on ressent. Quand le mal-être est indescriptible, que les mots ne le qualifient pas, ne traduisent ni les symptmes ni les envies, que reste-t-il? Seulement un décorum de désolation qui tente de peindre les ressentis, les colères, les sanglots et le mal. Qu'importe la méthode, quand la parole est brimée et opprimée, la plume est salvatrice. Elle aide à recracher poisons et toxines qui, peu à peu,...
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Écrire des strophes est un exercice qui demande, parfois, d'être confiné dans un environnement calme. Avec la survenue de la pandémie de la covid, plusieurs se sont trouvés dans cette situation de monotonie. C'est ainsi que, dans l'optique de raviver leur quotidien, Daniel Labonne a proposé à ses amis un poème qu'il rédige tous les deux jours avec pour thème: le virus.
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Where is God when your world falls apart? What happens when everything you thought you knew about how God operates is, torn to shreds by tragedy? Jerry Deans has experienced devastating loss first-hand, but tragedy does not have the final word. With wisdom gleaned from deep experience and years of study and reflection, Jerry Deans leads the reader to new ways of understanding and coping with the shattering circumstances that inevitably come.
2500) Wise by Nature
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Wise by Nature is a compilation of literary work by upcoming writer Samantha Castro. Focused on grief and growing pains, anger, sadness, and gratitude are portrayed through poetry, personal essays, and works of prose throughout the novel, addressing mature subject matter.
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