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Mortality & Grieving

Death, dying, and loss have long been taboo topics. We're here to bring you books that allow you the space for feelings and conversations that may not often come up.

 

 

Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End Cover Image

Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (Paperback)

By Atul Gawande
$17.00
ISBN: 9781250076229
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Published: Picador - September 5th, 2017
What the Living Do: Poems Cover Image

What the Living Do: Poems (Paperback)

By Marie Howe
$15.95
ISBN: 9780393318869
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - April 17th, 1999
On Grief and Grieving: Finding the Meaning of Grief Through the Five Stages of Loss Cover Image

On Grief and Grieving: Finding the Meaning of Grief Through the Five Stages of Loss (Paperback)

By Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, David Kessler, Maria Shriver (Foreword by)
$17.00
ISBN: 9781476775555
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Published: Scribner - August 12th, 2014
On Death and Dying: What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy and Their Own Families Cover Image

On Death and Dying: What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy and Their Own Families (Paperback)

By Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Ira Byock, M.D. (Foreword by)
$17.00
ISBN: 9781476775548
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Published: Scribner - August 12th, 2014
It's OK That You're Not OK: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn't Understand Cover Image

It's OK That You're Not OK: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn't Understand (Paperback)

By Megan Devine, Mark Nepo (Foreword by)
$17.99
ISBN: 9781622039074
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Published: Sounds True - October 1st, 2017
Healing After Loss:: Daily Meditations For Working Through Grief Cover Image

Healing After Loss:: Daily Meditations For Working Through Grief (Paperback)

By Martha W. Hickman
$15.99
ISBN: 9780380773381
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Published: William Morrow Paperbacks - December 1st, 1994
How to Survive the Loss of a Love Cover Image

How to Survive the Loss of a Love (Paperback)

By Melba Colgrove, Peter McWilliams (Joint Author), Harold H. Bloomfield (Joint Author)
$8.99
ISBN: 9780931580437
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Published: Prelude Press - November 21st, 2006
Finding Grace: Journeys of Grief, Courage and Healing Cover Image

Finding Grace: Journeys of Grief, Courage and Healing (Paperback)

By Jane Nicolet
$22.99
ISBN: 9781982210649
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Published: Balboa Press - October 25th, 2018
From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death Cover Image

From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death (Paperback)

By Caitlin Doughty, Landis Blair (Illustrator)
$15.95
ISBN: 9780393356281
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - October 9th, 2018
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory Cover Image

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory (Paperback)

By Caitlin Doughty
$15.95
ISBN: 9780393351903
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - September 28th, 2015
Advice for Future Corpses (and Those Who Love Them): A Practical Perspective on Death and Dying Cover Image

Advice for Future Corpses (and Those Who Love Them): A Practical Perspective on Death and Dying (Paperback)

By Sallie Tisdale
$16.00
ISBN: 9781501182181
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Published: Gallery Books - June 18th, 2019
Diary of a Death Doula: 25 Lessons the Dying Teach Us about the Afterlife Cover Image

Diary of a Death Doula: 25 Lessons the Dying Teach Us about the Afterlife (Paperback)

By Debra Diamond Ph. D.
$18.95
ISBN: 9781789041842
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Published: O-Books - October 25th, 2019
The Hot Young Widows Club: Lessons on Survival from the Front Lines of Grief (TED Books) Cover Image

The Hot Young Widows Club: Lessons on Survival from the Front Lines of Grief (TED Books) (Hardcover)

By Nora McInerny
$16.99
ISBN: 9781982109981
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Published: Simon & Schuster/ TED - April 30th, 2019
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers Cover Image

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)

By Mary Roach
$16.95
ISBN: 9780393324822
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - May 17th, 2004
When Breath Becomes Air Cover Image

When Breath Becomes Air (Hardcover)

By Paul Kalanithi, Abraham Verghese (Foreword by)
$26.00
ISBN: 9780812988406
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Published: Random House - January 12th, 2016
Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven but Nobody Wants to Die: Bioethics and the Transformation of Health Care in America Cover Image

Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven but Nobody Wants to Die: Bioethics and the Transformation of Health Care in America (Hardcover)

By Amy Gutmann, Jonathan D. Moreno
$27.95
ISBN: 9780871404466
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Published: Liveright - August 27th, 2019
That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour Cover Image

That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour (Paperback)

By Sunita Puri
$17.00
ISBN: 9780735223325
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Published: Penguin Books - March 3rd, 2020
Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone Cover Image

Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone (Paperback)

By Richard Lloyd Parry
$19.00
ISBN: 9781250192813
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Published: Picador - October 9th, 2018
A Beginner's Guide to the End: Practical Advice for Living Life and Facing Death Cover Image

A Beginner's Guide to the End: Practical Advice for Living Life and Facing Death (Paperback)

By Dr. BJ Miller, Shoshana Berger
$20.00
ISBN: 9781501157219
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Published: Simon & Schuster - June 30th, 2020
You Can't Do It Alone: A Widow's Journey Through Loss, Grief and Life After Cover Image

You Can't Do It Alone: A Widow's Journey Through Loss, Grief and Life After (Paperback)

By Maria Quiban Whitesell, Lauren Schneider, LCSW (With)
$16.99
ISBN: 9780738285948
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Published: Hachette Go - June 9th, 2020