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Grief and Bereavement

  • Bearing the Unbearable: Love, Loss, and the Heartbreaking Path of Grief.
    • Joanne Cacciatore, 2017.
  • It’s Ok That You’re Not Ok: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn’t Understand.
    • Megan Devine, 2018.
  • The Year of Magical Thinking.
    • Joan Didion, 2007.
  • Disenfranchised Grief: Recognizing hidden sorrow.
    • Kenneth Doka, 1989.
  • Beyond Kübler-Ross: New perspectives on death, dying and grief.
    • Kenneth Doka, et al., 2011.
  • Healing after Loss: Daily meditations for working through grief. 
    • Martha Whitmore Hickman, 2011.
  • The Grief Recovery Handbook: The Action Program for Moving Beyond Death, Divorce, and Other Losses including Health, Career, and Faith.
    • John W. James and Russell Friedman, 2009.
  • Finding Meaning: the Sixth Stage of Grief.
    • David Kessler, 2019.
  • A Grief Observed.
    • C.S. Lewis, 1983.
  • To Bless the Space between us: A Book of Blessings.
    • John O'Donohue, 2008.
  • The Cure for Sorrow: a Book of Blessings for Times of Grief.
    • Jan Richardson, 2016.
  • Threads of Hope: an Offering for Those Who Grieve.
    • Beth Rotondo, 2004.
  • Tear Soup: A recipe for healing after loss. 
    • Pat Schwiebert and Chuck DeKlyen, 2005.
  • A Grace Disguised: How the soul grows through loss. 
    • Jerry Sittser and Gerald Lawson Sittser, 2004.
  • Understanding Your Grief: Ten Essential Touchstones for Finding Hope and Healing Your Heart.
    • Wolfelt, Alan Wolfelt, 2004.
  • Lament for a Son.
    • Nicholas Wolterstorff, 1987.

Grief Resources for Youth and Teens

  • The Butterfly Field.
    • Alquin Gliane and Cedric Gliane, 2001.
  • The Heart and the Bottle.
    • Oliver Jeffers, 2011.
  • The Invisible String.
    • Patrice Karst and Joanne Lew-Vriethoff, 2018.
  • My Father's Arms are a Boat. 
    • Stein Erik Lunde and Oyvind Torseter, 2012.
  • Lifetimes: The Beautiful Way to Explain Death to Children.
    • Brian Mellonie, 2009.
  • Love Is Forever.
    • Casey Rislov and Rachael Balsaitis, 2013.