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Posts tagged Grief

Love Notes To Grievers

Let go of expectations and timelines.

Book, Book Group Selection, Book Review, Farewell Library, Library, WisdomCaren MartineauJanuary 22, 2024Author, Memoir, Self Help, Family, Grief, Healing, Grief Workers, love, Loss, Non Fiction, Poetry, philosophy, Relationships, Essay, Teacher

Time is a Mother

Stunning and innovative

Library, Book Review, Book Group Selection, BookCaren MartineauApril 27, 2023Poetry, Contemporary, LGBT, Grief, Award Winning, Best Seller, NYTimes bestseller, Literary

The Immortalists

You’ve been notified, now what?

Library, Book Review, Book Group Selection, BookCaren MartineauApril 27, 2023Novel, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Best Seller, Culture Change, Fantasy, Magical, Death, Grief, Family, Coming of Age, Fortune Teller

All About Love: New Visions

Love is an action

Library, Book Review, Book, WisdomCaren MartineauFebruary 23, 2023Non Fiction, philosophy, love, Best Seller, Toni Morrison, Thomas Merton, Grief, Death, Culture, Author

Giovanni's Room

Powerful, consuming love

Book Review, Library, Wisdom, BookCaren MartineauFebruary 23, 2023Fiction, LGBTQ, Classic, Black Culture, Grief

Dava Shastri's Last Day

Securing her legacy

Wisdom, Library, Book, Book ReviewCaren MartineauJanuary 6, 2023Farewell Library, Contemporary Fiction, Fiction, Medical Aid In Dying, Legacy, Grief, Obituary, Terminal Illness, Compassion and Choices, Physician Assisted Death

This Party's Dead

Grief, joy and spiced rum.

Wisdom, Library, Book Review, BookCaren MartineauJanuary 6, 2023Non Fiction, Travel, Memoir, Culture, Rituals, Grief, Grief Workers, Dying, New Orleans, Big Easy, Indigenous Cultures, History, Green Burial, Comedy

Left on Tenth

From fine to awfulness to love to hope

Wisdom, Library, Book Review, BookCaren MartineauJanuary 6, 2023Biography, Memoir, Medical Memoir, Author, Best Seller, Caregiver, Dying, Death, Farewell Library, Grief, Loss, Non Fiction, NYTimes bestseller, Romance, Relationships, Transformation

The Dead Romantics

A quirky complicated romantic comedy

Wisdom, Library, BookCaren MartineauNovember 10, 2022Romance, Comedy, Afterlife, Ghosts, North Carolina, Death, Funeral, Relationships, Grief, Funeral Directors, Father, Family

Everything Left to Remember

An expedition into uncharted territory

Book, Library, WisdomCaren MartineauNovember 8, 2022Caregiver, Anticipatory Grief, Grief, Mother, Daughter, Memoir, Alzheimer's, Memory Loss

The Smell of Rain on Dust

Shaman elder looks at grief as “a spiritual enzyme”

Wisdom, Library, BookCaren MartineauNovember 8, 2022Indigenous Cultures, Native American, Shaman, Tribes, Elders, Teacher, Author, Ancestral, Grief, Rituals, Celebration, Death, Grief Workers

Holy the Firm

A beautiful bedside companion and offering to those of us who witness suffering and ask, “Why?”.

Wisdom, Library, BookCaren MartineauOctober 3, 2022Grief, Christian, Dying, Death, Death with Dignity, Masterpiece, Metaphysical, Author, Best Seller

The Death of Ivan Illyich

Novella offers much to consider. Especially for death workers, it’s a must read!

Wisdom, Library, BookCaren MartineauOctober 3, 2022Author, Grief, Classic, Novel, Tolstoy, Masterpiece

To Bless the Space Between Us

A tremendous wealth of universal comfort lies between these covers.

Wisdom, Library, BookCaren MartineauOctober 3, 2022Poetry, Essay, Author, Best Seller, Poet, Grief, Blessings, Death

Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir

A fragile and layered unfolding….

Wisdom, Library, BookCaren MartineauOctober 3, 2022Memoir, Daughter, Death, Pulitzer Prize, Best Seller, NYTimes bestseller, Grief, Black Culture, Murder, Violence, Transformation, Healing