Adult Grief

A collection of the journals, fiction, and letters of the late Esther Grace Earl, who passed away in 2010 at the age of 16. Essays by family and friends will help to tell Esther’s story along with an introduction by award-winning author John Green who dedicated his #1 bestselling novel The Fault in Our Stars to her.

This book is important both to Jew and non-Jew alike. It exposes a reality about cremation rarely discussed. This reality also is important for the non-religious as well. The Jewish, Christian, and Islamic foundational understanding of the human journey through life and death and beyond begins with certain Jewish teachings. In this generation there is a lack of knowledge about what Judaism teaches about death and burial. But most clearly. this book also exposes that lack of understanding of what the cremation process actually is.

With sensitivity and insight, this series offers suggestions for healing activities that can help survivors learn to express their grief and mourn naturally. Acknowledging that death is a painful, ongoing part of life, they explain how people need to slow down, turn inward, embrace their feelings of loss, and seek and accept support when a loved one dies. Each book, geared for mourning adults, teens, or children, provides ideas and action-oriented tips that teach the basic principles of grief and healing.

No human being needs a definition of pain and suffering to understand what they entail. The most crucial question about pain and suffering is not “What is pain or suffering?” The most crucial question that demands a cogent and unambiguous answer is, “Why do we have so much pain and suffering in the world?” This is the question that has dogged mankind for ages. At the center of man’s frustration and anger with pain and suffering is the fundamental premise that God created the world. How could an omniscient and omnipotent God have created a world full of pain and suffering? What is ...

Tragedy comes in all forms, and you never know how you’ll deal with it. Four friends have all dealt with their fair share of struggles. Dillion, is an aspiring writer with writers block because of his brothers sudden death, Jesse the emotional stunted drink thanks to his boyfriend’s suicide, Ivan the abused victim just looking for a place to call home, and Leo the stubborn romantic trying to get his friends to open up, while keeping his issues close to his chest. With these four friends, they avoid all their elephants in the room like a death card agreement between Dillion and Jesse, ...

Eighteen-year-old Del is in a healthier place than she was a year and a half ago: She’s sober, getting treatment for her depression and anxiety, and volunteering at a suicide-prevention hotline. Her own suicide attempt is in the past, and living in San Francisco with her beloved aunt has helped her see a future for herself. But when Aunt Fran is diagnosed with terminal cancer, Del’s equilibrium is shattered. She’s dedicated herself to saving every life she can, but she can’t save Fran.

Dills and his mom have returned to Hamilton, her hometown, hoping to leave the horrors of Windsor behind. But it's impossible to escape the echoes of tragedy, and trouble always follows trouble. When Dills hurts a new classmate, it comes out in court that he was in the Windsor High library when the shooter came in. But he won't talk about what he saw, what he still sees whenever he closes his eyes.

All Sam dreams of is being the next big tennis champion. But when she suffers a great loss at such a young age, she finds it hard to believe in herself. She becomes so scared of losing people that she hides her feelings to protect her heart. Will she ever let anyone close enough to truly love her? Sam never realised, her toughest match would be against life itself. Just Sam is a standalone YA Contemporary Romance that may appeal to readers of The Summer I turned Pretty, and To All the Boys I've Loved Before. With strong themes of grief, love, family, ambition and friendship, this story will...

A Deeply Moving Collection of Poetry That Captures Love, Growth, Nature & the Quiet Power of Emotion 🌸 Featuring Exclusive Inspirational Poems for Women, a Beautifully Redesigned Cover, and Free Bonus Gifts 🌸 ⭐ Empower Yourself with Heartfelt Poetry That Celebrates Connection, Healing, and the Beauty of Everyday Moments—All in Just 5 Minutes a Day! ⭐ What if just 5 minutes a day could help you slow down, breathe, and reconnect with the tender spaces of your heart? 🔥 Do you ever feel moved by a place, a moment in nature, or a four-legged friend—but don’t know how to put it...

Tense and emotional... ...extremely candid poetry. Why does poetry ask probing questions, evoke deep emotions, and elude monolithic explanations? This book is a time capsule of a young man searching for solutions while offering none. These poems represent a maturing mind attempting to understand life and one person's place in it. Poems are photographs of literature where the observer can extract more words from it with each viewing. A must-read for adolescents and young adults! Get it now.

Evil festers in desolation. Haunted by childhood trauma inflicted by his controlling parents, Ethan seeks solace in the big city life. However, his past catches up to him after a mysterious photo of his recently deceased friend appears on his doorstep. Stricken by grief, he decides to return to the place he tried so hard to escape. Little does he know that something sinister has awakened in his little town and that the journey he decided to take would lead him to his greatest nightmare. This haunting tale is perfect for fans of urban horror, psychological suspense, and supernatural mysteries.

A tale of grim realism, “The Fugu Feast” was originally published in On the Premises magazine (November 2012). This dark short story offers an inside look at a fictional suicide camp.

Losing a guardian is one of life's hardest challenges to face. At the age of 14, I lost my mother to cancer. That early experience of loss and my journey through grief were the first steps towards a lifetime of studying the process of grief in order to guide people through their own difficult journeys....

Until the accident, Melanie had only experienced passion with Sam. And then deep grief. But it's been over a year since his death and she's met a man who promises security and safety, just what she thinks she wants. Then, when her usually routine flight home over the Cascade Mountains becomes anything but, and she and Alex, her pilot, are thrown together in a fight for survival, Melanie is no longer sure what she wants. During cold nights in the mountains, she finds warmth and shelter in his arms. But how can Alex ever give her the security she craves outside of them? And there is man, a ...

Eight years ago, I was supposed to marry her. Instead, I destroyed her family and then abandoned her. Broken and hurt, she delivered me a savage blow in return. Naturally, that should have been the end of us. Except that I still want her. Even after all these years, memories of her linger in a mix of pain and desire. And now the sassy girl who once set my world on fire is suddenly in my city, curating art she has no idea that she inspired. Her body still ignites under my touch, but her eyes hold a cold, hard resolve to never re-engage with her family’s arch-enemy. To prove to Sabrina that...

Seventeen-year-old Katie Price has a rare disease that makes exposure to even the smallest amount of sunlight deadly. Confined to her house during the day, her company is limited to her widowed father and her best friend. It isn't until after nightfall that Katie's world opens up, when she takes her guitar to the local train station and plays for the people coming and going. Charlie Reed is a former all-star athlete at a crossroads in his life - and the boy Katie has secretly admired from afar for years. When he happens upon her playing guitar one night, fate intervenes and the two embark on a star-crossed romance.

Charlie, a musical theater nerd with a deep appreciation for sprinkle-topped ice cream and other snack foods, is active in his church and comes from a family who loves and appreciates him for exactly who he is, purple pants and all. Tim, a lover of crinkle-cut pickles, black olives, and other forgivably disgusting crudités, belongs to a conservative Christian pastor and devout mother who move to the rural town to staff a small church that, predictably, holds little place for Tim. After meeting online and attending a youth group at another church, Tim and Charlie become fast friends.

We Are Okay meets Wandavision in this novel about loss and learning to let go. After the death of his best friend, Eric Ly creates imaginary scenarios in his head to deal with his grief. Until one of them becomes real when a boy he met last summer in Japan finds his way back into his life. When he least expects it, Haru Tanaka walks into the coffee shop and sits down next to him. The only thing is, nobody else can see him.

When Lu Spinney's 29-year-old son, Miles, flies up on his snowboard, "he knows he is not in control as he is taken by force up the ramp," writes his mother, "skewing sideways as his board clips the edge and then he is hurtling, spinning up, up into the free blue sky ahead.... " He lands hard on the ice and falls into a coma. Thus begins the erratic loss - Miles first in a coma and then trapped in a fluctuating state of minimal consciousness - that unravels over the next five years.

From a Reader; "The author writes with authority gained through his personal experience. This book is an informative and easy-to-understand guide that covers the various responsibilities that may fall on the family, friends, or Executor of the deceased's will. It provides a comprehensive list of all the necessary and practical steps to take when making funeral arrangements and settling the affairs of a loved one who has passed away in the U.K. As the Executor of my father's estate in the U.S., I found the steps very similar. Additionally, the book includes valuable online resources to help ...