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The men in my life: a memoir of love and art in 1950s Manhattan
By Patricia Bosworth. 2017
Memoir by a journalist of the period of her life in the 1950s when she studied at the Actors Studio…
in New York and performed on stage and screen. Tells how her dysfunctional family life and the suicide of her brother haunted her and impacted her romantic choices. Strong language. 2017Country singer who gained fame alongside his wife, Joey, tells how their love and religion changed him. Discusses the birth…
of their daughter in 2014 and learning that she has Down syndrome, and describes the diagnosis and impact of the cancer that claimed Joey's life at forty in 2016. Bestseller. 2017The broken way: a daring path to the abundant life
By Ann Voskamp. 2016
Reflecting on her own experiences and dealing with those of her teenaged daughter, the author of One Thousand Gifts (DB…
74783) and The Greatest Gift (DB 77903) examines ways of finding freedom and faith when you are feeling broken. Ties these personal stories into scriptural teachings. 2016The eye: a very short introduction (Very Short Introductions)
By Michael F. Land. 2014
Traces the evolution of the marvel of biological engineering that controls vision. Describes how vision works in humans and other…
creatures, the eye's parts, how it moves, what happens in the brain, and what can go wrong. Discusses loss of vision and restoration procedures in those not blind from birth. 2014Leave out the tragic parts: a grandfather's search for a boy lost to addiction
By Dave Kindred. 2021
Jared Kindred left his home and family at eighteen, choosing to wander America on freight trains and live on the…
street. Addicted to alcohol most of his short life, he never found a way to survive. Through this ordeal, Dave Kindred's love for his grandson never wavered. Kindred reconstructs the life Jared chose for himself--a life that rejected the comforts of civilization in favor of a chance to roam freeA matter of death and life
By Irvin D. Yalom. 2021
Psychiatrist and grief counselor Irvin Yalom and his wife, feminist author Marilyn Yalom, share their experience after her terminal diagnosis…
as they reflect on how to love and live without regretThe iceberg: A Memoir
By Marion Coutts. 2016
Memoir of an artist who lost her husband to cancer. She gives an account of two years that he battled…
a malignant brain tumor--undergoing surgeries, chemotherapy, and radiation, only to have the tumor recur--while she cared for him and raised their toddler son. Some strong language. 2014The violet hour: great writers at the end
By Katie Roiphe. 2016
Essayist and novelist looks at the last days of six important thinkers and artists: Susan Sontag, Sigmund Freud, John Updike,…
Dylan Thomas, Maurice Sendak, and James Salter. Through interviews and their own writings, Roiphe examines how they felt about death. Some strong language. 2016The Hatbox Letters
By Beth Powning. 2021
In this beautiful and deeply moving novel, a young widow struggles to come to terms with her solitary life in…
the rambling Victorian house she shared until recently with her husband and children in semi-rural New Brunswick.It is in this house, surrounded by heirloom gardens and the gentle sounds of a river, that Kate Harding, 52, faces her second winter since the untimely death of her husband. Her children, now grown, are living away, and Kate is truly on her own. In her living room are several hatboxes filled with letters and other ghostly ephemera, recently brought by her sister from the attic of their grandparents’ 18th-century Connecticut house. Their sweet mustiness tinges the air and makes Kate dream of her childhood and of her beloved grandparents. She remembers the sense of permanence and refuge that she felt in their apple-scented world, as well as, more recently, with her husband. As she begins to read the hatbox letters, she discovers that what to a child seemed a serene and blissful marriage was in fact founded on a tragic event. As Kate’s eyes clear to the truth of the past, a new tragedy unfolds, and her own house, filled with the shared detritus of marriage and motherhood, becomes the refuge where Kate can connect the strands of her unravelled life.In The Hatbox Letters — which is both sad and exhilarating, touching and illuminating — Beth Powning offers readers an unforgettable story of love, grief and renewal, both past and present, as well as her extraordinary perceptions of the natural world.Excerpt from The Hatbox LettersThe birds rise with a muted thunder, their wings serrate the light. For an instant, a peregrine falcon zigzags through the flock. Then it drops from the belly of the rising bird-cloud. In its talons is a sandpiper, crumpled like a ball of paper. It is hard to decide which drama to observe, the escape of the falcon with its prey or the flock’s display as the birds rush seaward like a single entity, a ballooning flame that rises and falls, expands and implodes, one instant silver and the next black. The flock speeds back towards the beach, passes close to the watchers, makes a dazzling turn, fast as thought. Then, with a diminishing roar, the birds waver, their legs drop, stretch. They touch down. They fluff their feathers, Kate observes, the way humans pull coats up around necks after a shock. Trying to put ourselves back as we were.Checklist for my family: a guide to my history, financial plans, and final wishes
By Sally Balch Hurme. 2015
The worm at the core: on the role of death in life
By Jeff Greenberg, Sheldon Solomon, Tom Pyszczynski. 2015
Three psychologists look at how the fear of death affects human behavior. They suggest coping methods for dealing with the…
concept of mortality and provide a historical perspective on cultural awareness of death and current research on how fear of death affects people's actions and attitudes. 2015Do zombies dream of undead sheep?: a neuroscientific view of the zombie brain
By Timothy Verstynen, Bradley Voytek. 2014
Through the lens of the popular-culture phenomenon of zombies, psychologist Verstynen and cognitive scientist Voytek examine how the brain works.…
Discusses real-life accounts of zombies, physiology, sensory perception, cognition, and how the science behind them will help those not affected survive the coming zombie apocalypse. 2014H is for Hawk
By Helen Macdonald. 2014
Cambridge lecturer describes the year she spent training a goshawk, a decision she came to after the sudden death of…
her father in 2007. Discusses the field of falconry, which her father avidly practiced, the grieving process, and author T.H. White's book The Goshawk (DB 42687). Bestseller. 2014Where the dead pause, and the Japanese say goodbye: a journey
By Marie Mutsuki Mockett. 2015
Mockett's family owns a Buddhist temple near the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. After the 2011 disaster at the plant,…
her family was unable to bury her grandfather due to radiation levels. Grieving, Mockett journeys into the radiation zone and investigates death-centered rituals in Japan. 2015The dead beat: lost souls, lucky stiffs, and the perverse pleasures of obituaries
By Marilyn Johnson. 2007
Author of Lives in Ruins (DB 80738) examines the work of newspaper obituary writers, a club of sorts to which…
she has belonged. Profiles fellow obituary writers, discusses the art of writing an obituary, and chronicles a number of the Great Obituary Writers' International Conferences. 2006Being mortal: medicine and what matters in the end
By Atul Gawande. 2014
Surgeon and author of Complications (DB 56061) and The Checklist Manifesto (DB 70422) examines the state of end-of-life care in…
the twenty-first century. Discusses medical advances which have extended life expectancy, limited training of physicians to discuss mortality with patients and family members, and ways to be honest. Bestseller. 2014Medical doctor specializing in hospice and palliative care outlines strategies for preparing and carrying out end-of-life plans for oneself and…
for loved ones. Discusses complex matters, from whether to issue "do not resuscitate" orders to what hospice care means and the state of twenty-first century medicine. 2012Falling out of time
By David Grossman. 2014
Walking Man announces to his wife that he is setting out in search of their son, who has died. As…
Walking Man travels, other townspeople join him in search of their own loved ones. They all question whether death is truly the end of a person. Translated from Hebrew. 2014Unremarried widow: a memoir
By Artis Henderson. 2014
Artis became an unremarried widow in military terms after her young husband, Miles, died in a helicopter crash in Iraq…
in 2006. She tells the story of her brief stint as an army wife and the aftermath of his death. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. 2013Confessions of a mediocre widow: or, How I lost my husband and my sanity
By Catherine Tidd. 2014
Tidd recounts becoming a thirty-one-year-old widow with three children under six when complications from a motorcycle accident resulted in her…
husband's death. Describes her change from stay-at-home mom to blogger and motivational speaker, her forays into the dating world, and the challenges of being a single parent. Some strong language. 2014