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1) Happily even after: a guide to getting through (and beyond) the grief of widowhood

Author

Fleet, Carole Brody

Pub. Date

2012

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Adults - End of Life/Grief Collection
ADULTS - End of Life/Grief Support

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"The issues that surround the loss of a spouse are numerous and complex. A very small sampling of these issues include helping children cope with a parent's death, re-entering the workplace and eventually re-entering the world of dating, love and intimacy; as well as moving through a profoundly emotional period. The widowed must find a way to accept and deal with these oftentimes conflicting and confusing emotions while being expected to "carry...

2) Umbrella summer

Author

Graff, Lisa

Pub. Date

c2009

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After her brother Jared dies, ten-year-old Annie worries about the hidden dangers of everything, from bug bites to bicycle riding, until she is befriended by a new neighbor who is grieving her own loss.

3) Sorry for your loss

Author

Foley, Jessie Ann

Pub. Date

2019.

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From Printz Honor winner and Morris Award finalist Jessie Ann Foley comes a comitragic YA novel that will appeal to fans of Jandy Nelson and Jeff Zentner. As the youngest of eight, painfully average Pup Flanagan is used to flying under the radar. He's barely passing his classes. He lets his longtime crush walk all over him. And he's in no hurry to decide on a college path. The only person who ever made him think he could be more was his older brother...

4) The shape of thunder

Author

Warga, Jasmine

Pub. Date

2021

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Book, eAudiobook

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Cora hasn’t spoken to her best friend, Quinn, in a year. Despite living next door to each other, they exist in separate worlds of grief. Cora is still grappling with the death of her beloved sister in a school shooting, and Quinn is carrying the guilt of what her brother did. On the day of Cora’s twelfth birthday, Quinn leaves a box on her doorstep with a note. She has decided that the only way to fix things is to go back in time to the moment...

5) Cat Heaven

Author

Rylant, Cynthia

Pub. Date

1997

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God created Cat Heaven, with fields of sweet grass where cats can play, kitty-toys for them to enjoy, and angels to rub their noses and ears.

6) See You at Harry's

Author

Knowles, Jo

Pub. Date

2012

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eBook, Kindle

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Starting middle school brings all the usual challenges — until the unthinkable happens, and Fern and her family must find a way to heal.
Twelve-year-old Fern feels invisible. It seems as though everyone in her family has better things to do than pay attention to her: Mom (when she's not meditating) helps Dad run the family restaurant; Sarah is taking a gap year after high school; and Holden pretends that Mom and Dad and everyone

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7) The Siege

Author

Alpert, Mark

Series

Six

Pub. Date

2016

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eBook, Kindle

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Mission: Sabotage.

Adam gave up everything for a new chance at life. Now with a cutting-edge digital mind, he is smarter, faster, better than a normal teen. Except Adam is anything but invincible. He's indebted to the government program that gave him this ability—and freedom comes at a price.

Adam and his teammates, the six Pioneers, swore to defend humanity against Sigma, the most ruthless artificial intelligence program ever designed.

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8) The afterlife of Holly Chase

Author

Hand, Cynthia

Pub. Date

2017

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Before I Fall meets "bah, humbug" in this contemporary YA reimagining of A Christmas Carol from New York Times bestselling author Cynthia Hand. On Christmas Eve five years ago, seventeen-year-old Holly Chase was visited by three Ghosts who showed her how selfish and spoiled she'd become. They tried to convince her to mend her ways. She didn't. And then she died. Now she's stuck working for the top-secret company Project Scrooge-as their latest Ghost...

9) Summer of salt

Author

Leno, Katrina

Pub. Date

2018.

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Magic passed down through generations. An island where strange things happen. One summer that will become legend. Practical Magic meets Nova Ren Suma's Imaginary Girls and Laura Ruby's Bone Gap in this lush, atmospheric novel by acclaimed author Katrina Leno. Georgina Fernweh waits impatiently for the tingle of magic in her fingers-magic that has touched every woman in her family. But with her eighteenth birthday looming at the end of this summer,...

10) Grounded

Author

Klise, Kate

Pub. Date

2010

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After her father, brother, and sister are killed in a plane crash, twelve-year-old Daralynn's life in tiny Digginsville, Missouri, proceeds as her mother turns angry and embittered, her grandmother becomes senile, and her flamboyant aunt continues to run the Summer Sunset Retirement Home for Distinguished Gentlemen, while being courted by the owner of the town's new crematorium.

11) The end of something wonderful: a practical guide to a backyard funeral

Author

Lucianovic, Stephanie V. W

Pub. Date

[2019]

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With gentle humor and quirkiness, this sympathetic book demonstrates how to say goodbye to a beloved pet and give it a proper sendoff. "[The End of Something Wonderful is] really good. It's funny and sardonic and it gets to be touching at the end." -Betsy Bird, School Library Journal Children love their pets very much-and when the animals die, that loss can be hard to process. The End of Something Wonderful helps kids handle their feelings...

12) The Notekeeper: A beautiful, heart-breaking story full of hope

Author

Treave, Hannah

Pub. Date

2023

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eBook, Kindle

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'Those last few words don't just help the dying; they can help save the lives of those left behind'

Following a tragedy, Zoe flees Australia and makes a life for herself in the UK. Now working as a care nurse in The Oaks hospice, and knowing just how much comfort last words can bring, Zoe has taken it upon herself to become a notekeeper – writing down the final thoughts of her patients and delivering them to their loved ones.

Zoe's

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13) The invisible string

Author

Karst, Patrice

Pub. Date

c2000

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When Liza and Jeremy run to their mother during a scary storm, she comforts them by telling them about the Invisible String, which connects people who love each other no matter where they are and means that they are never alone.

14) When mischief came to town

Author

Nannestad, Katrina

Pub. Date

2015.

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In the tradition of ANNE OF GREEN GABLES and PIPPI LONGSTOCKING comes a heart-warming novel about love, family, grief, joy and the power of laughter and imagination. When Inge Maria arrives on the tiny island of Bornholm in Denmark to live with her grandmother, she's not sure what to expect. Her grandmother is stern, the people on the island are strange, and children are supposed to be seen and not heard. But no matter how hard Inge tries to be...

15) The Summer of Letting Go

Author

Polisner, Gae

Pub. Date

2014

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eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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Summer has begun, the beach is calling . . . . . . but Francesca Schnell is going nowhere. Four years ago, Francesca's little brother, Simon, drowned when she should have been watching. Now she is about to turn sixteen, but guilt keeps her stuck in the past. Meanwhile, her best friend is moving on-with the boy Francesca secretly wants-and her father may be having an affair. Then Francesca begins babysitting Frankie Sky, a four-year-old who bears...

16) A Blind Eye

Author

Todd, Marion

Series

Detective Clare Mackay

Pub. Date

2023

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eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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The Scots Magazine Book of the Month May 2023

'Tartan Noir at its nail-biting, brutal, bloody best' Helen Fields, author of The Institution

Can DI Clare Mackay unravel a dead man's secrets?

Harry Richards, a local solicitor, is found in his car, throat slit.

DI Clare Mackay is on the case. She soon learns that Harry was not the upstanding man he seemed to be. Finding the killer

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17) This is not the end

Author

Baker, Chandler

Pub. Date

2017.

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Seventeen-year-old Lake Devereaux must make an impossible choice in a future where resurrection is possible--but each person is only permitted to bring back a single loved one.

18) Things we know by heart

Author

Kirby, Jessi

Pub. Date

[2015]

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A year after losing her boyfriend, Trent, in an unexpected accident, Quinn Sullivan secretly tracks down the recipient of his donated heart in an attempt to heal, but ends up falling for him.

19) Truly, Madly, Deadly

Author

Jayne, Hannah

Pub. Date

2013

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eBook, Kindle

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Every relationship has its secrets and Sawyer's dies alongside her perfect boyfriend. They said it was an accident... it wasn't. An exhilarating thriller, Truly, Madly, Deadly will leave readers chilled to the core.

Sawyer Dodd had it all: perfect grades, star position on the team, and the perfect boyfriend. But when Kevin dies suddenly in a car accident, Sawyer is stunned. Until she opens her locker and finds the note:

You're

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20) Broken things

Author

Oliver, Lauren

Pub. Date

2018.

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With all the intensity and whiplash turns of Sharp Objects and One of Us Is Lying, this engrossing psychological thriller by New York Times bestselling author Lauren Oliver is an unforgettable, mesmerizing tale of exquisite obsession, spoiled innocence, and impossible friendships. It's been five years since Summer Marks was brutally murdered in the woods. Everyone thinks Mia and Brynn killed their best friend. That driven by their obsession with...

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1) Happily even after: a guide to getting through (and beyond) the grief of widowhood

2) Umbrella summer

3) Sorry for your loss

4) The shape of thunder

5) Cat Heaven

6) See You at Harry's

7) The Siege

8) The afterlife of Holly Chase

9) Summer of salt

10) Grounded

11) The end of something wonderful: a practical guide to a backyard funeral

12) The Notekeeper: A beautiful, heart-breaking story full of hope

13) The invisible string

14) When mischief came to town

15) The Summer of Letting Go

16) A Blind Eye

17) This is not the end

18) Things we know by heart

19) Truly, Madly, Deadly

20) Broken things

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