Act Grief

Coping with loss is difficult, but that doesn’t mean you have to suffer alone. Based on the proven-effective acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) treatment, Moving Through Grief provides simple and effective techniques to help you get unstuck and start living a rich and fulfilling life again, loss and all. ACT is all about embracing what hurts and committing to actions that will improve and enrich your life.

FROM HAN KANG, WINNER OF THE 2024 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE “[Han Kang writes in] intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.”—from the Nobel Prize citation The internationally bestselling author of The Vegetarian presents a “rare and...

For both professionals and laypeople, this book weaves personal stories with practical care guidelines, including: living with a life-threatening illness, signs of the dying process, the stages of grief, living wills, and other end of life issues. The Final Act of Living: Reflections of a Long-Time Hospice Nurse is an end of life book; a resource that flows like a novel, yet has the content of a textbook.

Get swept away by an unforgettable, breathtaking story of love, courage and dangerous secrets by Sunday Times bestselling author Anita Frank ‘Tender and evocative… ultimately humane and affirming’ Sean Lusk 'A beautiful, powerful and emotive read that completely stole my heart' Reader...

Return to Lake in the Clouds, Colorado, with this feel-good, emotional story about family, healing, and second chances from a New York Times bestselling author! Genevieve Prentice is learning that reinventing herself is a bit like downsizing a house. Deciding what to keep and what needs to go...

A BOOKLIST BEST BOOK OF 2024 From an award-winning author comes the moving story of a down-on-his-luck country musician who moves back home and rekindles a relationship with his high school sweetheart. "A story of love, healing, and second chances that's not to be missed." —Emily Henry, New...

2019 Outreach Magazine Resource of the Year: Apologetics 2018 The Gospel Coalition Book Award: Evangelism & Apologetics Apologetics at the Cross describes a much-needed approach to defending Christianity that uses Jesus as a model and the letter of 1 Peter as a guiding text. This is a...

Christianity Today 2021 Book Award Winner: Apologetics & Evangelism Telling a Better Story clears a path to a more effective, empathetic apologetics for today—both for experienced apologists and those new to sharing their faith with others. Today's Christians often view the practice of...

Read by the author. “There’s someone else.” “We found something on the X-ray we didn’t expect.” “We’ve eliminated your position.” When our circumstances unravel, how do we hold on to truth, to hope, to who we’re meant to be? After Carole Holiday experienced a series of...

"D" doesn't know how to help his friend. Tall and shy, Lamb's a sensitive soul masquerading as a punk, a gentle giant in a dog-eat-dog world. When Lamb disappears just before the friends are meant to move in together, D is shaken. When news of Lamb’s death arrives three years later, it shadows him like a ghost. Decades on, D discovers Lamb’s journals and letters. He pieces together a raw portrait of a sensitive misfit navigating queer awakening, love and friendship in a world that never quite made room for him. From their first meeting at an elite all-boys school to the clubs and chaos ...

She came to run VBS. He made her laugh. God had other plans — and they were better than anything on the schedule. Nadia Cruz doesn't do messy. As the new Children's Ministry Coordinator at Cornerstone Community Church, she arrives for Vacation Bible School week with color-coded binders, laminated schedules, and exactly zero margin for a rogue motorized donkey. Caleb Hartwell is the chaos. The beloved volunteer who has played the bumbling Barnabas the Bold for six straight summers arrives fifteen minutes late in a half-finished costume — and immediately falls face-first in front of sixty...

What if poetry were a magic act—and reality the illusion it refuses to preserve? In The Illusionist: Compulsory Acts, Romanian poet Doina Tudorovici enters a world where fathers speak from memory and death, angels wander the streets, ancient heroes grow old, fairy tales lose their heroes, and history becomes entangled with the private wounds of the body. Nothing here remains safely symbolic. A drowned dog, a paper kite, a village mill, Achilles, Ulysses, Ovid, Ophelia, Raskolnikov, a gray wolf, a hedgehog, and a ghost may all step into the poem—and once inside, they obey no familiar ...

From a social critic and journalist, a poignant book that encourages publicly grieving of what we've lost in order to move towards a hopeful future. “Detailed, lucid and richly sourced, Sarah Jaffe’s From the Ashes shows how the transformational power of grief can fuel revolutionary change...

She came to Newfoundland to save a friend. She didn’t expect to be the one who needed rescuing. Maren Ashby’s life looks fine from the outside. But when her friend Diane falls apart in a frozen house at the edge of Canada, Maren flies north to help — and finds herself face to face with a quiet marine biologist who studies seabirds that mate for life. Cal hasn’t returned to anything since losing his wife five years ago. His world is data and solitude and the careful study of creatures who know how to endure. Maren is warmth and chaos and the kind of presence that makes silence feel ...

In this deeply personal and professional guide, renowned psychoanalyst and Ericksonian hypnotherapist Dr. Stephen Paul Adler provides a roadmap for safely navigating the complex terrain of human loss. Drawing from over 60 years of clinical experience and his own profound personal journeys through bereavement—including the loss of his identical twin at three months old and his beloved wife to cancer—Adler offers a compassionate perspective on a universal human experience.

The Electric Woman is Tessa Fontaine's astonishing audiobook memoir about a life-affirming journey of loss and self-discovery. Narrated by the author, this audiobook recounts Tessa's life on the road with the last traveling American sideshow and her relationship with an adventurous, spirited...

Discover the highly anticipated, remarkable and fearless, The Consequences of Love, brought to you by Penguin. Seven-year-old Gavanndra Hodge's life is a precarious place. Her father is a hairdresser and drug dealer to Chelsea's most decadent inhabitants; her mother an alcoholic ex-model. So, it...

In the summer of 1990, Cathy's brother Matty was knocked down by a car on the way home from a night out, two weeks before receiving his GCSE results. Sitting by his unconscious body in hospital, holding his hand and watching his heartbeat on the monitors, Cathy and her parents willed him to...

With work that ranges from the laugh-out-loud funny to the silence and rage of loss, Forgive Yourself These Tiny Acts of Self-Destruction is a must read. This is a collection of work that asks itself for forgiveness while becoming an instruction manual on how listeners can follow suit. These complex and passionate poems make space for a narrative about the self in the wake of destruction. It explores American culture and examines how Singer's identity as a Jewish American underpins daily life.

A heartbreaking, heart-mending novel of love, grief, friendship, and community. March 1987. The FDA has just approved AZT as the first drug to treat AIDS. But it's too late for Iris’s dad. He’s dying, confined to a hospital bed in the apartment he shares with his boyfriend, J.R. (who Iris...