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"The grieving book that New York Times bestselling author Clare Mackintosh needed herself years ago, this is a modern, accessible approach to grief when you don't know how to help or what to do, inspired by a viral social media post that touched millions as it assures the reader that there is a path through their darkness"--
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Publisher
Hyperion Avenue
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"A novel of coming out, surviving grief, and embracing myth in a Maine lobstering town purportedly founded when a sea captain fell in love with a mermaid 300 years ago. For readers of Madeline Miller, Alix E. Harrow, and Erin Morgenstern"--
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Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Set in a not-too-distant America, I Cheerfully Refuse is the tale of a bereaved and pursued musician embarking under sail on a sentient Lake Superior in search of his departed, deeply beloved, bookselling wife. Rainy, an endearing bear of an Orphean narrator, seeks refuge in the harbors, fogs, and remote islands of the inland sea. Encountering lunatic storms and rising corpses from the warming depths, Rainy finds on land an increasingly desperate...
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Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Nashquitten, MA, is a decaying coastal enclave that not even tourist season can revive, full of locals who have run the town's blue-collar industries for generations. So, when a young woman dies at a house party, the circumstances around her death suspiciously unclear, the tight-knit community of Nashquitten is shaken. As a mother grieves her daughter, a teacher her student, a best friend her confidante, the events around this tragedy become a lightning...
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Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Benefits of a summer romance: It's always fun, always brief, and no one gets their heart broken. Ali Morris is a professional organizer whose own life is a mess. Her mom died two years ago, then her husband left, and she hasn't worn pants with a zipper in longer than she cares to remember. No one is more surprised than Ali when the first time she takes off her wedding ring and puts on pants with hardware--overalls count, right?--she meets someone....
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Zibby Books
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Amy Lin never expected to find a love like the one she shares with her husband, Kurtis, a gifted young architect who pulls her toward joy, adventure, and greater self-acceptance. But on a sweltering August morning, only a few months shy of the newlyweds' move to Vancouver, thirty-two-year-old Kurtis heads out to run a half-marathon with Amy's family. It is the last time she sees her husband alive. Ten days after this seismic loss, Amy is in the hospital,...
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"Leanne Friesen thought she knew a lot about bereavement. But it was only when her own sister died from cancer that she learned what grieving people need. In these pages, Friesen writes with vulnerability, wisdom, and even wit about stark and sacred lessons learned at deathbeds and funerals. When we lose someone, what we need most is grieving room"--
11) Seven summers
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Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Liv and Finn meet six summers ago working in a bar on the rugged Cornish coastline, their futures full of promise. When a night of passion ends in devastating tragedy they are bound together inextricably. But Finn's life is in LA with his band, and Liv's is in Cornwall with her family - so they make a promise. Finn will return every year, and if they are single they will spend the summer together. This summer Liv crosses paths with Tom - a mysterious...
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Pub. Date
2023
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English
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The Altar of the Dead Henry James - The Altar of the Dead is a short story by Henry James, first published in his collection Terminations in 1895. A fable of literally life and death significance, the story explores how the protagonist tries to keep the remembrance of his dead friends, to save them from being forgotten entirely in the rush of everyday events. He meets a woman who shares his ideals, only to find that the past places what seems to be...
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Publisher
ÉDitions Tnt
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Français
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Appelle-moi si tu meurs
je réponds toujours aux morts
ou bien c'est moi qui leur téléphone
on se parlera tu verras
l'Éternité sait rejoindre ses intimes
elle marche à nos côtés.
France Bonneau a publié trois recueils de poésie : AU BOUT DE L'EXIL,
éditions Teichtner (2008) ; LA PORTE GRANDE OUVERTE, éditions
Cornac (2016) ; POÈMES ENTRELACÉS, Éditions TNT (2020) et un
conte écologique pour enfants , LE SECRET DE VINCENT, éditions
Vivat...
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Publisher
Lux ÉDiteur
Pub. Date
2024
Language
Français
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Un soir d'octobre 2022, la professeure et romancière Catherine Mavrikakis accueille à l'Université de Montréal deux écrivains qui se connaissent à peine: Mathieu Bélisle et Alain Vadeboncoeur. Ils sont invités à parler de la mort, de ce que la pandémie nous a révélé à son sujet, chacun à partir de son expérience, celle de la médecine et des sciences pour Vadeboncoeur, celle de la littérature et des humanités pour Bélisle.
La discussion...
15) Quand je vis
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Publisher
Mémoire d'encrier
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Français
Description
RÉSUMÉ:
23h52, un homme gît sur le sol, entre la vie et la mort. Sa fille est auprès de lui. Elle attend les secours. Son petit-fils dort. Des voix traversent la nuit : la fille, le père, le pompier, l'agente de sécurité, la médecin accompagnent cette vie qui bascule. Elles racontent ce cœur qui s'épuise. Elles cherchent leur propre souffle à travers le combat de cet homme, père, grand-père, humain. Quand je vis est un théâtre de la...
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Series
Publisher
Editions Parujekad
Pub. Date
2022
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Français
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Elle était à son dernier mois de grossesse, lorsque Nafissatou se rendait à l'hôpital, il est vrai qu'elle n'était pas à terme, il était fixé pour la fin du mois de mars mais la sage-femme lui avait donnée un dernier rendez-vous de routine. Cette grossesse n'était pas vraiment désirée, elle ne l'avait pas préparée, elle ne l'attendait pas!
Nafissatou
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BenBella Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"Normal Broken was born out of a desire to meet people where they are in their grief journeys, to lend a hand, or maybe to just sit in the dark with them. To acknowledge your brokenness and to feel broken together--never pressured to "move on" or "think positive""--
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Publisher
Biblioasis
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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US: The New Criterion, Ploughshares, The Hudson Review, The Hollins Critic, The Threepenny Review, The North American Review, Poetry (Chicago), New England Review, Shenandoah, Michigan Quarterly
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Publisher
Les éDitions Dreams Workshop
Pub. Date
2023
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Français
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Max profite paisiblement de la vie qu'il a su se construire au fil des ans. Écrivain à succès, il ne se doute pas qu'au de détour son passé l'attend une surprise qui changera sa vie pour toujours. Apprenant par hasard la mort de son ex-copine, il sombre dans la noirceur d'un deuil qu'il ne soupçonnait pas porter en lui.
Poussé par sa sœur, Max prend le volant afin d'aller faire ses adieux à celle qui lui avait fait vivre sa plus douloureuse,...
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Series
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Français
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Les 11 000 vers des Contemplations furent écrits dès 1834, mais surtout pendant l'exil à Jersey, puis à Guernesey, en particulier à partir de 1853 alors que Hugo composait les Châtiments. Mettant fin au silence lyrique qu'il observait depuis les Rayons et les Ombres (1840), le recueil, sommet de sa production poétique, somme de sa vie, de sa sensibilité et de sa pensée, se présente comme «les Mémoires d'une âme» (Préface). Si «une
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