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Grief,
Bereavement, Loss Books
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NEW!
The Last Journey:
Songs for the Time of Grieving
CD AND REFLECTION BOOK
John Bell, Pamela Warrick-Smith, The
Cathedral Singers

"Since We Are Summoned"
Few recordings have struck a chord as deep
and profound as this heart-rendering, yet ultimately uplifting, CD
and accompanying book. The Last Journey offers mourners a way to
grieve, to search through the struggle before them, and to face
their difficult situation with a renewed sense of hope in the
Resurrection.
The recording and accompanying reflections
book makes a suitable and touching gift for mourners. The
four-color, fully illustrated hardcover reflections book contains
the texts of the music along with Scripture passages and prayers.
The inspiring sound of The Cathedral Singers with soloist Pamela
Warrick-Smith makes this a truly unique and touching gift. Includes
"Lord Our God, Receive Your Servant," sung as the final commendation
at the funeral of Joseph Cardinal Bernardin.
CONTENTS: O Christ, You
Wept • Who Is There to Understand • I Cry to God • How
Long, O Lord? • Let Your Restless Hearts Be Stilled • O
the Lamb • Steal Away • The Last Journey • Since
We Are Summoned • Go, Silent Friend • Lord God, Receive
Your Servant • Agnus Dei & Aaronic Blessing • For All the
Saints Who've Shown Your Love • In
Zion • There Is a Place • Nobody Knows
Reflection Book and CD (Item #79061) $28.95
Reflection Book ONLY (Item #79062) $15.95
CD ONLY (Item #*GI-CD381) $16.95
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Tear
Soup
A Recipe for Healing after
Loss
Text by Pat Schwiebert, Text by Chuck DeKlyen,
Illustrated by Taylor Bills
In this modern-day fable, a woman who has suffered a terrible loss cooks up
a special batch of “tear soup,” blending the unique ingredients of her life
into the grief process. Along the way she dispenses a recipe of sound advice
for people who are in mourning or know someone who has suffered a loss. The
book is richly illustrated with poignant and detailed pictures.
This book presents a profound message in a sublime way for children, as well
as people of all ages. An appendix in the book contains a helpful listing of
grief support groups for a variety of situations. Grief counselors and
ministers of many denominations have found Tear Soup a helpful book for
those in the first stages of mourning.
Best Children's Book Award 2001, Association of
Theological Booksellers
(Item #81116) $19.95 |
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NEW!
Gift of the Red Bird
by Paula D'Arcy
Paula D'Arcy's serene voice powerfully underscores the message of her
inspirational true story. As she describes the tragic loss of her husband
and child, her painful emotions are real and raw. While still grieving, she
must prepare for a new life with her unborn daughter. The author depicts her
struggle to find peace with genuine feeling, as she takes the reader through
her depression and her failed attempts and ultimate success in gaining
spiritual renewal. D'Arcy recounts her experiences, sometimes frightening
and dangerous, in an expressive voice that blends her sorrowful remembrances
with a steadfast hope of achieving new wholeness. J.J.B. © AudioFile 2006,
Portland, MaineIn
Song for Sarah (1979), D'Arcy captured the primal pain of loss, and,
since its publication, she has become a popular lecturer and workshop leader
in the burgeoning field of grief counseling. Grief, she shows us in this new
book, is an ongoing, never-completed process, one that becomes woven into
the fabric of the grieving person's spiritual life. Now in midlife, D'Arcy
realized that she must move yet further on her journey toward trusting the
divine plan. A three-day solitary wilderness trip tested that faith,
especially when a massive storm tore through her canyon home. But a red bird
that miraculously survived the storm taught her to laud the tiny miracles of
our earthly lives. 144 pages,
Paperback. (Item #88724) $14.95 |
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NEW!
Grieving at Christmastime
Elf Help Book
Written by Dwight
Daniels
Illustrated by R.W. Alley
When we are grieving the death of a loved one, Christmas
can be particularly challenging. In this book, readers will find gentle,
practical, hope-filled guidance that suggests ways to recognize the
season while also recognizing and responding in a healthy way to the
sadness and grief in your heart. A few moments spent with this book
could end up being the best gift you can provide those who are grieving
this holiday season. The book's central message is that it's important
to acknowledge, respect, and respond to our grief, even while everyone
around us may be rejoicing. The book offers a variety of options to
observe Christmas and its many rich traditions in a way that recognizes
and commemorates both the season and our grief.
(Item #81337) $4.95
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Good Grief
In these times of crisis and loss, people of all ages are searching for
meaningful, comforting resources to renew their faith in a loving God.
Working through the grief process is a natural and vital reaction to
loss and change.
In Good Grief, a best-known resource for dealing with loss,
Granger E. Westberg uses gentle wisdom and acute insight into human
nature to guide readers through the ten stages of grief: shock, emotion,
depression, physical distress, panic, guilt, anger, resistance, hope,
and finally, acceptance. Good Grief helps readers develop a path
through life’s small losses as well as the grief experiences that can
overwhelm us. Paperback 64 pages. (Item #81123) $4.99
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BEST SELLER!
Grief Therapy Elf Help Book for Adults
(Item #87684) $4.95 |
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No One Cries the Wrong Way
Paperback (Item #83514) $14.95 |
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Heaven is a Wonderful Place
Children often have questions about
life and death.
This helpful book provides
answers in terms children can comfortably understand as it explains
God's role and His promise of eternal life as revealed in the Bible.
An excellent resource when
children deal with death for the first time. Hardcover. Ages 4-9; 48
pages. (Item #83863)
$8.99 |
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When Your Grandparent Dies
A Child's Guide to Grief
Losing a
grandparent is often a child's first experience with greif. The ordeal can be as
bewildering as it is painful. Explaining what happens from a child's eye view, the little
elves in this book depict the difficult days before, after, and beyond a grandparent's
death. They explore the meaning of death & heaven, as well as how to stay close in
spirit with a grandparent who has died. With ideas for action and questions for
discussion, this creative guide will help you help your greiving child to create
comforting memories and find closure. 32 pages; 8"x8"; full color illustrations
throughout.
(Item #90963) $7.95 |
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Sad Isn't Bad
A Good-Grief Guidebook for Kids Dealing with Loss
Here
is the book that Elf-help fans everywhere were asking for- for years: a book to help
children grieve in healthy ways. This friendly and loving guide is loaded with positive,
life affirming helps to coping with loss as a child. Comforting, yet totally realistic in
its approach, as this book is written by an expert school and community counselor.
Grieving children need to know, after a loss, that the world is still safe, life is good,
and hurting hearts do mend. This beautifully written and illustrated book will show the
way like no other child's book now on the market. 32 pages; 8"x8"; full color
illustrations throughout.
(Item #84202) $7.95 |
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Responding to Grief
A complete Resource Guide
(Item #*AB-26707) $79.00 |
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| Walking With God Through Grief and Loss |
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FALL OF FREDDIE THE LEAF - Leo
Buscaglia (Item #83615) $9.95
WHEN BAD THINGS HAPPEN TO GOOD PEOPLE -
Harold S. Kushner (Item #82968) $10.95
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CANCER AND FAITH - John Carmody (Item
#98096) $9.95 |
WHEN A LOVED ONE DIES - Philip W.
Williams (Item #90241) $8.99
LORD IS MY SHEPHERD: Psalm.... - Victor
M. Parachin (Item #99752) $4.95
HEALING THE GREATEST HURT - Dennis Linn
(Item #82273) $14.95
WHAT HAPPENED WHEN GRANDMA DIED?
- Peggy Barker (Item #94920) $9.99
ON GRIEVING: The Death of.. - Harold Ivan
Smith (Item #89740) $12.99
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PRAYING OUR GOODBYES
Joyce Rupp has written a book about "these experiences
of leaving behind and moving on, the stories of union and separation that
are written in all our hearts." Praying Our Goodbyes,
she says, is about the "spirituality of change." It is a book
for anyone who has experienced loss, whether it be a job change, the end
of a friendship, the death of a loved one, a financial struggle, a
mid-life crisis or an extended illness. It is designed to help the reader
recognize, ritualize, reflect on and reorient themselves. 184 pages.
(Paperback Item #80036) $12.95 |
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| Talking with Your Kids about Deathand Life |
| Talking With Your Kids About Death and Life by Lisa O.
Engelhardt and Dr. Lyn Sontag, Psy.D. As parents, we want to protect our children from
anything that may be hurtful, especially news about a death. But death is a part of life
and children need to know about it. The authors share tips on talking with your kids about
death to give them reassurance and hope in the life that surrounds them. |
| Price: $1.00 Product
#91153 |
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| Talking with Your Kids When a Grandparent Dies |
| Talking With your Kids About When A Grandparent Dies by
Lisa O. Engelhardt and Dr. Lyn Sontag, Psy.D. Losing a grandparent may be your child's
first experience of loss. A grandparent and grandchild often share a close bond and when
that bond is broken through death, it can be overwhelming to the child. The authors share
ideas to help parents help their children grieve their loss. |
| Price: $1.00 Product
#91148 |
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| talking with Your Kids about Death of a Parent |
| Talking With Your Kids About the Death of a Parent by Lisa
O. Engelhardt and Dr. Lyn Sontag, Psy.D. Talking to your child about the death of their
parent is not easy, especially when all of you are grieving. In this difficult time, the
authors suggest ways to talk to your child about the loss and ways to grieve well so that
healing can replace the hurt. |
| Price: $1.00 Product
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COME, HEALING GOD: Prayer During Illness
- by Joan Guntzelman and Lou Guntzelman. Nothing seems to provoke an intense turning to
God in prayer like illness. Times of illness can become privileged moments of knowing and
trusting God's enduring, infinite love for us. This book offers suggestions for praying
when you feel at a loss for words, overwhelmed with discomfort, or when you desire to know
that God is close. (Paperback Item #86934) $6.95
124 PRAYERS FOR CAREGIVERS - by Joan
Guntzelman. (Paperback Item #80258) $8.95
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NEW!
Broken Trust: Stories
of Pain, Hope, and Healing from Clerical Abuse Survivors and Abusers
by Patrick Fleming, Sue Lauber-Fleming, Mark T. Matousek
This book will change lives! Alongside the stories you know from the
headlines—the devastation experienced by the survivors, the tragic
mistakes by the Catholic hierarchy -Broken Trust tells the stories
of the priest abusers in their own words. Anger, repentance, and
even self-delusion are revealed as they recount what brought them to
abuse the boys and girls, men and women in their trust. The
counselors offer their own expert perspectives on the stories and
then introduce us to stories from abuse survivors, including the
inspiring story of one of the counselors and how she herself
survived clerical sexual abuse. We learn that hope for healing comes
only by frank and open discussion of how priests broke the trust
they'd been given. Hardcover (Item #87888)
$19.95 |
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In Tribute
TEARDROP MEMORIAL PENDANT
This is a tear drop, to be worn in momory of someone loved. There is a rose inside
as a symbol of the love that never ends. (1 Corinthians 13:13)
Sterling Silver (Item #28522) $29.95
10kt. Gold (engravable) (Item #28521) $99.95 |
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