"While going through his own personal tragedy, Bachir Lazhar, a 55-year-old Algerian immigrant, is hired as a substitute in an elementary school after the abrupt death of a teacher. With great sensitivity and humour, Monsieur Lazhar depicts the encounter of two distant worlds: that of an immigrant and a group of shaken but endearing kids who, together, will transcend their losses."--Container.

"El libro que te ayudará a superar la muerte de tu animal de compañía. Perder a un ser querido nunca es fácil. Al fin y al cabo, ¿cómo podemos pasar página tras la marcha de alguien que ha estado tan presente en nuestra vida? ¿De que manera hemos de superar el no volver a ver a un amigo, a un miembro de nuestra familia? Aunque a menudo se le resta importancia, la muerte de un animal de compañía sigue siendo un momento muy duro para quienes...

This guide teaches you personal skills for a healthy recovery from the death of a loved-one or friend, divorce, job loss, relocation or chronic illness. This newly revised and expanded edition is a book for doing as much as reading. Includes helpful exercises and charts for working through your grief. (Fisher Books).

In "The Trail to Tincup: Love Stories at Life's End," a psychologist reckons with the loss of four family members within a span of two years. Hocker works backward into the lives of these people and forward into the values, perspective, and qualities they bestowed before and after leaving. Following the trail to their common gravesite in Tincup, Colorado, she remembers and recounts decisive stories and delves into artifacts, journals, and her own...

"Restore Your Spirit after Sudden Loss Healing after loss. When a loved one passes unexpectedly, the person left behind can lose their bearings. After the sudden loss of her mother, Chelsea Hanson, a nationally-recognized grief educator and founder of With Sympathy Gifts and Keepsakes, didn't know where to turn for help, what to do next, or how to put the pieces of her life back together. Hanson's The Sudden Loss Survival Guide gathers everything...

" "Eddie Joyce's terrific first novel is so American that the story might as well have taken place at the base of the Statue of Liberty. His Amendola family and their beloved Staten Island may be flawed, but they represent what's best and most necessary in the American character, what our tired and poor still yearn for." -Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls A startling and tender portrait of one family's struggle to make peace...

"Well-known Christian philosopher Nicholas Wolterstorff has authored many books that have contributed significantly to scholarship in several subjects. In Lament for a Son he writes not as a scholar but as a loving father grieving the loss of his son. In brief vignettes Wolterstorff explores with a moving honesty and intensity, all the facets of his experience of this irreversible loss. Though he grieves "not as one who has no hope," he finds no comfort...

En El Cerebro En Duelo, la neurocientífica y psicóloga Mary-Frances O'Connor, PhD, nos ofrece una nueva y fascinante ventana a una de las experiencias distintivas del ser humano. O'Connor ha dedicado décadas a investigar los efectos del duelo en el cerebro y, en este libro, hace accesible la neurociencia de vanguardia a través de su contagioso entusiasmo y nos guía a través de cómo codificamos el amor y el duelo. Con amor, nuestras neuronas...

Presents a step-by-step program for recovering from loss, discussing the concepts of grief and recovery, the extent to which people are prepared to deal with loss, and the active decision to recover. "Incomplete recovery from grief can have a lifelong negative effect on the capacity for happiness. Drawing from their own histories as well as from others', the authors illustrate how it is possible to recover from grief and regain energy and spontaneity....