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Author
Publisher
The Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
After losing both her mother and her daughter in the tsunami of 2011, Yui continues on, alone with her grief, but when she hears about a man with an old disused telephone booth in his garden where those who have lost loved ones can speak to them and start to come to terms with their grief, Yui makes her own pilgrimage to the phone booth.
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c1978
Language
English
Description
When an unexpected accident cuts his life short, separating him from his beloved wife, Chris Nielsen must discover the nature of life after death, but when tragedy threatens to divide Chris and Annie forever, he risks his very soul to save her from an eternity of despair.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Thirteen-year-old Conor awakens one night to find a monster outside his bedroom window, but not the one from the recurring nightmare that began when his mother became ill--an ancient, wild creature that wants him to face truth and loss.
65) The goldfinch
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Follows the course of Theo Decker's life after his mother is killed in a bombing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, all the while holding on to a tangible reminder of the day that he took from the rubble.
Author
Publisher
Zando
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The unflinching Pulitzer Prize-winning essay on mourning and recovery in the wake of an inconceivable tragedy. When Bobby McIlvaine died in the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001, his loved ones spun off in radically different directions, each mourning in his or her own distinct--and often highly idiosyncratic--way. Twenty years later, Jennifer Senior, a family friend and award-winning reporter, revisits the McIlvaines, examines their present lives,...
Author
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
After his father's death, seventeen-year-old Klee feels he has lost all of the identifying parts of himself and when an act of betrayal sends him reeling, Klee lands in a psychiatric hospital and must work to put the pieces of himself back together.
Author
Publisher
HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
The Long Island Medium counsels readers on how to recognize deeply rooted sources of emotional pain while explaining the power of established healing rituals in managing loss and pursuing a more fulfilling life.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
A boy haunted by grief and performing mandatory community service in a soup kitchen unexpectedly bonds with his fellow servers and the people they assist, discovering how the world extends beyond his own pain.
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Alberto, the town's coffin maker, and Tito, a runaway boy, both lonely after suffering tragic losses, learn the power of friendship as they try to escape the shadows of their pasts.
75) Freedom's ring
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Through an antique ring, a Boston Marathon bombing survivor and the man who saved her unearth the history of a woman who suffered losses in the Boston Massacre and was torn between the love of two men, one a patriot, and the other a Redcoat.
76) Ida, always
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A polar bear grieves over the loss of his companion, based on the real-life Gus and Ida of New York's Central Park Zoo.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Rendered famous by a viral photograph taken of her as a baby against the backdrop of the September 11th attacks, Abbi longs for anonymity at a summer camp job, where a fellow counselor whose own life was shattered by the attacks challenges her to ask difficult questions.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
For two years, twelve-year-old Hazel has coped with her Mum's accidental death by overprotecting her sister and other mother, Mama.
But when Mama reconnects with her first love, roles begin to shift.
Author
Publisher
Christy Ottaviano Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Abram and Juliette have lived down the street from each other all their lives but had no connection until Juliette's mother and Abram's father had an affair that ended in a deadly car crash, then a year later, the teens begin a tentative relationship while picking up their prescription medications.
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