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Reading List
Anticipatory Grief
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A Good Death
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A Tiny Boat at Sea
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Smith, Izetta
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A Year to Live: How to Live Life This Year as if it Were Your Last
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Levine, Stephen
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A Medical and Spiritual Guide to Living with Cancer
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Fintel, William and McDermott, Gerald
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Aunt Lucy Has Cancer
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Owens
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Barklay and Eve
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Carney, Karen L.
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Breast Cancer Husband: How to Help your Wife and Yourself
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Silver
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Can I Still Kiss You?
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Russell, Neil
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Companioning the Dying: A Soulful Guide for Caregivers
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Yoder
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Everyday Strength
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Becton
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Facing Death and Finding Hope
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Longaker
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Final Gifts
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Callanan, Kelley
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Gentle Closings: How to Say Goodbye to Someone You Love
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Menten
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Gone From My Sight
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Karnes, Barbara
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Handbook for Mortals
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Lynn and Harrold
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How to Help Children Through a Parent's Serious Illness
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McCue
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If I Should Wake Before I Die
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Satterly
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In Memoriam
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Bennett, Foley
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Intimate Death
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De Hennezel, Marie
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Journey's End
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Living Fully in the Shadow of Death
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Smeenge, DeVries
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My Family is Living with Cancer
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Peyser-Hzouri and Smith-McLaughlin
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On Death and Dying
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Kulber-Ross, Elisabeth
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One You Love is Dying: 12 Thoughts to Guide You on the Journey
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Miller
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Our Mom Has Cancer
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Ackerman
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Peaceful Dying
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Tobin
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Preparing the Children
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Nussbaum
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Sky Memories
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Brisson, Pat
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Smiling Through Your Tears: Anticipatory Grief
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Hodgson and Krahn
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The Four Things That Matter Most: A Book About Living
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Byock, MD
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The Helper's Journey
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Larson, Dale
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The Last Lecture
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Pausch, Randy
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The Last Thing We Talk About
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Bayly, Joseph
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The Lessons of Love
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Beattie, Melody
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The Problem with Hair
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Foss, Karen Sue
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The Rainbow Feelings of Cancer
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Martin
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Time Out
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Kelly, David A.
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What About Me?
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Peterkin
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What Dying People Want
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Kuhl
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When a Parent Has Cancer
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Harpham
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When Someone Has a Very Serious Illness
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Heegaard, Marge
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Adult Grief
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35 Ways to Help a Grieving Child
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Dougy Center
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A Grace Disguised: How the Soul Grows Through Loss
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Sittser
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A Guide to Understanding Guilt during Bereavement
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Baugher
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A Thousand Goodbyes
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Huber
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A Time to Grieve
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Staudacher, Carol
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A Time to Grieve
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Haugk, Kenneth C.
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ABC's of Healthy Grieving
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Smith, Harold Ivan
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After the Darkest Hour
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Brehony, Kathleen A. Ph.D.
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After Goodbye
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Menten
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After Suicide Loss: Coping with Your Grief
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Baugher, Bob and Jordan, Jack Ph.D.
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After You Lose Someone You Love
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Dennison
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Answers to a Child's Questions About Death
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Stillman, Peter
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But I Didn't Say Goodbye
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Rubel
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Caring for Your Grieving Child
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Wakenshaw
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Chad
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Visser, Barney
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Children and Trauma
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Monahon
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Children Die, Too
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Johnson, Joy and Dr. S.M.
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Comfort
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Hood, Ann
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Companion Through the Darkness
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Ericsson
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Dani's Last Dance
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Head, Glenda
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Death Be Not Proud
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Gunther
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Don't Take My Grief Away From Me
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Manning, Doug
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Do They Have Bad Days in Heaven?
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Linn-Gust, Michelle M.S.
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Dying to be Free
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Cobain and Larch
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Experiencing Grief
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Haugk, Kenneth C.
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Explaining Death to Children
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Fatherless: How Sons of all Ages Come to Terms with the Deaths of Their Dads
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Chethik
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For Bereaved Grandparents
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Gerner
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From we to me
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Zonnebelt Smeenge & Devries
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Getting Through the Night
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Price
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Getting to the Other Side of Grief
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Zannebelt-Smeenge, DeVries, and Robert
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Gone But Not Lost
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Wiersbe, David W.
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Good Grief
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Westberg, Granger E.
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Good Grief
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Coryell, Deborah Morris
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Grace Passages
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Many Authors
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Griever's Ask: Answers to Questions about Death and Loss
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Smith
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Grieving: A Love Story
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Coughlin, Ruth
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Grieving the Loss of Someone You Love
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Mitsch and Brookside
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Healing a Spouse's Grieving Heart
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Wolfelt, Ph.D.
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Healing After the Suicide of a Loved One
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Smolin, Guinan
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Healing a Child's Grieving Heart
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Wolfelt, Ph.D.
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Healing a Friend's Grieving Heart
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Wolfelt, Ph.D.
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Healing Grief
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Hillyard Jensen, Amy
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Healing Grief at Work
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Wolfelt, Ph.D.
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Healing Your Grieving Heart: 100 Practical Ideas
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Wolfelt, Ph.D.
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Healing Your Grieving Body
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Wolfelt, Ph.D.
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Healing Your Traumatized Heart
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Wolfelt, Ph.D.
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Helping Children Cope with Disasters and Terrorism
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LaGreca, Silverman, Vernberg, and Roberts
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Helping Children Cope with Grief
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Wolfelt, Ph.D.
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Here if You Need Me
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Brawstrup, Kate
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Holding onto Hope
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Guthrie, Nancy
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Holiday Hope
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Many Authors
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Homicide Survivors: Misunderstood Grievers
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Bucholz
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How to go on Living When Someone You Love Dies
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Rando
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How to Survive the Loss of a Love
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Colgrove, Bloomfield, and McWilliams
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I Know Just How You Feel: Avoiding the Cliches of Grief
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Linn, Erin
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I Miss My Dad…
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Tomei, Eric
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I Walked a Mile with Sorrow
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Cleckley
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I Wasn't Ready to Say Goodbye
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Noel and Blair
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If I Could Just See Hope
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Sims
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I'll Never Forget Those Words
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Harris-Lord and Stewart
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Midlife Orphan
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Brooks, Jane
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Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss
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Edelman
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My Walk Through Grief
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Klopfenstein, Janette
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No One Should See What I Have Seen
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Centering Corporation
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November of the Soul: The Enigma of Suicide
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Colt, George Howe
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On Playing a Poor Hand Well
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Katz, Mark
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One You Love Had Cancer
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Miller
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Safe Passage
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Fumia
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She Came to Live Out Loud
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MacPherson
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Shelter Me
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Fay, Juliette
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Sibling Grief
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White, P. Gill
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Standing Beside You
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Maurer
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Star Child- A Mother's Journey Through Grief
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Martin
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Step into the Light: Living in the Shadowof the Ghosts of Grief
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Wolfelt, Ph.D.
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Suicide of a Child: For Parents Whose Child Has Completed Suicide
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Wrobleski
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Surviving the Death of a Sibling
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Urrau
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Take My Hand
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Marshall, Johnson
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Tear Soup
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Schwiebert, Deklyen
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The Colors of Grief
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DiCiacco, Janis A.
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The Comfort Book
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Seskin
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The Empty Chair: The Journey of Grief After Suicide
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Glover, Beryl S.
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The Empty Chair
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Zonnebelt-Smeenge and DeVries
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The Empty Room
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DeVita-Raeburn, Elizabeth
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The End is Just the Beginning: Lessons in Grieving for African Americans
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Churn, Ph.D.
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The Five People You Meet in Heaven
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Albom, Mitch
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The Goldfish Went on Vacation
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Dann, Patty
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The Grief Club
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Beattie, Melody
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The Grief of Parents when a Child Dies
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Shandor Miles, Margaret
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The Grief Recovery Handbook
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James & Friedman
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The Grieving Child: A Parent's Guide
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Fitzgerlad
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The Grieving Garden: Living with the Death of a Child
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Redfern and Gilbert
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The Healing Journey Through Grief
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Rich, EdD, MSW
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The Healing Power of Love
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Lintermans and Stolzman
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The Healing Quilt
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Snelling
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The Kinittin Circle
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Hood, Ann
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The Seven T's
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Collins, Judy
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The Warming of Winter
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Jensen, Maxine
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The Wilderness of Grief
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Wolfelt, Ph.D.
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The Year of Magical Thinking
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Didion, Joan
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To Live Until We Say Goodbye
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Kubler-Ross
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Tracks of a Fellow Struggler
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Claypool, John R.
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Understanding Anger During Bereavement
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Baugher, Ph.D.; Hankins, MS; and Hankins, Ph.D.
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Understanding Grief: Helping Yourself Heal
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Wolfelt, Ph.D.
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Understanding Your Grief
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Wolfelt, Ph.D.
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Understanding Your Suicide Grief
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Wolfelt, Ph.D.
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Water Bugs
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Stickney
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What About the Kids?
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Dougy Center
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What Can I Say and Do?
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Osmont
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What Helped Me When my Loved One Died
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Grollman
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What Will Help Me?
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Miller
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When a Child Has Been Murdered
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Conrad
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When a Grandchild Dies
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Galinsky
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When a Man Faces Grief
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Golden Miller
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When Men Grieve
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Levang
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When the Bough Breaks: Forever After the Death of a Son or Daughter
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Bernstein, Ph.D.
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When There are No Words
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Walton
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When We Hurt
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Yancy, Phillip
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When Your Baby Dies
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Gamino, Cooney
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When Your Pet Dies: A Guide to Mourning, Remembering and Healing
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Wolfelt, Ph.D.
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Winter Grief, Summer Grace: Returning to life After a Loved One Dies
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Miller, James
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Your Grieving Child: Answers to Questions on Death and Dying
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Dodds, Bill
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Last Child in the Woods
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Louv, Richard
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Learning to Say Goodbye: When a Parent Dies
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LeShan, Eda
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Life Beyond Loss
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Camellia Home Health and Hospice
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Life Lessons
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Kubler-Ross, Kessler
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Life without Lisa
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Ballo
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Living Still Loving Always
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Aasen, Nita G.
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Living When a Loved One Has Died
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Grollman, Earl A.
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Living When a Young Friend Commits Suicide
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Grollman, Malikow
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Real Men Do Cry
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Hipple, Eric
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Remembering with Love
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Levang
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Renewing Your Spirit
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Williams
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Roses in December
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Heavilin
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The Dividing Line
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Moren
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Touched by Suicide
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Myers & Fine
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Children's Grief
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Cat Heaven
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Rylant
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Aarvy Arrdvark Find's Hope
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O'Toole
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A Child's Book About Burial and Cremation
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Grollman and Johnson
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A Child's Book About Death
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Grollman and Johnson
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A Pillow for My Mom
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Charissa Sgouros
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A Quilt for Elizabeth
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Tiffault, Bennette W.
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A Terrible Thing Happened
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Holmes, Margaret
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After Charlotte's Mom Died
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Spelman, Cornelia
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Always My Brother
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Reagan, Jean
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Angel Catcher for kids
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Eldon
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Animal Crackers
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Marshall, Bridget
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Badger's Parting Gifts
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Varley
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Brave Bart
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Sheppard
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Buzzy Jellison: The Funeral Home Cat
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White
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Chester Raccoon and the Acorn Full of Memories
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Penn, Audrey
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Dog Heaven
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Rylant
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Don't Dispair on Thursdays!
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Moser
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Don't Laugh at Me
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Seskin, Steve and Allen Shamblin
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Double-Dip Feelings: Stories to Help Children Understand Emotions
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Cain, Barbara
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Drawing Together to Learn about Feelings
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Heegaard, Marge E.
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Elsie's Bird
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Yolen, Jane and Small, David
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Everyday Changes, But Love Endures
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Carney, Pilkington
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Forever in My Heart
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Levine
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Gentle Willow: A Story for Children About Dying
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Mills, Ph.D.
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Getting Used to Candy
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Landalf
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Glad Monster, Sad Monster
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Emberley, Miranda
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Going to the Doctor
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Brazelton, T. Berry MD
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Good-bye Sheepie
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Burleigh
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Grandfather's Lovesong
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Lindbergh, Reeve
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Hooray for You: A Celebration of "you-ness"
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Richmond
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I Had a Friend Named Peter
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Cohn
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I Hate Goodbyes!
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Szaj, Kathleen C.
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I Heard Your Daddy Died
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Scrivani
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I Miss You: A First Look at Death
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Thomas, Pat
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I Wish I Were a Butterfly
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Howe, James
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If Nathan Were Here
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Bahr
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I'm Gonna Like Me
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Curtiss, Cornell
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Incredibly Lonely, That’s Me
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Keckler
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It Must Hurt a Lot: A Child's Book About Death
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Sanford, Doris
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It Takes a Village
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Cowen Fletcher, Jane
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Jungle Journey
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McIntyre
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Just a Heartbreak Away
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Constans, Gabriel
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Kinda Blue
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Grifalconi, Ann
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Mending Peter's Heart
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Wittbold
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Michael Rosen's Sad Book
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Rosen, Blake
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Molly's Mom Died
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Holmes
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Mommy Stayed in Bed This Morning
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Weaver
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Moonlight Memories
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Lewis
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Muddles, Puddles and Sunshine
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Crossley
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My Always Sister Coloring Book
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My Many Colored Days
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Suess
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My Grieving Journey Book
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Shavatt
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Nana Upstairs & Nana Downstairs
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dePaola
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Not Just Fish
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Hemery
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Now One Foot, Now the Other
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dePaola
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Play it Safe!
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Learning Resources
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Remembering Mrs. Rossi
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Hest, Amy
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Sad Hug, Mad Hug, Happy Hug
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Channing L. Bete Company
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Sad Isn't Bad
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Mundy
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Sam's Dad Died
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Holmes
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Sarah's Grandma Goes to Heaven
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Boelts
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Someday Heaven
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Libby
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Sometimes I Feel Like a Storm Cloud
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Evans
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Stacy Had a Little Sister
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Old
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Sunflowers and Rainbows for Tia: Saying Goodbye to Daddy
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Alexander-Greene
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Tell Me, Papa
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Johnson, Joy and Dr, Marvin
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Thank You for Coming to Say Goodbye
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Roberts and Johnson
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The Brightest Star!
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Maresh Hemery, Janice
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The Butterfly Bush
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Evarts, Dawn Michelle
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The Empty Place: A Child's Guide Through Grief
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Temes, Ph.D.
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The Fall of Freddie the Leaf
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Buscaghla, Ph.D.
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The Garden Angle
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Czech, Jan
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The Goodbye Boat
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Joslin
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The Grief Bubble
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DeBay, Kerry
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The Healing Book
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Sabin
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The Hope Tree…Kids Talk About Breast Cancer
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Numeroff and Harpham, MD
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The Invisable String
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Karst
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The Memory Box
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McLaughlin
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The Memory String
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Bunting
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The Next Place
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Hanson
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The Purple Balloon
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Raschka, Christ
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The Saddest Time
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Simon
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The Sky Goes on Forever
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MacGregor, Molly
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The Snowman
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Vogel
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The Tenth Good Thing About Barney
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Viorst
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The Three Questions
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Muth, Jon J.
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The Velveteen Rabbit
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Williams, Margery
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The Wall
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Bunting, Eve
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Today I Feel Silly
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Curtiss
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Too Far Away to Touch
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Newman
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Tough Boris
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Fox, Mem
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What Happens When Someone Dies?
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Flynn, Jessie
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What Make You Happy
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Young, Amy
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What on Earth Do You Do When Someone Dies?
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Romain, Trevor
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What's Heaven
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Shriver
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When Dinosaurs Die
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Brown
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When Pete's Dad Got Sick
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Bostrom
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When the Wind Stops
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Zolotow, Charlotte
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When William Went Away
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Davies, Sally
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When Your Grandparent Dies
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Ryan
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Where The Balloons Go
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Coleman
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Where Do Balloons Go?
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Curtis, Jamie Lee
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Where is Robert?
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Dernederlanden, Christine
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Where's Jess?
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Johnson
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Why Did Grandpa Die?
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Hazen, Barbara S.
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Why Do People Die?
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MacGregor, Cynthia
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Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge
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Fox
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Life Isn't Always a Day at the Beach
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Ganz
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Lifetimes
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Ingpen, Mellonie
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Lighthouse
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Munsch, Robert
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Listen to the Raindrops
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Kignell, Kirk
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Lost and Found: Remembering a Sister
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Yeamans, Ellen
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Saying Good-Bye to Grandma
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Thomas |
Teen Grief
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Alicia
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Delacre, Lulu
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Chelsey
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Shannon
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Crossing 13 - Memoir of a Father's Suicide
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Hugus, Carrie Stark
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Eric
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Lund, Doris
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Facing Change
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O'Toole
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Fire in My Heart, Ice in My Veins
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Samuel-Traisman
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Healing Your Grieving Heart for Teens: 100 Practical Ideas
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Wolfelt, Ph.D.
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Help for Hard Times: Getting Through Loss
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Hipp, Earl
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Hurting Yourself: For Young People who Attempted Suicide
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Harper
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I Will Remember You
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Dower
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Papa, My Father
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Buscaglia
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Teens Write Through It
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Various Writers
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The Ultimate Teen Guide -Teens, Loss and Grief
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Myers
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Understanding and Addressing Adolescent Grief Issues
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Opalewski, David A, MA
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Weird is Normal When Teenagers Grieve
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Wheeler
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When a Friend Dies
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Gootman
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When Death Walks In
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Serivani, Mark
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When Nothing Matters Anymore: A Survival Guide for Depressed Teens
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Cobain
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You Are Not Alone
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Hughes
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Am I Still a Sister?
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Sims |
Miscarriage, Stillbirth and Infant Death
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A Father's Story
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Neslon, Timothy
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A Grandparent's Sorrow
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Pat Swchweirbert
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A Silent Sorrow
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Kohn & Moffitt
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After the Loss of Your Baby: For Teen Mothers
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Nykiel, Connie
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Always Precious in Our Memory
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Johnson-Ingram, Kristen
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Another Baby? Maybe…
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Ilse, Sherokee
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Beyond Tears
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Mitchell, Ellen
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Dear Barbara, Dear Lynne: The True Story of Two Women in Search of Motherhood
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Shulgold and Sipiora
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Death of a Dream
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Ewy, Donna and Rodger
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Empty Arms: Coping with Miscarriage, Stillbirth and Infant Death
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Ilse, Sherokee
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Empty Arms: Emotional Support for Those who have Suffered Miscarriage or Stillbirth
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Vredevelt, Pam W.
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Empty Cradle, Broken Heart
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Davis, Deborah
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Grieve Not
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Blue Lantern Studio
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How to go on Living After the Death of a Baby
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Peppers, Ph.D. and Knapp, Ph.D.
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Miscarriage: A Man's Book
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Wheat, Rick
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Momma: For Parents of Infant Loss to Grieve and Heal By
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Schweirbert, Pat
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Parental Loss of a Child
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Rando, Therese A.
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Planning a Precious Goodbye
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Ilse and Martinez
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She Was Born, She Died
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Cohen, Marion
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Silent Grief: Miscarriage; Child Loss, Finding Your Way Through the Darkness
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Hinton, Clara
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Someone Came Before You
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Schwierbert
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Stillborn: The Invisable Death
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DeFrain, John
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Strong and Tender
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Schwierbert, Pat
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Surviving Pregnancy Loss
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Friedman, MD and Gradstein MPH
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Too Soon a Memory
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Schwierbert, Pat
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We Were Gonna Have a Baby; but We Had an Angel Instead
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Schweibert
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When a Baby Dies
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Church, Chazin, and Ewald
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When Hello Means Goodbye
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Schweibert
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When Joy Withers Away
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Vander Meyden, Calvin D.
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When Pregnancy Fails
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Borg and Lasker
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Uncertain Motherhood: Negotiating the Risks of the Childbearing Years
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Field and Beryl Marck
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Unsupported Losses: Ectopic Pregnancy, Molar Pregnancy, and Blighted Ovum
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Ilse, Sherokee
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