Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"We're just going to look." Helen Brown had no intention of adopting a pet when she brought her young sons to visit a friend's new kittens. But the runt of the litter was irresistible, with her overlarge ears and dainty chin.
When Cleo was delivered weeks later, she had no way of knowing that her new family had just been hit by an unthinkable tragedy. Helen was sure she couldn't keep her-until she saw something she thought had vanished from earth...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 2006, Abby Rike lost the life she knew and loved when her husband and two young children were killed in a car accident. Devastated and numb, she shut down. For nearly three years she walked through life like a spectre, present in body only. As she descended, so did her health.
Fortunately, Abby was not alone. She had loving parents, supportive friends, and a faith that continued to sustain her. Little by little she found the courage to return...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Two-year-old Greta Greene was sitting with her grandmother on a park bench on the Upper West Side of Manhattan when a brick crumbled from a windowsill overhead, striking her unconscious. She is immediately rushed to the hospital. Once More We Saw Stars begins with this event, leading the reader into the unimaginable. But although it begins with the anguish Jayson and his wife Stacy confront in the wake of their daughter's trauma and the hours leading...
Publisher
Columbia Pictures Corporation
Pub. Date
1941
Physical Desc
1 videocassette : sd., b&w.
Language
English
Description
Julie Gardiner and Roger Adams marry just as his newspaper assigns him to Japan. In an earthquake, Julie loses the baby she is carrying and is left unable to have any others. Back in the United States, Roger buys and operates a small newspaper. They decide to adopt a child, Trina, and in an impassioned plea, Roger convinces the judge to let them keep her despite their economic straits due to the failing of the newspaper. Some years later, Trina dies...
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
[1996]
Physical Desc
xiv, 273 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
For a parent, losing a child is the most devastating event that can occur. Most books on the subject focus on grieving and recovery, but as most parents agree, there is no recovery from such a loss. This book examines the continued love parents feel for their child and the many poignant and ingenious ways they devise to preserve the bond. Through detailed profiles of parents, Ann Finkbeiner shows how new activities and changed relationships with their...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request