Catalog Search Results
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A special 25th anniversary edition of the beloved book that has changed millions of lives with the story of an unforgettable friendship, the timeless wisdom of older generations, and healing lessons on loss and grief—featuring a new afterword by the author
“A wonderful book, a story of the heart told by a writer with soul.”—Los Angeles Times
...
“A wonderful book, a story of the heart told by a writer with soul.”—Los Angeles Times
...
3) Crown Jewel
Author
Language
English
Description
Ricky Lam had it all -- a thriving film career, the adoration of countless fans, incredible wealth, and a cocaine and alcohol problem that was about to destroy him. Luckily, he also had a business manager -- his straight-arrow older brother Philip -- who strong-armed him into an addiction clinic. But not even the passage of fifteen years, Ricky's rehabilitation, and undreamed-of success for both men can mend the rift that erupted between the brothers...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
When a former student bungles a murder investigation, clinical psychologist Joseph O'Loughlin steps in to face a ruthless killer.
A mother and her teenage daughter are found murdered in a remote coastal home, one defiled by multiple stab wounds and the other posed like Sleeping Beauty waiting for her prince. Joe O'Loughlin is drawn into the investigation when a former student, trading on Joe's reputation by calling himself "the Mindhunter,"...
A mother and her teenage daughter are found murdered in a remote coastal home, one defiled by multiple stab wounds and the other posed like Sleeping Beauty waiting for her prince. Joe O'Loughlin is drawn into the investigation when a former student, trading on Joe's reputation by calling himself "the Mindhunter,"...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
A memoir of a college senior who, in the space of five weeks, loses both of his parents to cancer and inherits his eight-year-old brother. Here is an exhilarating debut that manages to be simltaneously hilarious and wildily inventive as well as a deeply hearfelt story of the love that holds a family together.
Author
Language
English
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
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[1996]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Explains in simple language the feelings people may have regarding the death of a loved one and the ways to honor the memory of someone who has died.
Author
Publisher
Arcade Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First North American paperback edition.
Physical Desc
352 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Sue Black confronts death every day. As Professor of Anatomy and Forensic Anthropology, she focuses on mortal remains in her lab, at burial sites, at scenes of violence, murder and criminal dismemberment, and when investigating mass fatalities due to war, accident or natural disaster. In All That Remains she reveals the many faces of death she has come to know, using key cases to explore how forensic science has developed, and what her work has taught...
Author
Publisher
Bonneville Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
"For a thirty-something Latter-Day Saint Gen-Xer, Todd Landry couldn't have been more stereotypical. He had the perfect family with slightly more children than the national average; a heritage rich with pioneer ancestry; and a four-bedroom house in suburbia heaven--otherwise known as Gilbert, Arizona. But nine months ago, on a night that continues to haunt his dreams, Todd's wife died unexpectedly--and suddenly everything changed. Now, to his utter...
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...
14) I wasn't ready to say goodbye: surviving, coping, and healing after the sudden death of a loved one
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Language
English
Description
Explores unexpected death and its role in the cycle of life.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A deeply compelling exploration of the death industry and the people-morticians, detectives, crime scene cleaners, embalmers, executioners-who work in it and what led them there. We are surrounded by death. It is in our news, our nursery rhymes, our true-crime podcasts. Yet from a young age, we are told that death is something to be feared. How are we supposed to know what we're so afraid of, when we are never given the chance to look? Fueled by...
Author
Publisher
Hay House
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
xxiii, 165 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Examines the experiences of people who are dying, drawing from the stories of healthcare professionals, clergy members, and family and friends to discuss deathbed visions, the phenomenon of death as a journey, and talk of crowded rooms.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request