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All God's Creatures Go To Heaven
By Amy Nolfo-Wheeler
$19.95, plus $7.00 shipping, plus $1.85 tax
Original Paintings by N.A. Noel Original Short Story by Amy Nolfo-Wheeler Hard Cover Shares the loving story of our animal pets that have died and the angels that care for them until we are reunited. Multiple pictures by N.A. Noel. Cover glows in the dark
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When the Bough Breaks
Forever after the death of a son or daughter
$12.95, plus $6.00 shipping, plus $1.30 tax
By Judith R. Bernstein, Ph.D. A poignant and sensitive book that offers bereaved parents the comfort of learning how others have navigated this rutted road. With great honesty and empathy, it acknowledges that no family ever "recovers" from this tragedy, but rather adapts to a life irretrievably altered.
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The How To's Of Creative Castings
A guide for creating three-dimensional sculptures
$15.95, plus $7.00 shipping, plus $1.58 tax
By Diana Sundwall founder and executive director of Infants Remembered In Silence, Inc. (IRIS) Provides step by step directions on creating breathtaking sculptures of a child's hands and feet regardless of the child's skin condition or gestational age/age.
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Empty Cradle, Broken Heart
Surviving the Death of Your Baby
$18.95, plus $7.00 shipping, plus $1.78 tax
Author: Deborah L. Davis, Ph.D. ~ The heartache of miscarriage, stillbirth, or infant death affects thousand of U.S. families every year. Empty Cradle, Broken Heart offers reassurance to parents who struggle with anger, guilt, and despair after such tragedy. Encourages grieving and makes suggestions for coping.
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The Fall of Freddie the Leaf
A Story of Life for All Ages
$13.95, plus $6.00 shipping, plus $1.37 tax
By Leo Buscaglia Hard Cover A warm wonderfully wise and strikingly simple story about a leaf named Freddie. How Freddie and his companion leaves change with the passing season, finally falling to the ground with winter's snow, is an inspiring allegory illustrating the delicate balance between life and death. Both children and adults will be deeply touched by this inspiring, thought-provoking treatment of so sensitive a facet of true life.
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Getting Through Grief
From a Parent's Point of View
$12.95, plus $6.00 shipping, plus $1.30 tax
By Deborah R. Gemmill Debbie takes her extraordinary literary talent and strikes just the right notes in her essays about feelings and relationships in the aftermath of SIDS, bringing comfort and understanding to people who read her work.
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For Bereaved Grandparents
$4.95, plus $4.00 shipping, plus $0.61 tax
By Margaret H. Gerner - A Centering Corporation Resource Grief is the normal reaction to a loss. Actually, we experience grief throughout our lives. A pet dies. A friend moves away. Our children go off to college. We lose a job. We grieve these losses, but we don't always realize that's what we are doing. With a grandchild's death, we face one of life's most painful griefs.
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Jacob's Story
A Journey of Faith
$12.95, plus $6.00 shipping, plus $1.30 tax
By John Agliata Four months before little Jacob breathed his first breath through damaged lungs not ready for this world, God's plan for him started to unfold. Without a voice of his own Jacob and his plight united first a handful and ultimately thousands in a common prayer. Jacob's Story is a journey of hope amidst heartache, perseverance amidst pain and joy amidst suffering. It is a journey that reveals how God can use even His tiniest servants to work all thing together for His glory.
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Life Touches Life
A Mother's Story of Stillbirth and Healing
$13.95, plus $6.00 shipping, plus $1.37 tax
By Lorraine Ash Unable to find answers when her only child, Victoria, was stillborn, Lorraine Ash came to write the book she longed for. It is a road-map from pain and chaos to understanding and acceptance. Drawing on great thinkers, personal loves, and a wisdom in everyday events, Ash explains how she made it through this difficult emotional terrain after her daughters stillbirth and how her experiences led to richer ways of seeing, being, and loving in the world.
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This Little While
For parents experiencing the death of a very small infant
$3.50, plus $4.00 shipping, plus $0.52 tax
By Joy and Dr. S.M Johnson Full of information beginning with hearing the bad news, recognizing the reality, things to do before you leave the hospital, naming your baby, grieving the loss, healing together.
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A Piece of My Heart
Living Through the Grief of Miscarriage, Stillbirth, or Infant Death
$14.95, plus $6.00 shipping, plus $1.44 tax
By Molly Fumia The loss of a child to miscarriage, stillbirth, or infant death is a devastating experience to parents who were anticipating the joy of a new presence in their lives. Molly Fumia provides a safe place where grieving can lead to healing. By telling her powerful moving story - the loss of her week-old son, Jeremy - she affirms the sacred right that all of us have to mourn the loss. Give hope that in dealing with the pain and honoring the grief process we all can eventually be healed.
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Unspeakable Losses
Healing from Miscarriage, Abortion, and Other Pregnancy Loss
$14.00, plus $6.00 shipping, plus $1.38 tax
By Kim Kluger-Bell This comforting and healing book is a must - not only for women who have at one time experienced pregnancy loss but also for their parents, sisters, daughters, brothers, and friends. Filled with in-depth stories of those who have experienced losses and is a necessary companion to all those who care about them.
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The Next Place
$15.95, plus $7.00 shipping, plus $1.58 tax
By Warren Hanson Hard Cover The Next Place is an inspirational journey of light and hope to a place where earthly hurts are left behind. An uncomplicated journey of awe and wonder to a destination without barriers. Lose yourself in the uplifting sense of comfort and serenity. Embrace the joyful spirit of oneness. Then pour yourself into the lives of those you love. The Next Place is, above all, a celebration of life. Hear the music. Feel the warmth. And be carried away along life's everlasting flight.
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Tear Soup
A Recipe For Healing After Loss
$19.95, plus $7.00 shipping, plus $1.85 tax
By Pat Schwiebert and Chuck DeKlyen, Illustrated by Taylor Bills Hard Cover In our richly illustrated new book, Grandy has just suffered a big loss in her life, and so she is cooking up her own unique batch of "tear soup." Tear Soup gives you a glimpse into Grandy's life as she blends different ingredients into her own grief process. Her tear soup will help to bring her comfort and ultimately Help to fill the void in her life that was created by her loss. Tear Soup affirms the bereaved, educates the unbereaved and is a building block for children.
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Our Stories of Miscarriage
Healing with Words
$13.95, plus $6.00 shipping, plus $1.37 tax
By Rachel Faldet and Karen Fitton Fifty contributors, including four men, share vivid, real-life accounts of how miscarriage has affected their lives. By articulating often unspoken feelings and experiences, the authors of these moving short stories, journal entries, and poems provide emotional support and healing comfort for others who, like them, have been touched by miscarriage.
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When a Baby Dies
A Handbook for Healing and Helping
$14.25, plus $6.00 shipping, plus $1.39 tax
By Rana K. Limbo and Sara Rich Wheeler The Authors build a bridge of understanding between parents and funeral directors and help lay a foundation for a more healing funeral experience. Compassionate, solid knowledge based on grief process, accurate resources, plus positive ways to provide choices and directions.
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Sharing The Tears
How Family and Friend Can Help Following the Death of a Child.
$4.95, plus $6.00 shipping, plus $0.75 tax
By Diana Sundwall, Founder and Executive Director of Infants Remembered In Silence, Inc. (IRIS) A wonderful resource for family and friends who wish to help grieving parents. Includes: How parents feel and why, How friends and family are affected, common responses to grief, your reactions, well-meaning family and friends, comments that hurt and why, how to talk to parents, words that help, what can I do to help?, how family and friends should care for themselves, and finding help. 48 pages of grieving parents explaining how others can Share the Tears and ease their pain. A must have resource!
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Healing Your Grieving Body
100 Physical Practices for Mourners: Simple mind-body tips and activities to help you care for yourself when you are grieving
$11.95, plus $6.00 shipping, plus $1.23 tax
By Alan D. Wolfelt, PH.D. and Kirby J. Duvall, M.D. Since the death of someone loved, do you have muscle aches, and pains, problems with eating and sleeping, low energy, headaches, and other physical symptoms? When you are grieving, your body often lets you know it feels distressed, too. In fact, you may be shocked by how much your body responds to the impact of your loss. The mind-body connection in grief is profoundly strong, but taking care of your body in the 100 ways described in this compassionate, practical guide will help you soothe your body as you heal your heart and soul.
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Healing A Parent's Grieving Heart
100 Practical Ideas After your Child Dies - Compassionate advice and simple activities that have helped thousands of grieving parents learn to live again
$11.95, plus $6.00 shipping, plus $1.23 tax
By Alan D. Wolfelt, PH.D This book offers 100 practical idea's that have helped other grieving parents understand and reconcile their grief. Common challenges for grieving parents, such as dealing with marital stress, helping surviving siblings, dealing with hurtful advice and exploring feelings of guilt, are also addressed. Whether your child was young or an adult, whether your loss was recent or many years ago, this compassionate and easy-to-read resource will be a source of comfort and healing.
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Stolen Joy
Healing After Infertility and Infant Loss
$5.95
By Anne Barney A book of poetry. Too often, miscarriage, stillbirth, and infant death isolate the bereaved parents. For those who have felt alone with their loss, these poems give a voice to the feelings, and companionship in suffering. Anne shares her strength as well as her pain. Her poems, though often stark, just as the death of a child is stark, offer comfort and healing.
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Understanding Your Grieving Heart After a Loved One's Death
$12.95, plus $6.00 shipping, plus $1.30 tax
By Mary M. Wong Many books touch upon the subject of grief, but none so comprehensively as Understanding Your Grieving Heart. Learn about: myths surrounding the grieving process, the emotional, physical, spiritual, social, intellectual and financial challenges of grief. How to deal with anger, fear, stress, loneliness, regrets, depression and more.
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How Will I Get Through The Holidays?
12 Ideas for those Whose Loved One Has Died
$6.95, plus $6.00 shipping, plus $0.89 tax
By James E. Miller Grief is difficult any time of the year. It is doubly difficult during the holidays, or during any of those times of commemoration that hold special meaning. That includes birthdays, anniversaries, Mother's Day, Father's Day, and any other days that have held significance for you and the one who died. Gathering ideas from his extensive work with the bereaved, Jim Miller offers a host of suggestions to help.
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Strong and Tender
$3.50, plus $6.00 shipping, plus $0.65 tax
By Pat Schwiebert, RN A Guide for the Father whose baby has died. Topics include: Being a man in our culture, what's a father to do, while at the hospital, if your baby died in early pregnancy, whit if you don't experience a profound sense of loss, things you can do for your baby, expressing intimacy during bereavement, taking care of yourself as well as your partner and that relationship, and much more.
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Miscarriage Women Sharing From the Heart
$17.95, plus $7.00 shipping, plus $1.72 tax
By Marie Allen, PhD, and Shelly Marks, MS Compassion and support from 100 women with their personal stories. Women who miscarry must not and need not be left in emotional isolation. Based on the authors' own experiences as well as the shared experiences of women from across the country. Support, empathy, and a clear path towards healing. Interviews with fathers on how they have been affected. Helpful advice for partners, family and health care professionals.
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Bittersweet ... hello goodbye
A Resource in Planning Farewell Rituals When a Baby Dies
$25.00, plus $7.00 shipping, plus $2.20 tax
Second Edition Edited by Sr. Jane Marie Lamb Contains six sections on planning farewell rituals. Includes scriptures, poems, music, blessings, holidays, anniversaries, and much more. Perfect resource for churches, funeral homes, and those that create special memorial services.
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