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Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief

By David Kessler. Scribner, 2019. 272 pages. $26/hardcover; $17/paperback (available in September); $13.99/eBook. You woke up the morning after a…

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A Tender Time: Quaker Voices on the End of Life

By Patricia M. Nesbitt and Kristin Camitta Zimet. Baltimore Yearly Meeting, 2024. 212 pages. $18/paperback. “What happens when we die?”…

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Plain Talk about Dying: The Spiritual Effects of Taking My Father off Life Support

By Shulamith Clearbridge. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (number 479), 2023. 31 pages. $7.50/paperback or eBook. Imagine this: Your father is in…

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One Caregiver’s Journey with Dementia

By Anne Felton. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (number 477), 2022. 29 pages. $7.50/pamphlet. “In the beginning was the word . .…

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Finding Refuge: Heart Work for Healing Collective Grief

By Michelle Cassandra Johnson. Shambhala Publications, 2021. 168 pages. $17.95/paperback; $13.99/eBook. I’d guess there are Friends Journal readers who know…

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The Anatomy of Grief

By Dorothy P. Holinger. Yale University Press, 2020. 328 pages. $27.50/hardcover or eBook. I can’t believe it is one’s first…

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Aging with Agency: Building Resilience, Confronting Challenges, and Navigating Eldercare

By Sandi Peters. North Atlantic Books, 2020. 304 pages. $17.95/paperback; $12.99/eBook. Aging with Agency is a valuable field guide for…

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Care of the Dying: A Spiritual Discipline

Attending the death of a loved one is a painful, sometimes disturbing experience. Frequently it has a deeply mysterious quality,…

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Winter in Fairbanks

The sun, high in the late afternoon sky, is warm on my bare arms this spring, 2001, day in Alaska.…

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A Seal upon the Heart: Quaker Readings in the Song of Songs

By Michael Birkel. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (number 438), 2016. 34 pages. $7/pamphlet. “Kisses Sweeter Than Wine”—some of us can remember…

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