Henry Carter Hull

This is Richard Brautigan's last novel, published posthumously in 2000, now in audio for the first time. Richard Brautigan was an original-brilliant and wickedly funny. His books resonated with the 1960s, making him an overnight counterculture hero. Taken in its entirety, his body of work reveals an artistry that outreaches the literary fads that so quickly swept him up. Dark, funny, and exquisitely haunting, his final book-length fiction explores...

When Mommies Cry details the journey of the author as she experiences the loss of her baby. Beth Withers Banning delves deep into her soul to express lessons she learned from her first-hand knowledge of grief and offers life lessons to assist in the grieving process for mothers everywhere. Ms. Withers Banning takes the reader through a personal narrative of her experience and shares on every level the emotions, reactions, associations, and results...

In an attempt to overcome his grief, a boy tries to think of the ten best things about his dead cat.

A renowned ethicist who himself faced death during a recent life-threatening illness, Allen Verhey in The Christian Art of Dying sets out to recapture dying from the medical world. Seeking to counter the medicalization of death that is so prevalent today, Verhey revisits the fifteenth-century Ars Moriendi, an illustrated spiritual self-help manual on "the art of dying." Finding much wisdom in that little book but rejecting its Stoic and Platonic worldview,...

"The poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 -- 1950) have been long admired for the lyric beauty that is especially characteristic of her early works. "Renascence," the first of her poems to bring her public acclaim, was written when she was nineteen. Now one of the best-known American poems, it is a fervent and moving account of spiritual rebirth. In 1917, "Renascence" was incorporated into her first volume of poetry, which is reprinted here, complete...

Two staff members uncover an embezzlement scheme, and are rewarded with a weekend at their boss's beach house. When they arrive, they find his corpse and decide to pretend that he's still alive.

"From the bestselling coauthor of Broken Strings , "a sensitive and supportive approach to . . . the universal, ageless experiences of love and loss" ( Quill & Quire ). A heartfelt new picture book from bestselling children's author Eric Walters ( From the Heart of Africa ) and Halifax-based artist Carloe Liu. In this poignant story, we follow young Emily who has recently lost her grandfather. As she grows, she discovers a series of letters he left...

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The death of Bob's cat prompts his friends and family to give him a surprise birthday party and a very special present.