September 30, 2025
In My Cemetery Friends, Vincent J. Tomeo interweaves observation, memoir, poetry and anecdote to create a portrait of himself in relation to the Mount Saint Mary graveyard in Queens, New York.
Tomeo’s mother, aunt, some friends and neighbors are buried in this graveyard, and he visits their graves frequently during his exercise walks throughout the […]
February 18, 2025
The death of Rose Diamond’s only surviving family member sends her on a years-long journey of insight into the blessings of grief, as recounted in her book, A Story of Transformation, which also offers advice to those facing similar struggles.
David was 71 when he died suddenly of a heart attack. Rose had reconnected with […]
February 18, 2025
In November 2014, NYC artist Lynn Kotula was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer. It quickly migrated to her spine, causing profound deterioration and excruciating pain. In this poignant memoir, Kotula’s husband, Tony Stewart, details their difficult journey through a labyrinth of healthcare providers and clinical trials in their desperate search for a cure.
Initially, […]
April 18, 2022
By reliving her personal journey through grief, author Connie Berg hopes to guide others who have suffered loss to experience heart-healing and find new hope for the life ahead.
Berg’s book provides opportunity for her readers to reflect, remember, and journal their thoughts and prayers as they move through the stages of grieving. Each page […]
December 6, 2021
With Journey’s End, editors Victoria Brewster and Julie Saeger Nierenberg offer a valuable sourcebook on death and dying.
The editors begin by offering context to the subject, with chapters discussing: how people experience the process of death, hospice and palliative care, what constitutes a “good death,” and the COVID pandemic.
These are followed by essays […]
June 29, 2020
Living Forward After Loss: Rebuilding Your Life After Losing Your Life Partner describes the poignant challenges Kathleen Ho faced during the first 18 months after her husband David died from a stroke, with Ho providing suggestions to help others navigate this heartbreaking path.
“If you have met death,” she writes, “I share this unimaginable pain […]
September 23, 2019
Nine years of her own evolution from devastation to acceptance, Linda Zelik offers this valuable book to aid other parents grieving the sudden death of a child.
Linda and her husband had no time to prepare for the shock of her 24-year-old son Kevin’s death by asphyxiation. “The next three years were the […]
May 27, 2019
For 20 years, Misty Proffitt-Thompson struggled with the grief of losing her 23-year-old sister Stephanie in a violent, unsolved murder. Through what the author calls “soul to soul experiences,” in which Stephanie “was watching over me and surrounding me with love,” and Proffitt-Thompson’s own resolute journey to self-fulfillment, she can now say, “Stephanie’s tragic death […]
January 7, 2019
In It’s Grief, psychotherapist Edy Nathan offers an invaluable road map for navigating grief, whether caused by the death of an intimate or another loss such as divorce, abuse, a career setback, or serious illness.
Nathan knows the territory, having experienced grief after the death of her first love. This brought back the memory of […]
October 29, 2018
In If You Are Struggling, Beverly Ann Needham shares her fierce battles with mental illness.
Needham was diagnosed with clinical depression in 1986, six years before she had the last of her seven children. She writes of the “pain in my soul [which] pressed heavily on my mind.” After one sleepless night, […]