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Recommended Reading
(including our Lending Library titles)

For a complete list of Anthony Chapels Recommended Reading, please email us and we will send you our list.

ADULTS FACING LOSS AND GRIEF
After Goodbye
By Ted Menten
Ted Menten writes about what it is like to grieve, remember and find a way to live again after losing a loved one.

After Loss
By Barbara LesStrang
After Loss provides help, hope and healing and the necessary insight and coping skills to guide you to recovery.

JOURNALS

Angel Catcher
By Kathy Eldon, Amy Eldon
This journal-type book prompts you to face the loss and remember special details and moments about the loved one by making statements that you have to complete. There is room for pictures, listing of people who have expressed sympathy, etc.

A Passage Through Grief: An Interactive Journal
By Barbara Baumgardner
Journaling is an effective way to deal with grief. This interactive volume demonstrates how anger, fear, despair, loneliness, and sense of loss can be replaced by feeling of relief and encouragement through the release of writing.

WHEN A SPOUSE DIES

A Grief Observed
By C.S. Lewis, Madeleine L'Engle
A very personal, anguished, luminous book about the meaning of death, marriage, and religion.

Being a Widow
By Lynn Caine
Caine offers practical advice and guidance to women lost in the loneliness and stress of widowhood.

WHEN A PARENT DIES

How to Survive the Loss of a Parent: A Guide for Adults
By Lois F. Akner, Catherine Whitney
This guide offers frank and compassionate help to those who may need support in dealing with a parent's death.

Letters from Motherless Daughters: Words of Courage, Grief and Healing
By Hope Edelman
This book shares letters received by countless motherless daughters.

MISCARRIAGE AND NEONATAL DEATHS

Empty Arms
By Sherokee Ilse
This is a hope-filled book that reaches out to all that have been touched by infant death or miscarriage. The author has experienced pregnancy losses and is a national consultant on the topic.

Empty Cradle, Broken Heart: Surviving the Death of Your Baby
By Deborah L. Davis
This book offers reassurance to parents who struggle with anger, guilt and despair after such a tragedy. The author encourages grieving and makes suggestions for coping.

SUICIDE AND TRAUMATIC DEATHS

After Suicide
By John H. Hewett, Wayne E. Oates
This book was written for person struggling in the aftermath of losing a family member or close friend to suicide. It provides valuable insight into the experience.

A Message of Hope
By Patricia Haines-Overly
Patricia is a grief consultant specializing in suicide. It was the death of her youngest son that led to her dedication and exploration of suicide and the pain it causes.

WHEN A CHILD DIES

After the Darkest Hour the Sun Will Shine Again: A Parent's Guide to Coping With the Loss of a Child
By Elizabeth Mehren, Harold Kushner
The inspiring guide to coping with the loss of a child combines the author's own story with the experiences and wisdom of others who have gone through the tragedy.

After the Death of a Child: Living With Loss Through the Years
By Ann K. Finkbeiner
A book that explores our own resilience in the midst of one of the most distressful forms of human suffering, the death of a child.

TEENS FACING LOSS AND GRIEF

Bereaved Children and Teens: A Support Guide for Parents and Professionals'
By Earl A. Grollman
A guide to help children and adolescents cope with the emotional, religious, social, and physical aspects of a loved one's death. It provides a comprehensive resource for parents trying to help bereaved children.

Coping When a Parent Dies
By Janet Grosshandler
For Children in grades 7-12. This book offers information and suggestions to teens (and their friends) experiencing the death of a parent.

CHILDREN FACING LOSS AND GRIEF

Aarvy Aardvark Find Hope
By Donna O'Toole
This is a wonderful way to teach and to learn about the grief process.

After the Funeral
By Jane Loretta Winsch, Jane L. Winch, Pamela Keating (Illustrator)
Reading level for 4-8 year olds. This book will help children and their families move forwards towards acceptance, understanding and hope.

HELPING CHILDREN FACE LOSS AND GRIEF

A Child's View of Grief
By Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph.D.
In this informative, easy-to-read book the author explains how children and adolescents grieve after someone loved dies. (Available in Video)

Bereaved Children and Teens
By Earl A. Grollman
This book is a complete resource for parents seeking to help children cope with the death of someone they know.


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National Funeral Directors Association

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National Hospice Organization

for those interested in hospice care

New York State Funeral Directors Association

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