Thoughtful Conversations Series: Dealing with Grief

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A community that supports and respects each other creates citizens who inspire and support each other. 

The library serves everyone in the quest for knowledge and lifelong learning.

We know there is a lot happening right now, and many conversations to be had as family, friends, communities, and neighbors. 

With this ongoing series, we'll be focusing on parts of our collection to help support your conversations at home and with others.

Enjoy Nonfiction as well as Fiction (with stories of characters that are journeying through grief or helping others to do so.)

To place holds from Bluffton Public Library, click on the links below: 

Note: This is not a complete list. Looking for more options or titles? Please explore the library catalog or request help from the library staff. 

FOR CHILDREN

• Mom's sweater / Jayde Perkin.
• Paws+Edward / written by Espen Dekko ; illustrated by Mari Kanstad Johnsen
• Tim's goodbye / Steven Salerno
• Holes in the sky / Patricia Polacco.
• Saying good-bye to Uncle Joe : what to expect when someone you love dies / by Nancy Loewen ; illustrated by Christopher Lyles.
• Good-bye, Jeepers : what to expect when your pet dies / by Nancy Loewen ; illustrated by Chris Lyles
• The cat next door / by Betty Ren Wright ; illustrations by Gail Owens.
• Ida, always / Caron Levis and Charles Santoso.
• The memory string / Eve Bunting ; illustrated by Ted Rand.
• Dad's camera / Ross Watkins ; illustrated by Liz Anelli
• A last goodbye / written by Elin Kelsey ; artwork by Soyeon Kim.
• Mama / Eleanor Schick.
• Flamingo dream / by Donna Jo Napoli ; illustrated by Cathie Felstead.
• Everything you need to know about grieving / Karen B. Spies.
• Tear soup : a recipe for healing after loss / story by Pat Schwiebert and Chuck DeKlyen ; illustrated by Taylor Bills.
• Grandma's scrapbook / by Josephine Nobisso ; illustrated by Maureen Hyde.
• My many colored days / by Dr. Seuss ; illustrated by Steve Johnson with Lou Fancher.

FOR MIDDLE GRADES

• Finding Orion / John David Anderson
• Mindy Kim and the yummy seaweed business / by Lyla Lee ; illustrated by Dung Ho
• Ophelia and the marvelous boy / Karen Foxlee.
• Firefly Hollow / Alison McGhee ; illustrated by Christopher Denise.
• The line tender / by Kate Allen
• Sal & Gabi break the universe / Carlos Hernandez
• Pilu of the woods / written, illustrated, colored, & lettered by Mai K. Nguyen
• The great big book of feelings / by Mary Hoffman ; illustrated by Ros Asquith.
• Everything you need to know when someone you know has been killed / Jay Schleifer.
• Death is stupid / written and illustrated by Anastasia Higginbotham.

FOR TEENS

• Six goodbyes we never said / Candace Ganger
• When will I stop hurting? : teens, loss, and grief / Edward Myers ; illustrations by Kelly Adams.
• Opposite of always / Justin A. Reynolds
• Wild blue wonder / Carlie Sorosiak
• The leading edge of now / Marci Lyn Curtis
• Tell me three things / by Julie Buxbaum.
• The beauty that remains / Ashley Woodfolk

FOR ADULTS

• Finding meaning : the sixth stage of grief / David Kessler
• What to do when I'm gone : a mother's wisdom to her daughter / Suzy Hopkins & Hallie Bateman.
• Grieving the child I never knew-- : a devotional companion for comfort in the loss of your unborn or newly born child / Kathe Wunnenberg.
• The widower's notebook : a memoir / Jonathan Santlofer
• The dead moms club : a memoir about death, grief, and surviving the mother of all losses / Kate Spencer
• Option B : facing adversity, building resilience, and finding joy / Sheryl Sandberg, Adam Grant
• The truth about grief : the myth of its five stages and the new science of loss / Ruth Davis Konigsberg.
• The grief recovery handbook for pet loss / Russell Friedman, Cole James, and John W. James.
• When your pet dies : a guide to mourning, remembering, and healing / by Alan D. Wolfelt.
• Breaking sad : what to say after loss, what not to say, and when to just show up / edited by Shelly Fisher & Jennifer Jones.
• The unwinding of the miracle : a memoir of life, death, and everything that comes after / by Julie Yip-Williams
• Dream new dreams : reimagining my life after loss / Jai Pausch.
• Maybe you should talk to someone : a therapist, her therapist, and our lives revealed / Lori Gottlieb
• A grief observed / C.S. Lewis
• Grieving the loss of a loved one / H. Norman Wright.
• Heavy : an American memoir / by Kiese Laymon
• Grief is the thing with feathers / Max Porter
• The year of magical thinking / Joan Didion.
• When breath becomes air / Paul Kalanithi ; foreword by Abraham Verghese.
• Love saves the day / Gwen Cooper.
• Dear Edward / Ann Napolitano
• Gravity is the thing / Jaclyn Moriarty
• The dream peddler / Martine Fournier Watson
• Olive, again / Elizabeth Strout
• Sight : a novel / Jessie Greengrass
• Late air : a novel / Jaclyn Gilbert

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