Compassionate Friends
library
Books available for
loan and books missing (if you have a missing one, please let me know)
December 2009
Note: if you cannot attend meetings, a
friend can take out a book for you. You can also come to my house in El
Sobrante (near
Key: Any of
“Kind” listed with “Pro” after it means written by a professional grief counselor.
Most others are written by parents who have lost one or more children.
|
Kind |
Author |
Title |
Date |
Publisher |
|
|
AIDS |
Fumia, M;. |
Honor Thy Children |
1997 |
Conari Press |
|
|
AIDS |
Glaser ;Palmerr
|
In the Absence of Angels |
1991 |
|
|
|
Baby |
Church;Chazin; Ewald |
When a Baby Dies |
1981 |
Compassionate Friends |
|
|
Baby |
Cohen |
She Was Born She Died |
1983 |
Centering Corp |
|
|
Baby |
Kohner; Henley |
When a Baby Dies |
1991 |
Sands |
|
|
Baby |
Rank, M |
Free to Grieve Miscarriage &
Stillbirth |
1985 |
Bethany House |
|
|
Baby-Pro |
Horchler;Morris |
The SIDS Survival Guide |
1994 |
SIDS Educ
Service |
|
|
Baby-Pro |
Peppers; Knapp |
How to Go on Living After
the Death of a Baby |
1985 |
Peachtree Publishers |
|
|
Grief |
Bordow, J |
The Ultimate Loss |
1982 |
|
|
|
Grief |
Baugher & Calija |
A Guide to for the Bereaved
Survivor |
1991 |
self |
|
|
Grief |
Bramblett |
When Good-bye is Forever |
1991 |
Ballentine |
|
|
Grief |
Crider, T |
Give sorrow Words |
1996 |
Alognquin Books |
|
|
Grief |
Eneroth, C |
Does Anybody Else Hurt this
Bad – And Live |
1991 |
Otis Publications |
|
|
Grief |
Fox |
I have No Intention of
saying Good-bye |
2001 |
Writer’s club |
|
|
Grief |
Fritsch;Ilse |
The Anguish of Loss |
1988 |
Wintergreen Pr |
|
|
Grief |
Fumia, M |
Safe Passage |
1992 |
Conarie Press |
|
|
Grief |
Hackett; Bevington |
Now Childless |
1990 |
Compassionate Friends |
|
|
Grief |
Heavilin, M. |
When Your Dreams Die |
1990 |
Here’s Life Publishers |
|
|
Grief |
Lager & Wagner |
Knowing Why Changes Nothing
(Co-founder TCF) |
1997 |
Options Pub |
co-founders of TCF |
|
Grief |
Linn, E |
I know Just How You Feel |
1986 |
Publishers Mark |
|
|
Grief |
Manning, D |
Don’t Take My grief Away |
1979 |
Harper & Row |
|
|
Grief |
Mehren, E. |
After the Darkest Hour the
Sun Will Shine Again |
1997 |
Fireside |
|
|
Grief |
Rowley |
On the Wings of Mourning |
1984 |
Word Books |
|
|
Grief |
Sims, D. |
Footsteps Through the
Valley |
1993 |
Big A & |
|
|
Grief |
Staudacher, M |
Men & Grief |
1991 |
New Harbinger |
|
|
Grief |
Stephany, M |
My Reflections on Grieving |
1987 |
Vantage Press |
|
|
Grief |
Wagner,
Sascha |
The
Poems of Sascha Wagner |
2008 |
|
184
pages |
|
Grief |
Sims,
Darcie |
Why
Are the Casseroles Always Tuna? A Loving Look at the Lighter Side of Grief |
1999 |
Big
A & Company |
86
pages |
|
Grief -Pro |
Cornils |
Managing Grief Wisely |
1967 |
Cushing-Malloy |
|
|
Grief-Pro |
Baugher; Calija |
A Guide for the Bereaved
Survivor |
1981 |
self |
|
|
Grief-Pro |
Brown, E. |
Sun Rise Tomorrow |
1988 |
Fleming Revell |
|
|
Grief-Pro |
Chesser, B. |
Because You Care |
1971 |
Tindale House |
|
|
Grief-Pro |
Compassionate Friends edited |
We Need Not Walk Alone |
1992 |
Compassionate Friends |
|
|
Grief-Pro |
group? |
Dear Parents |
1989 |
Centering Corp |
|
|
Grief-Pro |
Johnson |
Children Die Too |
1978 |
Centering Corp |
|
|
Grief-Pro |
Kander |
So I Will Comfort You |
1990 |
Lux Verbi |
|
|
Grief-Pro |
Knapp, R. |
Beyond Endurance |
1986 |
Schocken Books |
|
|
Grief-Pro |
Kubler-Ross |
Death—The Final Stage of
Growth |
1975 |
Prentaice-Hall |
|
|
Grief-Pro |
Kubler-Ross |
Questions & Answers On
Death & Dying |
1974 |
McMillian |
|
|
Grief-Pro |
Kuenning |
Helping You Through Grief |
1973 |
Bethany House |
|
|
Grief-Pro |
Levine, S |
Who Dies |
1982 |
Doubleday |
|
|
Grief-Pro |
McCracken; Semel |
A Broken Heart Still Beats |
1998 |
Hazeldon |
|
|
Grief-Pro |
Miller |
When Going to Pieces Holds
You Together |
1976 |
Ausberg |
|
|
Grief-Pro |
Moody; Arcangel |
Life After Loss |
2001 |
HarperCollins |
|
|
Grief-Pro |
Rando, T |
How To Go On Living When
someone You Love Dies |
1988 |
Bantam |
|
|
Grief-Pro |
Rosof, B |
The Worst Loss |
1994 |
Henry Holt |
|
|
Grief-Pro |
Schiff, H |
Living Through Mourning |
1986 |
Penguin |
|
|
Grief-Pro |
Sims, D. |
If I Could Just See Hope |
1993 |
Big A Co |
|
|
Grief-Pro |
Staudacher, M |
A Time to Grieve
(meditations) |
1994 |
|
|
|
Grief-Pro |
Staudacher, M |
Men & Grief |
1991 |
New Harbinger |
|
|
Grief-Pro |
Tatelbaum |
The Courage to Grieve |
1980 |
Harper & Rowe |
|
|
Grief-Pro |
Tengbom |
Help for Bereaved Parents |
1981 |
Concordia Publishing House |
|
|
Grief-Pro |
Wheeler; Pike |
Goodby My Child |
1992 |
Centering Corp |
|
|
Grief-Pro |
Wunnenberg, K. |
Grieving the Loss of a
Loved One |
2000 |
Zondervan |
|
|
Grief-Pro |
Lightner, Candy |
Giving
Sorrow Words. How to Cope with Grief & Get on With Your life. |
1990 |
Time-Warner |
230
pages one of MAAD founders |
|
Grief-Pro |
Mehren, Elizabeth copy
#3 |
After
The Darkest Hour The Sun Will Shine Again. A Parent’s Guide to Coping With
the Loss of a Child |
1997 |
Simon
& Schuster |
181
pages |
|
Grief-Pro |
Wolfelt, Alan D |
Healing
a Parent’s Grieving Heart |
2002 |
Companion
Press |
109
pages |
|
|
editors |
|
1998 |
|
|
|
|
Evans |
The Christmas Box |
1993 |
self |
|
|
|
Williams |
|
1985 |
ACCORD |
|
|
Kids |
Boulden, J |
Saying Goodbye Activity
Book |
1989 |
self |
|
|
Kids |
Busaglia |
The Fall of Freddie the
Leaf |
1982 |
Slack, Inc. |
|
|
Kids |
Chapel |
Answers to a Child’s
Questions about Death |
1979 |
Guideline Publishers |
|
|
Kids |
Gravelle, K |
Teenagers Face to Face with
Bereavement (testimony) |
1989 |
Mesner |
|
|
Kids |
Haskins; Gravelle |
Teenagers Face to Face with
Berteavement |
1989 |
Julian Messner |
|
|
Kids |
Horsley |
Teen Grief Relief |
2007 |
|
|
|
Kids |
La Tour |
For Those Who Live |
1983 |
self |
|
|
Kids |
Linn, E |
150 Facts About Grieving
Children |
1990 |
Publishers Mark |
|
|
Kids |
Sims |
Am I Still a Sister? |
1986 |
Big A & |
|
|
Kids |
O’Tool, Donna |
Facing
Change. Falling Apart and Coming Together Again in the Teen Years |
2007 |
Compassion
Press |
43
pages |
|
Kids-Pro |
|
Telling a Child About death |
1965 |
Hawthorn Books |
|
|
Kids-Pro |
Kolf, J |
Teenagers talk About grief |
1990 |
Baker |
|
|
Kids-Pro |
Kublr-Ross |
On Children & Death |
1983 |
Collier |
|
|
Kids-Pro |
La Tour |
For Those Who Live |
1983 |
self |
|
|
Kids-Pro |
Metzgar |
Little ears, Big Issues,
Children & Loss |
1991 |
self |
|
|
Kids-Pro |
Papenbrock, Voss |
Children’s Grief (Also one
called Grief---same) |
1988 |
Medic Publishing |
|
|
Kids-Pro |
Gliko-Brade, Majel |
Grief
comes to Class |
2004 |
Centering
corporation |
47
pages |
|
Live after |
Amatuzio, J |
Forever Ours |
2002 |
|
|
|
Live after |
Bethards, B |
There is no death |
1975 |
Inner Light Foundation |
|
|
Live after |
Bethards, B |
There Is No Death |
? |
? |
|
|
Live after |
Collier, J |
Quit Kissing My Ashes |
2002 |
Forty-Two Pub |
|
|
Live after |
Dubois, A |
We are Their Heaven |
2006 |
Simon & Schuster |
|
|
Live after |
DuBois, A |
Don’t Kiss them Goodby |
2004 |
Simon & Schuster |
|
|
Live after |
Eadie, B |
Embraced by the Light (not
child loss) |
1992 |
Gold Leaf Press |
|
|
Live after |
Edwards |
Crossing Over |
2001 |
Jodere Group |
|
|
Live after |
Edwards, J |
One Last Time |
? |
? |
|
|
Live after |
Fisher, H |
From |
1995 |
Swallowtail Pub |
|
|
Live after |
Fleece, I |
Not by Accident |
1964 |
Moody Bible Inst. |
|
|
Live after |
Georgian, L |
Communicating with the Dead |
1995 |
self |
|
|
Live after |
Kubler-Ross |
On Life After Death |
1991 |
Celestial Arts |
|
|
Live after |
LaGrand |
Message of Miracles |
1999 |
Llewellyn Pub |
|
|
Live after |
Martin; Romanowski |
Our Children Forever |
1994 |
|
|
|
Live after |
Moody, R |
Life after Life |
1975 |
Bantam |
|
|
Live after |
Morse; Perry |
Closer to the Light |
1990 |
Ivy Books |
|
|
Live after |
Morse; Perry |
Transformed By the Light |
1992 |
Random House |
|
|
Live after |
|
Journey of Souls |
2001 |
Llewellyn Pub |
|
|
Live after |
Northrop |
Second Chance |
2002 |
Jodere Group |
|
|
Live after |
Novak; Sylvia |
A Change of Heart (heart
Transplant) |
1997 |
Little, Brown, Co |
Heart transplant |
|
Live after |
Randles; Hough |
Life After Death & the
World Beyond |
1998 |
|
|
|
Live after |
Sharp, K |
After the Light |
1995 |
William Morro Co |
|
|
Live after |
Theisen; |
Childlight |
2001 |
New Horizon Press |
|
|
Live after |
LaGrand, Louis E,
Ph.D. copy # 2 |
Messages
And Miracles. Extraordinary Experiences of The Bereaved |
1999 |
Llewellyn
Publications |
292
pages |
|
Live after -suicide |
Puyear, A |
Stephen Lives |
1996 |
Pocket Books |
|
|
Live after-Angels |
Anderson, J. |
Where Angels Walk |
1992 |
Ballantine |
|
|
Live after-Angels |
Burnham, S |
A Book of Angels |
1990 |
Ballantine |
|
|
Live after-Angels |
Goldman, K |
Angel Encounters |
1995 |
Simon & Schuster |
|
|
Live after-Angels |
Shedd, Charlie |
Brush of an Angel’s Wing |
1994 |
Guideposts |
|
|
Live after-Angels |
Tyler, Kelsey |
There’s an Angel on Your
Shoulder |
1994 |
|
|
|
Murder |
Hansen |
Those of Us Who Care |
1993 |
Rainbow Books |
|
|
Own
story |
Hood,
Ann |
Comfort. A journey Through Grief |
|
|
185
pages |
|
Own
story |
Buthman. D |
Thin Ice |
1990 |
Centering Corp |
|
|
Own
story |
Centering Corp |
Dear Parents (letters) |
1989 |
Centering Corp |
|
|
Own
story |
Deford, F |
Alex – The Life of a Child |
1983 |
Viking Press |
|
|
Own story |
Crider, T |
Give sorrow Words |
1996 |
Alognquin Books |
|
|
Own
story |
Gentry |
Stars in the Deepest Night
poetry) |
1999 |
Writer’s Club Press |
|
|
Own
story |
Gunther, J |
Death Be Not Proud |
1949 |
Harper |
|
|
Own
story |
Harden |
Longs from The edge |
1989 |
self |
|
|
Own
story |
Hood, A |
Comfort |
2008 |
WW Norton & Co |
|
|
Own
story |
Loizeaux |
Anna—A Daughter’s Life |
1993 |
|
|
|
Own
story |
Morrell, D |
Fireflies (other books too) |
1988 |
EP Dutton |
|
|
Own
story |
Musser, L |
Remember Lee (Also is God
is a Birdwatcher) |
1991 |
Centering corporation |
|
|
Own
story |
Strommen |
Five Cries of Grief |
1993 |
Harper S |
|
|
Own
story |
Van Vechten |
The First Year of Forever |
1987 |
Dwight Publishing |
|
|
Own
story |
Vatuk |
My Priya
(poetry) |
2004 |
self |
|
|
Own
story |
Vincent, E |
Swimming with Maya |
2004 |
Capitol Books |
|
|
Own
story |
Bauckus, Chapain |
Telling Yourself the Truth |
1980 |
|
|
|
Recovery process |
Beattie, M. |
The Lessons of Love |
1994 |
Harper |
|
|
Recovery process |
Donnelly, K. |
Recovering from the Loss of
Your Child |
1982 |
|
|
|
Recovery process |
James; Cherry |
The Grief Recovery Handbook |
1988 |
Harper Perennial |
|
|
Recovery-Pro |
Pearson, J |
Marriage After Mourning |
1995 |
Kendall Hunt |
|
|
Recovery-Pro |
Staudacher |
Beyond Grief |
1987 |
New Harbinger |
|
|
Religious |
Biebel, D |
Jonathan—You Left Too Soon |
1981 |
Thomas Nelson Publishers |
|
|
Religious |
Claypool, J |
Tracks of a Fellow
Struggler |
1974 |
Key Word Book |
|
|
Religious |
Derksen; Nash |
The Other Side of Sorrow |
1982 |
Ausberg Publish House |
|
|
Religious |
Heavilin |
Roses in December |
1993 |
Harvest House |
|
|
Religious |
Heavilin |
December’s Song |
1988 |
Here’s Life |
|
|
Religious |
Johnson |
No Time To Waste |
1971 |
Zondervan Pub |
|
|
Religious |
Koop |
Sometimes Mountains Move |
1979 |
Tindale House Pub |
|
|
Religious |
Kushner, H. |
When Bad Things Happen to
Good People |
1981 |
|
|
|
Religious |
Landorf |
Mourning Song |
1974 |
Fleming Revel Co |
|
|
Religious |
McAllister, D |
Hope Through a Father’s
Vision & a Mother’s Grief |
2001 |
Healing Broken Hearst
Ministry |
|
|
Religious |
McGee |
Death of a Little Child |
1979 |
Through the Bible Books |
|
|
Religious |
Mead, E |
Lay Up Your Treasures in
Heaven |
1977 |
Logos International |
|
|
Religious |
Munday |
I Wasn’t Ready |
1991 |
Skipjack Press |
|
|
Religious |
Pinkson, T |
Do They Celebrate Christmas
in Heaven? |
? |
Rakan (several religions) |
|
|
Religious |
Schiff, H |
The Bereaved Parent |
1977 |
Penguin |
|
|
Religious |
Taylor, R |
When Life Is Changed
Forever |
1992 |
Harvest House |
|
|
Religious |
Wolterstorff, N. |
Lament for a Son |
1987 |
WB Eerdrmans
Pub |
|
|
Suicide |
|
My Son My Son |
1983 |
self |
|
|
Suicide |
Chance, S |
Stronger Than Death |
1992 |
|
|
|
Suicide |
Glover, B |
Lost & Found |
1997 |
Sevgo Press |
|
|
Suicide |
Grollman, E. |
Suicide – Prevention,
Intervention, Postvention |
1971 |
Beacon Press |
|
|
Suicide |
Johnson |
Suicide of a Child |
NR |
NR |
|
|
Suicide |
Lukas;Seiden |
Silent Grief |
1988 |
Charles Schribner |
|
|
Suicide |
Wrobleski |
Suicide: Why |
1989 |
self |
|
|
Suicide |
Wrobleski |
Suicide Survivors |
1991 |
self |
|
|
Suicide |
Hippie,
Eric |
Real
Men Do Cry |
2008 |
Quality
of Life |
119
pages Pro football player |
|
Suicide- |
Oats (editor) |
After Suicide |
1980 |
Westminister Pr |
|
|
Suicide-religious |
Puryear, A. |
Stephen Lives |
1992 |
Pocket Books |
|
|
CD
Grief |
Allen,
Barbara |
When
Substance Abuse is a Factor in the Death of a Child |
|
Compassionate
Friends |
|
|
CD
Grief-Pro |
Sims,
Darci |
Finding
Your way Through Grief |
|
Grief
Inc |
|
|
CD
Holidays |
Sims,
Darci |
Handling
the Holidays |
2002 |
Grief
Inc |
|
|
CD-Grief
Pro |
Compassionate
friends |
After
a child dies |
|
Compassionate
Friends |
|
|
Tape
Grief |
Jelly,
Joanne |
What
Does a Loss Really Mean |
|
|
|
|
Tape
Grief |
Heavilin, Marilyn |
Telling
Your story Effectively |
|
|
|
|
Tape-Religion |
Gilbert,
Dick |
Use
and Abuse of Religion in Grief |
|
|
|
Missing books
|
Author |
Title |
copies |
|
Altea, R |
Proud Spirit |
none available |
|
Altea, R |
The Eagle & The Rose |
none available |
|
Beattie, M. |
The Lessons of Love |
1 missing |
|
|
My Son My Son |
1 missing |
|
Chance, S |
Stronger than Death
(suicide) |
none available |
|
Claypool, J |
Tracks of a Fellow
Struggler |
1 missing |
|
Eadie, B |
Embraced by the Light (not
child loss) |
1 missing |
|
Edler, R |
Into the Valley & Out
Again |
none available |
|
Eneroth, C |
Does Anybody Else Hurt this
Bad – And Live |
1 missing |
|
Fox, S |
I Have No Intention of
Saying Goodbye |
none available |
|
Goodman |
Love Never Dies |
none available |
|
|
|
1 missing |
|
Guggenheim |
Hello from Heaven |
none available |
|
Heartley, H |
A Father’s Feelings After
Losing a Child |
none available |
|
Johnson |
Suicide of a Child |
1 missing |
|
Knapp, R. |
Beyond Endurance |
1 missing |
|
Kushner, H. |
When Bad Things Happen to
Good People |
1 missing |
|
Martin; Romanowski |
Our Children Forever |
1 missing |
|
Moody, R |
Life after Life |
1 missing |
|
Morrell, D |
Fireflies (other books too) |
1 missing |
|
Mundy, J |
I Wasn’t Ready |
none available |
|
Osgood, J |
Meditations for Bereaved
Parents |
none available |
|
Pinkson, T |
Do They Celebrate Christmas
in Heaven? |
1 missing |
|
Rosof, B |
The Worst Loss |
1 missing |
|
Sanders, K |
How to Survive the Loss of
a Child |
none available |
|
Staudacher, M |
Men & Grief |
2 missing |
|
Steiger B & S |
Children of the light |
none available |
|
Strommen |
Five Cries of Grief |
1 missing |
|
Van Vechten |
The First Year of Forever |
1 missing |