A library of books and CDs about bereavement is available each month at the Walnut Creek meeting. A list of the books is below.
Key: Any book with “Pro” listed after the "Kind" description means it was 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 | Press | |
| AIDS | Glaser; Palmerr | In the Absence of Angels | 1991 | Berkeley Books | |
| 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 | USA Beauford Books | |
| 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 & Co. | |
| 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 | Tennessee Valley Publishing | 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 | HarperCollins | |
| 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 |
| Holiday | editors | Holiday Hope | 1998 | Fairview Press | |
| Holiday | Evans | The Christmas Box | 1993 | self | |
| Holiday | Graves; Williams | Holiday Help | 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 Bereavement | 1989 | Julian Messner | |
| Kids | Horsley | Teen Grief Relief | 2007 | Copyright Clearance Center | |
| 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 & Co. | |
| Kids | O’Tool, Donna | Facing Change. Falling Apart and Coming Together Again in the Teen Years | 2007 | Compassion Press | 43 pages |
| Kids-Pro | Jackson | 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 |
| Life after | Amatuzio , J | Forever Ours | 2002 | New World Library | |
| Life after | Bethards , B | There is no death | 1975 | Inner Light Foundation | |
| Life after | Bethards , B | There Is No Death | ? | ? | |
| Life after | Collier, J | Quit Kissing My Ashes | 2002 | Forty-Two Pub | |
| Life after | Dubois, A | We are Their Heaven | 2006 | Simon & Schuster | |
| Life after | DuBois , A | Don’t Kiss them Goodbye | 2004 | Simon & Schuster | |
| Life after | Eadie , B | Embraced by the Light (not child loss) | 1992 | Gold Leaf Press | |
| Life after | Edwards | Crossing Over | 2001 | Jodere Group | |
| Life after | Edwards, J | One Last Time | ? | ? | |
| Life after | Fisher, H | From Erin with Love | 1995 | Swallowtail Pub | |
| Life after | Fleece, I | Not by Accident | 1964 | Moody Bible Inst. | |
| Life after | Georgian, L | Communicating with the Dead | 1995 | self | |
| Life after | Kubler -Ross | On Life After Death | 1991 | Celestial Arts | |
| Life after | LaGrand | Message of Miracles | 1999 | Llewellyn Pub | |
| Life after | Martin; Romanowski | Our Children Forever | 1994 | Berkeley Books | |
| Life after | Moody, R | Life after Life | 1975 | Bantam | |
| Life after | Morse; Perry | Closer to the Light | 1990 | Ivy Books | |
| Life after | Morse; Perry | Transformed By the Light | 1992 | Random House | |
| Life after | Newton | Journey of Souls | 2001 | Llewellyn Pub | |
| Life after | Northrop | Second Chance | 2002 | Jodere Group | |
| Life after | Novak; Sylvia | A Change of Heart (heart Transplant) | 1997 | Little, Brown, Co | Heart transplant |
| Life after | Randles ; Hough | Life After Death & the World Beyond | 1998 | Sterling | |
| Life after | Sharp, K | After the Light | 1995 | William Morro Co | |
| Life after | Theisen ; Matera | Childlight | 2001 | New Horizon Press | |
| Life after | LaGrand, Louis E, Ph.D. copy # 2 | Messages And Miracles. Extraordinary Experiences of The Bereaved | 1999 | Llewellyn Publications | 292 pages |
| Life after -suicide | Puyear , A | Stephen Lives | 1996 | Pocket Books | |
| Life after-Angels | Anderson, J. | Where Angels Walk | 1992 | Ballantine | |
| Life after-Angels | Burnham, S | A Book of Angels | 1990 | Ballantine | |
| Life after-Angels | Goldman, K | Angel Encounters | 1995 | Simon & Schuster | |
| Life after-Angels | Shedd , Charlie | Brush of an Angel’s Wing | 1994 | Guideposts | |
| Life after-Angels | Tyler, Kelsey | There’s an Angel on Your Shoulder | 1994 | Berkeley Books | |
| 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 | Arcade Publishing | |
| 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 | Bethany | |
| Recovery process | Beattie, M. | The Lessons of Love | 1994 | Harper | |
| Recovery process | Donnelly, K. | Recovering from the Loss of Your Child | 1982 | Berkeley Books | |
| 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 | Avon Books | |
| 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 | Bolton; Mitchell | My Son My Son | 1983 | self | |
| Suicide | Chance, S | Stronger Than Death | 1992 | Avon | |
| 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 |
| Kind | Author | Title | Date | Publisher | |
| 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 |
| Bolton; Mitchell | 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 |
| Graves; Williams | Holiday Help | 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 |
