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The mounting challenges of life today have devastating consequences for mental health, including an increased risk of suicidal thoughts. This book presents several individuals' first-person accounts of their struggles with suicidal thoughts and recovery process, and invites readers to join in the process of understanding and healing.
El suicidio no es natural y por desgracia, las cifras de estos casos van en aumento. El estrés de la vida actual...
7) The grief recovery handbook: the action program for moving beyond death, divorce, and other losses
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xvi, 173 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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English
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310 pages ; 22 cm.
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"El motivo del viaje mítico es transformado en la búsqueda de un misterioso hermano fallecido, en un relato donde nada es lo que pareciera ser, pero que revela al final la exasperante complejidad del individuo. El título proviene de un poema de Gonzalo Rojas que ilumina el sentido final de las peripecias narradas"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
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355 pages ; 24 cm
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"An ingeniously layered narrative, told over the course of one week, Eddie Joyce's debut novel depicts an Italian-Irish American family on Staten Island and their complicated emotional history. Ten years after the loss of Bobby-- the Amendola family's youngest son-- everyone is still struggling to recover from the firefighter's unexpected death. Bobby's mother Gail; his widow Tina; his older brothers Peter, the corporate lawyer, and Franky, the misfit;...
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214 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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"Widowed novelist, near seventy, ex-Park Avenue girl, ex-beatnik, ex-many other things too complicated to list here, loves big parties, summers at the beach, grandchildren, seeks interesting man for dinner and a movie." Anne Roiphe was not quite seventy years old when her husband of nearly forty years unexpectedly passed away. But it was not until her daughters placed a personal ad in a literary journal that Roiphe began to consider the previously...
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243 pages ; 22 cm
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"Two-year-old Greta Greene was sitting with her grandmother on a park bench on the Upper West Side of Manhattan when a brick crumbled from a windowsill overhead, striking her unconscious. She is immediately rushed to the hospital. Once More We Saw Stars begins with this event, leading the reader into the unimaginable. But although it begins with the anguish Jayson and his wife Stacy confront in the wake of their daughter's trauma and the hours leading...
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279 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
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Nicole Avant -- diplomat, philanthropist, filmmaker -- grew up surrounded by some of the most extraordinary artists of our time: Bill Withers, Oprah Winfrey, Quincy Jones, Sidney Poitier. Her parents -- entertainment mogul, Clarence Avant, and legendary philanthropist, Jacqueline Avant -- turned their home into a place of refuge and inspiration for a generation of geniuses. Nicole drew on that magical upbringing to create a stellar career in the music...
14) Monsieur Lazhar
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1 videodisc (94 min) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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"... the ... story of a Montreal middle school class shaken by the death of their well-liked teacher, and the 55-year-old Algerian immigrant who offers his services as a substitute teacher and aids the process of collective healing"--Container.
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318 pages ; 23 cm
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"Tomé la decisión de no convertir mi dolor en sufrimiento, sino en aprendizaje y gratitud. La pérdida de un ser querido representa una de las cosas más difíciles de enfrentar, y es algo que, tarde o temprano, nos toca vivir. Gaby Vargas ofrece en este libro luminoso y propositivo una serie de reflexiones profundas a partir de la pérdida de Pablo, el amor de su vida; entrelaza su proceso de duelo con su historia de amor, y rescata enseñanzas...
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