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    Items with the tag:

    death & mourning

    Cover of Finding the Words: Working Through Profound Loss with Hope and Purpose
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    Find­ing the Words: Work­ing Through Pro­found Loss with Hope and Purpose
    Col­in Campbell
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    Fic­tion
    Round­about
    Elaine Dur­bach
    Cover of A Requiem for Hania
    Fic­tion
    A Requiem for Hania
    Greg Din­ner
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    In Sick­ness: A Memoir
    Bar­rett Rollins
    Cover of Salt in My Soul: An Unfinished Life
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    Salt in My Soul: An Unfin­ished Life
    Diane Shad­er Smith
    Mal­lo­ry Smith
    Cover of People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
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    Peo­ple Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunt­ed Present
    Dara Horn
    Cover of If This Is the Age We End Discovery
    Poet­ry
    If This Is the Age We End Discovery
    Rose­bud Ben-Oni
    Cover of Forget Prayers, Bring Cake: A Single Woman's Guide to Grieving
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    For­get Prayers, Bring Cake: A Sin­gle Wom­an’s Guide to Grieving
    Meris­sa Nathan Gerson
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    Fic­tion
    How to Find Your Way in the Dark
    Derek B. Miller
    Cover of Tonight Is Already Tomorrow
    Fic­tion
    Tonight Is Already Tomorrow
    Lia Levi, Clarissa Botsford (Translator)
    Cover of Reaching for Comfort: What I Saw, What I Learned, and How I Blew it Training as a Pastoral Counselor
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    Reach­ing for Com­fort: What I Saw, What I Learned, and How I Blew it Train­ing as a Pas­toral Counselor
    Sher­ri Mandell
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    Amer­i­ca’s First Jew­ish Astronaut

    Kevin Cook
    June 28, 2021
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    Poet­ry
    I Wish My Father
    Lesléa New­man
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    Fic­tion
    Tur­tle Boy
    M. Evan Wolkenstein
    Essay

    Sex and Death: A Jew­ish Wom­an’s Guide to Grieving

    Meris­sa Nathan Gerson
    June 21, 2021
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