Hank Dunn

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Texas

CPR, Artificial Feeding, Comfort Care, and the Patient with a Life-Threatening Illness

Hard Choices for Loving People

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Alabama

True Stories of Hope and Peace at the End of Life's Journey

Glimpses of Heaven

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#hardcover #dying #memoir #hospice #grief 

New York

On Living, Dying, and Having It All

Doctors told Jenifer Estess that she had ALS, and to max out her credit cards, take a long trip and prepare to die. She could have taken doctors' orders. Instead Jenifer chose to fight for her dreams with renewed courage.

Tales from the Bed

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Kerry Egan

Illinois

"A poetic and philosophical and brave and uplifting meditation on how important it is to make peace and meaning of our lives while we still have them." -Elizabeth Gilbert, bestselling author of Eat Pray Love

"Illuminating, unflinching and ultimately inspiring... A book to treasure." -People Magazine

A hospice chaplain passes on wisdom on giving meaning to life, from those taking leave of it.

As a hospice chaplain, Kerry Egan didn't offer sermons or prayers, unless they were requested; in fact, she found, the dying rarely want to talk about God, at least not overtly. Instead, she discovered she'd been granted a powerful chance to witness firsthand what she calls the "spiritual work of dying"--the work of finding or making meaning of one's life, the experiences it's contained and the people who have touched it, the betrayals, wounds, unfinished business, and unrealized dreams. Instead of talking, she mainly listened: to stories of hope and regret, shame and pride, mystery and revelation and secrets held too long. Most of all, though, she listened as her patients talked about love--love for their children and partners and friends; love they didn't know how to offer; love they gave unconditionally; love they, sometimes belatedly, learned to grant themselves.

This isn't a book about dying--it's a book about living. And Egan isn't just passively bearing witness to these stories. An emergency procedure during the birth of her first child left her physically whole but emotionally and spiritually adrift. Her work as a hospice chaplain healed her, from a brokenness she came to see we all share. Each of her patients taught her something about what matters in the end--how to find courage in the face of fear or the strength to make amends; how to be profoundly compassionate and fiercely empathetic; how to see the world in grays instead of black and white. In this hopeful, moving, and beautiful book, she passes along all their precious and necessary gifts.

On Living

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Maggie Callanan

Patricia Kelley

Vermont

Understanding the Special Awareness, Needs, and Communications of the Dying

Five years after its first publication, with more than 150,000 copies in print, Final Gifts has become a classic. In this moving and compassionate book, hospice nurses Maggie Callanan and Patricia Kelley share their intimate experiences with patients at the end of life, drawn from more than twenty years experience tending the terminally ill.

Through their stories we come to appreciate the near-miraculous ways in which the dying communicate their needs, reveal their feelings, and even choreograph their own final moments; we also discover the gifts—of wisdom, faith, and love—that the dying leave for the living to share.

Filled with practical advice on responding to the requests of the dying and helping them prepare emotionally and spiritually for death, Final Gifts shows how we can help the dying person live fully to the very end.

Final Gifts

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#paperback #incurable #terminal #caring  #caregivers #hospice ex libris - book has library markings 

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Oklahoma

A Guide Through Incurable Illness for Patients, Families, and Friends

Relying on more than twenty years of hospice experience, M. Catherine Ray explains how to communicate with loved ones in a hospice environment. Of the many books on death and dying, I'm With You Now provides the most practical advice and useful guidelines for making a loved one's final journey more comfortable, more caring, and more loving. Just a few of the topics that are covered in this incredibly resourceful book include: tips on how best to initiate painful discussions about wills and funerals, how to voice regrets and hopes, and when and how to bring up painful intimate family matters such as legacies and hospice care alternatives. Throughout, Ray includes heartwarming--and heart wrenching--stories of patients and families she has worked with that illustrate the complexities and often intense emotional moments that can occur. In short, this is the most important book you can read if someone you care about faces serious illness.

I'm with You Now

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This is her tribute to those who helped 

Olivia - She Was Hospice

Stephen P. Kiernan

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Ohio

A Novel

From the author of the acclaimed The Curiosity comes a compelling and moving story of compassion, courage, and redemption. Deborah Birch is a seasoned hospice nurse whose daily work requires courage and compassion. But her skills and experience are tested in new and dramatic ways when her easygoing husband, Michael, returns from his third deployment to Iraq haunted by nightmares, anxiety, and rage. She is determined to help him heal, and to restore the tender, loving marriage they once had. At the same time, Deborah’s primary patient is Barclay Reed, a retired history professor and expert in the Pacific Theater of World War II whose career ended in academic scandal. Alone in the world, the embittered professor is dying. As Barclay begrudgingly comes to trust Deborah, he tells her stories from that long-ago war, which help her find a way to help her husband battle his demons. Told with piercing empathy and heartbreaking realism, The Hummingbird is a masterful story of loving commitment, service to country, and absolution through wisdom and forgiveness.

The Hummingbird

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Madalon O'Rawe Amenta

Nancy L. Bohnet

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Nursing Care of the Terminally Ill

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Sandol Stoddard

A Better Way of Caring for the Dying

At a time when the end of life has become the subject of anguished medical and ethical debate, no book is more welcome than The Hospice Movement This modern classic outlines a bold and noble alternative to the high-tech nightmare that has all too often been our society's accepted approach to death: hospice instead offers caring communities where dying people are treated as human beings worthy of attention and respect. Widely recognized as the essential reference for all who deal with the terminally ill, the book has now been extensively updated with three new chapters that describe the hospice movement's response to AIDS and its evolution into an international phenomenon. The result is one of those rare works that initiate caregivers, family, and friends into a new understanding of death and dying, one that reconciles the medical, the social, and the spiritual.

The Hospice Movement

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Catherine Newman

Arizona

"Catherine Newman sees the heartbreak and comedy of life with wisdom and unflinching compassion. The way she finds the extraordinary in the everyday is nothing short of poetry. She's a writer's writer--and a human's human."--New York Times bestselling author Katherine Center "A riotously funny and fiercely loyal love letter to female friendship. The story of Edi and Ash proves that a best friend is a gift from the gods. Newman turns her prodigious talents toward finding joy even in the friendship's final days. I laughed while crying, and was left revived. Newman is a comic masterhand and a dazzling philosopher of the day-to-day."--Amity Gaige, author of Sea Wife "The funniest, most joyful book about dying--and living--that I have ever read."--KJ Dell'Antonia, author of the New York Times bestselling The Chicken Sisters For lovers of Meg Wolitzer, Maria Semple, and Jenny Offill comes this raucous, poignant celebration of life, love, and friendship at its imperfect and radiant best. Edith and Ashley have been best friends for over forty-two years. They've shared the mundane and the momentous together: trick or treating and binge drinking; Gilligan's Island reruns and REM concerts; hickeys and heartbreak; surprise Scottish wakes; marriages, infertility, and children. As Ash says, "Edi's memory is like the back-up hard drive for mine." But now the unthinkable has happened. Edi is dying of ovarian cancer and spending her last days at a hospice near Ash, who stumbles into heartbreak surrounded by her daughters, ex(ish) husband, dear friends, a poorly chosen lover (or two), and a rotating cast of beautifully, fleetingly human hospice characters. As The Fiddler on the Roof soundtrack blasts all day long from the room next door, Edi and Ash reminisce, hold on, and try to let go. Meanwhile, Ash struggles with being an imperfect friend, wife, and parent--with life, in other words, distilled to its heartbreaking, joyful, and comedic essence. For anyone who's ever lost a friend or had one. Get ready to laugh through your tears.

We All Want Impossible Things

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Lottie the Chicken deals with the loss of Aunt Mattie in this gently sad and sweetly funny picture book that explores the death of a loved one, in the tradition of Judith Viorst's The Tenth Good Thing about Barney.

Aunt Mattie has died. But before she went, she got to say good-bye to Lottie. Then she got to follow a light to a bustling gate. (A gate that sounded a lot like a busy airport!) And there she found a crew of friends who were waiting to take off with her on a new journey.

Will Lottie and Herbie be able to overcome their sadness? They will, with time, and by taking a journey of their own--a journey filled with a little heartache, a lot of happiness, and a batch of Aunt Mattie's favorite peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches. (With bananas, of course!)

When Aunt Mattie Got Her Wings

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Colorado

Idaho

Christine Andreae

Chirstine Andreae

The Education of a Hospice Volunteer

This memoir from a seasoned hospice volunteer details the day-to-day needs ofpatients and their families, and how volunteers help the ill person deal withpain and fear.

When Evening Comes

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Rowan Coleman

"From the author of The Day We Met ("As with Me Before You, by Jojo Moyes, I couldn't put this book down."--Katie Fforde) comes a beautiful, life-affirming novel that sparkles with love and wonder. We Are All Made of Stars is an unforgettable story about second chances, the power of words, and the resilience of the heart"--

We Are All Made of Stars

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Cori Salchert

Marianne Hering

Maryland

A True Story about Finding Life, Hope, and Healing While Caring for Hospice Babies

A True Story about Life, Love, and Healing through Heartbreak
 
As Seen on Kathie Lee & Hoda & TODAY Parenting!
A baby girl was born without a right or left hemisphere of her brain. Doctors said she was essentially in a vegetative state, unable to see or hear--that there was no hope for her. Relinquished under the state's Safe Haven Law, this two-week-old unnamed baby girl found her way to Cori and Mark Salchert's home. Despite the infant's grim medical diagnosis, Cori knew she couldn't allow this beautiful baby girl to spend her few days on earth alone and unloved. Cori took the baby girl home and named her Emmalynn .
 
I Will Love You Forever reveals one woman's decades-long quest to find healing and redemption after the accidental death of her sister as a child. God has used hospice babies--those left to live and die without family to care for them--to mend Cori's broken heart. Bringing these fragile hospice babies into their home, Cori and her family have promised to hold them briefly, until their last breath on this side of heaven, but to love them forever and always. The loving actions of Cori and her family show that we can do all things through Christ who gives us strength.
 
Cori's poignant story will strengthen your faith. . . It will touch your heart.

Bonus! Features full-color photos of Cori and her family.

I Will Love You Forever

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Virginia Morris

Robert M. Butler

Jennie Chin Hansen

Pennsylvania

Thoroughly updated and expanded, a compassionate, single-volume reference to the many emotional, legal, financial, medical, and logistical issues associated with caring for aging parents covers such areas as nursing homes, finances, finding a good doctor, legal arrangements, redefining parental relationships, and handling emotional challenges. Original.

How to Care for Aging Parents

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Oregon

Ethical Dilemmas at the End of Life

Explores a range of issues--including pediatric hospice, historical, religious, spiritual and cultural perspectives on the end of life, hospice in nursing homes, surrogate decision making, physician assisted suicide, organ donation, and our society's legal tenants of end-of-life care. Includes an index.

Living with Grief

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Hadley Vlahos

California

Unforgettable Encounters During Life's Final Moments

Passionate advocate for end-of-life care and TikTok star Nurse Hadley shares moving stories of joy, wisdom, and redemption from her patients' final moments, offering powerful lessons on facing death, recovering from loss, and how to live your life in this deeply personal memoir. Talking about death and dying is considered taboo in popular culture, even in the medical field. Our understanding of death is riddled with misconceptions: memories flashing before our eyes, cascading regrets, and chasing bright lights at the end of tunnels. But for most people, this will not be their experience. Rather, it will be a slower process requiring preparedness, good humor, and a bit of faith. At the forefront of changing attitudes around palliative care is TikTok personality Hadley Vlahos, whose videos collect and share the heartbreaking, remarkable, and uplifting stories of her patients. Vlahos was raised in a strict religious household, but began questioning her beliefs after she got pregnant at nineteen and was shunned by her community. A single mother on welfare, she went to nursing school with the sole purpose of keeping a roof over her and her son’s head. Soon, however, nursing became more than a job, and she found her calling in palliative care and hospice work. Now, Vlahos is changing the conversation around death, showing that end-of-life care can teach us just as much about how to live as it does about how we die. In The In-Between, Vlahos recounts the most impactful stories from the people she's worked with—from the woman struggling with her religious beliefs despite her strict Catholic upbringing, to the older man seeing visions of his late daughter, to the young patient who laments that she spent so much of her short life worrying about what others thought of her—while also sharing her own fascinating journey. With profound insight, humility, and respect, The In-Between is a heart-rending memoir about how caring for others can transform a life, while also offering wisdom and comfort for those dealing with loss and providing inspiration for how to live now.

The In-Between

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Douglas C. Smith

Hospice-Proven Techniques for Healing Body and Soul

Drawing on his experience as a hospice worker and instructor, Douglas Smith provides practical tools and techniques to enable family, friends, and caregivers to become a positive force in their patients' lives. Rich in stories and personal insights, "The Rights of the Sick and Dying" also offers ways in which patients can evaluate and improve their own care with this "Patient's Bill of Rights".

Caregiving

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Kerry Egan

On Living

Maggie Callanan; Patricia Kelley

Final Gifts

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Olivia - She Was Hospice

Stephen P. Kiernan

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Madalon O'Rawe Amenta; Nancy L. Bohnet

Nursing Care of the Terminally Ill

Sandol Stoddard

The Hospice Movement

Catherine Newman

We All Want Impossible Things

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When Aunt Mattie Got Her Wings

Kerry Egan

On Living

Catherine Newman

We All Want Impossible Things

Christine Andreae; Chirstine Andreae

When Evening Comes

Rowan Coleman

We Are All Made of Stars

Cori Salchert; Marianne Hering

I Will Love You Forever

Virginia Morris; Robert M. Butler; Jennie Chin Hansen

How to Care for Aging Parents

Catherine Newman

We All Want Impossible Things

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Living with Grief

Hadley Vlahos

The In-Between

Christine Andreae; Chirstine Andreae

When Evening Comes

Douglas C. Smith

Caregiving

Catherine Newman

We All Want Impossible Things