Gone Too Soon
Author | : Sherri Devashrayee Wittwer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 9781555036553 |
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Author | : Sherri Devashrayee Wittwer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 9781555036553 |
Author | : The Editors of LIFE |
Publisher | : Time Inc. Books |
Total Pages | : 106 |
Release | : 2016-07-22 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 168330392X |
The story of the 27 club is a one of brilliance: precious, fragile, and amazing to behold. Six musical artists who all happened to die at the same early age-27-did more than perform memorable songs: They expressed ideas and emotions that were shared by enthralled followers from their generations and beyond. The stories of these luminous artist lead to tragic ends. But the lives they led were transformative-to music, to culture, and to countless lives.In Gone Too Soon: The 27 Club, LIFE pulls you into the brief and explosive lives of musicians Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain, and Amy Winehouse through photographs and interviews. Read how Hendrix uniquely mashed together blues and rock into a paisley-patterned kaleidoscope of sound, look at images of Cobain's infamous MTV Unplugged special and much more. The legacy of these artists still lives and breathes onstage, embodied by musicians who looked to these icons for inspiration.
Author | : Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
Publisher | : Knopf |
Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 2021-05-11 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0593320816 |
From the globally acclaimed, best-selling novelist and author of We Should All Be Feminists, a timely and deeply personal account of the loss of her father: “With raw eloquence, Notes on Grief … captures the bewildering messiness of loss in a society that requires serenity, when you’d rather just scream. Grief is impolite ... Adichie’s words put welcome, authentic voice to this most universal of emotions, which is also one of the most universally avoided” (The Washington Post). Notes on Grief is an exquisite work of meditation, remembrance, and hope, written in the wake of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's beloved father’s death in the summer of 2020. As the COVID-19 pandemic raged around the world, and kept Adichie and her family members separated from one another, her father succumbed unexpectedly to complications of kidney failure. Expanding on her original New Yorker piece, Adichie shares how this loss shook her to her core. She writes about being one of the millions of people grieving this year; about the familial and cultural dimensions of grief and also about the loneliness and anger that are unavoidable in it. With signature precision of language, and glittering, devastating detail on the page—and never without touches of rich, honest humor—Adichie weaves together her own experience of her father’s death with threads of his life story, from his remarkable survival during the Biafran war, through a long career as a statistics professor, into the days of the pandemic in which he’d stay connected with his children and grandchildren over video chat from the family home in Abba, Nigeria. In the compact format of We Should All Be Feminists and Dear Ijeawele, Adichie delivers a gem of a book—a book that fundamentally connects us to one another as it probes one of the most universal human experiences. Notes on Grief is a book for this moment—a work readers will treasure and share now more than ever—and yet will prove durable and timeless, an indispensable addition to Adichie's canon.
Author | : Alan Wolfelt |
Publisher | : Companion Press |
Total Pages | : 53 |
Release | : 2020-09-01 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 1617222887 |
Grief overload is what you feel when you experience too many significant losses all at once, in a relatively short period of time, or cumulatively. In addition to the deaths of loved ones, such losses can also include divorce, estrangement, illness, relocation, job changes, and more. Our minds and hearts have enough trouble coping with a single loss, so when the losses pile up, the grief often seems especially chaotic and defeating. The good news is that through intentional, active mourning, you can and will find your way back to hope and healing. This compassionate guide will show you how.
Author | : Caitlin Flanagan |
Publisher | : Back Bay Books |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2011-05-01 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 0316186538 |
From The New Yorker's most entertaining and acerbic wit comes a controversial reassessment of the rituals and events that shape women's lives: weddings, sex, housekeeping, and motherhood.
Author | : Allison Gilbert |
Publisher | : Seal Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2010-02-24 |
Genre | : Self-Help |
ISBN | : 078675091X |
While the death of a parent is always painful, losing both is life-altering. When author Allison Gilbert lost both parents at age 32, she could not find any books that spoke to her with the same level of compassion and reassurance that she found in the support group she belonged to, so she decided to write one of her own. The result is a sensitive and candid portrayal of loss that brings together experiences from famous and ordinary grief-stricken sons and daughters that explores the regrets, heartache and sometimes, relief, that accompanies pain and healing. Always Too Soon provides a range of intimate conversations with those, famous and not, who have lost both parents, providing readers with a source of comfort and inspiration as they learn to negotiate their new place in the world. Contributors include Hope Edelman, Geraldine Ferraro, Dennis Franz, Barbara Ehrenreich, Yogi Berra, Rosanne Cash, and Ice-T, as well as those who lost parents to the Oklahoma City bombing, the World Trade Center bombings, drunk driving, and more.
Author | : Art Buchwald |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2006-11-07 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1588365743 |
“[Art Buchwald] has given his friends, their families, and his audiences so many laughs and so much joy through the years that that alone would be an enduring legacy. But Art has never been just about the quick laugh. His humor is a road map to essential truths and insights that might otherwise have eluded us.”—Tom Brokaw When doctors told Art Buchwald that his kidneys were kaput, the renowned humorist declined dialysis and checked into a Washington, D.C., hospice to live out his final days. Months later, “The Man Who Wouldn’t Die” was still there, feeling good, holding court in a nonstop “salon” for his family and dozens of famous friends, and confronting things you usually don’t talk about before you die; he even jokes about them. Here Buchwald shares not only his remarkable experience—as dozens of old pals from Ethel Kennedy to John Glenn to the Queen of Swaziland join the party—but also his whole wonderful life: his first love, an early brush with death in a foxhole on Eniwetok Atoll, his fourteen champagne years in Paris, fame as a columnist syndicated in hundreds of newspapers, and his incarnation as hospice superstar. Buchwald also shares his sorrows: coping with an absent mother, childhood in a foster home, and separation from his wife, Ann. He plans his funeral (with a priest, a rabbi, and Billy Graham, to cover all the bases) and strategizes how to land a big obituary in The New York Times (“Make sure no head of state or Nobel Prize winner dies on the same day”). He describes how he and a few of his famous friends finagled cut-rate burial plots on Martha’s Vineyard and how he acquired a Picasso drawing without really trying. What we have here is a national treasure, the complete Buchwald, uncertain of where the next days or weeks may take him but unfazed by the inevitable, living life to the fullest, with frankness, dignity, and humor.
Author | : Gloria Horsley |
Publisher | : Open to Hope |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2018-08-15 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 9781945549106 |
Whether a death is sudden or anticipated, losing a loved one shakes us to our very core, destroying our belief in a just, safe, and predictable world. Grief often changes us quickly both physically and mentally. It is like being kidnapped and suddenly transported to a foreign land without luggage, a passport, or the language to make sense of what's happening. Even if you have a road map for getting through the pain and anguish, you still have to take the trip. The purpose of this book is to help you find threads of hope that will assist your recovery and help you carry on. By sharing inspirational stories, personal experiences, and professional advice from contributors to theOpen to Hope website, we trust that you will be comforted and inspired by learning how others dealt with their losses, what they saw as roadblocks, and how they handled them as well as what it has taken for them to not only survive, but thrive. We want to help you resume leading the life that you were meant to live--a life of satisfaction and one driven by a belief in your own personal power for change.
Author | : Navimayr Lopez |
Publisher | : Author House |
Total Pages | : 101 |
Release | : 2013-08 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 1481777998 |
Lance thought he had it all. Until he got that devastating call. The joy of his career, the short- wrecked romance with the all-too-real Nancy Mendez and the most important person in his life, his Guardian Angel, all spinning out of control. Could the reality of what he thought was his happiness turn into a total disaster? Could the family he never had walk into his life? Or could anything he never expected be gone too soon?
Author | : Laura Evaneski |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 72 |
Release | : 2019-03-22 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0999568442 |
This book is based on facts of an event - my Dad's murder, that occurred in 1992. A snippet of his life from birth to joining the Navy, then the Police Department and finally becoming a Disc Jockey, prior to the unfortunate incident on February 18.