Among the services of Beth Donovan Hospice is our Lending Library, where we have collected a fair number of books concerning living, meeting the end of life, grief and bereavement, and dying. Help us help you through the difficult times with enlightening and supportive reading material for your contemplation. Growing through Grief pamphlets are also available.
Our collection is free for borrowing for a period up to 3 months. The process only requires a record of the book taken out and your contact information. Please note, we cannot guarantee that a particular book will be available, as it is on a first come, first serve basis.
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| Title | Author | Genre |
|---|---|---|
| "I Don'T Have Time For This!" A Compassionate Guide To Caring For Your Parents And Yourself |
Katherine Arnup, PhD | Books for Caregivers |
| “A” Is For Alibi (A Kinsey Millhone Mystery) |
Sue Grafton | Mystery, Novels |
| “B” Is For Burglar (A Kinsey Millhone Mystery) |
Sue Grafton | Mystery, Novels |
| A Book of Miracles | Bernie Siegal | Inspiration |
| A Book Of Nonsence | Several Authors i.e. Lewis Carol, Edward Lear | Mystery, Novels |
| A Caregivers Guide | Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association | Books for Caregivers, General |
| A Guide For Caregiversfrom Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association | CHPCA | Books for Caregivers |
| A Morbid Taste For Bones (A Brother Cadfael Mystery) |
Ellis Peters | Mystery, Novels |
| A New Earth: Create a Better Life | Eckhart Tolle | General |
| A Rare Benedictine (A Brother Cadfael Mystery) |
Ellis Peters | Mystery, Novels |
| A Tournament Of Murders | P.C. Doherty | Mystery, Novels |
| A Widow's Story - A Memoir | Joyce Carol Oates | Death of a Spouse |
| After He's Gone: A Guide for Widowed and Divorced Women | Barbara Tom Jowell & Donette Schwisow | Death of a Spouse |
| After I’m Gone | Susan Davies | End of Life |
| Be Buried In The Rain | Barbara Michaels | Mystery, Novels |
| Beyond Tears: Living After Losing A Child | Ellen Mitchell | Death of a Child |
| Breakthrough: Eight Steps to Wellness | Suzanne Somers | General |
| Buddhist Reflections On Death, Dying And Bereavement | Buddhist Hospice Trust | General |
| Caring for Loved Ones at Home: An Illustrated Easy to Follow Guide to Short or Long-Term Care | Harry Van Bommel | Books for Caregivers |
| Caring For Your Aging Parents - An Emotional Guide To Nurturing Your Loved Ones While Taking Care Of Yourself | Berman & Shulman | Death of a Parent |
| Chasing Death | Jan Andersen | Death of a Child, Suicide |
| Coming Home: A Practical and Compassionate Guide to Caring for A Dying Loved One | Deborah Duda | Books for Caregivers |
| Companioning the Dying: A Soulful Guide for Caregivers | Greg Yoder | Books for Caregivers |
| Crazy, Sexy Cancer Tips | Kris Carr | Cancer |
| Crown Of Darkness | P.C. Doherty | Mystery, Novels |
| Death: The Final Stage of Growth | Elisabeth Kubler-Ross | End of Life |
| Dignity Therapy: Final Words for Final Days | Harvey Max Chochinov | General |
| Dying Well | Ira Byock | End of Life |
| Effective Grief & Bereavement Support: The role of Family, Friends, Colleagues, Schools & Support Professional | Atle Dyregrov, Kari Dyregrov | Bereavement, Sudden Death |
| Eight Critical Questions for Mourners: and the Answers That Will Help You Heal | A.D. Wolfeelt, PHD | Bereavement |
| Everything Changes: The Insider’s Guide to Cancer in Your 20s and 30s | Kairol Rosenthal | Cancer |
| Evil Angels Among Them (Clerical Mystery) |
Kate Charles | Mystery, Novels |
| False Colours (Romance) |
Georgette Hayes | Novels |
| Family Hospice Care: Pre-Planning & Care Guide | Harry Van Bommel | General |
| Final Gifts | Maggie Callanan | Books for Caregivers, End of Life |
| Final Journeys: A Practical Guide for Bringing Care and Comfort at the End of Life | Maggie Callanan | Books for Caregivers |
| Final Scenes: Bedside Tales at End of Life | Janet Stark | End of Life |
| Flight Of The Witch | Ellis Peters | Mystery, Novels |
| Foods That Fight Cancer: Preventing Cancer Through Diet | Richard Beliveau | Cancer |
| Forced Exit- Euthanasia, Assisted Suicide And The New Duty To Die | Wesley J. Smith | General |
| Forced Exit: The Slippery Slope from Assisted Suicide to Legalized Murder | Wesley J. Smith | General |
| Friday The Rabbi Slept Late (A Rabbi Small Mystery) |
Harry Kemelman | Mystery, Novels |
| From Paupers to Prime Ministers - The Album | Brian McGarry | General |
| From Paupers to Prime Ministers - The Story | Brian McGarry | General |
| Getting Through The Night | Eugenia Price | Bereavement |
| Getting To Heaven- Departing Instructions For Your Life Now | Don Piper | Living with Illness |
| Gratitude in Grief: Finding Daily Joy and a Life of Purpose Following the Death of my Son | Kelly S. Buckley | Death of a Child |
| Grief A Journey of Discovery – DVD | John Kennery Saynor | Bereavement, DVD |
| Grief Journey: Finding Your Way After a Loss | Dr. Bill Webster | Bereavement |
| Grief Management Library: A Child’s View of Grief (DVD, CD, & VHS copy) |
Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph.D. | Children & Bereavement, Bereavement, DVD, CD |
| Grief Management Library: Living With Grief: After Sudden Loss (DVD, CD, & VHS copy) |
Sudden Death, Bereavement, Children & Bereavement, DVD, CD | |
| Grief Management Library: Someone You Love Is Dying. How Do You Cope? (DVD, CD, & VHS copy) |
Dignity Memorial Network | Bereavement, DVD, CD |
| Grief Management Library: Working Through Your Grief (DVD, CD, & VHS copy) |
Bereavement, DVD, CD | |
| Grief, Loss and Dementia | Multimedia Services | Bereavement |
| Grief: A Journey of Discovery | Genesis | DVD |
| Griefland - An Intimate Portrait Of Love, Loss And Unlikely Friendship. | Bacon & Miller | General, Bereavement |
| Healing Your Grieving Body: 100 Physical Practices For Mourners | A.D. Wolfeelt & K. Duvall | Bereavement |
| Health Ethics Guide | Catholic Health Association of Canada | General |
| Health Promotion | M. Teague & V. McGhee | General |
| Heaven, My Father's House- In Troubled Times, Looking Forward With Hope To Heaven. | Anne Graham Lotz | General |
| Holiday With Violence | Ellis Peters | Mystery, Novels |
| How It All Could Be - A Work Book For Dying People And For Those Who Love Them. | Stephen Jenkinson | Living with Illness |
| I Can'T Stop Crying: It's So Hard When Someone You Love Dies |
Rev. John Martin | General, Bereavement, Death of a Spouse |
| I Can't Stop Crying: Grief and Recovery, a Compassionate Guide |
John D. Martin | Bereavement |
| I Wasn’t Ready To Say Goodbye: Surviving, Coping & Healing After the Sudden Death of A Loved One | B. Noel & P. Blair | Bereavement, Sudden Death |
| If Something Happens To Me: A Workbook to Help Organize Your Financial and Legal Affairs | J. R. Hearn | General |
| Killing Your Cancer Without Killing Yourself Using Natural Cures That Work! | Allen S. Chips | Cancer |
| Last Acts of Kindness: Lessons for the Living from the Bedsides of the Dying | Judith R. Keyssar | End of Life |
| Last Rights | Stephen P. Kiernan | General |
| Lifetimes: The Beautiful Way to Explain Death to Children | Brian Mellonie & Robert Ingpen | Children & Bereavement |
| LipLap's Wish | Jonathan London & Sylvia Long | Children & Bereavement |
| Livestrong: Inspirational Stories from Cancer Survivors from Diagnosis to Treatment and Beyond | Lance Armstrong Foundation | Cancer, Inspiration |
| Living At The End of Life: A Hospice Nurse addresses the Most Common Questions | Karen Whitley Bel, R.N. | End of Life |
| Living Well With Parkinson’s | Glenna Wotton Atwood | General |
| Love, Medicine & Miracles: Lessons Learned About Self-Healing From A Surgeon's Experience With Exceptional Patients | Bernie Siegal | Inspiration |
| Making Loss Matter- Creating Meaning In Difficult Times | Rabbi David Wolpe | General, Bereavement |
| Managing Pain: The Canadian Healthcare Professional's Reference | Canadian Healthcare Professionals | General |
| Measure of the Heart: Caring for a Parent with Alzheimer’s | Mary Ellen Geist | Books for Caregivers |
| Memoir Of Mourning- Journey Through Grief & Loss To Renewal | Claudia Chowaniec | General, Bereavement |
| Most Loving Mere Folly | Edith Pargeter | Mystery, Novels |
| Mt. Fuji: The Fool Climbs it Twice | Paul Huschilt | Inspiration, DVD |
| Murder Most Holy | Paul Harding | Mystery, Novels |
| My Stroke of Insight | Jill Bolte-Taylor | Inspiration |
| Nana Upstairs & Nana Downstairs | Tomie dePaola | Children & Bereavement |
| Natural Strategies for Cancer Patients | Russell Blaylock, M.D. | Cancer |
| Night Flight | Anthony de St. Exupery | Mystery, Novels |
| On Children & Death: How Children & Their Parents Can and Do Cope With Death | Elisabeth Kubler-Ross | Death of a Child |
| On Death & Dying: What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy and Their Own Families | Elisabeth Kubler-Ross | End of Life |
| On The Anniversary Of Your Loss | Linus Mundy | General, Bereavement |
| One True Thing | Inspiration, DVD | |
| Original Sin | P.D. James | Mystery, Novels |
| Parenting your Parents | Bart Mindszenthy, Dr. Micheal Gordon | Books for Caregivers |
| Parkinson's Disease: 300 Tips for Making Life Easier | Peterman Schwarz | General |
| Passwords | Dela Fequet | General |
| Peace, Love & Healing | Bernie Siegal | General |
| Post War Japan | Kazuo Ishiguro | Mystery, Novels |
| Remember the Secret | Elisabeth Kubler-Ross | General |
| Returning To Life After A Loved One Dies | James Miller | General, Bereavement |
| Roses Are Difficult Here | W.O. Mitchell | Mystery, Novels |
| Sad Isn’t Bad: A Good Grief Guidebook for Kids Dealing With Loss | Michaelene Mundy | Children & Bereavement |
| Saving Your Life: A Guide to Writing your Life Story | Glenys Stow | End of Life |
| Saying Goodbye | John K. Saynor | Children & Bereavement |
| Setting Boundaries with Your Aging Parents | Allison Bottke | Books for Caregivers |
| Shroud For A Nightingale | P.D. James | Mystery, Novels |
| So You'Ve Got Cancer... | Ben Wicks | Living with Illness |
| Spiritual Care Among the Very Elderly | George W. Strong | Books for Caregivers |
| St. Peters Fair (A Brother Cadfael Mystery) |
Ellis Peters | Mystery, Novels |
| Surviving the Loss of a Child: Support for Grieving Parents | Elizabeth B. Brown | Death of a Child |
| The Age Of Rembrandt And Verneer | J.M. Nash | Mystery, Novels |
| The Art Of Comforting- What To Say And Do For People In Distress | Val Walker | General |
| The Assize | Ellis Peters | Mystery, Novels |
| The Boomer's Guide to Aging Parents: The Complete Guide | Carolyn Rosenblatt, R.N. | Books for Caregivers |
| The Caregiver’s Survival Handbook | Alexis Abramson, PHD | Books for Caregivers |
| The Day The Rabbi Resigned (A Rabbi Small Mystery) |
Harry Kemelman | Mystery, Novels |
| The Grass Widows Tale | Ellis Peters | Mystery, Novels |
| The Grieving Child- A Parent's Guide | Helen Fitzgerald | Children & Bereavement |
| The House Of Crowns (Brother Athelstan Mystery) |
Paul Harding | Mystery, Novels |
| The Intimacy of Death & Dying: Simple Guidance To Help You Through | Claire Leimbach, Trypheyna McShane & Zenith Virago | Bereavement, Books for Caregivers |
| The Long Hello: Memory, My Mother, and Me | Cathie Borrie | Death of a Parent, Books for Caregivers |
| The Nun’s Tale (An Owen Archer Mystery) |
Candace Robb | Mystery, Novels |
| The Power | Rhonda Byrne | General |
| The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment | Eckhart Tolle | General |
| The Queen And I (Comedy – Royals) |
Sue Townsend | Novels |
| The Reader’s Digest: Chesapeake Blue – Nora Roberts No One To Trust – Iris Johansen Standing In The Rainbow – Fannie Flagg In The Bleak Midwinter – Julia Spencer-Fleming |
Various | Novels |
| The Reader’s Digest: Letter From Home – Carolyn Hart P.S. I Love You – Cecelia Ahern The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time – Mark Haddon The Promise Of A Lie – Howard Roughan |
Various | Novels |
| The Red Fox (Spy Novel) |
Anthony Hyde | Novels |
| The Skull Beneath The Skin | P.D. James | Mystery, Novels |
| The Secret | Rhonda Byrne | General, DVD |
| The Secret | Rhonda Byrne | General, DVD |
| The Shack | William P. Young | General |
| The Shift – Ambition to Meaning | Dr. Wayne Dyer | Inspiration, DVD |
| The Sisterhood of Widows: Sixteen True Stories of Grief, Anger, and Healing | Mary Francis | Death of a Spouse |
| Tuesdays With Morrie An Old Man, A Young Man And Life's Greatest Lesson | Mitch Albom | General, Bereavement |
| Twelve Weeks in Spring | June Callwood | Cancer, General |
| Unattended Sorrow: Recovering from Loss and Reviving the Heart | Stephen Levine | Bereavement |
| Understanding Your Suicide Grief: Ten Essential Touchstones for Finding Hope and Healing Your Heart | A.D. Wolfeelt, PHD | Suicide |
| Western Attitudes Toward Deathfrom The Middle Ages To The Present | Philippe Aries | General |
| What Dying People Want: Lessons for Living from People Who Are Dying | David Kuhl, M.D. | End of Life |
| When A Brother or Sister Dies: Looking Back, Moving Forward | Claire Berman | Death of a Sibling |
| When A Man Faces Grief/ A Man You Know Is Grieving: 12 Practical Ideas to Help You Heal from Loss/12 Ideas for Helping Him Heal from Loss |
Thomas Golden & James E. Miller | Men's Grief |
| When Bad Things Happen To Good People | Harold Kushner | General, Bereavement |
| When Dinosaurs Die: A Guide to Understanding Death | Laurie Krasny Brown & Marc Brown | Children & Bereavement |
| When Grief Comes- Finding Strength For Today And Hope For Tomorrow | Kirk Neely | General, Bereavement |
| When My World Was Very Small: A Memoir of Family, Food, Cancer and My Couch | Ruth Rakoff | Cancer |
| When You Just Can't Say Goodbye, Don't | Maria Malin | Death of a Child |
| Wide Sargasso Sea | Jean Rhys | Mystery, Novels |
| Wilderness of Suicide Grief: Finding your way | A.D. Wolfeelt, PHD | Suicide |
| Winter Grief, Summer Grace | James E. Miller | Bereavement |
| Words Of Comfort For You In Your Time Of Loss | Blue Mountain Arts | General, Bereavement |
