As his family reminisces after his beloved grandfather's death, a boy realizes that his grandfather is still with him in all the special places they shared.

The 40th anniversary edition of the classic Newbery Medal-winning title by beloved author Katherine Paterson, with brand-new bonus materials including an author's note by Katherine herself and a foreword by New York Times bestselling author Kate DiCamillo.

Jess Aarons has been practicing all summer so he can be the fastest runner in the fifth grade. And he almost is, until the new girl in

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In Alyson Noël's Whisper, Riley Bloom might really have bitten off more than she's ready for. After practically begging the Council for a more challenging Soul Catch, she is assigned an actual Roman gladiator—Theocoles, the Pillar of Doom. How is Riley, a skinny twelve-year-old, supposed to get through to him? Then she meets the beautiful Messalina, who convinces her that her only chance is to become part of this world. To accomplish...

We can all learn to open our hearts to hear what a dying person really needs at the end of his life if we are just able to listen." --Jillian Brasch, OTR, The Last GiftsThe Last Gifts shows how to get past the physical unpleasantness to see the blossoming of a soul as it sheds its earthly limitations.

The prospect of death requires more than messages that console us or philosophies that immunize us from its actual implications. Whether you are approaching your own death, facing the death of a loved-one, or are simply wanting to understand the purpose of this brief and mortal life, you will find unique and transformative help in these pages. Easy Death-described by Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross as a "masterpiece"-offers real wisdom from one who is...

No one who reads this book will ever again think of his or her own death in the same way. The first part of the book consists of a thought-provoking essay, in which Fingarette examines the metaphors which mislead us: death as parting, death as sleep, immortality as the denial of death, and selflessness as a kind of consolation. He also thinks through some of the more illuminating metaphors: death as the end of the world for me, death as the conclusion...

La muerte es un hecho presente en la consciencia de las personas solo en apariencia. En realidad la muerte es algo con lo que no contamos en nuestra trayectoria diaria, ya que pertenece, en última instancia, a los otros. Solemos vivir ajenos a ella, tanto social como individualmente. Los protagonistas de La espera nos guiarán en su proceso de enfermedad, terminalidad y muerte, mostrándonos en su trayectoria la capacidad de luchar contra la adversidad. Tanto...

David Welborn has a unique profession. He transports the dead from where they fell, and in whatever condition they passed. Car accidents, suicides, homicides, and drug overdoses become common place for him as he grapples these horrors. He soon realizes that this tight knit profession is unknown to most of the world. Few people think of who gathers the deceased when they see a fatal car accident or hear of a murder. Often sent on the worst of the worst...

Bringing 25 years of research and teaching in the sociology of death and dying to this important book, Tony Walter engages critically with key questions around this universal fact.

Thoughtful, amusing, and provocative, Making an Exit will transform the way you look at life's last passage. Because, as Murray discovers, death is, for many, not an ending but the start of something new. Author and journalist Sarah Murray never gave much thought to what might ultimately happen to her remains-that was, until her father died. While he'd always insisted that the "organic matter" left after a person takes their last breath had no significance,...