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Seven Mourners: Depression and the Needs of Human Nature

3 reviews
Bernard MacKinnon

Nova Science Publishers, 2000

A complex view of an old enemy
As a layperson, this is the most unusual and compelling book on a serious health topic I've ever read. Its nuanced yet unsparing look at the lives of seven sufferers (fictionalized composites of actual cases) makes it one of those rarities in the field of psychology--an actual page-turner. Poetry and philosophy are woven into the stories in a way that is not overdone, but which serves to ...

Ways of Dying (Southern African Writing)

8 reviews
Zakes Mda

Oxford University Press, USA, 1995

A wonderful terrible book
WAYS OF DYING is one of the most fascinating novels that I have read in years. The book is set in South Africa during a period that seems to span the end of the apartheid regime and focuses exclusively on the lives (and deaths) of poor South African Blacks in rural villages and urban shanty towns near what I suspect is Durban. Fans of Marquez will feel very much at home here in a world of ...

The Case of the Angry Mourner

1 review

International Thomson Publishing, 1993

Gardner's Mason Masterpiece
Background: The stylistic heritage of the Perry Mason mysteries is the American pulp magazines of the 1920s. In the early Mason mysteries, Perry - a good-looking, broad-shouldered, two-fisted, man of action - is constantly stiff-arming sultry beauties on his way to an explosive encounter that precipitates the book's climactic action sequence. In the opening chapters of these stories, ...

Mourners (Nameless Detective Mystery)

9 reviews
Bill Pronzini

BBC Audiobooks, 2006

Lots of secrets, lots of death
This another installment in Bill Pronzini's Nameless Detective series, called that because the lead detective's name is not divulged. The books typically take place in the San Francisco Bay area, and this one is no exception. James Troxell attends the funeral of a young woman, who died violently, but Mr. Troxell has no connection whatsoever with the woman. Then he attends another funeral, ...

The Mourner's Dance : What We Do When People Die

2 reviews
Katherine Ashenburg, 2003

Good Grief--Better Book
As a baby boomer, and not particularly religious, I have moved into a period of my life where my attendance at funerals is now more common than at weddings. Having lost my mother, I bought this book to try and work my way through the sense of loss I felt. In doing so, I was richly rewarded. Ashenburg's study of grieving, is both intensely personal and richly cultural. She shifts between these ...

The case of the angry mourner

3 reviews
Erle Stanley Gardner

Morrow, 1951

Brilliance on paper
The Case of the Angry Mourner is one of Earl Stanley Gardener's best works in his Perry Mason series. The premise of the book is very simple, the action is straightforward and suspenseful, and plot keeps you guessing until the very end. The book is a real piece of classic detective fiction because the reader is never lied to and is given all the evidence so that a cunning reader could ...

Guardians of the Soul: Angels and Innocents, Mourners and Saints--Indiana's Remarkable Cemetery Sculpture

2 reviews
John Bower

Studio Indiana, 2004

Heartbreaking and Exquisite
I have always been fascinated with cemetery art, from visits during Memorial Day to photography for both undergrad studies and for personal pleasure. If you share my interest in cemetery art, please do not pass up the opportunity to read and own "Guardians of the Soul". The financial costs and miles on John Brower's odometer were well worth his efforts in creating such a beautiful ...

Grief in Our Seasons: A Mourner's Kaddish Companion

2 reviews
Kerry M. Olitzky

Jewish Lights Publishing, 1998

This book helped me work through my grief after my mom died
I am so thankful that I came across this book soon after my mother died. The book presents a daily reading for the one-year mourning period, with an insightful reading for the week. It also has space on each page to record personal thoughts. I followed the divisions in the book, reading a selection each day. The readings truly helped me deal with, and work through, my grief. And I occasionally ...

Cion

2 reviews

Picador, 2007

Ghosts of history come alive in Ohio
South African novelist Zakes Mda has always been a master of place. It is exotic locations, places steeped in history, tradition, and quite possibly, magic, that inspire his literary muse. His previous novels have all been set in his native South Africa, but his newest work, Cion, is placed firmly in the American heartland, in Appalachian Ohio, specifically the city of Athens and the nearby ...

Mourning & Mitzvah: A Guided Journal for Walking the Mourner's Path Through Grief to Healing

7 reviews
Anne Brener

Jewish Lights Publishing, 2001

GET THIS BOOK-KEEP COPIES ON HAND
Get this book. Can be: read out-of-order; in small chunks; worked through mentally or on paper; put down for a few days/weeks while you're processing your grief; appreciated by Jewish folk as well as by the non-Jewish person, by the spiritual as well as those who are not so inclined. In the most difficult of situations, Mourning and Mitzvah offers comfort for the bereaved. The author speaks from ...

To Comfort the Bereaved: A Guide for Mourners and Those Who Visit Them

1 review
Aaron Levine

Jason Aronson, 1996

Of great importance for Jewish families
This book contains the traditions, customs, and prayers pertaining to nichum aveilim, comforting mourners. It demonstrates how Jewish customs address themselves to the various stages of the mourning process. This highly practical guide covers all aspects of appropriate behavior by a visitor to the house of mourning. It explains what should or shouldn't be said to mourners, and records ...

The Laws of Mourning: A Step by Step Guide for the Mourner

1 review
Rabbi Shmuel Tendler

Israel Book Shop, 2002

If you know someone who may become Gosess (living their last hours) and you don't already know the halachot, you need this book!
This book is perfect for anyone who wants to elevate the soul of a person in their last hours and throughout the following stages until the end of the mourning period. Each chapter is only a few pages, very concise and to the point and does not waste a word. It includes what prayers/psalms should be said, written bilingually both in English and in Hebrew, as well as the relevant laws of each ...

Mourners Below

1 review
James Purdy

Learning Links, 1984

quintessential Purdy
As all Purdy's work, the boundary which separates the normal and the fantastic and even grotesque is often demolished unleaashing a prose of majestic powers and indefatigable vision. This strange and yet poignant tale of a 17 year old boy haunted by the ghosts of his brothers, and living under the shadows of his tyrannical but loving father make is a story filled with twists and turns, leaving ...

A Trumpet In Darkness - Preaching To Mourners

1 review
Robert G. Hughes

Sigler Press, 1997

Excellent
For those looking for a text offering guidance and reflection upon the homoletical structures of the funeral sermon, this book is a must.

Mummies, Masks and Mourners (In Search of the Past)

1 review
Margaret Berrill

Evans Brothers Ltd, 1989

A fantastic adventure
This book is sheer joy to read and even more fun to teach. Delving into ancient secrets and mysteries it makes an already fascinating subject unmissable. Make your children experts tomorrow by giving them this book today!

A Jewish mourner's handbook

1 review
Ronald H Isaacs

KTAV Pub. House, 1991

Grief, Jewish Way of Handling
I found this book to be very helpful. It gets straight to the point, is simple to read (good when you're grieving), and is a "no frills" approach to the process.

The Novice Mourner

1 review
Joshua McKinney

Bear Star Press, 2005

This poet doesn't look away.
Joshua McKinney crafts unflinching poetry about the gritty business of living a rich emotional life. He sees the poetry in the mundane and tragic and writes it without blinking. This is not to say that there isn't humor (albeit, sometimes dark) in his work: Check out this line from "Gun": The boy and his parents take target practice at the dump//of a weekend." Do read the title poem of the ...

The Jewish Mourner's Book of Why

1 review
Alfred J. Kolatch

Jonathan David Publishers, 1993

Very helpful, informative... also features helpful readings
Coping with the death of a parent is tough enough. Trying to remember the religious traditons and rituals is even tougher - especially when your formal training ended at the Bar Mitzvah. The author explains and interprets the various rituals. Prayers and readings are also included. I highly recommend this for someone coping with the death of a loved one

The Mourner's Comforter: Isaiah 61 Explained

1 review
Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Opine Publishing, 2007

The Mourners Comforter
In this book, Charles Spurgeon leads the reader to the only true source for overcoming or dealing with sorrow and suffering. The heavy of heart, of which there are many among us, can find true solace from the wisdom contained in Isaiah 61: 1-3. It is hard to believe that 3 short verses in Isaiah 61 can be the the source of such wisdom and knowledge, and the inspiration for the mourner. I ...

The Designated Mourner

9 reviews
Wallace Shawn

Faber and Faber, 1996

to repose in the quiet shade of a nice square of chocolate
The Designated Mourner is an amazing work. In it Wallace Shawn creates a world, similar to our own, in an unknown country or time, which could be America, in which the intellectual minority, which regards the ignorant majority as The Enemy, suffers the rebellion of the masses, and the end of it's superior hold on quality and acceptibility. Sound political? This could be France on the verge of ...

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