Grief Resources

Here is a detailed list of books Linnemann’s carries as a part of our Aftercare Services. Stop and check out anything you need to help you or a loved one work through periods of grief. Our Lending Library is located at the Erlanger branch at

30 Commonwealth Blvd.
Feel free to come in or call today at 859.251.2509.

SUICIDE

  • Will’s Choice: A Suicidal Teen, a Desperate Mother, and a Chronicle of Recovery
    by Gail Griffith
  • Living with Grief after Sudden Loss: Suicide, Homicide, Accident, Heart Attack, Stroke
    Edited by Kenneth J. Doka Ph.D.
  • Ask Me“¦30 Things I Want to Know: How to be a Friend to a Survivor of Suicide
    by Nancy Zastrow
  • Grieving a Suicide: A Loved One’s Search for Comfort, Answers & Hope
    by Albert Y. Hsu
  • Fierce Goodbye: Living in the Shadow of Suicide
    by G. Lloyd Carr and Gwendolyn C. Carr
  • My Son“¦My Son: A Guide to Healing after Death, Loss, or Suicide
    by Iris Bolton
  • Mourning after Suicide
    by Lois A. Bloom
  • National Strategy for Suicide Prevention: Goals and Objectives for Action
    Provided by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
  • Teenage Suicide
    by Sandra Gardner

GENERAL GRIEF

  • Living with Grief after Sudden Loss: Suicide, Homicide, Accident, Heart Attack, Stroke
    Edited by Kenneth J. Doka Ph.D.
  • Picking up the Pieces: Healing Ourselves after Personal Loss
    by Barbara Hansen, Ph.D.
  • Talking to Heaven: A Medium’s Message of Life after Death
    by James Van Praagh
  • How To Go On Living when Someone You Love Dies
    by Therese A. Rando, Ph.D.
  • The Grief Recovery Handbook: A Step-by-Step Program for Moving Beyond Loss
    by John W. James and Frank Cherry
  • Chicken Soup for the Grieving Soul: Stories About Life, Death and Overcoming the Loss of a Loved One
    by Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen
  • Lessons: From a Mother Who Lost her Child to Cancer
    by Susan Shibley Abbott
  • Food for the Soul: A “Best of Bereavement” Poetry Collection
    Edited by Andrea Gambill
  • Why Be Lonely: A Guide to Meaningful Relationships
    by Les Carter, Paul D. Meier & Frank B. Minirth
  • Life after Loss: A Personal Guide Dealing with Death, Divorce, Job Change and Relocation
    by Bob Deits
  • Living When a Loved One Has Died
    by Earl A. Grollman
  • Healing Grief at Work: 100 Practical Ideas after Your Workplace is Touched by Loss
    by Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph.D.
  • What if God Were the Sun?
    by John Edward
  • One Last Time: A Psychic Medium Speaks to those we Have Loved and Lost
    by John Edward
  • When Bad Things Happen to Good People
    by Harold S. Kushner
  • Fresh-Brewed Life: A Stirring Invitation to Wake Up Your Soul
    by Nicole Johnson
  • Wherever You Go There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life
    by Jon Kabat-Zinn
  • Morrie: In His Own Words
    by Morrie Schwartz
  • Let’s Roll: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Courage
    by Lisa Brewer, Wife of 9-11 Hero Todd Beamer
  • My Mother, My Friend: The Ten Most Important Things to Talk About with Your Mother
    by Mary Marcdante
  • Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman
    by Elizabeth Buchan
  • How to Survive the Loss of a Love
    by Harold H. Bloomfield, M.D., Melba Colgrove, Ph.D. & Peter McWilliams
  • Chunging: The Cleaning Side of Medicine
    by Yunjo Chung, M.D.
  • “If there’s Anything I Can do“¦” A Practical Guide for Helping Others Cope with Grief
    by Carlene Vester Eneroth
  • One World, One Heart
    by Susan Polis Shutz
  • When a Loved One Dies: Meditations for the Journey through Grief
    by Philip W. Williams
  • Companion through the Darkness: Inner Dialogues on Grief
    by Stephanie Ericsson
  • Understanding Mourning: A Guide for those Who Grieve
    by Glen W. Davidson
  • Letting Go With Love: The Grieving Process
    by Nancy O’Connor, Ph.D.
  • Healing Grief: Reclaiming Life after Any Loss
    by James Van Praagh
  • New Passages: Mapping Your Life across Time
    by Gail Sheehy
  • Understanding Grief: Helping Yourself Heal
    by Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph.D.
  • Beyond Sympathy: What to Say and Do for Someone Suffering an Injury, Illness or Loss
    by Janice Harris Lord
  • The Bumps Are What You Climb On: Encouragement for Difficult Days
    by Warren W. Wiersbe
  • What Helped Me When My Loved One Died
    by Earl A. Grollman
  • Smell the Roses: Finding Simplicity in a Healing World
    by Ellyn Sanna
  • My Life is in Your Hands: Devotions to Help You Fall More Deeply in Love with Jesus
    by Kathy Troccoli
  • The Mourning Handbook
    by Helen Fitzgerald
  • Disenfranchised Grief: Recognizing Hidden Sorrow
    by Kenneth J. Doka
  • The Courage to Laugh: Humor, Hope and Healing in the Face of Death and Dying
    by Allen Klein
  • Heartfelt Change: Turning Harmful Emotions into Positive Character
    by Les Carter, Ph.D.
  • Final Celebrations: A Guide for Personal and Family Funeral Planning
    by Kathleen Sublette and Martin Flagg
  • To Comfort All Who Mourn: A Parish Handbook for Ministry to the Grieving
    by Carol Luebering
  • Seasons of Grief and Healing: A Guide for Those Who Mourn
    by James E. Miller
  • Grief and Growth: Pastoral Resources for Emotional and Spiritual Growth
    by R. Scott Sullender
  • The Grief Recovery Handbook: The Action Program for Moving Beyond Death, Divorce and Other Losses
    by John W. James & Russell Friedman
  • Counseling for Grief and Bereavement
    by Geraldine M. Humphrey & David G. Zimpfer
  • Bereavement: Counseling the Grieving throughout the Life Cycle
    by David A. Crenshaw
  • Hope for Bereaved: Understand, Coping and Growing Through Grief Handbook
    by Therese S. Schoeneck
  • The Dream Manager
    by Matthew Kelly
  • Conquering the Beast Within: How I Fought Depression and Won“¦and How You Can Too
    by Cait Irwin
  • Guidelines for Life beyond Loss
    Courtesy of Ottawa Funeral Home
  • Death Studies: Counseling-Research-Education-Care-Ethics
  • Grief Comes to Class: An Educator’s Guide
    by Majel Gliko-Braden
  • Teaching Guide to Aarvy Aardvark Finds Hope
    by Donna Rae O’Toole
  • Helping Children Grieve and Grow: A Guide for Those Who Care
    by Donna O’Toole
  • Healing the Bereaved Child
    by Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph.D.
  • Grief Work: Healing from Loss: Educational Handouts
    by Frank Zamore
  • Grief Digest Magazine: Hope-Information-Support
  • Helping Grieving Children & Teens
    Presented by Robert Zucker
  • Six Simple Weeks: A Caring Manual for Support Group Leaders
  • 2008 Seasons of Grief Catalog of Grief Resources Magazine
  • Mental Health Resource Directory 2002-2003
  • The Art of Healing Childhood Grief
    A School-Based Expressive Arts Program
  • Just You & Me: Making Memories with Your Children
    by Judy Richmond
  • Sharing Our Best: A Collection of Activities and Ideas to Use in Bereavement Groups for Teens
  • Teen Age Grief: A Training Manual for Initiating and Facilitating Grief Support Groups for Teens
    by Linda Cunningham
  • Creating Meaningful Funeral Ceremonies: A Guide for Caregivers
    by Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph.D.
  • How to Start and Lead a Bereavement Support Group
  • Sudden and Violent Death and Helping Responses
    by Dr. Alan D. Wolfelt
  • The Pursuit of Wow: Audio Book
    Read by Tom Peters

HOMICIDE

  • Living with Grief after Sudden Loss: Suicide, Homicide, Accident, Heart Attack, Stroke
    Edited by Kenneth J. Doka Ph.D.
  • Coping with Traumatic Death: Homicide
    by Bob Baugher, Ph.D. and Lew Cox, Victim Advocate

SPOUSE LOSS

  • I’m Grieving as Fast as I Can: How Young Widows and Widowers Can Cope and Heal
    by Linda Feinberg
  • Let’s Roll: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Courage
    by Lisa Brewer, Wife of 9-11 Hero Todd Beamer
  • How to Survive the Loss of a Love
    by Harold H. Bloomfield, M.D., Melba Colgrove, Ph.D. & Peter McWilliams
  • It Must Have Been Moonglow: Reflections on the First Years of Widowhood
    by Phyllis Greene
  • Taking the Trip: A Journey through Widowhood
    by Romaine Presnell
  • After the Flowers Have Gone: Coping with the Problems of the Widowed
    by Bea Decker

HOLIDAYS

  • Renewing Your Spirit: A Guide for Holiday and Special Days
    by Sherry Williams
  • Holiday Help: Hope & Healing for Those Who Grieve
    by Sandra Graves & Sherry Williams

CHILD LOSS

  • Love Never Dies: A Mother’s Journey from Loss to Love
    by Sandy Goodman
  • After the Death of a Child: Living with Loss through the Years
    by Ann K. Finkbeiner
  • The Worst Loss: How Families Heal From the Death of a Child
    by Barbara D. Rosof
  • Miscarriage: A Shattered Dream
    by Sherokee Ilse & Linda Hammer Burns
  • Stillborn: The Invisible Death
    by John DeFrain
  • Dear Parents: A Collection of Letters to Bereaved Parents
    Edited by Joy Johnson
  • Children of the Dome: Twenty-eight True Stories of Survival and Hope after the Loss of a Child
    by Rosemary Smith
  • Miscarriage: A Book for Parents
  • Who Lives Happily Ever After? For Families Whose Child Has Died Violently
    by Sharon Turnbull
  • How Can I Help?
    by Martha Wegner-Hay

SIBLING LOSS

  • Surviving a Sibling: Discovering Life after Loss
    by Scott Mastley

PARENT LOSS

  • Father Loss: How Sons of All Ages Come to Terms with the Deaths of Their Dads
    by Neil Chethik
  • Grieving the Death of a Mother
    by Harold Ivan Smith

PET LOSS

  • Absent Friend: Coping with the Loss of Your Pet
    by Laura & Martyn Lee
  • When Your Pet Dies: A Guide to Mourning, Remembering, and Healing
    by Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph.D.
  • Surviving the Heartbreak of Choosing Death for Your Pet
    by Linda M. Peterson
  • Goodbye, Friend: Healing Wisdom for Anyone Who Has Ever Lost a Pet
    by Gary Kowalski
  • Grieving the Death of a Pet
    by Betty J. Carmack

FOR CHILDREN & TEENS

  • Help Me Say Goodbye: Activities for Helping Kids Cope When a Special Person Dies
    by Janis Silverman
  • Anna’s Scrapbook: Journal of a Sister’s Love
    by Susan Aitken
  • Another Look at the Rainbow: Straight from the Siblings
    Written by and for Children Who Have Brothers and Sisters with a Life-Threatening Illness
  • Thank You for Coming to Say Goodbye
    by Janice L. Roberts and Joy Johnson
  • When Death Walks In: For Teenagers Facing Grief
    by Mark Scrivani
  • Flowers for the Ones You’ve known
    Unedited Letters from Bereaved Teens
  • Death is Hard to Live With: Teenagers Talk about How They Cope with Loss
    by Janet Bode
  • Facing Change: Falling Apart and Coming Together Again in the Teen Years
    by Donna O’Toole
  • The Gift of a Memory
    by Marianne Richmond
  • I Know I Made it Happen
    by Lynn Bennett Blackburn
  • Lost and Found: Remembering a Sister
    by Ellen Yeomans
  • Geranium Morning
    by E. Sandy Powell
  • Am I Still a Sister?
    by Alicia M. Sims
  • It’s Not Your Fault
    by Jessie Flynn
  • The Class in Room 44: When a Classmate Dies
    by Lynn Bennett Blackburn
  • The Memory Box
    by Kirsten McLaughlin
  • Holidays and Special Days
    by Jessie Flynn
  • The Empty Place: A Child’s Guide through Grief
    by Roberta Temes, Ph.D
  • Sunflowers & Rainbows for Tia: Saying Goodbye to Daddy
    by Alesia Alexander-Greene
  • A Terrible Thing Happened
    by Margaret M. Holmes
  • If Nathan Were Here
    by Mary Bahr
  • I Had a Friend Named Peter: Talking to Children About the Death of a Friend
    by Janice Cohn, D.S.W.
  • Healing Activities for Children in Grief
    by Gary McWhorter
  • After a Death: An Activity Book for Children
  • Remembering My Special Person: An Activity Book for Grieving Kids
    by D. Rae Harshman

VIDEOS (VHS)

  • Getting Through the Holidays: Help for the Bereaved
  • Hospice Retreat
  • Holiday Help Program
  • Holiday Help 1994
  • The Tenth Good Thing about Barney
  • White Water: The Positive Power of Grief
  • A Child’s View of Grief
  • Living with Grief: After Sudden Loss
  • Invincible Summer: Returning to Life after Someone You Love Has Died
  • The Fall of Freddie the Leaf
  • Talking About Death with Children
  • The Gift of Aftercare