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The Compassionate Friends

Greater Manchester, NH, Chapter

We Need Not Walk Alone

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General Grief
Books on Suicide
Loss of a Child
Books for Siblings
Video
Audio

Our Chapter Library

Through the generous donations of our members, the Manchester Chapter of TCF has a lending library of over 100 books, videos and audio tapes.  Provided here is a list of our inventory.

Borrowing an Item:  Our library cart will be available for browsing at each monthly meeting.  Members of the Manchester Chapter of TCF may check out an item at that time.

Donating an Item:  Many of the items in our media library have been donated by members.  If you would like to donate an item, it will be specially marked as being donated in memory of your child.

More Information:  If you wish further information about our library, please speak with our librarian or one of our steering commitee members.


General Grief

Book Title:
After Goodbye, How to Begin Again After The Death of Someone You Love
Author:  Ted Menten

Book Title:
Bereavement-Your Questions Answered
Author:  Ursula Markham

Book Title:
Confronted by a Loved One's Violent Death
Author:  A CareNote Booklet

Book Title:
The Courage to Grieve - Creating, Living, Recovery, and Growth Through Grief
Author:  Judy Tatlebaum-

Book Title:
Death - The Final Stage of Growth
Author:  Elisabeth Kubler Ross

Book Title:
Embraced by the Light, The Most Profound and Complete Near-Death Experience Ever
Author:  Betty J. Eadie

Book Title:
Food for the Soul - A "Best of Bereavement" Poetry Collection
Author:  edited by Andrea Gambill

Book Title:
Forever Remembered - A Gift For the Grieving Heart
Author:  Dan Zadra and Marcia Woodard

Book Title:
Getting Through The Night
Author:  Eugenia Price

Book Title:
Good Grief
Author:  Granger Westberg-Christian

Book Title:
Good Grief, Healing Through the Shadow of Loss
Author:  Deborah Morris Corwell

Book Title:
Grief
Author:  Haddon W. Robinson

Booklet Title:
Grief - What It Is and What You Can Do
Author:  Joy & Dr. Marvin Johnson

Book Title:
Healing A Friend's Grieving Heart - 100 Practical Ideas For Helping Someone You Love Through Loss
Author:  Alan Wolfelt PH.D.

Book Title:
Holiday Hope, Remembering Loved One During Special Times of the Year
Author:  The Editors of Fairview Press

Book Title:
I Wasn't Ready to Say Goodbye
Author:  Brook Noel & Pamela D. Blair, PH.D.

Book Title:
The Inner Power of Silence - A Universal Way of Meditation
Author:  Mark Thurston

Book Title:
Lessons of Love, Rediscovering our Passion for Life When It All Seems Too Hard to Take
Author:  Melody Beattie

Book Title:
Living When a Loved One Has Died
Author:  Earl Grollman

Book Title:
Living With Death and Dying
Author:  Elisabeth Kubler Ross

Booklet Title:
My Friend, I Care - The Grief Experience
Author:  Barbara Karnes

Book Title:
The Next Place
Author:  Warren Hanson

Book Title:
No Time for Goodbyes - Coping With Sorrow, Anger and Injustice After a Tragic Death
Author:  Janice Harris Lord

Book Title:
On Death and Dying - What the Dying Have to Teach Drs, Nurses, Clergy, and Their Own Families
Author:  Elisabeth Kubler Ross

Book Title:
Opening Up - The Healing Power of Expressing Emotions
Author:  James Pennebaker Ph.D.

Book Title:
Parting Is Not Goodbye...Coping with Grief in Creative Healthy Ways
Author:  Kelly Osmont

Book Title:
Quest, The Life of Elisabeth Kubler Ross
Author:  Derek Gill

Book Title:
Safe Passage - Words to Help the Grieving Hold Fast and Let Go
Author:  Molly Fumia

Book Title:
Seven Choices, Finding Daylight After Loss Shatters Your World
Author:  Elizabeth Harper Neeld. PH.D.

Book Title:
Sorrow's Company - 15 Writers on Loss and Grief
Author:  Edited by Dewitt Henry

Book Title:
Survival Kit
Author:  Dr. Susan B. Anthony

Book Title:
Swalled By a Snake, The Gift of the Masculine Side of Healing
Author:  Thomas R. Golden

Book Title:
They That Sow in Tears - Coping with Grief Through Gardening
Author:  Catherine Chappell Lewist and Charles Nolan Sandifer

Book Title:
A Time To Grieve - Meditations for Healing After the Death of a Loved One
Author:  Carol Staudacher

Book Title:
Transcending Loss - Understanding the Life Long Impact of Grief and How to Make It Meaningful
Author:  Ashley Davis Prend, A.C.S.W.

Book Title:
Turning Hurts Into Halos - And Scars into Stars
Author:  Robert Schuller

Book Title:
What to do When a Loved One Dies
Author:  Eva Shaw

Book Title:
When a Death Divides Your Family
Author:  A CareNote Booklet

Book Title:
When Bad Things Happend to Good People
Author:  Harold S. Kushner

Book Title:
When Men Grieve, Why Men Grieve Differently & How You Can Help
Author:  Elizabeth Levang, PH.D.

Book Title:
When There Are No Words - Finding Your Way to Cope With Loss and Grief
Author:  Charlie Walton

Book Title:
With Those Who Give and Grieve
Author:  Kay Soder-Alderfer

Book Title:
Working it Through - Life Death and Transition
Author:  Elisabeth Kubler Ross

Book Title:
You Can Become Whole Again - A Guide to Healing for Christians in Grief
Author:  Jolonda Miller

Books on Suicide

Book Title:
A Message of Hope for Surviving the Tragedy of Suicide
Author:  Patricia Harness-Overley

Book Title:
Healing After the Suicide of a Loved One
Author:  Ann Smolin and John Guinan

Booklet Title:
Morning After Suicide
Author:  Lois Bloom

Book Title:
No Time to Say Goodbye - Surviving the Suicide of a Loved One
Author:  Carla Fine

Book Title:
Stronger Than Death - When Suicide Touches Your Life / A Mother's Story
Author:  Sue Chance, MD

Booklet Title:
Suicide of a Child/For Parents
Author:  Adina Wrobleski

Book Title:
When Someone You Love Completes Suicide
Author:  Sondra Sexton Jones

Loss of a Child

Book Title:
After the Darkest Hour the Sun Will Shine Again - A Parent's Guide to Coping with the Loss of a Child
Author:  Elizabeth Mehren

Book Title:
Alive Alone
Author:  Group Alive Alone

Book Title:
Andy's Mountain - Fathers Grieve Too, A Journey Through Grief
Author:  Dwight L. Patton

Book Title:
The Anguish of Loss - Visual Expressions of grief and sorrow
Author:  Julie Fritsch and Sherokee Ilse

Book Title:
And Then There Was One
Author:  Margo Williams

Book Title:
At the Death of a Child - Words of Comfort and Hope
Author:  Donald Deffner

Book Title:
Before and After My Child Died, A Collection of Parent's Experiences
Author:  Joseph Fischhoff and Noreen Brohl

Book Title:
For Bereaved Grandparents
Author:  Margaret Gerner

Book Title:
The Bereaved Parent
Author:  Harriet Sarnoff Schiff

Book Title:
Beyond Tears, Living After Losing a Child
Author:  Ellen Mitchell

Book Title:
A Brken Heart Still Beats, After Your Child Dies
Author:  Anne McCracken and Mary Semel

Booklet Title:
Children Die Too
Author:  Joy Johnson

Book Title:
Children of the Dome
Author:  Rosemary Smith

Book Title:
Death Be Not Proud
Author:  John Gunther

Book Title:
The Ethan Chronicles - Requiem for a Life Stolen
Author:  Marsha A. Willis

Book Title:
Finding Hope When a Child Dies
Author:  Sukie Miller, PH.D.

Book Title:
Fireflies, A Father's Classic Tale of Love and Loss
Author:  David Morrell

Book Title:
The First Year of Forever, surviving the Death of Our Son
Author:  B.D. Van Vechten

Book Title:
First You Die, Learn to Live After The Death of Your Child
Author:  Marie Levine

Booklet Title:
For Better or Worse - A Handbook for Couples Whose Child has Died
Author:  Maribeth Wilder Doerr

Book Title:
Give Sorrow Words, A Father's Passage Through Grief
Author:  Tom Crider

Book Title:
Giving Sorrow Words, How to Cope with Grief and Get on with Your Life
Author:  Candy Lightner and Nancy Hathaway

Book Title:
A Grandparent's Sorrow
Author:  Pat Schwiebert

Booklet Title:
The Grief of Parents
Author:  Margaret Shandor Miles

Booklet Title:
The Grief of Parents When a Child Dies
Author:  Margaret Shandor Miles

Book Title:
Hannah's Gift, Lessons from a Life Fully Lived
Author:  Maria Housden

Booklet Title:
Healing A Father's Grief
Author:  William Schatz

Book Title:
Healing a Parent's Grieving Heart, 100 Practical Ideas After Your Child Dies
Author:  Alan Wolfelt

Book Title:
Help Your Marriage Survive the Death of a Child
Author:  Paul C. Rosenblatt

Book Title:
His Bright Light - The Story of Nick Traina
Author:  Danelle Steel

Book Title:
How to Survive the Loss of a Child, Filling the Emptiness and Rebuilding Your Life
Author:  Catherine M. Sanders Ph.D.

Book Title:
I Don't Know How to Help Them - A Book For Friends, and Families of Bereaved Parents
Author:  Linda Maurer

Book Title:
I'll Love You Forever, Anyway
Author:  Edith Kunhardt Davis

Book Title:
Lament for a Son
Author:  Nicholas Wolterstorff

Book Title:
Later Courtney - A Mother Says Goodbye
Author:  Susan Evans

Book Title:
Letters to My Son
Author:  Mitch Carmody

Book Title:
The Lively Shadow - Living With the Death of a Child
Author:  Donald M. Murray

Book Title:
Losing Jonathan
Author:  Robert Waxler & Linda Waxler

Book Title:
Love Never Dies - A Mother's Journey from Loss to Love
Author:  Sandy Goodman

Book Title:
A Mother's Story
Author:  Gloria Vanderbilt

Book Title:
Never Too Old for a Lullaby - Death of an Adult Child
Author:  Juanita White

Book Title:
No More Tomorrows
Author:  Glenna Munsey Healey

Book Title:
No Time Out From Grief, Surviving the Death of My Son
Author:  Terri Huber & John Huber

Book Title:
The Loss of My Only Child
Author:  Cindy Viar

Book Title:
Only Spring - On Mourning the Death of My Son, A Father's Story of a Child's Gift of Love
Author:  Gordon Livingston MD

Book Title:
Remember Lee, The End is the Beginning
Author:  Linda Leith-Musser

Booklet Title:
The Rocking Horse is Lonely, and Other Stories of Father's Grief
Author:  James Nelson

Book Title:
Roses in December
Author:  Marilyn Heavilin

Book Title:
Sanity & Grace - A Journey of Suicide, Survival, and Strength
Author:  Judy Collins

Book Title:
Serenity of the Lily
Author:  Michael R. Woodford

Booklet Title:
Single Parent Grief
Author:  Sherokee Ilse

Book Title:
She Said Yes
Author:  Misty Bernall

Book Title:
Song for Sarah, A Young Mother's Journey Through Grief and Beyond
Author:  Paula D'Arcy

Book Title:
Standing Beside You - A Book for Bereaved Parents
Author:  Linda Maurer

Book Title:
Stephen's Moon - A Mother's Journey Through Grief
Author:  Marcia H. Carter

Book Title:
Thrice Through the Valley
Author:  Valetta Steel

Book Title:
What Was Good About Today
Author:  Carol Kruckeberg

Book Title:
When a Child Has Died - Ways You Can Help a Bereaved Parent
Author:  Bonnie Hunt Conrad

Book Title:
When the Bough Breaks, The Death of a Child
Author:  Sue Holtkamp

Book Title:
When Your Child Dies
Author:  Theresa Huntley

Book Title:
When Your Friend's Child Dies, A Guide to Being a Thoughtful and Caring Friend
Author:  Julane Grant

Book Title:
The Worst Loss - How Families Heal From the Death of a Child
Author:  Barbara D. Rosof

Books for Siblings

Book Title:
A Child's View of Grief
Author:  Alan D. Wolfelt Ph.D.

Book Title:
Children Are Not Paper Dolls
Author:  Erin Linn Levy

Book Title:
An Empty Chair - Living in the Wake of a Sibling's Suicide
Author:  Sara Swan Miller

Book Title:
Do They Have Bad Days In Heaven?  Surviving the Suicide Loss of a Sibling
Author:  Michelle Linn-Gust, M.S.

Book Title:
The Empty Room, Surviving the Loss of a Brother or Sister at Any Age
Author:  Elizabeth DeVita-Raeburn

Book Title:
Ghost Brother
Author:  C.S Adler

Book Title:
The Grieving Teen - A Guide for Teenagers and Their Friends
Author:  Helen Fitzgerald

Book Title:
Healing A Child's Grieving Heart - 100 Practical Ideas for Families, Friends, and Caregivers
Author:  Alan D. Wolfelt Ph.D.

Book Title:
Healing a Teens Grieving Heart - 100 Practical Ideas for Families, Friends & Caregivers
Author:  Alan D. Woolfelt Ph.D.

Book Title:
Healing Your Grieving Heart - For Teens 100 Practical Ideas
Author:  Alan D. Woolfelt Ph.D.

Book Title:
Help For The Hard Times - Getting Through Loss
Author:  Earl Hipp

Book Title:
I Will Rember You - What To Do When Someone You Love Dies, A Guide Through Grief for Teens
Author:  Laura Dower

Book Title:
Losing Someone You Love - When a Brother or Sister Dies
Author:  Elizabeth Richter

Book Title:
Recovering From the Loss of a Sibling
Author:  Katherine Fair Donnelly

Book Title:
Shadows in the Sun - The Experiences of Sibling Bereavement in Childhood
Author:  Betty Davies R.N., Ph.D.

Book Title:
Surviving a Sibling - Discovering Life After Loss
Author:  Scott Mastley

Book Title:
Teenagers Face to Face with Bereavement
Author:  Karen Gravelle & Charles Haskins

Book Title:
What Children Need When They Grieve - The Four Essentials: Routine, Love, Honesty, and Security
Author:  Julia Wilcox Rathkey

Video

DVD Title:
Bereaved Parents
Description:  This specially adapted Phil Donahue program looks at the overwhelming sense of loss and even guilt that parents experience at the death of a child.

VHS Title:
Beyond Death's Door, Help for the Grieving Process After Someone You Love Has Died
Author:  Paraclete Video

DVD Title:
Brief Lives - Accidents Do Happen
Description:  Accidental death invariably gives rise to a whole series of what ifs. The producer of this program lost his only son in a fire; in this program, he talks with four families about their anger, bewilderment, and grief at their loss of a child and confronts the feelings of isolation and loneliness they all experience.

VHS Title:
A Child's Grief

VHS Title:
A Family In Grief: The Ameche Story
Description:  Paul Ameche was 22 years old when he died in an automobile accident in 1981. This video recounts how his parents, brothers, and sisters reacted to his death. Comments from each of the family members are interspersed with a narrative line that traces the process of grieving from the initial shock of Paul's death through the difficult process of adjusting to life without him.

VHS Title:
Good Grief, May Love Be What You Remember
Author:  Most by Darcie Sims

VHS Title:
I Am A Survivor, Caring for Families after Suicide
Description:  Nine families whose loved one has completed suicide join three professionals to share the impact, feelings and means of coping through this intense time.

VHS Title:
Journey Through The Shadows, Hope for Healing After Someone You Love Has Committed Suicide

VHS Title:
Light Amongst The Shadows
Author:  How to help those you care for when suicide occurs Discusses why suicide is difficult to talk about and teaches how to help and what to say and do when a suicide occurs.

VHS Title:
A Mother's Grief

DVD Title:
Our Grieving Hearts: Stories of Parental Bereavement

VHS Title:
Tear Soup, A Recipe for Healing After Loss

VHS Title:
This Healing Path, Coping with the Death of a Sibling
Author:  The Compassionate Friends

DVD Title:
Time Goes On, 1st Aniversary

VHS Title:
Turning Towards the Morning, Stories of Love and Loss of Grief & Hope
Author:  Rites of Passage

Audio

Music CD Title:
A Little Farther Down The Road
Author:  Alan Pederson (Ashley's Daddy)

Audio Cassette Title:
Dealing with Family and Friends
Author:  Judith Bernstein

Audio Cassette Title:
First Two Years of Bereavement
Author:  Mary Ehman Auger

Audio Cassette Title:
Grief and Depression: When is Medication Needed?
Author:  Dr. Richard Dew

Audio Cassette Title:
Guilt - Coping with "If Only" and "I Should Have"
Author:  David Martin

Audio Cassette Title:
Healing The Grieving Heart, A Program of Hope and Renewal for Bereaved Parents, Siblings and Grandparents
Description:  Internet Radio Series with Host Dr. Gloria Horsley Vol. 1 Recorded from live internet talk radio.  Host Dr. Gloria Horsley converses with parents and siblings who share their stories of losing loved ones before their time.

Audio Cassette Title:
Hope for Parents Who Are Now Childless
Author:  Kay Bernstein

Audio Cassette Title:
How We Grieve Differently
Author:  Glen & Marilyn Heavilin

Audio Cassette Title:
Special Sifts of a Special Needs Child
Author:  Sally Migliaccio, Jane & Dave Daulton

Audio Cassette Title:
Sudden Death, No Time to Prepare
Author:  Mary Semel and Anne McCracken

Audio Cassette Title:
The Marital Tango
Author:  Judith Bernstein

Audio Cassette Title:
The Other Side of Grief
Author:  Darcie Sims

Audio Cassette Title:
Our Grieving Started With the Prognosis: Loss of a Child to Terminal Illness
Author:  Patricia Robertson

"Book on Audio Cassette" Title:
When Bad Things Happen to Good People (Abridged version)
Author:  Harold S. Kushner

Audio Cassette Title:
Wheel of Life, A Memoir of Living and Dying
Author:  Elisabeth Kubler Ross

Audio Cassette Title:
A YEAR OF FIRSTS
Author:  Idy Spezzano, The Compassionate Friends National Conference

Audio Cassette Title:
You're Not Crazy — You're Just Grieving
Author:  David H. Martin, The Compassionate Friends National