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Books Written by People Widowed in this Way

This collection of books were written by a person whose loved one experienced the type of death noted for the category on which the book is included. The topics covered are varied, but will relate to some aspect of the widowed experience. A mix of titles from all categories will be included in this section of our book library, and have not in all cases been individually vetted by the Soaring Spirits Program Team.

100 Acts of Love: A Girlfriend’s Guide to Loving Your Friend Through Cancer

by Kim Hamer

A modern, essential how-to guide offering tips on what to say (and NOT to say), and specific ways to support and love a friend, co-worker or family member who is […]

A Grief Observed

by C.S. Lewis

Written by a widower after his wife’s death as a way of surviving the “mad midnight moments”.

A Journal for Jordan: A Story of Love and Honor

by Dana Canedy

A Journal for Jordan is a tender introduction, a loving good-bye, a reporter’s inquiry into her soldier’s life, and a heartrending reminder of the human cost of war.

A Widow’s Walk: A Memoir of 9/11

by Marian Fontana

On September 11, 2001, Marian Fontana lost her husband, Dave, a firefighter from the elite Squad 1 in Brooklyn, in the World Trade Center attack. A Widow’s Walk begins that […]

August Farewell: The Last Sixteen Days of a Thirty-Three-Year Romance

by David G. Hallman

It was August 7, 2009 ,when the doctor stood at the foot of the hospital bed and with a deliberation that was both efficient and compassionate, looked directly at David […]

Beyond the Bullet: Personal Stories of Gun Violence Aftermath

by Heidi Yewman

How do ordinary people cope after a loved one is killed due to gun violence? It’s a question that more than 30,000 families must face every year in America. In […]

Black Widow

by Leslie Gray Streeter

With warmth, hilarity, and a tendency to overshare, Streeter gives us real talk about love, loss, grief, and healing in your own way.

Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir

by Paul Monette

In 1974, Paul Monette met Roger Horwitz, the man with whom he would share more than a decade of his life. In 1986, Roger died of complications from AIDS. Borrowed […]

Bough Down

by Karen Green

With fearlessness and grace, Bough Down reports from deep inside the maelstrom of grief. In this profoundly beautiful and intensely moving lament, artist and writer Karen Green conjures the inscrutable […]

Boys, Booze and Bathroom Floors

by Michelle Miller

Miller documents her adventures in this gritty, tender and surprisingly humorous memoir about the places loss can take us. Follow her on forty-six of her most memorable and cringe-worth dates […]

Companion Through the Darkness

by Stephanie Ericsson

Vivid description of loss that captures the contradictory, wrenching, and chaotic emotions of grief. Each chapter stands on its own in describing her husband’s sudden death.

Confessions of a Mediocre Widow: Or, How I Lost My Husband and My Sanity

by Catherine Tidd

Involuntarily single. That’s the true story of where Catherine Tidd found herself just three weeks after turning thirty-one. With three children under six years old, no fix-it skills, no clue […]

Creative Grieving: A Hip Chick’s Path from Loss to Hope

by Elizabeth Berrien

Grief is often perceived as a dark and lonely journey; as a result, it is a topic we avoid in today’s society.¬ Within a 20-month period, Elizabeth Berrien endured the […]

Dancing in Two Realms

by Anne Marie Higgins

A moving account of the experience of serious illness, death, grieving, and spiritual presence.

Happily Even After

A Guide to Getting Through and Beyond the Grief of Widowhood

by Carole Brody Fleet

Award-winning author and grief recovery expert, Carole Brody Fleet follows up the critically acclaimed: Widows Wear Stilettos with the aptly-titled, Happily Even After, the first and only book of its […]

Leaning into Love

A Spiritual Journey Through Grief

by Elaine Mansfield

Captures the heart–from the extraordinary closeness of Elaine’s marriage to how she and Vic transform their struggle with cancer and despair into a conscious relationship mortality.

Making Piece: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Pie

by Beth M. Howard

When journalist Beth Howard’s young husband dies suddenly, she packs up the RV he left behind and hits the American highways. At every stop along the way—be it filming a […]

No Time to Say Goodbye

Surviving the Suicide of a Loved One

by Carla Fine

The author brings suicide survival from the darkness into light, speaking frankly about the feeling of confusion, guilt, shame, anger and loneliness that are shared by many survivors.

Slipped Away

by Jean Mellano

This is a memoir about a gentle soul who gave so much love and joy to others in spite of his own depression. Steve Tarpinian took his own life on […]

Smell the Blue Sky: Young, Pregnant, and Widowed

by Valerie Ihsan

The day Valerie found out she was pregnant with her second child was the day her husband died. He’d fallen asleep driving. She didn’t know how to be a widow. […]

Suicide Widow

by Krystal Youngs

Suicide Widow is about a young woman who has struggled her whole life with adversities and was forced into widowhood at 28 years old. This book touches on suicide, grief, […]

Surviving Spouse or Partner Suicide Loss: A Mindful Guide for Your Journey through Grief

by Michelle Ann Collins

How will I survive this loss? When her life shifted from fairytale to nightmare due to her husband’s death by suicide, Michelle Ann Collins found herself in the darkest place […]

The Widow Next Door: Learning to live again as a young widow and single mom after losing my husband to suicide

by Heather Cruz

My name is Heather and this is my story. It follows me from marrying my best friend and succeeding through an infertility struggle, to becoming a widow and ultimately a […]

Vodka Soup for the Widowed Soul

by Michelle Miller

Revealing and unexpectedly hopeful quest through the early stages of widowhood. A sequel of sorts to her debut memoir “Boys, Booze, and Bathroom Floors”.

Widows Wear Stilettos

A Practical and Emotional Guide for the Young Widow

by Carole Brody Fleet

Deals sensitively with the many problems and questions facing the young widow: depression and grief, helping children cope, facing in-laws, and returning to work.

Worth Fighting For: Love, Loss, and Moving Forward

by Lisa Niemi Swayze

From Patrick Swayze’s widow—the moving, New York Times bestselling account of grief, loss, caregiving, and moving on, with touching stories from their final months together.

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