The following book reviews are written by Kara staff, volunteers and clients. Each book review provides a link to Amazon Books if you would like to purchase it. A percentage of all Amazon purchases come back to Kara to help support our services.

• After the Death of a Child, by Ann K. Finkbeiner, 1996.
  
  
• The Disappearance, by Genevieve Jurgensen, 1999.
  
  
• Disenfranchised Grief, by Kenneth J. Doka, Editor, 2002.
  
  
• The Empty Room: Surviving the Loss of a Brother or Sister at Any Age, by Katherine DeVita- Raeburn, 2004.
  
  
• The Goldfish Went on Vacation - A Memoir of Loss (and Learning to Tell the Truth about It), by Patty Dann, 2007.
  
  
• Good Grief, by Lolly Winston, 2004.
  
  
• A Grief Observed, by C.S. Lewis, 1961.
  
  
• The Grieving Garden: Living with the Death of a Child, by Suzanne Redfern and Susan K. Gilbert, 2008.
  
  
• Hannah's Gift: Lessons from a Life Fully Lived, by Maria Housden, 2002.
  
  
• The Last lecture, by Randy Pausch, 2008.
  
  
• Letting Go With Love: The Grieving Process, by Nancy O'Connor, 1989.
  
  
• Sibling Grief - Healing after the Death of a Sister or Brother,
  by P. Gill White Ph. D., 2006.
  
  
• Spiritual Life Rafts - Women's Stories of Profound Loss, Courage and Healing, by Judy Wolf, 2008.
  
  
• The Wisdom of Listening, by Mark Brady, 2003.
  
  
• The Year of Magical Thinking, by Joan Didion, 2005.

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