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books about: sudden

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Sudden

I Wasn't Ready to Say Goodbye (Updated Edition): Surviving, Coping and Healing After the Sudden Death of a ...

Pamela Blair, Brook Noel

Sourcebooks, Inc., 2008

Recommend for those grieving as well as those supporting others
I liked this book and would recommend it for anyone who has lost someone suddenly or for anyone who wants to understand what that person is going through. The authors speak from personal experiences and offer different perspectives on how people experience sudden loss. ...

Sudden Fiction

Robert Shapard, James Thomas

Gibbs Smith, Publisher, 1983

Contains Some Amazing Stories
I disagree with the previous reviewer's rather disparaging comments: This isn't simply a "bathroom read." For writers, it's a great lesson in economy and brevity. The short-short stories contained within will help any writer realize the benefits of using language ...

New Sudden Fiction: Short-Short Stories from America and Beyond

W. W. Norton, 2007

Love `em, hate `em, but not for long
Short attention span? This collection of sixty ultra-short stories, averaging five pages in length, provides readers a great chance to check out a wide variety of writing styles and themes with a minimal time investment. It can best be described as - eclectic: stories ...

Sudden Fiction International: Sixty Short-Short Stories

Robert Shapard

W. W. Norton & Company, 1989

International Lightning Bottled Up
~~It's a great book to have. You can read it on the subway and chew on a few stories in one transit, or just scan the beginnings and look for what catches your eye, or you can curl up on a rainy day and devour the whole book. You can consider this book an appetizer to ...

Sudden Prey

John Sandford

Berkley, 1997

It's All About Revenge...
This is another page turning installment in John Sandford's Prey Series. In the beginning, the "prey" seems to be a pair of female bank robbers. Suddenly, the "hunters" become the prey and are hunted in a cruel, quick and shocking fashion. The family of the bank ...

Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938

R.A. Scotti

Back Bay Books, 2004

Sudden Storm
If you enjoyed "The Perfect Storm", you'll love this book! It combines the chronological events of the 1938 Hurricane with personal stories of those who endured it. It had special meaning to me, having been born in Rhode Island, and both my parents - before they had ...

I Wasn't Ready to Say Goodbye Workbook: Surviving, Coping and Healing After the Sudden Death of a Loved One ...

Brook Noel

Sourcebooks, Inc., 2003

Review by professional coach who works with grief...
This is an excellent grief resource that provides a solid roadmap to go along with the book. The activities are meaningful and help one who has recently suffered a loss go through the grieving process faster. You will get the most benefit if you read the book and ...

Sudden Mischief (Spenser)

Robert B. Parker

Berkley, 1999

The Accidental Therapist. Spenser's Sigmund Sofa Shines Susan's Spirit. Self-Actualization Be Done.
SUDDEN MISCHIEF, # 25 in the Spenser series, provided another prime work up on the Man/Woman relationship scene, dealing with ex-hubby scars, Susan's turtle-snap moods, and a new-and-improved conversational skill from Dr. Sigmund Spenser. I'm roaring onward toward the ...

When Fear Falls Away: The Story of a Sudden Awakening

Jan Frazier

Weiser Books, 2007

The ordinariness of the extraordinary
There is a tendency to think of a state of liberation as magical, strange and remote. This memoir/journal recounts the naturalness and simplicity of liberation from fear and desire. The author recognizes simultaneously that she has discovered a causeless, ceaseless ...

Sudden Pleasures

Bertrice Small

NAL Trade, 2007

Gift for Mom
I bought about 9 various Beatrice Small books for my mom to read. She is an avid reader and fan of Beatrice's books. I can't speak about the book itself, but I am pleased with my ability to order all the books that she needed to complete out the series. She was ...

Sudden Death Sudoku: A Katie McDonald Mystery (Katie Mcdonald Mysteries)
Shelley Freydont

Running Press, 2008

It’s February in the small town of Granville, New Hampshire, and Katie McDonald, math geek and curator of the Avondale Puzzle Museum, is up to her ears in snow and the First Annual Avondale Sudoku Challenge. What began as a small event, geared toward regional Sudoku clubs and individuals, has grown to include competitors from up and down the ...

Sudden, Fearful Death (William Monk Novels)

Anne Perry

Ivy Books, 1994

Very suspenseful
Anne Perry keeps you guessing from the first page. What an imagination!

A Sudden Country: A Novel

Karen Fisher

Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2006

Oregon trail history now grips my heart.
Growing up where the Oregon Trail ruts cut through western Nebraska, its story was familiar in a vague, serene way. Through Lucy, James MacLaren and the other characters of "A Sudden Country," my heart is now forever gripped with the pathos of that trail. Karen Fischer ...

Sudden Death

David Rosenfelt

Grand Central Publishing, 2006

Worth reading and reading and rereading and ....
I first read this as a library book. I keep getting it out and rereading it. It's probably time I bought a copy. It's witty, well plotted and over-all, a pleasure to read and reread and reread and ....

Sam the Sudden

P.G. Wodehouse

Overlook Hardcover, 2007

A Capital Alternative to "Pyke's Home Campanion"
Probably best known for his Jeeves and Wooster books, P.G. Wodehouse was born in Surrey in 1881. His first book, "The Pothunters", was published in 1902 and he went on to write over 70 novels. He also wrote many short stories, with Jeeves making his first appearance in ...