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Out of Death Came Life
Out of Death Came Life is the Powerful true story of Barbara Monroe's difficult spiritual struggle following the sudden death of her husband. The day before her family was to leave on a long-awaited family vacation, he was killed in a freak accident. In a moment, the mother of her four children lost her joy & happiness. Thus began a long battle with Satan, who used her anger & bitterness to separate her from her love of God. She constantly questioned why such a profound loss could happen to a Christian family whose lives had been given to God. In the following months she came to realize that no one is immune from life's difficulties. But she could not find any hope to keep on living. In the depths of despair & drowning in debt, she gave up teaching Sunday School. She even stopped praying. Monroe's book traces the long & difficult journey she made from the low point in her life to a new place where she found joy again. And her new joy had little to do with the material things in her life. She now feels compelled to share her story in hopes of leading others to God.
Ribbon in the Snow
For Barbara Monroe, the daughter of an abusive, alcoholic mother, growing up in a rural Ontario town is anything but normal. When she is eleven she takes part in a shameful act that sets in motion a train of guilt and violence that will end in murder. As a self-loathing teenager she is thrown out of her family home for assaulting her mother. She flees to Toronto where she dreams of beginning a glamorous new life. After a disastrous start, Barbara finds safety in the gay world of 1960s Toronto. Blossoming into a flamboyant beauty, she struggles with her assertive and ambiguous sexuality. Forever seeking forgiveness, Barbara concludes that killing is easy, but forgetting is difficult indeed.
Death, Dying, and Social Differences
This book examines access to specialist palliative care among different groups in society, and the ways of working with difference within such services.
Marilyn Monroe
Barbara Leaming's Marilyn Monroe is a complex, sympathetic portrait that will forever change the way we view the most enduring icon of America sexuality. To those who think they have heard all there is to hear about Marilyn Monroe, think again. Leaming's book tells a brand-new tale of sexual, psychological, and political intrigue of the highest order. Told for the first time in all its complexity, this is a compelling portrait of a woman at the center of a drama with immensely high stakes, a drama in which the other players are some of the most fascinating characters from the worlds of movies, theater, and politics. It is a book that shines a bright light on one of the most tumultuous, frigh...
Brief Interventions with Bereaved Children
Recent years have seen increasing interest in the needs of children facing bereavement, and a corresponding increase in services to support them. This book addresses and explains the theoretical concepts and practical implications behind the idea of brief work with bereaved children and families. Flexible and accessible short term services delivered at the right time underpin the strengths of bereaved children, supporting their recovery rather than pathologising the grief process.In this way the book also speaks to the current interest in the concept of resilience and working with families' strengths and possibilities, rather than merely identifying their problems.This second edition continu...
Patient Participation in Palliative Care
Patient participation and user involvement are central to current thinking about the effective delivery of desired healthcare outcomes. Working with the person who lies behind every patient is core to palliative care. A voice can only become significant when it is listened to and acted upon. With palliative care increasingly addressing the needs of people with a variety of conditions in a range of settings, as well as with advances in research, technology, and information, the challenge to be 'a voice for the voiceless' is greater than ever. This book addresses key aspects in the provision of patient-centred palliative care and tracks significant developments in user involvement. It sets the...
Resilience in Palliative Care
The first book of its kind, Resilience and Palliative Care - Achievement in adversity takes the increasing international literature on resilience and applies it to palliative and end-of-life care. The book offers an overview of all key aspects of palliative care, presented through a resilience perspective. Why do some patients and families break down while others surmounts the challenges facing them? What interventions strengthen individual, family and community coping? This book aims to facilitate change with people facing the crisis of death, dying and bereavement. Much of the existing literature has focused on risk, problems and vulnerability; the emerging concept of resilience focuses on...
Living, Dying, Death, and Bereavement (Volume One)
This two-volume book offers extensive interviews with persons who have made significant contributions to thanatology, the study of dying, death, loss, and grief. The book’s in-depth conversations provide compelling life stories of interest to clinicians, researchers, and educated lay persons, and to specialists interested in oral history as a means of gaining rich understandings of persons’ lives. Several disciplines that contribute to thanatology are represented in this book, such as psychology, religious studies, art, literature, history, social work, nursing, theology, education, psychiatry, sociology, philosophy, and anthropology. The book is unique; no other text offers such a compr...
Red Passion as Sun
Sent from the family estate in England a decade ago by a overly strict, unforgiving grandfather, Alexis Kent has led a life of adventure in the Caribbean working on sail boats and catching work wherever she can. A recent unfortunate turn of events has her signing on as the sole crew member for an eccentric writer who wants nothing to do with civilization, just to be left alone to write. Neither expected the sparks that flew. Novels from bestselling author Barbara Monroe in the "DESTINATION ROMANCE Series" Book in a Hard Discount for a Few Days!!
