In 1985, when a small freckle on Fanny Gutierrez's cheek grew to the size of a quarter and turned dark brown, the young mother sought medical advice. She soon learned she had malignant melanoma, an aggressive form of skin cancer.

In "Until the End," her husband, author Jesus L. Gutierrez, shares her battle with cancer and how the diagnosis and treatment affected Fanny, Jesus, and their two young sons. It narrates the family's very real and vivid personal experiences to show how the psychological dynamics influenced them during the nine long and uncertain years of their cancer battle. This memoir provides insight into this particular form of cancer and shows how patients can serve the scientific community by being pioneers in the search for a cure.

"Until the End" pays tribute to Fanny and demonstrates the deep love she held for her husband and her children. It communicates the life-and-death decisions she made in regard to her health in order to extend her longevity. Most of all, it describes how she never lost her willingness to fight against the disease until the end. "?By writing about this distressing experience, Jesus has remarkably transformed the death of his wife Fanny from a private, tragic event to an instrument to end his suffering and sorrow. At the same time, he has used it as a testimony to help others to fight this terrible disease called cancer.?" ?Foreword from Dr. Enrique Zuniga del Campo, Psychoanalyst

Would you like to make contact with your deceased loved ones? You can. Through three simple steps the author guides you through the understanding and recommended method for contacting those who have died. This book is for anyone of any belief who would like to reach out to the dead. Apart from guidance to contact the dead, the author shares some of his own moving story and eye-opening insights that have lead him to share his knowledge. The author is an ordained minister with over 14 years of multi-cultural experience in dealing with bereavement. In recent years he has guided a growing number of people who wish to contact their deceased loved ones and is rated as one of the top experts by the hundreds who have contacted him for guidance. You really can contact your deceased loved ones and this book tells you how to do it.

There is no process, no beginning, no middle or end to grief; it just is. And that simple existence changes everything.

Author Pat Brown lost the love of her life in 2005. When Tom, her husband of eighteen years, died of a hemorrhagic stroke, she was surprised-and sometimes dismayed-to discover that grief reopened all the questions often described as spiritual, questions she thought had been settled long before. Her unease, even distrust, of religious answers to mystical conundrums made the journey difficult. But she hung in, bracketing her disbelief, while keeping an open mind and a cocked eyebrow.

In "Surprised Pink Geraniums," she shares stories of her life with Tom-stories filled with love, tenderness, humour, and sometimes the annoyances of loving another human being. Irish Wolfhounds played major roles in their lives, and these great beasts contribute their own version of charm and devotion. Even so, "Surprised Pink Geraniums" is not a depiction of happy couples romping with dogs. It is a story of grievous loss, of connections, and of recreating meaning. This memoir is not focused on redemption-only on the human possibility for joy.

Where Do We Go From Here?

"The Great God Hunt" reveals answers to some of life's toughest questions by unveiling intimate details on the workings of the Universe. Like pieces of a puzzle finally coming together, this little book fills the void of the great unknown.

After the untimely deaths of her father and two of her sons, Linda Losey was determined to find out where they had gone and what life was like for them once they arrived. So she asked. It was as if the gates of heaven had opened-she was flooded with an awareness from somewhere beyond time and space providing insight into the "other side."

What is our purpose?
Why are we here?
What happens after we die?
How did it all begin?
What is heaven like?
Does evil exist?
How do we make sense of it all?

Linda has woven the heartfelt journey of her father and sons' deaths with her resulting awareness of the Universe into a guide on living. If you've ever wanted to discover your reason for being or wondered what awaits you in the afterlife, delve in and embrace the journey as you venture into the unknown-It's a voyage unlike any other.

Lee Scheingold's rich, painful personal journey-following the death of her husband, famed political scientist Stuart Scheingold-is described from the points of view which have informed her life: psychoanalysis, clinical social work, Buddhist meditation, and family medicine. Poetry is the connecting thread, beginning with the Russian poems she studied long ago in college, and then to a variety of contemporary American and English verse. This is an emotional and intellectual account of profound grief from a professional psychotherapist who has approached her recent life with continual introspection and self-reflection. She explores the experiences which enabled her to tolerate and even welcome the feelings of grief. She examines, with the issue of meaning at center stage, her psychoanalyses and a ten-year practice of Buddhism. In this journey, her reading of poetry links emotions to ideas. The deeply evocative style of the book resembles poetry itself. "A wonderful balance of psychoanalytic awareness and poetic sensitivity, an open and revealing memoir of the experience of loss and grief. It took me to another level in reading poetry-looking for and cherishing ambiguity and space. This is the story of how poetry (and Buddhism and psychoanalysis) helps one to come to grips with, or perhaps adapt to or even conquer loss. Best read with the heart." - Fred Heidrich, MD, MPH, Clinical Professor of Family Medicine, University of Washington "In One Silken Thread, Scheingold weaves together threads from Buddhism, Psychoanalysis, and Lyric Poetry through the process of her own grief to illuminate the possibility of what she calls 'the heart of the world'-that which runs deep and connects us all at the level of our feelings. She tells us that she doesn't write poetry. But this book is lyrical in itself. It is a courageous self-reflection-simultaneously heart rending and affirming of the meaning and beauty possible from a life of caring deeply." - Ritch Addison, PhD, Clinical Professor, UCSF Department of Family and Community Medicine; Behavioral Medicine Director, Santa Rosa Family Medicine Residency; Coeditor, Entering the Circle: Hermeneutic Investigations in Psychology "Lee Scheingold has done something extraordinary, linking the truly academic with the truly personal in a way that is neither forced and pedantic nor nostalgic and cloying... It is, in short, real. It's what an academic does when searching for the light... Somehow, these writings are often too dry, dead, literary, searching for light and staying away from it and its warmth, because both are suspect. The other side is the very personal, about loss, emptiness, hurt, and pain told in a very personal way, but without the distance, separation and understanding that literature and intellect bring to the quest. Scheingold has merged and fully integrated both. This book is VERY brave and very well done." - Mark Greenside, Professor of English, History, and Political Science, Merritt College (Cal.); Author, I'll Never Be French (no matter what I do)

Based on work originally published in 1650 and 1651, this book combines Jeremy Taylor's two most famous writings: *The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living* and *The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying.* These books are owner's manuals for the soul, describing for readers how to attain virtue, avoid vice, and live a proper Christian life. The book is divided into sections based on which virtue and which vice the reader needs help with. *On Dying* speaks to those who, before they are old and ill, have given some thought to dying and wish to ensure that they pass properly to Heaven. Devout Christians will find this book inspirational and instructional.