Past Books
An inspiring memoir of life, love, loss, and new beginnings by the widower of bestselling children’s author and filmmaker Amy Krouse Rosenthal, whose last act of love before her death was setting the stage for her husband’s life without her in the viral New York Times Modern Love column, “You May Want to Marry My Husband.”
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From Matthew Quick, the New York Times bestselling author of The Silver Linings Playbook—made into the Academy Award–winning movie starring Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper—comes a poignant and hopeful novel about a widower who takes in a grieving teenager and inspires a magical revival in their small town.
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2022-2023
2020-2022
2018–2019
The End of Your Life Book Club
by Will Schwalbe
Talking About Death Won't Kill You
by Dr. Kathy Kortes-Miller
A Man Called Ove
by Fredrik Backman
Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?
by Roz Chast
The Funeral
by Matt James
2017–2018
When Breath Becomes Air
by Paul Kalanithi
They Left us Everything
by Plum Johnson
Extreme Measures: Finding a Better Path to the End of Life
by Jessica Nutik Zitter
Tuesdays with Morrie
by Mitch Albom
2015–2016
Extraordinary
by David Gilmour
Being Mortal
by Atul Gawande
The Book Thief
by Markus Zusak
2014–2015
Wave: A Memoir
by Sonali Deraniyagala
The End of the Alphabet
by CS Richardson
The Boys or, Waiting for the Electrician’s Daughter
by John Terpstra
Books are available to buy at Epic Books. To borrow, contact your local library.