Recommended Reading
Gentle Shepherd hospice is a hospice serving Roanoke, VA and Lynchburg, VA.
We hope you will find these books helpful, encouraging, and uplifting.
Choosing Rest: Cultivating a Sunday Heart in a Monday World
By: Sally Breedlove
Stages of Senior Care
By: Paul & Lori Hogan
Through a Season of Grief
By: Bill Dunn & Kathy Leonard
Streams in the Desert
By: L. B. Cowman
Jesus Calling
By: Sarah Young
Chicken Soup for the Soul 20th Anniversary Edition
By: Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, & Amy Newmark
Twice Blessed
By: Laura Sowers
Quiet Moments for Caregivers
By: Betty Free
Fearless
By: Max Lucado
Mom Tell Me Your Story
By: Ana Davis
Dad, Share Your Life With Me
By: Kathleen Lashier
Grandma Tell Me Your Story
By: Ana Davis
Grandpa, Tell Me Your Memories
By: Kathleen Lashier
Choosing to SEE: A Journey of Struggle and Hope
By: Mary Beth Chapman
Trusting God through Tears: A Story to Encourage
By: Jehu Thomas Burton
Life Together
By: Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The Cost of Discipleship
By: Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The Wheel of Life: A Memoir of Living and Dying
By: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Growing in Christ
By: J. I. Packer
The Four Loves
By: C. S. Lewis
Final Gifts
By: Maggie Callanan & Patricia Kelley
Death: The Final Stage of Growth
By: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, M.D.
On Death and Dying
By: Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, M.D.
The Journey Through Grief: Reflections On Healing
By: Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph.D.
The Mourner’s Book of Faith
By: Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph.D.
Finding The Words
By: Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph.D.
Grief One Day at a Time
By: Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph.D.
A Grief Observed
By: C. S. Lewis
Good Grief
By: Granger E. Westberg
Comfort for Grieving Hearts
By: Gary Roe
Experiencing Grief
By: H. Norman Wright
Living with Grief: Children, Adolescents, and Loss
By: Kenneth J. Doka, Ph.D.
Living with Grief: Who We Are, How We Grieve
By: Kenneth J. Doka, Ph.D.
Living With Grief When Illness Is Prolonged
By: Kenneth J. Doka, Ph.D.
Motherless Daughters
By: Hope Edelman
Getting to the Other Side of Grief: Overcoming the Loss of a Spouse
By: Susan J. Zonnebelt-Smeenge, RN
I'll See You Again
By: Jackie Hance
Tracks of a Fellow Struggler: Living and Growing Through Grief
By: John R. Claypool