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Hospice Booklist

Fiction

• Confessions of a Death Maiden
  Author: Francisco, Ruth
  Publisher: Mysterious $ 23.95 ISBN: 0892967730 Date: 2003
  Francisco scales the heights of suspense with this enthralling first novel about a hospice worker determined to uncover why the young boy under her care died ominously. "Beautifully written . . . as original as it is absorbing."--Michael Connelly.
  Updated 10.24.05
• In My Sister's Country
  Author: Haines, Lise
  Publisher: Blue Hen $ 24.95 ISBN: 0399148574 Date: 2002
  At first, their sisterly anger appears nearly comical. But the furious passion with which Molly and Amanda face each other marks In My Sister's Country as a private, unexpected place. An insightful and image-filled debut, this novel takes readers into a world of shadowy hearts and beseeching arms.
  Updated 10.24.05
• Soon: Tales from Hospice
  Author: Mojtabi, A.G.
  Publisher: Zoland $ 22 ISBN: 0944072917 Date: 1998
  With this book, based on her experiences as a hospice volunteer, novelist A. G. Mojtabai explores the last days of a wide-ranging cast of characters in a single inpatient ward. These beautiful, sometimes harrowing, stories are about families as well as patients, about all ages and stages of life coming together, about living while dying. In Soon, Mojtabai brings hospice to light in its original meaning, as a place of shelter for wayfarers - well or infirm - all on a perilous journey.
  
  Updated 10.24.05
• Motherkind
  Author: Phillips, Jayne Anne
  Publisher: Knopf $ 24 ISBN: 0375401946 Date: 2000
  PW Booklist
  A major new novel from the author of Machine Dreams. The story of a young woman whose care for her dying mother coincides with the birth of her first child, and who must, in a single year, come to terms with the pairing of radiant beginnings and profound loss. - Publisher marketing.
  Suggested Reading: Hospice
  Updated 5/3/00.

Nonfiction

• Final Choices: To Live or to Die in an Age of Medical Technolgy
  Author: Burnell, George M.
  Publisher: Insight $ 27.50 ISBN: 0306444623 Date: 1993
  PW
  The staggering advances in medical technology over the past few decades have enormously increased the number of treatment techniques available at the concluding stages of life. For countless patients and families, this situation is challenging and confusing, especially if an unexpected crisis occurs in a hospital or hospice, or at home. Final Choices is an extraordinary presentation of the issues, options, and obstacles concerning the right and ability of a dying person to control his or her future. - Publisher Marketing.
  Updated 10.24.05
• Dying Well: The Prospect for Growth and the End of Life
  Author: Byock, Ira
  Publisher: Riverhead $ 24.95 ISBN: 1573220515 Date: 1997
  LJ
  Ira Byock, M.D., a physician who has dedicated himself to eradicating physical pain at the end of life and to helping people accomplish their final emotional tasks, illustrates how good medicine can help people face death, resolve life conflicts, and come to the end with a measure of clarity and peace.
  Updated 10.24.05
• Dancing With Mister D: Notes on Life and Death
  Author: Keizer, Bert
  Publisher: Doubleday $ 23.95 ISBN: 0385484976 Date: 1997
  Booklist
  As cancer rates soar and the issue of "self-deliverance" stays in the headlines, the American preoccupation with death and dying has never been more intense. In this remarkable book, a Dutch doctor with training in philosophy as well as medicine, probes these concerns with understanding and insight as he shares his extraordinary experiences among the terminally ill.
  Updated 10.24.05
• The Good Death: The New American Search to Reshape the End of Life
  Author: Webb, Marilyn
  Publisher: Bantam $ 24.95 ISBN: 0553095552 Date: 1997
  LJ
  Although modern technology has lengthened our lives and altered how many of us may face death, it has also created painful legal, moral, and spiritual dilemmas. Noted journalist Marilyn Webb addresses these new realities in this riveting, disturbing, yet surprisingly hopeful and inspiring book.
  Updated 10.24.05