Home Page
General Information
Hospice Services
Bereavement Services
Bereavement Topics
H.E.A.L.
Events
News, Notes, & Quotes
Ways of Giving
Volunteering
Advance Directives
History of Hospice
Library
FAQs
Hospice Maui's Lending Library
We have several categories of helpful books:
- Bereavement
- Children and Grief
- Healing and Inspiration
- Dying With Dignity
- Spirituality
- Life After Death
- Cancer
- The Psychology of Death
- Coping With Death
- Transformation
Following are just a few titles and brief descriptions of some of the excellent resources in Hospice Maui's library. There are many more selections, and families are invited to peruse the books in our office, then check them out for a two-week period if so desired.
Healing and Inspiration
The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness—by Jerome Groopman, M.D.
The search for hope is the most urgent at the patient's bedside. This book takes us there, bringing us into the lives of people at pivotal moments when they reach for and find hope–or when it eludes their grasp. Can hope contribute to recovery by changing physical well-being? To answer this hotly debated question, Groopman embarked on an investigative journey to cutting-edge laboratories where researchers are unraveling an authentic biology of hope. There he finds a scientific basis for understanding the role of this vital emotion in the outcome of ilness. Here is a book that offers a new way of thinking about hope, with a message for all readers, not only patients and their families. "We are just beginning to appreciate hope's reach," Groopman writes, "and have not defined its limits. I see hope as the very heart of healing."
The Dynamic Laws of Healing—by Catherine Ponder
"One of the greatest secrets you can ever learn is that you have healing power! In spite of recent enlightenment, most people still think that their health is dependent upon some outside source–a spiritual, psychiatric, medical or chiropractic specialist. Health is basically an inside job, mentally as well as physically. No matter how successful a treatment is in time of illness, a person often becomes sick again and again, because he has not gotten at the cause of his illness–ill thoughts and feelings about himself, others, his Creator, and the world in which he lives. In this book I wish to share with you some of the laws of healing that deal with the cause of ill thoughts and feelings. More than just analyzing the cause of disease, these healing laws show you how to turn on the right thoughts and feelings from deep within your own being, thereby changing the whole pattern of your thinking and consequently your health."
Dying With Dignity
Final Gifts—by Maggie Callanan and Patricia Kelley
For more than a decade, hospice nurses Maggie Callanan and Patricia Kelley have tended the terminally ill. In this moving and compassionate book, they share their intimate experiences with patients at the edge of life. Through these stories you'll come to appreciate the near-miraculous ways in which the dying communicate their needs, reveal their feelings, and even choreograph their own final moments; you'll gain new insight into the leave-taking process; and in the end you'll discover the gifts of wisdom, faith, and love that the dying leave for us to share.
Dying Well: The Prospect for Growth at the End of Life—by Ira Byock, M.D., President, American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine.
Nobody should have to die in pain. Nobody should have to die alone. This is Ira Byock's dream and he has dedicated his life to making it come true. The longtime director of a hospice in his hometown, and a prominent spokesperson for the hospice movement, Dr. Byock believes that the possibility for us all to die well is just around the corner: the day is at hand when no pain among the dying will be considered unmanageable. Dying Well brings us to the homes and bedsides of families with whom Dr. Byock has worked, telling stories of love and reconciliation in the face of tragedy, pain, and conflict. It provides a blueprint for families, showing them how to deal with doctors, how to talk to friends and relatives, and how to make the end of life as meaningful and precious as the beginning.
To Live Until We Say Good-Bye—text by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, photographs by Mal Warshaw
The purpose of this book is to show what can and will happen to human beings, young and old, child and adult, when they are in the process of being destroyed by a malignant growth and yet can emerge as a butterfly emerges from a cocoon, with a sense of peace and freedom, not only in themselves, but in those who are willing to share their final moments and who have to courage to say good-bye, knowing that each good-bye also includes a hello. It has been our life's work to help our patients view a terminal illness not as a destructive, negative force, but as one of the windstorms in life that will enhance their own inner growth and will help them to emerge as as beautiful as the canyons which have been battered by windstorms for centuries.
Spirituality/Inspiration/Transformation
Turning Toward The Mystery: a seeker's journey—by Stephen Levine
In this intimate account of compassion and healing, Levine's narrative turns progressively inward as he describes his life's path toward a deeper understanding of "the way of things." A former drug addict become spiritual teacher, Levine describes how he learned to use his life as a jumping-off point from which to teach healing principles and guided meditations. The author lays bare his own understanding of mindfulness, loving kindness, and service (the fundamental pillars of Buddhism) in an account of a life rich with characters immediately recognizable as leaders of the modern Eastern spirituality movement. Levine, through his life and work, embodies the message that personal peace and transcendence are possible for all.