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“Schlink knows how to tell a gripping yarn . . . [The Granddaughter] is a rewarding and wonderfully readable novel.” —The Guardian“A brilliant dissection of a fragmented nation in which a glimmer of hope relieves a somber but wholly memorable tale.” —Kirkus (starred review)From the bestselling author of The Reader, a striking exploration of the past, told through the story of a German bookseller’s attempt to connect with his radicalized granddaughter.It is only after the sudden death of his wife, Birgit, that Kaspar discovers the price she paid years earlier when she fled East Germany to join him: she had to abandon her baby. Shattered by grief, yet animated by a new hope, Kaspar closes up his bookshop in present day Berlin and sets off to find her lost child in the east.His search leads him to a rural community of neo-Nazis, intent on reclaiming and settling ancestral lands to the East. Among them, Kaspar encounters Svenja, a woman whose eyes, hair, and even voice remind him of Birgit. Beside her is a red-haired, slouching, fifteen-year-old girl. His granddaughter? Their worlds could not be more different— an ideological gulf of mistrust yawns between them— but he is determined to accept her as his own.More than twenty-five years after The Reader, Bernhard Schlink once again offers a masterfully gripping novel that powerfully probes the past’s role in contemporary life, transporting us from the divided Germany of the 1960s to modern day Australia, and asking what unites or separates us.Translated from the German by Charlotte Collins

“Schlink knows how to tell a gripping yarn . . . [The Granddaughter] is a rewarding and wonderfully readable novel.” —The Guardian“A brilliant dissection of a fragmented nation in which a glimmer of hope relieves a somber but wholly memorable tale.” —Kirkus (starred review)From the bestselling author of The Reader, a striking exploration of the past, told through the story of a German bookseller’s attempt to connect with his radicalized granddaughter.It is only after the sudden death of his wife, Birgit, that Kaspar discovers the price she paid years earlier when she fled East Germany to join him: she had to abandon her baby. Shattered by grief, yet animated by a new hope, Kaspar closes up his bookshop in present day Berlin and sets off to find her lost child in the east.His search leads him to a rural community of neo-Nazis, intent on reclaiming and settling ancestral lands to the East. Among them, Kaspar encounters Svenja, a woman whose eyes, hair, and even voice remind him of Birgit. Beside her is a red-haired, slouching, fifteen-year-old girl. His granddaughter? Their worlds could not be more different— an ideological gulf of mistrust yawns between them— but he is determined to accept her as his own.More than twenty-five years after The Reader, Bernhard Schlink once again offers a masterfully gripping novel that powerfully probes the past’s role in contemporary life, transporting us from the divided Germany of the 1960s to modern day Australia, and asking what unites or separates us.Translated from the German by Charlotte Collins

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<ul><li>Ubuntu Linux ganz einfach und Schritt für Schritt installieren und einsetzen</li>
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Steigen Sie mit Ubuntu ein in die Linux-Welt! Mit diesem Buch erhalten Sie eine leicht verständliche Schritt-für-Schritt-Anleitung für die Installation und den Einsatz von Ubuntu 26.04 LTS.

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<li>Windows-Programme mit Ubuntu nutzen</li>
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When grief enters the workplace, most leaders are completely unprepared.Not because they don't care. Because nobody ever taught them what to say, what to do, or how to lead people through loss.So teams freeze.Managers worry about saying the wrong thing. Coworkers avoid difficult conversations. Grieving employees return to workplaces that suddenly feel awkward, silent, and emotionally uncertain.In Grief-Ready Teams, Bradley Vinson offers a practical and deeply human guide for navigating grief inside today's workplace. Drawing from decades of experience in chaplaincy, crisis support, and grief care, Vinson helps leaders understand how moments of loss shape workplace trust, communication, culture, and psychological safety far more than most organizations realize.This is not a book about therapy.It is a book about leadership.Through real-world insights, emotionally intelligent guidance, and practical workplace strategies, Grief-Ready Teams helps leaders: <ul><li>communicate more confidently after employee loss</li><li>avoid common workplace mistakes around grief</li><li>support grieving employees without overcomplicating care</li><li>reduce awkwardness and silence across teams</li><li>create more psychologically safe workplace cultures</li><li>lead difficult moments with steadiness and humanity</li></ul>The book also introduces Vinson's signature framework, The First 48 Hours(TM), designed to help organizations navigate the critical early hours after employee loss with greater clarity, confidence, and compassion.Because employees may forget policies.But they rarely forget how a workplace made them feel during one of the hardest moments of their lives.Perfect for: <ul><li>leaders and managers</li><li>HR professionals</li><li>ERGs and employee wellbeing teams</li><li>healthcare and education professionals</li><li>organizations seeking more human-centered leadership</li></ul>Prepared leaders respond differently.

The First 48 Hours After Loss: A Leader's Guide to Supporting Employees Through Grief

Grief-Ready Teams

Independently published

Someone died, and now there is paperwork.Almost none of it arrives on its own. Social Security pays a survivor benefit to someone who applies for it. The VA pays a monthly benefit to a surviving spouse who files a form. A life insurance company pays a policy it has no way of knowing it should pay, because nobody told it that the insured died. In nearly every case the money waits for a claim, and the claim waits for you.The usual result is forty hours on the phone and a missed deadline anyway. Benefits go unclaimed not because families are careless but because nobody hands them the order of operations.This book is that order. It is organised by what you do first, not by topic - because the sequence matters more than the completeness.What is inside: <ul><li>The single Social Security deadline most families miss, and the one phone call that starts everything else</li><li>How to find a life insurance policy nobody knew existed, using two free searches that take under an hour</li><li>What a surviving spouse can do with an inherited IRA - and the routine act that quietly forecloses the better option</li><li>The COBRA clock after a death, which runs three times longer than most people are told</li><li>Seven chapters on military, veteran, and federal employee survivors: DIC, the Survivor Benefit Plan, SGLI, the death gratuity, arrears of pay, burial benefits, TRICARE, and FERS and CSRS survivor annuities</li><li>What changed in 2023, when the offset that cut military survivor annuities was eliminated - and what changed at Social Security, where two provisions that wiped out survivor benefits for teachers, firefighters, police officers and federal retirees were repealed</li><li>A field-by-field walkthrough of the one form that bounces more claims than any other, taken from the agency's own checklist</li><li>What to do when a claim is denied, with the appeal deadline and form number for each system</li><li>Worksheets built to be photocopied: a document checklist, a benefits inventory, a claim tracker, a deadline calendar, and an agency contact sheet organised by what you need rather than by who they are</li></ul>Every figure, deadline and form number traces to the agency that administers it, named with the date it was checked. Where two government pages disagree - and one pair does - this book says so and explains which one governs. That is the only credential offered here, and it is one most books on this shelf cannot make.Who this is for: the person holding a shoebox of a parent's or spouse's paperwork, who needs to know what to do today and what can wait until next month.Who this is not for: anyone looking for grief support, legal advice, or a guide to probate. This book covers benefits, says so plainly, and names the professional to call when the question is genuinely legal.No euphemism. No manufactured urgency. Every major chapter has a section called What can wait, because most of what feels urgent is not - and the few things that are come with their deadline, their consequence, and their source.Start with the first chapter. Order the death certificates. Everything else follows from that.

How to Find and Claim What a Surviving Family Can Receive - Social Security, Life Insurance, Pensions, and VA

Survivor Benefits

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An explosive, deeply reported exposé of Johnson &amp; Johnson, one of America’s oldest and most trusted pharmaceutical companies—from an award-winning investigative journalist “A damning portrait.”—Associated Press “A page-turning drama that raises life-or-death questions about the world’s largest healthcare conglomerate.”—Jonathan Eig, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of King: A Life FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD AND THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE • A CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY AND NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR One day in 2004, Gardiner Harris, a pharmaceutical reporter for The New York Times, was early for a flight and sat down at an airport bar. He struck up a conversation with the woman on the barstool next to him, who happened to be a drug sales rep for Johnson &amp; Johnson. Her horrific story about unethical sales practices and the devastating impact they’d had on her family fundamentally changed the nature of how Harris would cover the company—and the entire pharmaceutical industry—for the Times. His subsequent investigations and ongoing research since that very first conversation led to this book—a blistering exposé of a trusted American institution and the largest healthcare conglomerate in the world. Harris takes us light-years away from the company’s image as the child-friendly “baby company” as he uncovers reams of evidence showing decades of deceitful and dangerous corporate practices that have threatened the lives of millions. He covers multiple disasters: lies and cover-ups regarding the link of Johnson’s Baby Powder to cancer, the surprising dangers of Tylenol, a criminal campaign to sell antipsychotics that have cost countless lives, a popular drug used to support cancer patients that actually increases the risk that cancer tumors will grow, and deceptive marketing that accelerated opioid addictions through their product Duragesic (fentanyl) that rival even those of the Sacklers and Purdue Pharma. Filled with shocking and infuriating but utterly necessary revelations, No More Tears is a landmark work of investigative journalism that lays bare the deeply rooted corruption behind the image of babies bathing with a smile.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An explosive, deeply reported exposé of Johnson &amp; Johnson, one of America’s oldest and most trusted pharmaceutical companies—from an award-winning investigative journalist “A damning portrait.”—Associated Press “A page-turning drama that raises life-or-death questions about the world’s largest healthcare conglomerate.”—Jonathan Eig, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of King: A Life FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD • A CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY AND NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR One day in 2004, Gardiner Harris, a pharmaceutical reporter for The New York Times, was early for a flight and sat down at an airport bar. He struck up a conversation with the woman on the barstool next to him, who happened to be a drug sales rep for Johnson &amp; Johnson. Her horrific story about unethical sales practices and the devastating impact they’d had on her family fundamentally changed the nature of how Harris would cover the company—and the entire pharmaceutical industry—for the Times. His subsequent investigations and ongoing research since that very first conversation led to this book—a blistering exposé of a trusted American institution and the largest healthcare conglomerate in the world. Harris takes us light-years away from the company’s image as the child-friendly “baby company” as he uncovers reams of evidence showing decades of deceitful and dangerous corporate practices that have threatened the lives of millions. He covers multiple disasters: lies and cover-ups regarding the link of Johnson’s Baby Powder to cancer, the surprising dangers of Tylenol, a criminal campaign to sell antipsychotics that have cost countless lives, a popular drug used to support cancer patients that actually increases the risk that cancer tumors will grow, and deceptive marketing that accelerated opioid addictions through their product Duragesic (fentanyl) that rival even those of the Sacklers and Purdue Pharma. Filled with shocking and infuriating but utterly necessary revelations, No More Tears is a landmark work of investigative journalism that lays bare the deeply rooted corruption behind the image of babies bathing with a smile.

The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson

No More Tears

A Medical Love Story

The Luckiest Unlucky Couple

A poetic, darkly funny memoir of one woman’s trip across the national parks straight into life-threatening illness and the joy that still holds us, no matter how much life hurts. “Unapologetically raw, defiantly humorous, this book is the bravest of journeys. . . . A memoir that makes no promises except to tell the truth about joy in the dark. We’ve needed this.”—Cole Arthur Riley, New York Times bestselling author of This Here Flesh After over a decade of fighting chronic illness, trauma therapist and beloved author K.J. Ramsey was the healthiest she’d been in her life. She packed up her Jeep and set out on a summer of road trips, returning to the places where she first glimpsed joy as a kid. More than adventure, her aim was a personal dare to discover that joy is more trustworthy than trauma. The plan was simple but bold: Drive. Write. Heal. What could go wrong? It turns out, everything. The woman who just wandered through Redwood forests and ran naked into the Pacific suddenly found herself in the hospital fighting to stay alive. A mysterious illness struck like lightning, splintering the best days of her life into the absolute scariest. Ramsey went from being afraid of dying to afraid of living the life she was left with—losing both her mobility and the language of her faith, medically gaslit, with no map out of her misery. Was joy actually a trick? Or was joy still possible—even in inescapable pain? Told with unhinged humor, lyrical honesty, and zero patience for toxic positivity, The Place Between Our Pains is a true story that reaches past our expectations of what joy can survive. From banana slugs to bedpans, mushrooms to the Mayo Clinic, hospitals to holy rage, Ramsey invites us into the unlikely places where joy lives. Through a full year of recovery, she encounters love that doesn’t leave—even when life doesn’t get easier. This is a love letter to every life seared by pain or autoimmune disease and a fierce permission slip to show up in the stories we never would have written for ourselves.

A poetic, darkly funny memoir of one woman’s trip across the national parks straight into life-threatening illness and the joy that still holds us, no matter how much life hurts. “Unapologetically raw, defiantly humorous, this book is the bravest of journeys. . . . A memoir that makes no promises except to tell the truth about joy in the dark. We’ve needed this.”—Cole Arthur Riley, New York Times bestselling author of This Here Flesh After over a decade of fighting chronic illness, trauma therapist and beloved author K.J. Ramsey was the healthiest she’d been in her life. She packed up her Jeep and set out on a summer of road trips, returning to the places where she first glimpsed joy as a kid. More than adventure, her aim was a personal dare to discover that joy is more trustworthy than trauma. The plan was simple but bold: Drive. Write. Heal. What could go wrong? It turns out, everything. The woman who just wandered through Redwood forests and ran naked into the Pacific suddenly found herself in the hospital fighting to stay alive. A mysterious illness struck like lightning, splintering the best days of her life into the absolute scariest. Ramsey went from being afraid of dying to afraid of living the life she was left with—losing both her mobility and the language of her faith, medically gaslit, with no map out of her misery. Was joy actually a trick? Or was joy still possible—even in inescapable pain? Told with unhinged humor, lyrical honesty, and zero patience for toxic positivity, The Place Between Our Pains is a true story that reaches past our expectations of what joy can survive. From banana slugs to bedpans, mushrooms to the Mayo Clinic, hospitals to holy rage, Ramsey invites us into the unlikely places where joy lives. Through a full year of recovery, she encounters love that doesn’t leave—even when life doesn’t get easier. This is a love letter to every life seared by pain or autoimmune disease and a fierce permission slip to show up in the stories we never would have written for ourselves.

A Memoir of What Joy Can Survive

The Place Between Our Pains

"Both a grief book that doesn't read like a clinician's notes and a memoir wrapped around a bigger subject, All My Dead Cats takes grief from the taboo to the universal." — BooklistHave you suffered a loss? How was your life changed by the grief you experienced? Mourning is a personal experience and shouldn't be judged. There are no do-overs in death, but there are do-betters.All My Dead Cats is not a book about pet loss. You will meet award-winning journalist and debut author s.e. smith’s cats and read small slices of their stories. Their vignettes serve as an opening to scary conversations about loss, so grief can feel less intimidating and more relatable.This is a book about grief and mourning as collective activities best undertaken in community. S.e. interviews dozens of experts—from death doulas to funeral home directors to therapists and psychologists—and discusses the different stages of grief. The shared perspectives help us understand that grief is not fixable but it can be livable. They teach us that if we have the courage, which begins with honest conversations about how we navigate grief, then we can learn how to do better.After reading you'll better understand: <ul><li>Disenfranchised grief and how you can be part of the solution and not the problem</li><li>How to be an advocate for people subjected to trauma and violence</li><li>The stages of grief and how to process your experiences</li></ul> Grief is not over once the body is neatly disposed of, the rubble of the house has been taken away in dumpsters, the final fit on the prosthesis is done, the law is passed and withstands legal challenges, or when the permanent peace is brokered. It is an ongoing shift in our relationship to the world, and one that deserves attention and care as well as time and space to be amongst fellow mourners, to whom we do not need to justify or explain, because they understand where we are.Readers will feel seen rather than being chastised for how they grieve and better understand how to process mourning--and how to help others. All My Dead Cats provides an entry point, by beginning the conversation about a beloved pet, so readers can think about the larger stakes of death and live a more fulfilled life.

"Both a grief book that doesn't read like a clinician's notes and a memoir wrapped around a bigger subject, All My Dead Cats takes grief from the taboo to the universal." — BooklistHave you suffered a loss? How was your life changed by the grief you experienced? Mourning is a personal experience and shouldn't be judged. There are no do-overs in death, but there are do-betters.All My Dead Cats is not a book about pet loss. You will meet award-winning journalist and debut author s.e. smith’s cats and read small slices of their stories. Their vignettes serve as an opening to scary conversations about loss, so grief can feel less intimidating and more relatable.This is a book about grief and mourning as collective activities best undertaken in community. S.e. interviews dozens of experts—from death doulas to funeral home directors to therapists and psychologists—and discusses the different stages of grief. The shared perspectives help us understand that grief is not fixable but it can be livable. They teach us that if we have the courage, which begins with honest conversations about how we navigate grief, then we can learn how to do better.After reading you'll better understand: <ul><li>Disenfranchised grief and how you can be part of the solution and not the problem</li><li>How to be an advocate for people subjected to trauma and violence</li><li>The stages of grief and how to process your experiences</li></ul> Grief is not over once the body is neatly disposed of, the rubble of the house has been taken away in dumpsters, the final fit on the prosthesis is done, the law is passed and withstands legal challenges, or when the permanent peace is brokered. It is an ongoing shift in our relationship to the world, and one that deserves attention and care as well as time and space to be amongst fellow mourners, to whom we do not need to justify or explain, because they understand where we are.Readers will feel seen rather than being chastised for how they grieve and better understand how to process mourning--and how to help others. All My Dead Cats provides an entry point, by beginning the conversation about a beloved pet, so readers can think about the larger stakes of death and live a more fulfilled life.

Practicing Good Grief in a Culture That Fears Mourning

All My Dead Cats and Other Losses

Writing Portals for Life After Loss

Letting Grief Speak

THE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERA FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS 2025'The best memoir you will read all year' NICK HORNBY'A triumphant meditation on loss, literature and the unspoken'GUARDIAN'Curious and idiosyncratic and enjoyable'ZADIE SMITH'Darkly moving and heart-wrenchingly funny'MARIE CLAIREThe internationally bestselling author of Women Talking and All My Puny Sorrows, Miriam Toews, returns with a singular memoir celebrating disobedient memory, wit, writing and life.'Why do you write?' the organiser of a literary event in Mexico City asks Miriam Toews. Each attempted answer from Toews - all of them unsatisfactory to the organiser - surfaces new layers of grief, guilt and futility connected to her sister's suicide. She has been keeping up, she realises, a decades-old internal correspondence, filling a silence she barely understands. And we, her readers, come to see that the question is as impossible to answer as deciding whether to live life as a comedy or a tragedy.A book of the year in the Guardian, New Yorker, TIME, Washington Post, New Statesman, NPR,Irish Times and LitHub.'Toews knows exactly how to extract hilarity from horrifying events' THE TIMES'Memoir perfection ... I adored it'CARIAD LLOYD, author of You Are Not Alone'I can't get enough of Miriam's Toews' writing'NINA STIBBE, author of Went to London, Took the Dog'Beautiful, hilarious, devastating' PAULA HAWKINS, author of The Blue Hour'Brilliant ... it broke my heart in the best of ways' SHARLENE TEO, author of Ponti'A grief memoir in the vein of Joan Didion's Blue Nights'NEW YORK TIMESA Truce That Is Not Peacewas a #1 bestseller in Canada in w/c 06/09/2025

A Truce That Is Not Peace

The Essential Guide to Planning Ahead What would happen if t he unexpected occurred tomorrow? In the midst of illness, loss or emergency situations, families are often left searching for important documents, making difficult decisions, and trying to piece together information that was never gathered in one place. This guide was created to gently change that experience. Written from real-life experience, The Essential Guide to Planning Ahead offers a calm, step-by-step approach to organizing important information, discussing final wishes, and preparing for practical responsibilities thst arise during times of transition. Rather than overwhelming readers with legal jargon or complicated systems, this book focuses on clarity, organization, and peace of mind. Inside you'll find guidance and worksheets covering: *Medical information and final wishes. *Important documents and account information. *Funeral and memorial planning. *The first 72 hours after a passing. *The first 30 days and practical steps. * Property and household considerations. *Supporting a surviving spouse. *Trust and estate administration basics. *Record keeping and protection. *Helpful scripts and communication tools for difficult conversations. Designed for individuals, couples, caregivers, and adult children helping aging parents, this guide can be used as both a planning tool and as a supportive companion during difficult times. The included worksheets encourage families to gather information gradually, at their own pace, creating a valuable resource that can reduce confusion and ease stress when it matters most.

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Shortlisted for the 2026 Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing 'Superb' Telegraph 'There's a real sense of peace and magic in this beautiful book' Daisy Buchanan'Utterly endearing' Dr James Canton'A fantastic book for weird walkers and megalith-obsessives alike' Weird Walk 'I was alternately gripped and moved to tears by this brilliant, exquisite memoir. . . I can't recommend it enough' Harriet EvansJourneying across Britain, from West Penwith and Avebury to the Lake District and Orkney, Stone Lands uncovers the magic and rich history of our incredible prehistoric standing stones. It conveys the delight that lies in tracking them down, as well as the solace these ancient places offer in times of darkness.A few months after discovering that her beloved husband, Stephen, had incurable cancer, Fiona Robertson began to write this book. A long-time megalith enthusiast, she found the ancient stones resonated with her more profoundly than ever as she faced the prospect of losing him. Set upright thousands of years ago, the megaliths are symbols of endurance and survival, standing in contrast to our ephemeral human lives. Infused with folklore, legend and mystery, they enchant the landscape and bring magic to our modern world. This enthralling memoir is woven delicately around great grief but is ultimately about embracing life, joy and ancient wonder - a luminous reminder of what it means to exist on this earth.Stone Lands is beautifully illustrated inside with stunning black and white line drawings by the illustrator and printmaker Philip Harris. Find out more about his work: www.philipharrisillustration.com'A reminder that the ancient stones can be sources of reassurance and solidity, even in our times of greatest upheaval and loss' Angeline Morrison'A very, very good read ... this is one to treasure' Blackwell'sStone Lands is 'assiduously researched, full of anecdotes and makes you look anew at these enduring landmarks' Country Life

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