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Through the Eyes of a Lion: facing impossible pain, finding incredible power by Levi Lusko; Steven Furtick (Foreword by)
Call Number: 248.86 LUSKO
ISBN: 0718032144
Publication Date: 2015-08-04
What will you do when the unthinkable happens? Her parents called her Lenya Lion because of her ferocious personality and hair that had been wild and mane-like since birth. But they never expected that, five days before Christmas, their five-year-old daughter would suddenly go to heaven after an asthma attack. How do you walk out of the ER without your daughter? 193 pages.

Alex and Me : how a scientist and a parrot discovered a hidden world of animal intelligence--and formed a deep bond in the process by Irene Pepperberg; Roger Lewin
Call Number: 636.6 PEPPERB
ISBN: 0061672475
Publication Date: 2008-10-28
This story of Alex, a famous African Gray parrot, documents his thirty-year relationship with his trainer and the ways in which his life has changed scientific understanding about language and thought. 232 pages.
From Here to Eternity: traveling the world to find the good death. by Caitlin Doughty
Call Number: 363.75 DOUGHTY
ISBN: 0393249891
Publication Date: 2017-10-03
Fascinated by our pervasive fear of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty set out to discover how other cultures care for the dead. 248 pages.