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The bright hour : a memoir of living and dying

Riggs, Nina (author.).

Summary: "Nina Riggs was just thirty-seven years old when initially diagnosed with breast cancer--one small spot. Within a year, the mother of two young sons, and married sixteen years to her best friend, received the devastating news that her cancer was terminal. How does one live each day, 'unattached to outcome'? How does one approach the moments, big and small, with both love and honesty? She asks, what makes a meaningful life when one has limited time? Brilliantly written, disarmingly funny, and deeply moving, The Bright Hour is about how to love all the days, even the bad ones, and it's about the way literature, especially Emerson, and Nina's other muse, Montaigne, can be a balm and a form of prayer. It's a book about looking death squarely in the face and saying 'this is what will be.'"--

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  • ISBN: 9781501169373 (trade paper)
  • ISBN: 9781501169359 (hardback)
  • Physical Description: 310 pages ; 22 cm
    print
  • Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2017.
Subject: Riggs, Nina
Poets
Women Biography
Autobiographies
Breast Cancer
Terminally ill
Death and dying
Death Psychological aspects
Life
Mothers
Marriage
Families
Quality of life
Friendship
Attitude (Psychology)
Loss (Psychology)
Consolation

Available copies

  • 41 of 41 copies available at SPARK Libraries.

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  • 0 current holds with 41 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Abington Community Library 92 RIGGS (Text) 50687011531723 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Albright Memorial Library 92 RIGGS (Text) 50686015573715 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Annie Halenbake Ross Library 362.196 Rig (Text) 00138021 ADULT Non-Fiction Available -
Boone Area Library RIG (Text) 33249022801363 Biography Available -
Carrolltown Public Library BIO RIG (Text) 31814231028199 CARM Biography Available -
Dalton Community Library 92 RIGGS (Text) 50689010412251 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Emmaus Public Library 362.19 RIGG (Text) 36446001952533 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Exeter Community Library RIG (Text) 33249023506441 Biography Available -
Forest City 92-R RIGG Rig (Text) 38000000572004 SSQF Main Floor Available -
Gettysburg Library 362.196 RIGGS (Text) 35740635153828 Nonfiction Available -


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