Our library in Hewett Centre is open every Sunday after service during Coffee Hour in Hewett Centre, and our Library Team offers related reading lists based on the topic of the Sunday service. Here is their list for the Sunday, May 31, 2026 at 11 a.m. service on “The Love We Leave Behind”, featuring Rev. Shawn Gauthier. All are welcome in Hewett Centre after the Sunday service to check out some books, and to have coffee and conversation.
VanU library books related to this Sunday’s sermon:
1. How to Write and Deliver a Loving Eulogy by Leo Seguin, edited by Glen Semenchuk, 1998, 155.9 SEG
From LibraryThing: “When asked by family or friends to deliver a eulogy, there is usually very little time for planning. This book is designed as a guide to help you build and deliver a loving eulogy. It will provide, in a concise form, a vehicle of expression produced with empathy and compassion. The prose will be constructed from your own personal thoughts, your generous emotions, your caring hands, hands imbued with loyalty and worthy purpose (using our tools) you are a child of God. …”.
2. Living through Mourning: Finding Comfort and Hope When a Loved One Has Died by Harriet Sarnoff Schiff, 1987, 150 SCH
From LibraryThing: “… shares advice to help mourners find comfort amidst grief and hope when a loved one has passed. Supported by interviews with the bereaved and with funeral directors, therapists, and clergymen, this reference helps guide mourners through the grieving process.”.
3. Straight Talk about Death for Teenagers: How to Cope with Losing Someone You Love by Earl A. Grollman, 1993, 155.9 GRO
From LibraryThing: “Suggests ways to deal with the grief and other emotions felt after the death of a loved one and to discover how to go on living.”.
4. I Love Gootie: My Grandmother’s Story by Max Apple, 1998, 921 APP
From LibraryThing: “… Apple takes a heartwarming and hilarious look at the life of his grandmother. While much of Gootie’s advice was hilariously off-target, she taught Apple about the power of love and the art of storytelling.”.
5. Norman Bethune, His Times and His Legacy, edited by David A. E. Shephard and Andrée Lévesque, 1982, 921 BET
Review by John Richard Schrock in Amazon: “… in many ways, Norman Bethune was the pioneer in operating a M*A*S*H unit, the mobile army surgical hospital that was portrayed on American television in the 1970s. Bethune had earlier been a pioneer in getting blood to the frontlines for transfusion into injured soldiers in the republican troop efforts against the fascists in Franco’s war in Spain, and this was just another step forward toward saving lives of injured soldiers just behind the frontlines. … major impact Bethune had in China, being their foremost example of a committed foreign friend of the Chinese people and understood even today as their most revered Westerner, and taught throughout their schools.”.