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In a Heartbeat

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Pieces of Me

Amber Kizer · 291 pages

After a car accident leaves her brain-dead, Jessica tries to prevent her parents from donating her organs and tissues, but then follows the lives of four fellow teens who are able to survive because she did not. After a car accident leaves her brain dead, Jessica tries to prevent her parents from donating her organs and tissues but then follows the lives of four teens who are able to survive beca

Ghost NarratorGrief and MourningEmotionalMultiple POV
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My Beating Teenage Heart

C.K. Kelly Martin · 274 pages

Two unexpected and heartbreaking deaths cause the lives of two very different teenagers to become intertwined as one struggles to deal with his grief and stay in this world, and the other finds herself inexplicably caught between this world and the next.

Ghost NarratorGrief and MourningEmotionalMultiple POV
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The Good Sister

Jamie Kain · 298 pages

When teenaged Sarah dies in a sudden and puzzling accident, sending her two sisters into a tailspin of grief and confusion, Sarah wakes up in the afterlife and must piece together how she got there.

Ghost NarratorGrief and MourningEmotionalYoung Adult
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Lark

Tracey Porter · 183 pages

When sixteen-year-old Lark is murdered, she, her childhood best friend Eva, and a girl she used to babysit, Nyetta, find themselves facing hard truths about their lives and seeking a way to move on.

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If I Stay

Gayle Forman · 272 pages

*Just listen, Adam says with a voice that sounds like shrapnel. I open my eyes wide now. I sit up as much as I can. And I listen. Stay, he says.* Choices. Seventeen-year-old Mia is faced with some tough ones: Stay true to her first love—music—even if it means losing her boyfriend and leaving her family and friends behind? Then one February morning Mia goes for a drive with her family, an

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Cold Hands, Warm Heart

Jill Wolfson · 258 pages

After sixteen-year-old Tyler convinces his parents to donate the organs of his fourteen-year-old sister, who died during a gymnastics meet, he writes letters to the recipients, including Dani, who finally has a chance at normalcy after living fifteen years with a congenital heart defect.

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The Everafter

Amy Huntley

Madison Stanton doesn't know where she is or how she got there. But she does know this-she is dead. And alone, in a vast, dark space. The only company she has is in the place are luminescent objects that turn out to be all the things Maddy lost while she was alive. And soon she discovers that with these artifacts, she can reexperience-and sometimes even change-moments from her life.Her first kiss.

Ghost NarratorAfterlifeEmotionalYoung Adult
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Arise

Tara Hudson

"Dark spirits and ill omens arise as Amelia, a ghost still trapped somewhere between life and death, continues to fight for her relationship with the human boy Joshua"--

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The Ghost and the Goth

Stacey Kade

After being hit by a bus and killed, a high school homecoming queen gets stuck in the land of the living, with only a loser classmate--who happens to be able to see and hear ghosts--to help her.

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Ghosts

Raina Telgemeier

it is a good book you would have a blast reading this book just like I did so that is why I’m putting the book on this website open library

Chronic IllnessAfterlifeGrief and MourningEmotional
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I Liked My Life

Abby Fabiaschi · 283 pages

"An emotional journey of love, loss, healing, and redemption. I rooted for every character." -- Lisa See, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Snow Flower and The Secret Fan. "I Liked My Life is a treasure of a novel. Warm-hearted and clever, the story will keep you reading until the final delicious revelation." -- Diane Chamberlain, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author. "

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Between

Jessica Warman · 467 pages

By weaving through her memories and watching the family and friends she left behind, eighteen-year-old Liz Valchar solves the mystery of how her life ended in the Long Island Sound.

Ghost NarratorAfterlifeYoung AdultMultiple POV
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Human Acts

Han Kang · 221 pages

In the midst of a violent student uprising in South Korea, a young boy named Dong-ho is shockingly killed. The story of this tragic episode unfolds in a sequence of interconnected chapters as the victims and the bereaved encounter suppression, denial, and the echoing agony of the massacre. From Dong-ho’s best friend who meets his own fateful end to an editor struggling against censorship; to a pri

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Remember Me

Christopher Pike · 238 pages

**SHE WON'T LET THEM FORGET.** Shari Cooper wakes up dead. The last thing she can remember is falling from a balcony during her friend's party. Her death has been ruled a suicide, but Shari knows she was murdered - and her closest friends are now suspects. As she tries to find her killer from the other side, she discovers her friends may not have been so loyal to her after all. Now Shari is not j

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Girlfriend in a Coma

Douglas Coupland · 284 pages

A New Age novel on a Vancouver woman who falls into a coma which lasts nearly two decades. The novel traces the impact on her family, especially on her boyfriend and a daughter she gave birth to just before the coma. By the author of Life after God.

Ghost NarratorAfterlifeMultiple POV
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I Woke Up Dead at the Mall

Judy Sheehan · 278 pages

Sixteen-year-old Sarah wakes up dead at the Mall of America only to find she was murdered, and she must work with a group of dead teenagers to finish up the unresolved business of their former lives while preventing her murderer from killing again.

Ghost NarratorAfterlifeYoung Adult
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The Assembler of Parts

Raoul Wientzen · 334 pages

While in heaven reviewing her short life with the help of the Assembler of Parts, 8-year-old Jess, who was born with a syndrome of birth defects, discovers the true meaning and purpose of her life after her death unleashes events beyond her control.

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The Guardian Angel's Journal

Carolyn Jess-Cooke

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A Walk to Remember

Nicholas Sparks · 240 pages

There was a time when the world was sweeter....when the women in Beaufort, North Carolina, wore dresses, and the men donned hats.... Every April, when the wind smells of both the sea and lilacs, Landon Carter remembers 1958, his last year at Beaufort High. Landon had dated a girl or two, and even once sworn that he'd been in love. Certainly the last person he thought he'd fall for was Jamie, the s

Chronic IllnessGrief and MourningEmotionalYoung Adult
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More Than This

Patrick Ness · 480 pages

A boy called Seth drowns, desperate and alone in his final moments, losing his life as the pounding sea claims him. But then he wakes. He is naked, thirsty, starving. But alive. How is that possible? He remembers dying, his bones breaking, his skull dashed upon the rocks. So how is he is here? And where is this place? It looks like the suburban English town where he lived as a child, before an unt

AfterlifeGrief and MourningEmotionalYoung Adult
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A Little Life

Hanya Yanagihara · 736 pages

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In The Quiet

Eliza Henry-Jones · 368 pages

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