H is for Hawk appears in 14 book lists

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H is for Hawk appears in 14 book lists on Shepherd.

The best books on how we understand (and misunderstand) mental illness

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The best books for when life heads downhill

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The best grief books to see you through the 3 Ds: death, diagnosis or divorce

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Best books about humans bonding with wild animals

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The best books with unusual manifestations of grief

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The best books about the Goshawk – the "Phantom of the Forest"

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The best books about grief when you don’t want to read about grief

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The best page turners about badass adventurous women seeking love and belonging

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The best books that make you feel like you’re living inside their folklore

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The best books that made me gasp as I wrote my book on grief

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The best memoirs for snobs who don’t read memoirs

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The best books about making huge life changes and the stories behind them

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The barking best books with animals

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The best books about defying gravity and breaking out of the way we are taught to think

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