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Allison Gilbert

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Born

The United States

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http://www.allisongilbert.com

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Genre

Nonfiction, Contemporary, Psychology

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Allison Gilbert is an Emmy Award-winning journalist, contributor to the New York Times, and one of the most influential writers and speakers on life’s deepest challenges. She is co-author with the late Dr. Ruth Westheimer of The Joy Connections: 100 Ways to Beat Loneliness and Live a Happier and More Meaningful Life.

Allison is the author of numerous critically-acclaimed books, including Passed and Present, Always Too Soon, and Parentless Parents, each inspired by the early deaths of her parents from cancer. For Listen, World!, her co-authored biography of Hearst syndicated newspaper columnist Elsie Robinson, she won the 2023 Northern California Book Award.

Nearly killed by falling debris covering the 2001 terrorist attacks, she is co-edito ...more

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My Two and a Half Centimeter Time Bombs

When my mother was dying of ovarian cancer, I was twenty-five. Back then, now more than a decade ago, I took advantage of the kind of freedom I would never know again; not yet married, without children, I was able to put my life on hold and focus completely on the end of hers. I took time off from work, left my boyfriend alone in our apartment, and moved back home. Under the same roof...

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Average rating: 3.8 · 1,624 ratings · 266 reviews · 13 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Joy of Connections: 100 Ways to Beat Loneliness and Live a Happier and More Meaningful Life by Ruth Westheimer, Allison Gilbert (Goodreads Author) (primary contributor), Pierre Lehu (primary contributor) 3.63 avg rating — 1,016 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Passed and Present 3.78 avg rating — 134 ratings — published 2016 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Always Too Soon: Voices of Support for Those Who Have Lost Both Parents by Allison Gilbert (Goodreads Author), Allison Gilbert (Goodreads Author) 4.04 avg rating — 117 ratings — published 2006 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Parentless Parents How the Loss of Our Mothers and Way We Raise Our Children 3.70 avg rating — 64 ratings — published 2011 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Covering Catastrophe by Allison Gilbert (Goodreads Author), Phil Hirshkorn (Editor), Melinda Murphy (Editor) 4.21 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 2002 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Always Too Soon: Voices of Support for Those Who Have Lost Both Parents by Gilbert, Allison(November 22, 2006) Paperback liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Covering Catastrophe: Broadcast Journalists Report September 11 by Allison Gilbert (2002-04-01) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Parentless Parents: How the Loss of Our Mothers and Fathers Impacts the Way We Raise Our Children by Allison Gilbert (2011-02-15) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Listen, World!: How the Intrepid Elsie Robinson Became America's Most-Read Woman by Allison Gilbert (Goodreads Author), Julia Scheeres (Goodreads Author), Bernadette Dunn (Narrator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tracing your ancestry: geneticist uses DNA technology to provide a bridge to the past for people of African descent.(BLACK DIGERATI)(Rick Kitties)(African Ancestry): An article from: Black Enterprise 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars