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Series
Publisher
Torrey House Press
Publication Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In the ninth book in Graham's National Park Mystery Series, an archaeologist must stop a century-old crime to save his daughter. When archaeologist Chuck Bender makes a stunning discovery of a century-old crime, he believes it may be related to a series of deadly accidents plaguing the Whitney to Death 150, the world's toughest ultra trail-running race. While Chuck's teenage stepdaughter Carmelita races to win the competition, Chuck races to uncover...
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Publication Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
In this New York Times best-seller, Norman F. Cantor digs through the medical evidence and concludes that the Black Death of the 14th century was probably two diseases at once: bubonic plague and anthrax. He shows how these diseases affected the masses as well as individuals, and thus altered history. Concise, informative, and touched with dark humor, this book is a startlingly fresh view of a frightening epidemic.
Author
Publication Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"For years as an award-winning war reporter, Sebastian Junger traveled to many front lines and frequently put his life at risk. And yet the closest he ever came to death was the summer of 2020 while spending a quiet afternoon at the New England home he shared with his wife and two young children. Crippled by abdominal pain, Junger was rushed to the hospital by ambulance. Once there, he began slipping away. As blackness encroached, he was visited by...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Publication Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The most profound book yet from the visionary author of Milk Fed and The Pisces, a darkly funny novel about grief that becomes a desert survival story In Melissa Broder's astounding new novel, a woman arrives alone at a Best Western seeking respite from an emptiness that plagues her. She has fled to the California desert to escape a cloud of sorrow--both for her father in the ICU and a disabled husband whose illness is worsening. What the motel provides,...
10) A grief observed
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Series
Language
English
Description
"Written after his wife's tragic death as a way of surviving the "mad midnight moments," A Grief Observed is C.S. Lewis's honest reflection on the fundamental issues of life, death, and faith in the midst of loss. This work contains his concise, genuine reflections on that period: "Nothing will shake a man--or at any rate a man like me out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to be knocked silly before he comes to...
Author
Publisher
New Press
Publication Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
One of Studs Terkel's most important oral histories, Will the Circle Be Unbroken? turns to the ultimate human experience-that of death. Called "extraordinary--a work of insight, wisdom, and freshness" by the Seattle Times when it was first published fifteen years ago, the book explores-with unrivaled compassion and wisdom-the indelible variety of reactions to mortality and the experience of death and the possibility of life afterward. Here a wide...
12) Mortal
Author
Series
Books of mortals volume 2
Publisher
FaithWords
Publication Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Rom Sebastian discovered a secret and consumed an ancient potion of blood to bring himself back to life. Nine years later, surviving against impossible odds, he has gathered a secret faction of followers who have also taken the blood--the first Mortals in a world that is dead. But the Order has raised an elite army to hunt and crush the living, and no one knows the path to survival.
Author
Publisher
Keylight Books, an imprint of Turner Publishing
Publication Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Melvin Levin is dissatisfied-with his job, with life, with it all. He's too polite and too boring, and the monotony of his days is only broken when he has to clean up after his neighbor's frequently vomiting cat. That is, until he receives a mysterious death threat in the mail. Under the thrill of potentially getting murdered, Melvin begins to feel truly alive again. The threat gives Melvin a sense of self-importance--someone wants him dead--and,...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Best-selling author and licensed mortician Caitlin Doughty answers real questions from kids about death, dead bodies, and decomposition. Every day, funeral director Caitlin Doughty receives dozens of questions about death. What would happen to an astronaut's body if it were pushed out of a space shuttle? Do people poop when they die? Can Grandma have a Viking funeral? In the tradition of Randall Munroe's What If?, Doughty's new book, Will My Cat...
Publisher
Pulp
Publication Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In this illuminating collection of oral-history style interviews, Casey Jarman talks to a funeral industry watchdog about the (often shady) history of the death trade; he hears how songwriter David Bazan lost his faith while trying to hold on to his family; he learns about cartoonist Art Spiegelman using his college LSD trips to explain death to his children; and he gets to know his own grandparents, posthumously.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Publication Date
2006
Language
English
Description
In Last Rights, award-winning journalist Stephen P. Kiernan shows how patients and families can regain control of the dying process, creating familial intimacy like never before.
"Gripping…A superb resource for boomers dealing with their parents' final days…as well as for health-care professionals who need to hear this story from the other side."-Kirkus Reviews
With advances in medicine, technology, and daily diet and exercise practices,...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Language
English
Description
The classic novel that inspired the beloved Tim Burton film and the Broadway musical.
In his prime, Edward Bloom was an extraordinary man. He could outrun anybody. He never missed a day of school. He saved lives and tamed giants. Animals loved him, people loved him, women loved him. He knew more jokes than any man alive. At least that's what he told his son, William. But now Edward Bloom is dying, and William wants desperately to know the truth...
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