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  • Damn, You Just Got Bit! A Handbook for New Vampires

    The Vampire Series, #1

    Series Book 1 - The Vampire Series
    So, you've been sired. What now? You have started the biggest adventure of your life, or should we say of your death. Or undeath.Things are never going to be the same again. You need a roadmap for your new existence. Forget all the old stuff. That's all gone now. It's time to face the future. You no longer need to worry about the fate of the ordinary human. All they have to look forward to is ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Down Among the Dead Men

    A Year in the Life of a Mortuary Technician

    This deeply original and “entertaining memoir” pulls back the curtain on life at the morgue—introducing a colorful cast of characters you won’t soon forget (Booklist).“Williams’s reminiscence does more than delight in the creepy and the ghoulish; it breathes life into the mortuary workers themselves.” —The Brooklyn RailMichelle Williams is young and attractive, with close family ties, a busy ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • When Breath Becomes Air

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • This inspiring, exquisitely observed memoir finds hope and beauty in the face of insurmountable odds as an idealistic young neurosurgeon attempts to answer the question, What makes a life worth living?“Unmissable . . . Finishing this book and then forgetting about it is simply not an option.”—Janet Maslin, The New York TimesONE OF THE BEST ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Why We Die

    The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality

    "Utterly fascinating." —Bill Bryson"An incredible journey." —Siddhartha MukherjeeA groundbreaking exploration of the science of longevity and mortality—from Nobel Prize-winning molecular biologist Venki RamakrishnanThe knowledge of death is so terrifying that we live most of our lives in denial of it. One of the most difficult moments of childhood must be when each of us first realizes that not ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: And Other Questions About Dead Bodies

    New York Times BestsellerWinner of a Goodreads Choice Award“Funny, dark, and at times stunningly existential.” —Marianne Eloise, GuardianEveryone has questions about death. In Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?, best-selling author and mortician Caitlin Doughty answers the most intriguing questions she’s ever received about what happens to our bodies when we die. In a brisk, informative, and morbidly ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife

    by Mary Roach ...
    "Equal parts Groucho Marx and Stephen Jay Gould, both enlightening and entertaining."—Sunday Denver Post & Rocky Mountain NewsThe best-selling author of Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers now trains her considerable wit and curiosity on the human soul. What happens when we die? Does the light just go out and that's that—the million-year nap? Or will some part of my personality, my me-ness ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Between Life and Death: From Despair to Hope

    by Kashyap Patel ...
    Dr Kashyap Patel is a renowned oncologist in the US who works with terminally ill cancer patients. Through him, we meet Harry, who, after a life full of adventure, is diagnosed with terminal lung cancer. As he stares death in the face, Harry leans on Dr Patel, an expert in understanding the process of death and dying. His questions and fears are addressed through the stories of many other patients ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Recovering from the Loss of a Sibling

    An extremely well-written, compassionate guide for the millions of people who come face to face with a death in their own familiesWhen a brother or sister dies, surviving siblings often receive little support or recognition of their pain. But their grief is real, and there is a way to recover from it. Through intimate, true stories and interviews with brothers and sisters who have lost a sibling, ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

    by Mary Roach ...
    "One of the funniest and most unusual books of the year....Gross, educational, and unexpectedly sidesplitting."—Entertainment WeeklyStiff is an oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem. For two thousand years, cadavers—some willingly, some unwittingly—have been involved in science's boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. They've tested France ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Between Two Kingdoms

    A Memoir of a Life Interrupted

    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A deeply moving memoir of illness and recovery that traces one young woman’s journey from diagnosis to remission to re-entry into “normal” life—from the founder of The Isolation Journals and a subject of the Netflix documentary American SymphonyONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, Bloomberg, The Rumpus, She Reads, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Nobility in Small Things

    A Surgeon's Path

    His routine was the same every day for 38 years: up at 4:15, make a turkey-on-rye, drive the deserted Henry Hudson Parkway to the hospital, check the schedule, scrub, cut, reattach, save a life or two, repeat. Until March 2020, when the Covid-19 pandemic shut hospital surgeries all over the world.Craig Smith, M.D., Chairman of the Department of Surgery at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, went from ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Dignifying Dementia: A Caregiver's Struggle

    Diagnosed with dementia in 1997, my husband, Jim, lived at home during his illness and died there in January 2006. I wish this story were fiction, but it is not. Dignifying Dementia is both a love story and an attempt to reach out to others who are living through or who will live through a similar tragedy. It is written in the hope that others might benefit from what I learned as the caregiver of ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Death and Dying

    Series series The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
    An examination of the contemporary medicalization of death and dying that calls us to acknowledge instead death's existential and emotional realities.Death is a natural, inevitable, and deeply human process, and yet Western medicine tends to view it as a medical failure. In their zeal to prevent death, physicians and hospitals often set patients and their families on a seemingly unstoppable ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The VSED Handbook: A Practical Guide to Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking

    by Kate Christie ...
    Voluntarily stopping eating and drinking (VSED) is a widely available yet little known end-of-life choice utilized throughout human history by people suffering from terminal illness and existential distress. In this short but comprehensive guidebook, novelist Kate Christie describes the steps her family took when her mother Jane chose to die by VSED to escape the late stages of Alzheimer's disease ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Corpse Care

    Ethics for Tending the Dead

    Corpse Care relates the history of death care in the U.S. to craft robust, constructive, practical ethics for tending the dead. It specifically relates corpse care to economic, environmental, and pastoral concerns.Death and the treatment of the dead body loom large in our collective, cultural consciousness. The authors explore the materiality and meaning of the dead body and the living's ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Will the Circle Be Unbroken?

    Reflections on Death, Rebirth, and Hunger for a Faith

    by Studs Terkel ...
    The renowned oral historian interviews ordinary people about facing mortality: “It’s the unguarded voices he presents that stay with you.” —The New York TimesIn this book, the Pulitzer Prize winner and National Book Award finalist Studs Terkel, author of the New York Times bestseller Working, turns to the ultimate human experience: death. Here a wide range of people address the unknowable ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Morbid Curiosity

    The Disturbing Demises of the Famous and Infamous

    "It's shocking and sinful, and I couldn't put it down!" -Joan RiversThe strange, startling, and utterly fascinating stories behind the world's most notorious celebrity deaths.Was Jayne Mansfield really decapitated? Which manly appendage of Napoleon's was cut off during his autopsy? (And where did it go?) What went to the grave (literally) with River Phoenix, Frank Sinatra, and Princess Diana?Death ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Judgement Day

    Deeds That Light the Way

    by Omar Suleiman ...
    Omar Suleiman is one of America's most influential Muslims. He has over 2.7 MILLION Facebook followers and regularly appears on television and social media arguing for justice.He is listed as one of the 500 most influential Muslim in the world, and listed by CNN as one of 25 Muslims changing America.In recent months and years he has been a prominent critic of the separation of migrant children ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Journey's End

    An Investigation of Death and Dying In Modern America

    In the tradition of Atul Gawande’s Being Mortal, this compassionate work helps individuals develop a more accepting view of dying while teaching them what to expect and how to navigate the healthcare system at the end of life.In elderhood, the health care system has a narrow view of how to provide care. It focuses on extending a patient's life at all costs, with an over-reliance on machines and ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Rest in Pieces

    The Curious Fates of Famous Corpses

    by Bess Lovejoy ...
    A “marvelously macabre” (Kirkus Reviews) history of the bizarre afterlives of corpses of the celebrated and notorious dead.For some of the most influential figures in history, death marked the start of a new adventure. The famous deceased have been stolen, burned, sold, pickled, frozen, stuffed, impersonated, and even filed away in a lawyer’s office. Their fingers, teeth, toes, arms, legs, skulls, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • A Widow's Story

    A Memoir

    Unlike anything Joyce Carol Oates has written before, A Widow’s Story is the universally acclaimed author’s poignant, intimate memoir about the unexpected death of Raymond Smith, her husband of forty-six years, and its wrenching, surprising aftermath. A recent recipient of National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, Oates, whose novels (Blonde, The Gravedigger’s Daughter, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Homeward Bound

    Modern Families, Elder Care, and Loss

    Homeward Bound shows that as family structure becomes more complex, so too does elder care, and existing institutions and legal approaches are not prepared to handle those complexities. As 79 million American Baby Boomers approach old age, their diverse family structures mean the burden of care will fall on a different cast of family members than in the past. Our current approaches are based on an ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Death By Misadventure: 210 Dumb Ways To Die

    by Dale Dreher ...
    Death by Misadventure is a collection of true and unusual accidental deaths by the Story Consultant to Spike TV's hit show, 1000 Ways to Die. You will find the real details behind some of your favourite televised pieces plus many more items that did not make it to air. There are no urban legends here, only documented dumb deaths. Published sources and a select bibliography are included. Cover ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Being Mortal

    Medicine and What Matters in the End

    by Atul Gawande ...
    **#1 New York Times BestsellerIn Being Mortal, bestselling author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its ending**Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable. But in the inevitable condition of aging and death, the goals of medicine ... Read more

    $11.99 USD