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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

  • 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

  • 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 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

  • San Francisco's Forgotten Cemeteries

    A Buried History

    Series series The History Press
    Digging into a forgotten past - and the dead left behind.San Francisco is famous for not having any cemeteries, but the claim isn't exactly what it seems. In the early 20th Century, the city relocated more than 150,000 graves to the nearby town of Colma to make way for a rapidly growing population. But an estimated fifty to sixty thousand burials were quietly built over and forgotten, only to ... Read more

    $9.99 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory

    "Morbid and illuminating" (Entertainment Weekly)—a young mortician goes behind the scenes of her curious profession.Armed with a degree in medieval history and a flair for the macabre, Caitlin Doughty took a job at a crematory and turned morbid curiosity into her life’s work. She cared for bodies of every color, shape, and affliction, and became an intrepid explorer in the world of the dead. In ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Red Record

    by Ida B. Wells ...
    A shocking and powerful account of lynching written by activist, journalist, and former slave Ida B. WellsIn the postbellum American South, lynching was a frightfully common occurrence, perpetrated so frequently that most Southern politicians and leaders turned a blind eye to the practice. This vicious form of vigilante “justice” was in truth a thinly veiled racist justification for murderous ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death

    **A New York Times and Los Angeles Times Bestseller“Doughty chronicles [death] practices with tenderheartedness, a technician’s fascination, and an unsentimental respect for grief.” —Jill Lepore, The New Yorker**Fascinated by our pervasive fear of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty embarks on a global expedition to discover how other cultures care for the dead. From Zoroastrian sky burials to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • I Wasn't Ready to Say Goodbye

    Surviving, Coping and Healing After the Sudden Death of a Loved One

    The most helpful grief book to read when you're ready to start healing after the loss of a loved one.Discover the transformative power of healing and hope with this top-rated grief book and compassionate guide for those navigating the challenging journey of grief and loss.Written with profound wisdom and heartfelt empathy, I Wasn't Ready to Say Goodbye gently walks readers through the stages of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Blink of an Eye

    A gripping crime thriller with an unforgettable detective duo

    by Louisa Scarr ...
    Series Book 3 - Butler & West
    Five friends meet. Only four come home.On Christmas morning, DS Robin Butler has no plans to celebrate. He’ll be glad to get back to work – a wish that comes true sooner than he anticipates. A dog walker at a local beach has discovered five unresponsive people strewn across the shingle. By the time Robin arrives, one is pronounced dead, and the other four are being treated in hospital.DC Freya ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Girls in the Glen

    An unputdownable Scottish mystery

    by Lynne McEwan ...
    Series Book 3 - Detective Shona Oliver
    ‘A thrilling new voice in Scottish fiction’ Marion ToddIf the dead could speak, what secrets would they tell?With her daughter on an archaeological dig, the only bodies DI Shona Oliver expects to find are long-dead. But when a corpse from the 1980s is unearthed, Shona quickly realises that it may be one of the missing “Girls in the Glen”, victim of a notorious serial killer.Shona’s superiors want ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Summer Girl

    An utterly gripping psychological thriller with shocking twists

    It’s going to be a summer she’ll never forget.Claire’s little sister Holly has been working on the millionaire’s playground of Martha’s Vineyard, going to barefoot beach parties and flirting with the local rich kids. But now she’s missing and none of the locals seem to care, including the police. They think a message Claire received is proof she’s safe.But Claire knows for a fact that her sister ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Life Everlasting

    The Animal Way of Death

    An enlightening look at animal behavior and the cycle of life and death, from “one of the finest naturalists of our time” (Edward O. Wilson).When a good friend with a severe illness wrote, asking if he might have his “green burial” at Bernd Heinrich’s hunting camp in Maine, it inspired the acclaimed biologist to investigate a subject that had long fascinated him. How exactly does the animal world ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade

    by Thomas Lynch ...
    “[Lynch] brings the lessons of death to life, and turns life and death into art.” —Time Out New YorkHere is the voice of both witness and functionary. Lynch stands between “the living and the living who have died” with outrage and amazement, awe and calm, straining for the brief glimpse we all get of what mortality means to a vital species. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD