Death & Dying
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Year of Plenty: A Family’s Season of Grief
$24.95 Add to cartIn November 2020, B.J. Hollars answered a call from his father-in-law while teaching. “When will you be home?” Steve asked. “I have news.”
So began the Hollars family’s year of plenty-a cancer diagno- Author: Hollars, B. J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 0299347443
- Language: English
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The Afterlife of Data: What Happens to Your Information When You Die and Why You Should Care
$22.50 Add to cartA short, thought-provoking book about what happens to our online identities after we die.
These days, so much of our lives takes place online–but what about our afterlives? Thanks to the digital tra- Author: Öhman, Carl
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: May 22 2024
- ISBN10: 0226828220
- Language: English
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Memento Mori: The Art of Contemplating Death to Live a Better Life
$27.00 Add to cartA transformative guide to embrace your own mortality and live a more fulfilling life
Talking about death has been deemed morbid, taboo, or even pathological. But in order to fully embrace life, scient- Author: Ebenstein, Joanna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 0593713443
- Language: English
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Story of a Heart: Two Families, One Heart, and the Medical Miracle That Saved a Child’s Life
$28.99 Add to cartA riveting and inspiring true story of two families linked by one heart–written by a bestselling author and palliative care doctor.
The first of our organs to form and the last to die, the heart is- Author: Clarke, Rachel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1668045435
- Language: English
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I’m Sorry for My Loss: An Urgent Examination of Reproductive Care in America
$28.99 Read moreA must-read investigation of reproductive health under fire in Post-Roe America.
More than a million people lose a pregnancy each year, whether through miscarriage, stillbirth, or termination for medic
- Author: Little, Rebecca
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1728292751
- Language: English
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Near-Death Experiences: Afterlife Journeys and Revelations
$22.95 Add to cartThousands, perhaps millions, of people have had near-death experiences (NDEs). Why do so many report uncannily similar experiences? What are they–a simple trick of the mind and body or something more
- Author: Willis, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 157859846X
- Language: English
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The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade
$15.95 Add to cart“Every year I bury a couple hundred of my townspeople.” So opens this singular and wise testimony. Like all poets, inspired by death, Thomas Lynch is, unlike others, also hired to bury the dead or to
- Author: Lynch, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0393334872
- Language: English
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Rabbit Hole
$18.95 Read moreA Pulitzer Prize-winning play about carrying on in the shadow of loss.
- Author: Lindsay-Abaire, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 01 2006
- ISBN10: 1559362901
- Language: English
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Grave Matters: A Journey Through the Modern Funeral Industry to a Natural Way of Burial
$18.99 Add to cartBy the time Nate Fisher was laid to rest in a woodland grave sans coffin in the final season of Six Feet Under, Americans all across the country were starting to look outside the box when death came … [more below]
- Author: Harris, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 09 2008
- ISBN10: 1416564047
- Language: English
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The Weir and Other Plays
$18.95 Add to cartThe first U.S. collection of an extraordinary new voice in Irish drama. This volume includes The Weir, St. Nicholas, This Lime Tree Bower, The Good Thief, and Rum and Vodka.
- Author: McPherson, Conor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 01 1999
- ISBN10: 1559361670
- Language: English
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Gone to the Grave: Burial Customs of the Arkansas Ozarks, 1850-1950
$30.00 Add to cartA RICH SURVEY OF FOLK PRACTICES PRIOR TO MORTUARIES AND THE FUNERAL INDUSTRY Before there was a death care industry where professional funeral directors offered embalming and other services, residents… [more below]
- Author: Burnett, Abby
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 13 2015
- ISBN10: 1496804600
- Language: English
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And Finally: Matters of Life and Death
$19.00 Add to cartFrom the bestselling neurosurgeon and author of Do No Harm, comes Henry Marsh’s And Finally, an unflinching and deeply personal exploration of death, life and neuroscience.
As a retired brain surgeon,- Author: Marsh, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1250880998
- Language: English
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The Dead Beat: Lost Souls, Lucky Stiffs, and the Perverse Pleasures of Obituaries
$14.99 Add to cartA light-hearted look at the history and practice of “the ultimate human-interest story,” the obituary.
“What a wonderful surprise–a charming, lyrical book about the men and women who write obituaries.
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Johnson, Marilyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0060758767
- Language: English
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Self-Inflicted: Confronting the Suicide Taboo
$15.99 Add to cartIn Self-Inflicted, Dr. Karl T. Muth advances the argument that suicide should be a choice widely-available, that the optimal number of suicides per year is not zero but a number much higher, and that
- Author: Muth, Karl T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1958714992
- Language: English
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Wisdom of the Dying
$30.95 Add to cartYou will die. But first you will live. Wisdom of the Dying eloquently explores what brings meaning to our lives from the lens of a frontline health-care worker who watched many die over the course of
- Author: Abbasi, Hamza
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 214
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 1963569830
- Language: English
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I’m Sorry for My Loss: An Urgent Examination of Reproductive Care in America
$18.99 Add to cartA must-read investigation of reproductive health under fire in Post-Roe America.
More than a million people lose a pregnancy each year, whether through miscarriage, stillbirth, or termination for medic
- Author: Little, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1728292786
- Language: English
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Wisdom of the Dying
$15.95 Add to cartYou will die. But first you will live. Wisdom of the Dying eloquently explores what brings meaning to our lives from the lens of a frontline health-care worker who watched many die over the course of
- Author: Abbasi, Hamza
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 214
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 1963569849
- Language: English
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Final Exits: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of How We Die
$18.99 Add to cartTo die, kick the bucket, to meet your Maker, dead as a doornail, get whacked, smoked, bite the dust, sleep with the fishes, go six feet under–whatever death is called, it’s going to happen. In 1789 B
- Author: Largo, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: October 03 2006
- ISBN10: 0060817410
- Language: English
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The Life of the Afterlife in the Big Sky State: A History of Montana’s Cemeteries
$19.95 Add to cartThe Life of the Afterlife in the Big Sky State is a groundbreaking history of death in Montana. It offers a unique, reflective, and sensitive perspective on the evolution of customs and burial grounds… [more below]
- Author: Baumler, Ellen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1496214803
- Language: English
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Clergy Retirement
$28.00 Add to cartIn Clergy Retirement: Every Ending a New Beginning for Clergy, Their Families, and Congregants, retirement is likened to a death experience, but much more. Besides saying goodbye to congregants, colle… [more below]
- Author: Roberts, Daniel A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 22 2017
- ISBN10: 1532601190
- Language: English
