Death & Dying
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Heartwood: The Art of Living with the End in Mind
$27.99 Add to cartWinner of a Gold Nautilus Award
Featured on Katie Couric Media’s “37 Life-Changing Books You Won’t Be Able to Put Down”
“We can do extraordinary things when we lead with love,” Barbara Becker reminds- Author: Becker, Barbara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 11 2021
- ISBN10: 1250095980
- Language: English
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Do Not Ignore Your Mortality: Practical Advice From a Funeral & Financial Insider
$14.99 Add to cartYou will be hard pressed to find another book like this one.
Greg has delicately pulled together a gripping message that so many adults need to hear.
Only about half the adult population of Canada and t… [more below]
- Author: Barnsdale, Greg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: January 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1525584901
- Language: English
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Myths of the Underworld: Timeless Tales of the Afterlife, Love, Revenge, Fatal Attraction and More from Around the World (Includes Stories abou
$15.95 Read moreImmerse yourself in stories of gods and goddesses of the underworld and explore how themes of death, love, and revenge are depicted in folklore and mythology by different cultures around the world.
My- Author: Christinee, Lindsay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: December 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1646045548
- Language: English
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Rest in Pieces: The Curious Fates of Famous Corpses
$18.99 Add to cartA “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- Author: Lovejoy, Bess
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 05 2016
- ISBN10: 1451655002
- Language: English
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The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures
$19.95 Read more“iHo is a vast, rich work of public-intellectual engagement. . . The values built into this beautifully inquiring play operate outside of common dramatic economies. Kushner’s carefully organized labor
- Author: Kushner, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1559364890
- Language: English
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There Are No Accidents: The Deadly Rise of Injury and Disaster–Who Profits and Who Pays the Price
$19.99 Add to cartA journalist recounts the surprising history of accidents and reveals how they’ve come to define all that’s wrong with America.We hear it all the time: “Sorry, it was just an accident.” And we’ve been
- Author: Singer, Jessie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 28, 2023
- ISBN10: 1982129689
- Language: English
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San Francisco’s Forgotten Cemeteries: A Buried History
$24.99 Read moreDigging 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 relocat… [more below]- Series: The History Press
- Author: Winegarner, Beth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 28 2023
- ISBN10: 146715492X
- Language: English
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Savor: A Chef’s Hunger for More
$30.00 Read moreJAMES BEARD AWARD WINNER – A young chef whose dreams were cut short savors every last minute as she explores food and adventure, illness and mortality in Savor, an “inspiring” (The New York Times Boo… [more below]
- Author: Ali, Fatima
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 0593355199
- Language: English
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Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer
$18.99 Add to cartFrom the celebrated author of Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich explores how we are killing ourselves to live longer, not better.
A razor-sharp polemic which offers an entirely new understanding o- Author: Ehrenreich, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 16 2019
- ISBN10: 1455535893
- Language: English
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Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals about Death
$25.95 Add to cartEvery day, funeral director Caitlin Doughty receives dozens of questions about death. The best questions come from kids. What would happen to an astronaut’s body if it were pushed out of a space shutt
- Author: Doughty, Caitlin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 10 2019
- ISBN10: 039365270X
- Language: English
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With the End in Mind: Dying, Death, and Wisdom in an Age of Denial
$19.99 Add to cartFor readers of Atul Gawande and Paul Kalanithi, a palliative care doctor’s breathtaking stories from 30 years spent caring for the dying.
Modern medical technology is allowing us to live longer and f- Author: Mannix, Kathryn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: December 18 2018
- ISBN10: 0316504475
- Language: English
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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
$32.99 Add to cart#1 New York Times Bestseller
In 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- Author: Gawande, Atul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 07 2014
- ISBN10: 0805095152
- Language: English
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On Death and Dying
$28.99 Add to cartOne of the most famous psychological studies of the late twentieth century, On Death and Dying grew out of an interdisciplinary seminar on death, originated and conducted by Dr. Elisabeth K bler-Ross…. [more below]
- Series: Scribner Classics
- Author: Kübler-Ross, Elisabeth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 02 1997
- ISBN10: 0684842238
- Language: English
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Dark Archives: A Librarian’s Investigation Into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin
$19.00 Add to cartOn bookshelves around the world, surrounded by ordinary books bound in paper and leather, rest other volumes of a distinctly strange and grisly sort: those bound in human skin. Would you know one if y
- Author: Rosenbloom, Megan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 19 2021
- ISBN10: 1250800161
- Language: English
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The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels
$30.00 Add to cart“A rare and compassionate look into the lives of Americans who go unclaimed when they die and those who dedicate their lives to burying them with dignity.”–Matthew Desmond, #1 New York Times bestsell… [more below]
- Author: Prickett, Pamela
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0593239059
- Language: English
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Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality
$32.50 Add to cart“Utterly fascinating.” –Bill Bryson
“An incredible journey.” –Siddhartha Mukherjee
A groundbreaking exploration of the science of longevity and mortality–from Nobel Prize-winning molecular biologist
- Author: Ramakrishnan, Venki
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 19, 2024
- ISBN10: 0063113279
- Language: English
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Waiting for the Monsoon
$28.99 Add to cartBy the New York Times‘s legendary war correspondent, written while battling terminal brain cancer: a life-affirming memoir of high adventure, deep wisdom, and finding true happiness amid the unlikelie
- Author: Nordland, Rod
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 5, 2024
- ISBN10: 0063096226
- Language: English
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The Afterlife Book: Heaven, Hell, and Life After Death
$22.95 Add to cartA profound and fascinating exploration of death and the afterlife! Christian and other religious beliefs, rituals from around the world, quests for immortality, scientists’ conclusions, ghosts, and mo… [more below]
- Author: Jones, Marie D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 6, 2023
- ISBN10: 1578597617
- Language: English
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Nobility in Small Things: A Surgeon’s Path
$29.00 Read moreHis 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
- Author: Smith, Craig R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1250278538
- Language: English
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Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places
$18.00 Add to cartOne of NPR’s Great Reads of 2016
“A lively assemblage and smart analysis of dozens of haunting stories…absorbing… and] intellectually intriguing.” —The New York Times Book Review From the author- Author: Dickey, Colin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 3, 2017
- ISBN10: 1101980206
- Language: English
