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"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 this best-selling memoir,
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Deadwood Undertaker volume 2
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"Danger the likes Boone McCreery has never seen is brewing in the Black Hills. Fresh in from Santa Fe, he's returned to Deadwood to seek justice for his uncle--and maybe to see about a girl. Little did he know his search for justice would have him stumbling into a hornets' nest beyond his worst nightmare. One thing is for certain, the trouble he and his compadres chance upon deep in the trees is a LONG way from ordinary."--Page [4] of cover.
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Deadwood undertaker volume 4
Pub. Date
2022
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English
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"First let me say, this here trip to Slagton weren't my idea. This place is chock full of bad company done helped itself to a double dose of bad medicine.Slagton needs cleanin', accordin' to Miss Clem, and I know the crew to do it. I'm one of 'em. Hank Varney's the name. Miss Clem and me, along with the two Sidewinders from Santa Fe--we'll get the sharp-toothed vermin cleared out.Now, some people say I'm lucky, but I don't know if'n it'll do me any...
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[2018]
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Finding fulfillment in her job as an embalmer in her father's small town mortuary, outsider Mary bonds with a villainized local who was blamed for a fatal accident twenty years earlier, a friendship that compels her to consider what might happen if she were to leave their fading community.
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A good friend will bury your body, a best friend will dig you back up. Dino doesn't mind spending time with the dead. His parents own a funeral home, and death is literally the family business. He's just not used to them talking back. Until Dino's ex-best friend July dies suddenly--and then comes back to life. Except not exactly. Somehow July is not quite alive, and not quite dead. As Dino and July attempt to figure out what's happening, they must...
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Ravenscroft volume 7
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2015.
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March 1891. A group of mourners gather for a funeral in a small country churchyard in Worcestershire, but events do not go according to plan. An old friend invites Detective Inspector Ravenscroft to investigate, and before long the detective and his associate Constable Tom Crabb are embroiled in the dark world of the Upton Undertakers.
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Deadwood Undertaker volume 3
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English
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Jack "Rabbit" Fields knew a good thing when he saw it, but when he locked horns with anyone he couldn't trust, he tended to shoot first. That was before he came to Deadwood. When someone is stealing freshly dead bodies right out of their graves, Rabbit and his amigos are on the hunt to figure out who and why. Finding the answers to those questions will take plenty of Rabbit's bullets, and maybe his blood, too. Some things you just can't ride around....
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[2022]
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"All the Ways Our Dead Still Speak takes readers on a lyrical and tender quest to encounter the hereafter. As Wilde picks up bodies, organizes funerals, and meets with grieving families in a small town in Pennsylvania, those who remain share with him--and us--what they experience in the thin places between life and death."--
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Mortician "Zig" Zigarowski, while working on the body of a successful military man, discovers something he was never meant to see, and, to get the answers he needs, sets out to find military artist Nola Brown--a search that reveals one of the U.S. go\\vernment's most intensely guarded secrets.
When Archie Mint is killed while trying to stop a robbery in his own home, his family learns that his life, so perfect on the surface, held criminal secrets...
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Ravenscroft volume 10
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2020.
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Worcester, April 1893. Detective Inspector Ravenscroft receives a strange note from a lonely old woman fearing for her life. But when he visits her, she is already dead. Maud Fincher was part of a group of locals trying to speak to their deceased loved ones through the medium of séance. Ravenscroft thinks this is harmless nonsense . . . until the old lady’s last surviving heir is murdered. In his last-ever case before retiring Ravenscroft must...
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2019.
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"Melisende Dulac is a fish out of water after relocating from the East Coast to a small community in the Oregon high desert. But just as she's beginning to think of Barlow County as home, her life takes an ominous turn when she comes upon a grisly multiple car wreck and three shattered bodies on an isolated road outside of town. Near the scene, Melisende trips over a fourth body, that of a newborn girl lying a physics-defying distance from the wreckage....
15) Never grow old
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[2019]
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An Irish undertaker profits when outlaws take over a peaceful American frontier town, but his family comes under threat as the death toll rises.
16) Homegoings
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2014.
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Through the eyes of funeral director Isaiah Owens, the beauty and grace of African American funerals are brought to life. Filmed at the Owens Funeral Home in Harlem and the rural South, director Christine Turner's Homegoings takes an up-close look at the rarely seen world of undertaking in the black community, where funeral rites draw on a rich palette of tradition, history and celebration. It reveals the special status of undertakers in the community;...
17) Listening still
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2022.
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"From Anne Griffin, the bestselling author of When All is Said, comes Listening Still, a refreshing new novel about a young woman who can hear the dead-a talent which is both a gift and a curse. Jeanie Masterson has a gift: she can hear the recently dead and give voice to their final wishes and revelations. Inherited from her father, this gift has enabled the family undertakers to flourish in their small Irish town. Yet she has always been uneasy...
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