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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 wish-granting
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First published in 1926, Bertram S. Puckle's "Funeral Customs" is a comprehensive account of traditional funerary traditions and customs throughout history and from all over the world. From lost ancient practices to the first graveyards and cemeteries, this volume sheds light on how we as humans have dealt with death and the dead over the ages. Contents include: "The Provisions Of Nature", "Death Warnings-When Does Death Take Place?", "Preparation...
4) The promise
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"Haunted by an unmet promise, the Swart family loses touch after the death of their matriarch. Adrift, the lives of the three siblings move separately through the uncharted waters of South Africa; Anton, the golden boy who bitterly resents his life's unfulfilled promises; Astrid, whose beauty is her power; and the youngest, Amor, whose life is shaped by a nebulous feeling of guilt. Reunited by four funerals over three decades, the dwindling family...
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University Press of Colorado
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[2020]
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vi, 303 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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"Chronicles the modal patterns, diversity, and change of ancient mortuary practices across the US Southwest and northwest Mexico over four thousand years of Prehispanic occupation. Summarizes new methodological approaches and theoretical issues concerning the meaning and importance of burial practices to different peoples at different times"--
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"Louisiana, 2042. Spurred by the effects of climate change, states have closed graveyards and banned burials, making cremation mandatory and the ashes of loved ones state-owned unless otherwise claimed. In the small town of St. Genevieve, Alma lives alone and struggles to grieve in the wake of her young mother Naomi's death, during which Alma failed to honor Naomi's final wishes. Now, Alma decides to fight to reclaim Naomi's ashes, a journey of unburial...
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2013
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Killing a bird with his slingshot as a boy, William Bellman grows up a wealthy family man unaware of how his act of childhood cruelty will have terrible consequences until a wrenching tragedy compels him to enter into a macabre bargain with a stranger in black.
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Montlake
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[2021]
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287 pages ; 21 cm
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Best friends for more than 60 years--and the matchmaking queens of Newton, Texas--Gussie and Inna Mae, when Blanche passes away, decide the best way to honor her is make a match for her niece, Sissy, who is only in town for six weeks.
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Hogarth, an imprint of Random House Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
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[2021]
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290 pages ; 22 cm
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"A young man journeys into Sri Lanka's formerly war-torn north, and into a country's soul, in this searing novel of love and the legacy of war from the award-winning author of The Story of a Brief Marriage. "The closest we seem to get to the present are those brief moments we stop to consider the spaces our bodies are occupying, the warmth of the sheets in which we wake, the scratched surface of the window on a train taking us somewhere else..." A...
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At forty-four, Tom Jokinen decided to quit his job in order to become an apprentice undertaker, setting out to ask the questions: What is the right thing to do when someone dies? With the marketplace offering new options (go green, go anti-corporate, go Disney, be packed into an artificial reef and dropped in the Atlantic...), is there still room for tradition? In a year of adventures both hair-raising and hilarious, Jokinen finds a world that is...
12) The American resting place: four hundred years of history through our cemeteries and burial grounds
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2008
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Traces the history of America through its gravestones, graveyards, and burial practices, in an illustrated study that follows the historic pattern of American immigration to reveal changing ideas about death, gender, and class.
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Montlake
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[2022]
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294 pages ; 21 cm
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"In Bonnet, Texas, Liddy Latham, the queen of funeral dinners, keeps a southern comfort-food tradition alive--until fancy-schmancy Matilda Monroe moves back to town. She wants room at the table for her own style of consolation and closure: healthy, modern, and vegan. But this is about more than fried chicken versus tofu turkey. Matilda's return is also stirring up their volatile, unresolved history. And just when they thought it couldn't get more...
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