Reimagining Death: Stories and Practical Wisdom for Home Funerals and Green Burials
By: Lucinda Herring
4.19
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
Honor your loved ones and the earth by choosing practical, spiritual, and eco-friendly after-de…
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1. The Good, the Bad, and the Barbie: A Doll's History and Her Impact on Us
By: Tanya Lee Stone
3.58
Format: 130 pages, Hardcover
During her unparalleled fifty-year history, Barbie has been the doll that some people love-and some… read more
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- adult
- nonfiction
2. Tomie
By: Junji Ito , Naomi Kokubo
3.40
Format: 300 pages, Hardcover
Tomie Kawakami is a femme fatale with long black hair and a beauty mark just under her left eye. Sh… read more
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3. Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner
By: Judy Melinek , T.J. Mitchell
3.18
Format: 183 pages, Hardcover
The fearless memoir of a young forensic pathologist's rookie season as a NYC medical examiner, and … read more
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- nonfiction
- death
4. Gyo
By: Junji Ito
3.67
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Something is rotten in Okinawa... The floating smell of death hangs over the island. What is it? A … read more
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5. Bright Dead Things
By: Ada Limon
3.57
Format: None pages,
Bright Dead Things examines the chaos that is life, the dangerous thrill of living in a world you k… read more
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6. Die Wise: A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul
By: Stephen Jenkinson
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Die Wisedoes not offer seven steps for coping with death. It does not suggest ways to make dying ea… read more
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7. The Education of a Coroner: Lessons in Investigating Death
By: John Bateson
3.86
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
In the vein of Dr. Judy Melinek's Working Stiff, an account of the hair-raising and heartbreaking c… read more
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8. Camp Damascus
By: Chuck Tingle
3.94
Format: 246 pages, Hardcover
A searing and earnest horror debut about the demons the queer community faces in America, the price… read more
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- adult
"Then again, does it really matter if you're just evil, as opposed to over-the-top cartoonishly evil?"-Chuck Tingle, Camp Damascus
"That acknowledgement could arrive after several decades, or it could happen tonight, but the time will come. Eventually, I'll have to fully contend with this simple fact: the love I was promised was …"-Chuck Tingle, Camp Damascus
9. From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
By: Caitlin Doughty
4.30
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A New York Times and Los Angeles Times Bestseller “Doughty chronicles [death] practices with ten… read more
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- adult
- nonfiction
- death
"My next drone folk album will be called "The Cremation Reforms of Octavius B. Frothingham"."-Caitlin Doughty, From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
"What dignity translates to, more often than not, is silence, a forced poise, a rigid formality."-Caitlin Doughty, From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
"All that surrounds us comes from death, every part of every city, and every part of every person."-Caitlin Doughty, From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
"In death, corpses don't hold themselves together. They no longer have to play by the living's rules."-Caitlin Doughty, From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
10. Nobody Will Tell You This But Me: A True (as Told to Me) Story
By: Bess Kalb
4.23
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Bess Kalb, Emmy-nominated TV writer and New Yorker contributor, saved every voicemail her grandmoth… read more
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- adult
- nonfiction
"If the earth is cracking behind you right up to your heels, put one foot in front of the other. You keep going. Nothing's as important as moving forward."-Bess Kalb, Nobody Will Tell You This But Me: A True (as Told to Me) Story
11. A Guest in the House
By: Emily Carroll
4.06
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In this graphic novel by Emily Carroll, a young woman marries a kind dentist only to discover a dar… read more
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- adult
"I don’t sleep for days after seeing her. And when I finally do, my dreams are tangled, dripping things."-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House
"I used to dream of dragons. I would find them, panting, pacing. Sung inside damp caverns. When I lived through them they would release their riches in a stinking swell of gore and glittering jewels…a…"-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House
"At night, every noise could be her. I know she’s here now, right now, even though she won’t show herself to me. (I tried to find her the other night, down by the front door like before, but nothing c…"-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House
"David tells me the first week they lived here, Crystal had nightmares about the attic, about things dripping down from it at night. She would stop crying until he put a lock on it. There’d been anima…"-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House
12. All That Remains: A Life in Death
By: Sue Black
4.16
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Sue Black confronts death every day. As Professor of Anatomy and Forensic Anthropology, she focuses… read more
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- nonfiction
- death
13. Brainwyrms
By: Alison Rumfitt
3.66
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
From Alison Rumfitt, the author of Tell Me I’m Worthless — “a triumph of transgressive queer horror… read more
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- adult
14. The Undocumented Americans
By: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
4.39
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
One of the first undocumented immigrants to graduate from Harvard reveals the hidden lives of her f… read more
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- nonfiction
"I am a one-trick pony, unable to comfort with anything other than grades."-Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, The Undocumented Americans
"I respect the role of God in the lives of people who suffer, but basically only in the lives of people who suffer."-Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, The Undocumented Americans
"I think every immigrant in this country knows that you can eat English and digest it so well that you shit it out, and to some people, you will still not speak English."-Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, The Undocumented Americans
"There are white moms who threw stones at the little girls in Little Rock and there are white moms who wish Andres and Omar and Elias and Greta's mom will be deported too."-Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, The Undocumented Americans
15. Quietly Hostile: Essays
By: Samantha Irby
3.70
Format: 290 pages, Paperback
Samantha Irby invites us to share in the gory particulars of her real life, all that festers behind… read more
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- adult
- nonfiction
"[...] and my face is sore from smiling so hard in an effort to appear friendly and nonthreatening."-Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile: Essays
"I'm so embarrassed by everything all the time, humiliated even by the need to breathe air where other people can see me"-Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile: Essays
"I want to push back against this idea that it's not real love if you're not passionately chattering at each other all the time, that it's just as valid (and romantic!) to know instinctively when to s…"-Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile: Essays
"I lived in blissful solitude for a long time...and you learn a lot about yourself and what you require for life when it's just you that you have to think about...You can buy frozen fish sticks and ea…"-Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile: Essays
16. The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss
By: Mary-Frances O'Connor
4.19
Format: 236 pages, Hardcover
A renowned grief expert and neuroscientist shares groundbreaking discoveries about what happens in … read more
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- nonfiction
- death
"In humans as well, it is because your loved one existed that certain neurons fire together and certain proteins are folded in your brain in particular ways. It is because your loved one lived, and be…"-Mary-Frances O'Connor, The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss
"Grief is a heart-wrenchingly painful problem for the brain to solve, and grieving necessitates learning to live in the world with the absence of someone you love deeply, who is ingrained in your unde…"-Mary-Frances O'Connor, The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss
17. The Art of Dying Well: A Practical Guide to a Good End of Life
By: Katy Butler
4.30
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A reassuring and thoroughly researched guide to maintaining a high quality of life—from resilient o… read more
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- nonfiction
- death
18. Making Love with the Land: Essays
By: Joshua Whitehead
4.11
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
A moving and deeply personal excavation of Indigenous beauty and passion in a suffering world The n… read more
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- adult
- nonfiction
"Sometimes, I think of mourning as if it were a haunting."-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays
"I constanly ask myself if all writing is a form of mourning."-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays
"Now living has become a series of hauntings, poltergeists, revenants that flock to the entrances to my ceremonial spaces and enter without regard or invitation."-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays
"The land, like the body, teaches us the fundamental rule of ending: that no such thing exists, no suffix of "-ed" shall ever touch the prefix of "pre-" and even a body in its most cellular state know…"-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays
19. Rooted: Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature, and Spirit
By: Lyanda Lynn Haupt
4.04
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Deepen your connection to the natural world with this inspiring meditation, "a path to the place wh… read more
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- nonfiction
20. Witchlight
By: Jessi Zabarsky
3.52
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Jessi Zabarsky's lushly illustrated shoujo-adventure comic that introduces Lelek the witch as she b… read more
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21. Other Ever Afters: New Queer Fairy Tales
By: Melanie Gillman
4.04
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Once upon a time . . . happily ever after turned out differently than expected. In this new, femini… read more
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22. Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care
By: Kelly Hayes
4.64
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
What fuels and sustains activism and organizing when it feels like our worlds are collapsing? Let T… read more
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- nonfiction
23. The American Daughters
By: Maurice Carlos Ruffin
3.61
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A gripping historical novel about a spirited young girl who joins a sisterhood of Black women worki… read more
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- adult
24. What You Are Getting Wrong about Appalachia
By: Elizabeth Catte
4.02
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
In 2016, headlines declared Appalachia ground zero for America’s “forgotten tribe” of white working… read more
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- nonfiction
25. The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels
By: Pamela Prickett
4.08
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An intimate, deeply moving investigation of an underreported phenomenon—the rising number of unclai… read more
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- adult
- nonfiction
- death
26. Coming Back
By: Jessi Zabarsky
3.51
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
A beautiful graphic novel fantasy romance that follows two young women who have to go on their own … read more
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27. Reimagining Death: Stories and Practical Wisdom for Home Funerals and Green Burials
By: Lucinda Herring
4.19
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
Honor your loved ones and the earth by choosing practical, spiritual, and eco-friendly after-de… read more
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- adult
- nonfiction
- death
28. Our Work Is Everywhere: An Illustrated Oral History of Queer and Trans Resistance
By: Syan Rose
4.20
Format: 91 pages, Paperback
Over the past ten years, we have witnessed the rise of queer and trans communities that have defied… read more
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- nonfiction
29. On the Trail of the Jackalope: How a Legend Captured the World's Imagination and Helped Us Cure Cancer
By: Michael P. Branch
3.85
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The never-before-told story of the horned rabbit—the myths, the hoaxes, the very real scientific br… read more
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- nonfiction
30. Let's Talk About Death (over Dinner)
By: Michael Hebb
4.01
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
For readers of Being Mortal and When Breath Becomes Air, the acclaimed co-founder of Death over Din… read more
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- nonfiction
- death
