Traditions of Death and Burial (Shire Library)
By: Helen Frisby
3.68
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
An illustrated introduction to rites and traditions relating to death, funerary rites and commemora…
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1. The Victorian Undertaker
By: Trevor May
4.16
Format: 347 pages, Paperback
The Victorians were, were relatively at ease with death and there is much in this book to interest … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- death
2. Murder at the Vicarage (Miss Marple, #1)
By: Agatha Christie
4.18
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
Murder at the Vicaragemarks the debut of Agatha Christie's unflappable and much beloved female dete… read more
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3. The Victorian Cemetery
By: Sarah Rutherford
2.00
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
The Victorian period has been described as the 'Great Age of Death'. The customs of death, notably … read more
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- nonfiction
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4. Come Closer
By: Sara Gran
3.65
Format: 194 pages, Paperback
A recurrent, unidentifiable noise in her apartment. A memo to her boss that's replaced by obscene i… read more
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"What we think is impossible happens all the time."-Sara Gran, Come Closer
"In January I had a proposal due to my boss, Leon Fields, on a new project."-Sara Gran, Come Closer
5. The Ritual
By: Adam L.G. Nevill
3.59
Format: 418 pages, Paperback
Four old university friends reunite for a hiking trip in the Scandinavian wilderness of the Arctic … read more
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"For Anne and our cub, for making me and my life less beastly"-Adam L.G. Nevill, The Ritual
"He just existed before it and within the terrible presence that filled the cramped space of the attic."-Adam L.G. Nevill, The Ritual
"It had not hurt his hands at all and the sudden release of energy, twinned with Dom's fall, gave him a sudden lunatic rush of euphoria."-Adam L.G. Nevill, The Ritual
"From the very core of each of them, their ancestors seemed to cry out in inarticulate voices. right then, they screamed in alarm from times before symbols and language could depict such things that h…"-Adam L.G. Nevill, The Ritual
6. Taken at the Flood (Hercule Poirot, #27)
By: Agatha Christie
3.00
Format: 1118 pages, Paperback
Shortly after marrying a young widow, Gordon Cloade is killed in the London blitz and the former Mr… read more
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7. The Historian
By: Elizabeth Kostova
4.32
Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition
Alternate cover edition for To you, perceptive reader, I bequeath my history....Late one night, e… read more
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8. The Silent Companions
By: Laura Purcell
4.46
Format: 170 pages, Paperback
When newly widowed Elsie is sent to see out her pregnancy at her late husband's crumbling country e… read more
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9. The Mystery of the Blue Train (Hercule Poirot, #6)
By: Agatha Christie
3.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A mysterious woman, a legendary cursed jewel, and a night train to the Mediterranean -- ingredients… read more
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10. The Blazing World
By: Siri Hustvedt
3.44
Format: 326 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant, provocative novel about an artist who, after years of being ignored by the art world, … read more
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11. Agatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman
By: Lucy Worsley
4.20
Format: 498 pages, Kindle Edition
A new, fascinating account of the life of Agatha Christie from celebrated literary and cultural his… read more
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- history
12. 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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- history
- 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
13. The Hollow Places
By: T. Kingfisher
3.80
Format: 337 pages, Paperback
A young woman discovers a strange portal in her uncle’s house, leading to madness and terror in thi… read more
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"If there's a way into hell, someone will always find it."-T. Kingfisher, The Hollow Places
"No one has zombie raccoons roaming around their museum. That would just be silly."-T. Kingfisher, The Hollow Places
"We had passed close in space, but separated by far too much time to make a difference."-T. Kingfisher, The Hollow Places
"You're from Florida. There's got to be more holes to hell in Florida than any other state."-T. Kingfisher, The Hollow Places
14. Madhouse at the End of the Earth
By: Julian Sancton
4.27
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
In August 1897, the young Belgian commandant Adrien de Gerlache set sail for a three-year expeditio… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"Among the greatest threats future travelers to Mars are likely to face is an interplanetary version of winter over-syndrome. The unknown icescapes around the earth poles, particularly Antarctica, see…"-Julian Sancton, Madhouse at the End of the Earth
"Cook referred to the symptoms collectively as polar anemia. Researchers today use the term winter over-syndrome. But it's essentially the same thing. A prevailing theory suggests it's a form of hypot…"-Julian Sancton, Madhouse at the End of the Earth
"But in emphasizing the likelihood of a connection between winter over-syndrome and what is now known as seasonal effective disorder, a variation in mood that correlates with a dwindling of daylight h…"-Julian Sancton, Madhouse at the End of the Earth
"Note: Dr. Lawrence Polinkis who analyzed clinical data from American men and women at Antarctica's Mcmurdo station Amundsen Scott's South Pole station posits specifically that the memory loss and oth…"-Julian Sancton, Madhouse at the End of the Earth
15. Leech
By: Hiron Ennes
3.60
Format: 323 pages, Hardcover
In an isolated chateau, as far north as north goes, the baron’s doctor has died. The doctor’s repla… read more
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"Wherever we are, we want to be somewhere else."-Hiron Ennes, Leech
16. No One Is Talking About This
By: Patricia Lockwood
3.55
Format: 210 pages, Hardcover
A book that asks: Is there life after the internet? As this urgent, genre-defying book opens, a… read more
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"Couldn't he see her arms all full of the sapphires of the instant?"-Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This
"The Flat Earth Society announced it had members all over the globe."-Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This
"Every fiber in her being strained. She was trying to hate the police."-Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This
"What do you mean you've been spying on me, with this thing in my hand that is an eye?"-Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This
17. Botanical Folk Tales of Britain and Ireland
By: Lisa Schneidau
3.81
Format: 194 pages, Kindle Edition
The islands of Britain and Ireland hold a rich heritage of plant folklore and wisdom, from the magi… read more
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"In the old days, there were bogles, the horrid things, creeping in the darkness, ready to take people. And even in the daytime, when there weren't bogles, people were always fretting about them, or s…"-Lisa Schneidau, Botanical Folk Tales of Britain and Ireland
18. A Haunting in the Arctic
By: C.J. Cooke
3.78
Format: 340 pages, Paperback
1901-ben járunk. A fiatal nőt, Nickyt megtámadják, majd egy bálnavadász hajó, az Ormen fedélzetén … read more
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19. The Whistling
By: Rebecca Netley
3.69
Format: 378 pages, Hardcover
Alone in the world, Elspeth Swansome has taken the position of nanny to a family on the remote Scot… read more
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20. The Glass House
By: Eve Chase
3.98
Format: 393 pages, Kindle Edition
Outside a remote manor house in an idyllic wood, a baby girl is found. The Harrington family tak… read more
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"The closer you are to death, the more alive you feel."-Eve Chase, The Glass House
"Don't worry what other people think, be who you want to be."-Eve Chase, The Glass House
"Families can also be formed without blood ties. Good things really can happen."-Eve Chase, The Glass House
21. Ness
By: Robert Macfarlane
3.84
Format: 72 pages, Hardcover
Somewhere on a salt-and-shingle island, inside a ruined concrete structure known as The Green Chape… read more
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"Look — here they come, their eyes are hagstones & their words are shingle. They rise on the shore, rock-cored, flint beings, scattering chert to signal their passage, sending stones through time to f…"-Robert Macfarlane, Ness
"Look — here it comes, its bones are plastic, it builds itself from pallet slat & bottle top, rises from sift, is lashed & trussed with fishing line. It is drift: it has cuttlefish nails & sea-poppy h…"-Robert Macfarlane, Ness
22. Ghostland: In Search of a Haunted Country
By: Edward Parnell
3.95
Format: 468 pages, Kindle Edition
In his late thirties, Edward Parnell found himself trapped in the recurring nightmare of a family t… read more
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- history
23. A Tomb With a View: The Stories & Glories of Graveyards
By: Peter Ross
4.27
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Enter a grave new world of fascination and delight as award-winning writer Peter Ross uncovers the … read more
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- history
- death
"Exposure to a particle of darkness means one does not sicken with it."-Peter Ross, A Tomb With a View: The Stories & Glories of Graveyards
24. The First Ghosts: A rich history of ancient ghosts and ghost stories from the British Museum curator
By: Irving Finkel
4.03
Format: 334 pages, Kindle Edition
Ghosts - the spirits of the dead - have walked by our side since time immemorial.In The First Ghost… read more
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- history
"It is only the early human mid that grew to strive against the prospect of the final annihilation of the self, a hallmark rebellion that became hard-wired into, and always an essential element of, na…"-Irving Finkel, The First Ghosts: A rich history of ancient ghosts and ghost stories from the British Museum curator
25. Jackdaw
By: Tade Thompson
3.66
Format: 156 pages, Kindle Edition
In this shocking, and at times darkly comic, novel, a psychiatrist hired to write a short piece on … read more
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26. The End of the Road
By: Jack Cooke
3.73
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A wonderfully quixotic, charming and surprisingly uplifting travelogue which sees Jack Cooke, autho… read more
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- death
27. Traditions of Death and Burial (Shire Library)
By: Helen Frisby
3.68
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
An illustrated introduction to rites and traditions relating to death, funerary rites and commemora… read more
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