Confessions of a Funeral Director: How the Business of Death Saved My Life
By: Caleb Wilde
3.67
Format: None pages, Hardcover
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1. Things I Wish I Knew Before My Mom Died: Coping with Loss Every Day (Bereavement or Grief Gift)
By: Ty Alexander
3.80
Format: 154 pages, Paperback
“I wish I had read this before I lost my mom a few years ago and a dear friend soon after…" – Nina … read more
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- memoir
- death
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
2. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory
By: Caitlin Doughty
4.22
Format: 254 pages, Paperback
Most people want to avoid thinking about death, but Caitlin Doughty—a twenty-something with a degre… read more
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- memoir
- death
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Your relationship to mortality is your own."-Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory
"In spite of my fear of living, I chose not to die."-Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory
"A girl always remembers the first corpse she shaves."-Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory
"The fear of death is why we build cathedrals, have children, declare war, and watch cat videos online at three a.m."-Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory
3. Sweet Water
By: Christina Baker Kline
3.35
Format: 285 pages, Paperback
Kline's first novel is a captivating read. When a grandfather she never knew bequeaths her a hous… read more
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- audiobook
"I try to think the simpler thing; it’s easier that way. But then life complicates it, two minds living and thinking in the same small space. You think you’ve placed a thought or a memory so you can l…"-Christina Baker Kline, Sweet Water
4. 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
- memoir
- death
5. Confessions of a Funeral Director: How the Business of Death Saved My Life
By: Caleb Wilde
3.67
Format: None pages, Hardcover
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- memoir
- death
- biography memoir
- religion
- nonfiction
- spirituality
- audiobook
6. How to Manage Your Money When You Don't Have Any
By: Erik Wecks
4.25
Format: None pages,
Librarian Note: An Alternate cyber edition can be found . Unlike many personal finance books, How … read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
7. Past Mortems: Life and Death Behind Mortuary Doors
By: Carla Valentine
3.66
Format: None pages,
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8. The Iceman: The True Story of a Cold-Blooded Killer
By: Anthony Bruno
4.24
Format: None pages, Paperback
A mob contract killer known as "The Iceman" for hiding a body in an ice-cream truck freezer, Richar… read more
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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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- audiobook
- nonfiction
- memoir
- 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. Code Gray: Death, Life, and Uncertainty in the ER
By: Farzon A. Nahvi
3.92
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Code Gray is a “provocative and meaningful” (Theresa Brown, New York Times bestselling author of He… read more
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- memoir
- death
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
11. What Lies Beneath: My Life as a Forensic Search and Rescue Expert
By: Peter Faulding
3.59
Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition
'From cold cases and serial killers to the death of a spy, Peter's true life story is as gripping a… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
12. A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery
By: Lawrence Ingrassia
4.41
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Weaving his own moving family story with a sweeping history of cancer research, Lawrence Ingrassia … read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
13. Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? And other Questions about Dead Bodies
By: Caitlin Doughty
4.13
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
Everyone has questions about death. In Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?, best-selling author and mortic… read more
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- audiobook
- nonfiction
- death
"That's why all the questions in this book come from 100 percent ethically sourced, free-range, organic children."-Caitlin Doughty, Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? And other Questions about Dead Bodies
"It’s normal to be curious about death. But as people grow up, they internalize this idea that wondering about death is “morbid"-Caitlin Doughty, Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? And other Questions about Dead Bodies
"Sometimes death can be violent, sudden, and unbearably sad. But it’s also reality, and reality doesn’t change just because you don’t like it."-Caitlin Doughty, Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? And other Questions about Dead Bodies
"I'm bringing body back. Returning corpses, but they're not intact. Kids, this is a Justin Timberlake reference. You're fine not knowing who that is."-Caitlin Doughty, Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? And other Questions about Dead Bodies
14. All the Living and the Dead
By: Hayley Campbell
4.25
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A compelling and compassionate exploration of the death industry and the people—embalmers, detecti… read more
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- audiobook
- nonfiction
- death
"Death shows us what is buried in the living. By shielding ourselves from what happens past the moment of death we deny ourselves a deeper understanding of who we truly are."-Hayley Campbell, All the Living and the Dead
15. 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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- audiobook
- nonfiction
- memoir
- death
16. The Race to Be Myself: A Memoir
By: Caster Semenya
4.27
Format: 309 pages, Kindle Edition
World champion runner Caster Semenya offers an empowering account of her extraordinary life and car… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
17. A Quiet Life in 7 Steps
By: Susan Cain
3.69
Format: 5 pages, Audible Audio
In a world of distraction, overcommitment, and often overwhelming social expectations, are you crav… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
18. Lay Them to Rest: On the Road with the Cold Case Investigators Who Identify the Nameless
By: Laurah Norton
3.87
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A fascinating deep dive into the dark world of forensic science as experts team up to solve the ide… read more
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- audiobook
- nonfiction
- memoir
- death
19. Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin
By: Megan Rosenbloom
4.01
Format: 275 pages, Hardcover
On bookshelves around the world, surrounded by ordinary books bound in paper and leather, rest othe… read more
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- audiobook
- nonfiction
- death
"Human skin books—mostly made by nineteenth-century doctor bibliophiles—are the only books that are controversial not for the ideas they contain but for the physical makeup of the object itself."-Megan Rosenbloom, Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin
"Anthropodermic books tell a complicated and uncomfortable take about the development of clinical medicine and the doctoring class, and the worst of what can come from the collision of acquisitiveness…"-Megan Rosenbloom, Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin
"Many confirmed human skin books didn’t begin their print life in this controversial binding but were rebound by collectors, usually doctors who took the oldest or rarest texts in their private collec…"-Megan Rosenbloom, Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin
"No wonder the public persists in connecting the idea of human skin books with Nazis. It's easier to believe that objects of human skin are made by monsters like Nazis and serial killers, and not the …"-Megan Rosenbloom, Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin
20. One Last Breath
By: Ginny Myers Sain
3.83
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author of Dark and Shallow Lies delivers another chilling supernatur… read more
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21. Mortuary Confidential: Undertakers Spill the Dirt
By: Todd Harra
3.73
Format: 257 pages, Paperback
When the casket reached the front of the sanctuary, there was a loud cracking sound as the bottom f… read more
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- audiobook
- nonfiction
- memoir
- death
22. Casket Chronicles: Living and Working in a Funeral Home is not What You Might Think
By: T.A. Walters
4.11
Format: 177 pages, Kindle Edition
Casket Chronicles is a collection of stories about the author’s experiences living and working in a… read more
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- nonfiction
- death
23. Edison's Ghosts: The Untold Weirdness of History’s Greatest Geniuses
By: Katie Spalding
3.81
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Overturn everything you knew about history’s greatest minds in this raucous and hilarious book, whe… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
24. Death in the Romance Aisle (Survivors’ Book Club #3)
By: Lynn Cahoon
3.86
Format: 212 pages, Kindle Edition
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- audiobook
25. The League of Lady Poisoners: Illustrated True Stories of Dangerous Women
By: Lisa Perrin
4.05
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A feast for the senses, this sumptuously illustrated book will introduce you to some of the most in… read more
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- nonfiction
26. The Occasional Human Sacrifice: Medical Experimentation and the Price of Saying No
By: Carl Elliott
3.99
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Shocking cases of abusive medical research and the whistleblowers who spoke out against them, somet… read more
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- nonfiction
27. The Removalist: On the Front Line of Death Care (Silent Siren #2)
By: Matthew Franklin Sias
4.27
Format: 144 pages, Kindle Edition
“To be able to thrive in a field most are terrified of is a source of pride…To be in the presence o… read more
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- nonfiction
- death
28. Nicole Angemi's Anatomy Book: A Catalog of Familiar, Rare, and Unusual Pathologies
By: Nicole Angemi
4.63
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Anatomy for all by “the Internet’s Most Famous Coroner” (Vice) From “A is for Abdomen” to “W is for… read more
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- nonfiction
29. Wisdom of Wolves, The: Lessons From the Sawtooth Pack
By: Jim Dutcher
4.19
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
From the world-famous couple who lived alongside a three-generation wolf pack, this book of inspira… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
30. On Call in the Arctic: A Doctor's Pursuit of Life, Love, and Miracles in the Alaskan Frontier
By: Thomas J. Sims
4.28
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
The fish-out-of-water stories of Northern Exposure and Doc Martin meet the rough-and-rugged setting… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
31. Memoirs of a Life Saving Mortician (Silent Siren #1)
By: Matthew Franklin Sias
3.92
Format: 340 pages, Kindle Edition
Paramedics save lives. Morticians bury their mistakes. A twenty-three-year veteran of emergency me… read more
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- memoir
- death
