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Author: Louis S. Schafer Publisher: ISBN: 9781940750231 Category : Humor Languages : en Pages : 198
Book Description
While doing research for a family tree, Louis Schafer surveyed thousands of headstones and amassed a unique collection of - often unintentionally - humorous epitaphs. Along with gravestone inscriptions, this book also includes historical information to give the epitaphs more context. Each chapter highlights traditional death customs, eccentric illustrations as well as numerous bizarre, vengeful, rude and funny last words. Surprisingly entertaining and historically informative.
Author: Louis S. Schafer Publisher: ISBN: 9781940750231 Category : Humor Languages : en Pages : 198
Book Description
While doing research for a family tree, Louis Schafer surveyed thousands of headstones and amassed a unique collection of - often unintentionally - humorous epitaphs. Along with gravestone inscriptions, this book also includes historical information to give the epitaphs more context. Each chapter highlights traditional death customs, eccentric illustrations as well as numerous bizarre, vengeful, rude and funny last words. Surprisingly entertaining and historically informative.
Author: Will Weaver Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society ISBN: 0873518802 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 24
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The feature film Sweet Land was based on this short story about a Norwegian American farmer and his German immigrant common-law bride. Excerpted from Sweet Land: New and Selected Stories.
Author: Elan Fleisher Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 9780312032692 Category : Comics & Graphic Novels Languages : en Pages : 134
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Cartoonist Elan Fleisher has a problem--he can't stop thinking about death. He's obsessed with death. He is consumed with death. His one problem is that he is perfectly healthy, so he draws deathly things instead. Illustrated.
Author: Neil Gaiman Publisher: Harper Collins ISBN: 0060530944 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 338
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It takes a graveyard to raise a child. Nobody Owens, known as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn't live in a graveyard, being raised by ghosts, with a guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor the dead. There are adventures in the graveyard for a boy—an ancient Indigo Man, a gateway to the abandoned city of ghouls, the strange and terrible Sleer. But if Bod leaves the graveyard, he will be in danger from the man Jack—who has already killed Bod's family.
Author: Caleb Wilde Publisher: HarperCollins ISBN: 0062465260 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 164
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“Wise, vulnerable, and surprisingly relatable . . . funny in all the right places and enormously helpful throughout. It will change how you think about death.” —Rachel Held Evans, New York Times–bestselling author of Searching for Sunday We are a people who deeply fear death. While humans are biologically wired to evade death for as long as possible, we have become too adept at hiding from it, vilifying it, and—when it can be avoided no longer—letting the professionals take over. Sixth-generation funeral director Caleb Wilde understands this reticence and fear. He had planned to get as far away from the family business as possible. He wanted to make a difference in the world, and how could he do that if all the people he worked with were . . . dead? Slowly, he discovered that caring for the deceased and their loved ones was making a difference—in other people’s lives to be sure, but it also seemed to be saving his own. A spirituality of death began to emerge as he observed the family who lovingly dressed their deceased father for his burial; the nursing home that honored a woman’s life by standing in procession as her body was taken away; the funeral that united a conflicted community. Through stories like these, told with equal parts humor and poignancy, Wilde’s candid memoir offers an intimate look into the business of death and a new perspective on living and dying. “Open[s] up conversations about life’s ultimate concerns.” —The Washington Post “As a look behind the closed doors of the death industry, as well as a candid exploration of Wilde’s own faith journey, this book is fascinating and compelling.” —National Catholic Reporter “[A] stunner of a debut.” —Rachel Held Evans, author of Inspired
Author: Linda Broday Publisher: Leisure Books ISBN: 9780843951875 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 358
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When Glory Day accidentally shoots an interfering stranger who gets in between her and the outlaw she plans to bring in for the reward money, she realizes Luke McClain is no ordinary cowboy. Turns out she's collared the man of her dreams. Original.
Author: Howard Norman Publisher: Vintage Canada ISBN: 0307400964 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 258
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A two-time National Book Award finalist delivers a stirring tale of the passions - tender, obsessive, even murderous - that are unleashed by a wartime love triangle. Seventeen-year-old Wyatt Hillyer is suddenly orphaned when his parents, within hours of each other, jump off two different bridges - the result of their separate involvements with the same compelling neighbor, a Halifax switchboard operator and aspiring actress. The suicides cause Wyatt to move to small-town Middle Economy to live with his uncle, aunt, and ravishing cousin Tilda. Setting in motion the novel's chain of life-altering passions and the wartime perfidy at its core is the arrival of the German student Hans Mohring, carrying only a satchel. Actual historical incidents - including a German U-boat's sinking of the Nova Scotia-Newfoundland ferry Caribou - lend intense narrative power to Norman's uncannily layered story. Wyatt's account of the astonishing events leading up to his fathering of a beloved daughter spills out twenty-one years later. What Is Left the Daughter is Howard Norman at his celebrated best.
Author: Louis S. Schafer
Author: Louis S. Schafer
Author: Louis S. Schafer
Author: Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton
Author: Thomas Clifford Mann
Author: Will Weaver
Author: Elan Fleisher
Author: Neil Gaiman
Author: Caleb Wilde
Author: Linda Broday
Author: Howard Norman