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Author: Charles L. Grant Publisher: Crossroad Press ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 228
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Yarrows do not die. People do. The family motto. Cynthia Yarrow laughs as she returns to Oxrun Station, her old hometown. The family is assembled to greet the prodigal—but they have changed in the years Cyd's been away. Cyd's mother cuts herself but does not bleed. One evening a horrified Cyd discovers her father's lifeless body—only to see him alive and laughing just minutes later. Everything is fine, they assure her—she'll understand as soon as she visits Dr. Kraylin. When Cyd refuses, she is pursed through Oxrun Station's street by a powerful grey limousine. As the death-car bears down on her, she wonders, is she still a Yarrow—or is she their next target?
Author: Charles L. Grant Publisher: Crossroad Press ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 228
Book Description
Yarrows do not die. People do. The family motto. Cynthia Yarrow laughs as she returns to Oxrun Station, her old hometown. The family is assembled to greet the prodigal—but they have changed in the years Cyd's been away. Cyd's mother cuts herself but does not bleed. One evening a horrified Cyd discovers her father's lifeless body—only to see him alive and laughing just minutes later. Everything is fine, they assure her—she'll understand as soon as she visits Dr. Kraylin. When Cyd refuses, she is pursed through Oxrun Station's street by a powerful grey limousine. As the death-car bears down on her, she wonders, is she still a Yarrow—or is she their next target?
Author: Brandy Schillace Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1681770938 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 267
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Death is something we all confront—it touches our families, our homes, our hearts. And yet we have grown used to denying its existence, treating it as an enemy to be beaten back with medical advances.We are living at a unique point in human history. People are living longer than ever, yet the longer we live, the more taboo and alien our mortality becomes. Yet we, and our loved ones, still remain mortal. People today still struggle with this fact, as we have done throughout our entire history. What led us to this point? What drove us to sanitize death and make it foreign and unfamiliar?Schillace shows how talking about death, and the rituals associated with it, can help provide answers. It also brings us closer together—conversation and community are just as important for living as for dying. Some of the stories are strikingly unfamiliar; others are far more familiar than you might suppose. But all reveal much about the present—and about ourselves.
Author: Elizabeth J. Duncan Publisher: Minotaur Books ISBN: 1429938331 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 305
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Elizabeth J. Duncan spins a charming tale of murder and intrigue in her award-winning first novel, The Cold Light of Mourning. The picturesque North Wales market town of Llanelen is shocked when Meg Wynne Thompson, a self-made beauty who has turned out to be something of an unpopular bride, goes missing on her wedding day...and turns up dead. The last person believed to have seen her is manicurist Penny Brannigan, an expatriate Canadian who has lived in North Wales for almost twenty-five years. When Penny notices that something is not quite right at the funeral of her dearest friend, she becomes emotionally invested in the case, and sets out to investigate. It seems that several people, including the bride's drunken, abusive father, had reasons to wish Meg dead, but when the trail leads to her groom's home, an explosive secret will shake the small town. With its bucolic Welsh setting and vivid, colorful characters, this mystery is sure to delight the most discerning of traditional-mystery fans.
Author: Carola Dunn Publisher: Kensington Books ISBN: 9780758209443 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 308
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When a wedding at the estate of the charming Earl of Haverhill is interrupted by the dual murders of the bride's great aunt and uncle, Daisy Dalyrmple and her husband, Detective Chief Inspector Alex Fletcher, must deduce who among a horde of wedding guests is the culprit. Reprint.
Author: Julian Barnes Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0385350783 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 90
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From the bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending comes an elegant triptych of history, fiction, and memoir—a "wise, funny, and devastating ... discourse on love and sorrow" (The New York Times Book Review). In this “deeply stirring” book (The Boston Globe), Julian Barnes writes about ballooning and photography, love and grief; about putting two things, and two people, together, and tearing them apart; and enduring after the incomprehensible loss of a loved one. Powerfully rendered, exquisitely crafted in Barnes’s erudite style, this searing work confirms the author as an unparalleled magus of the heart.
Author: Jaggi Vasudev (Sadhguru) Publisher: Penguin/Ananda ISBN: 9780143450832 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 0
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Whether a believer or not, a devotee or an agnostic, an accomplished seeker or a simpleton, this is truly a book for all those who shall die!
Author: George M. Johnson Publisher: Springer ISBN: 1137332034 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 239
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This book traces how iconic writers - including Arthur Conan Doyle, J.M. Barrie, Rudyard Kipling, Virginia Woolf, Wilfred Owen, and Aldous Huxley - shaped their response to the loss of loved ones in the First World War through their embrace of mysticism.
Author: Litt Woon Long Publisher: Random House ISBN: 198480104X Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 321
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A grieving widow discovers a most unexpected form of healing—hunting for mushrooms. “Moving . . . Long tells the story of finding hope after despair lightly and artfully, with self-effacement and so much gentle good nature.”—The New York Times Long Litt Woon met Eiolf a month after arriving in Norway from Malaysia as an exchange student. They fell in love, married, and settled into domestic bliss. Then Eiolf’s unexpected death at fifty-four left Woon struggling to imagine a life without the man who had been her partner and anchor for thirty-two years. Adrift in grief, she signed up for a beginner’s course on mushrooming—a course the two of them had planned to take together—and found, to her surprise, that the pursuit of mushrooms rekindled her zest for life. The Way Through the Woods tells the story of parallel journeys: an inner one, through the landscape of mourning, and an outer one, into the fascinating realm of mushrooms—resilient, adaptable, and essential to nature’s cycle of death and rebirth. From idyllic Norwegian forests and urban flower beds to the sandy beaches of Corsica and New York’s Central Park, Woon uncovers an abundance of surprises often hidden in plain sight: salmon-pink Bloody Milk Caps, which ooze red liquid when cut; delectable morels, prized for their earthy yet delicate flavor; and bioluminescent mushrooms that light up the forest at night. Along the way, she discovers the warm fellowship of other mushroom obsessives, and finds that giving her full attention to the natural world transforms her, opening a way for her to survive Eiolf’s death, to see herself anew, and to reengage with life. Praise for The Way Through the Woods “In her search for new meaning in life after the death of her husband, Long Litt Woon undertook the study of mushrooms. What she found in the woods, and expresses with such tender joy in this heartfelt memoir, was nothing less than salvation.”—Eugenia Bone, author of Mycophilia and Microbia
Author: Charles L. Grant
Author: Charles L. Grant
Author: Brandy Schillace
Author: Elizabeth J. Duncan
Author: Carola Dunn
Author: Russell Marion Nelson
Author: Julian Barnes
Author: Jaggi Vasudev (Sadhguru)
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Author: George M. Johnson
Author: Litt Woon Long