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Author: Len Gasparini Publisher: Guernica Editions ISBN: 1550712659 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 191
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With their staccato rhythm and attention to detail these stories recall emotions, memories, atmosphere, and even physical sensations with a powerful freshness. Gasparini's ability to render passion and humanity ensure a truly memorable and compelling collection.
Author: Len Gasparini Publisher: Guernica Editions ISBN: 1550712659 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 191
Book Description
With their staccato rhythm and attention to detail these stories recall emotions, memories, atmosphere, and even physical sensations with a powerful freshness. Gasparini's ability to render passion and humanity ensure a truly memorable and compelling collection.
Author: Loren D. Estleman Publisher: Forge Books ISBN: 1429911832 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 285
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From award-winning author Loren D. Estleman comes The Undertaker's Wife. The undertaker's wife waits; she weaves; she builds. The undertaker practices his art, the Dismal Trade, with consummate skill. He has raised it to an art through the high craft of the Connable Method. Through it, he has managed to transform the ugliness of death into a thing of dignity and beauty. Victims brutalized by war, street fights, tavern brawls, ambushes, fires, every hazard in a raw West---these, in his hands, become presentable. Everywhere on the frontier, which erupts with life and death, he offers his skill: to the rich of San Francisco, the bawds and ruffians of the Barbary Coast, to Kansas cowboys, outlaws, soldiers, and sheriffs. He is devoted to dignifying the dead. She is devoted to making her marriage whole, in spite of the tragedy that surrounds it and, most especially, in spite of the tragedy that in one terrible afternoon strikes at its center. Today the undertaker is called to disguise the suicide of a famous financier. It is high drama, for only his art can save America's financial markets. Her task on this day is secret, an act of understanding and dedication. In the end, it is the undertaker's wife who, through love, is able to transcend death. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author: Dee Oliver Publisher: Zondervan ISBN: 0310340861 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 155
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On Dee Branch’s first date with Johnnie Oliver, a fourth-generation funeral director, she knew she was in for a unique relationship when he had to leave “for just a minute”—and he came back to the car with a corpse. Over twenty years later, Dee was still in love with her charming southern gentleman when he passed away suddenly in 2007. Determined to carry on Johnnie’s work, Dee earned her mortuary science degree, only to find herself no longer needed in the family business. So Dee crossed the racial divide in the most segregated industry in America and joined the staff of an African-American funeral home as a single white woman. In The Undertaker’s Wife, Oliver draws from her wealth of experience to provide candid and often hysterically funny advice on dying well and surviving the loss of those who have gone before. Her insights on the common ground of grief, survival, and the ever-present faithfulness of God (to all of us, regardless of our race, religious upbringing, or socio-economic background) will help readers prepare for one of life’s only certainties—and do it with wisdom, grace, and a healthy dose of joy.
Author: Celia M. Hastings Publisher: FaithWalk Publishing ISBN: 9781932902518 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 190
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No one will forget the people who pass through the home of the undertaker’s wife. A fascinating life journey of the wife of an undertaker is also a practical guide to all who must plan or deal with end of life issues.
Author: Loren D. Estleman Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 0765383624 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 545
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Journey of the Dead : When Pat Garrett killed his poker buddy, Bill the Kid, he had no idea what a terrible emotional price he would pay.--[4]Cover.
Author: Amanda Skenandore Publisher: Kensington Books ISBN: 1496713699 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 338
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An enthralling novel of historical fiction for fans of Lisa Wingate and Ellen Marie Wiseman, The Undertaker’s Assistant is a powerful story of human resilience set during Reconstruction-era New Orleans that features an extraordinary and unforgettable heroine at its heart. “The dead can’t hurt you. Only the living can.” Effie Jones, a former slave who escaped to the Union side as a child, knows the truth of her words. Taken in by an army surgeon and his wife during the War, she learned to read and write, to tolerate the sight of blood and broken bodies—and to forget what is too painful to bear. Now a young freedwoman, she has returned south to New Orleans and earns her living as an embalmer, her steady hand and skillful incisions compensating for her white employer’s shortcomings. Tall and serious, Effie keeps her distance from the other girls in her boarding house, holding tight to the satisfaction she finds in her work. But despite her reticence, two encounters—with a charismatic state legislator named Samson Greene, and a beautiful young Creole, Adeline—introduce her to new worlds of protests and activism, of soirees and social ambition. Effie decides to seek out the past she has blocked from her memory and try to trace her kin. As her hopes are tested by betrayal, and New Orleans grapples with violence and growing racial turmoil, Effie faces loss and heartache, but also a chance to finally find her place . . .
Author: Len Gasparini
Author: Len Gasparini
Author: Theodora Benson (Hon.)
Author: Loren D. Estleman
Author: Eleanor Theodora Roby BENSON (Hon.)
Author: Dee Oliver
Author: Celia M. Hastings
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Author: Loren D. Estleman
Author: Theodora Benson (Hon.)
Author: Amanda Skenandore