Small wonder that, at nine years old, Monica Holloway develops a fascination with the local funeral home. With a father who drives his Ford pickup with a Kodak movie camera sitting shotgun just in case he sees an accident, and whose home movies feature more footage of disasters than of his children, Monica is primed to become a morbid child. Yet ...
An examination of American burial customs, written by an Englishwoman who resided in California for many years. Mitford finds the funeral industry infested with corruption, price-fixing, and outright fraud, and she writes scathingly of those who profit from it.
The first book ever written about "green" burials follows the fast-moving trend that embraces affordable, personal, eco-friendly alternatives to the highly toxic, mass-produced modern method.
In this darkly atmospheric and tautly written debut novel, a young mortician finds herself entangled in a sordid underworld when she unwittingly links an abused girl to a cold case murder investigation.
The American poet, Thomas Lynch, is also hired to bury the dead, to cremate them and to tend to their families in a small Michigan town where he serves as the funeral director. In the conduct of these duties he has kept his eyes open and his ears tuned to the vernacular sound of love and grief. In these 12 essays is the voice of both witness and ...
Hitchcock Sewell - part-owner of Sewell and Sons Funeral Home - is most surprised when Carolyn James arrives at his mortuary and asks to make arrangements for her own funeral service. And as he gets into work the next day she's waiting for him - on a slab. But this is not the same Carolyn James.
Now in mass market--the fourth installment in the popular Hearse mystery series featuring that lovable mortician-about-town, Hitchcock Sewell. "An undertaker-detective you'll really dig."--"People."
Continuing his thought from his earlier THE SACRED REMAINS, Laderman examines the cultural and personal implications of the funeral business. REST IN PEACE takes its evidence from three source: Valentino's funeral, Wilder's OUR TOWN, and Disney films. Laderman weaves a history of the business throughout, addressing the effect conglomeration has ...
For Chemistry courses in Mortuary Science. Thanatochemistry by Dorn and Hopkins is the only chemistry text produced by a major publisher specifically for mortuary science students. In a comprehensible manner, the authors present the essential facts of chemistry and the chemical aspects of other sciences related to mortuary science. It follows ...
Barry Clayton leaves the Charlotte police force for the small mountain community of Gainesboro, North Carolina, where his family runs the local funeral home. "Buryin' Barry" reluctantly assumes the mantle of town undertaker, and almost at once it turns deadly.
The undertaker's wife waits, she weaves, she builds. The undertaker practices the dismal trade with consummate skill. He has raised it to an art through the high craft of the Connable Method. He has transformed the ugliness of death into a thing of dignity and beauty. Victims brutalized by war, street fights, tavern brawls, ambushes, fires, every ...
Few people want to think about death and fewer still know how to properly plan for it. As a result many people pass away, leaving their families to deal with confusing financial concerns. "The Handbook to Wills, Funerals, and Probate, Third Edition" simplifies this topic - clearly and concisely explaining wills and how they function, probate and ...
An examination of American burial customs, written by an Englishwoman who resided in California for many years. Mitford finds the funeral industry infested with corruption, price-fixing, and outright fraud, and she writes scathingly of those who profit from it.
The night before a funeral that will thrust the mountain town of Gainesboro, North Carolina, into the national spotlight, the body is stolen from the embalming room and funeral director Barry Clayton is knocked unconscious. Ouch. How will Clayton & Clayton deal with the relatives of Y'Grok Eban, the Montagnard hero who aided US troops during the ...
In this captivating review of the history, the practice, and the industry of cremation in America, award-winning former "New York Times" columnist Fred Rosen provides an authoritative source of information and many revealing facts about an increasingly common, yet still controversial, alternative to burial.
When Shelley Marino travels to Vietnam to adopt a child, she is accompanied by her friend, Mai, who finds the land greatly changed from the impoverished country she fled two decades before. This first novel is a tender and exquisitely told story from a powerful new writer.
It's morning in L.A., and professional loafer Quince Bishop can't think of anything more depressing than watching yet another loved one, this time his best friend, being lowered into the ground - until a band of eco-activists crash the ceremony to deliver a lecture on the high cost of dying in America. Quince decides to take on these unwelcome ...
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Bodies in Motion and at Rest: On Metaphor and Mortality
