Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory

Author: Caitlin Doughty

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2014-09-15

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 0393245950

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"Morbid and illuminating" (Entertainment Weekly)—a young mortician goes behind the scenes of her curious profession. Armed with a degree in medieval history and a flair for the macabre, Caitlin Doughty took a job at a crematory and turned morbid curiosity into her life’s work. She cared for bodies of every color, shape, and affliction, and became an intrepid explorer in the world of the dead. In this best-selling memoir, brimming with gallows humor and vivid characters, she marvels at the gruesome history of undertaking and relates her unique coming-of-age story with bold curiosity and mordant wit. By turns hilarious, dark, and uplifting, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes reveals how the fear of dying warps our society and "will make you reconsider how our culture treats the dead" (San Francisco Chronicle).

Death In Her Eyes
Death In Her Eyes

Author: Erin Bedford

Publisher: Children of the Fallen

Published: 2020-04-28

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 9781951958183

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Since she was four, Elle's life has been nothing but pain and death, so it's not surprising she ended up jaded. When Elle's absentee father kidnaps her from her own mother's funeral, Elle is forcefully enrolled into Fallen Academy, a school for nephilim. Mind readers, seers, and elementals? Finally, Elle is with other freaks like herself. Except, Elle soon finds that even surrounded by her own kind, she might just be too different to fit in. Will Elle find her place among the other children of the fallen? Or does her father have plans of his own?

The Eyes of Death
The Eyes of Death

Author: Donald L Vasicek

Publisher:

Published: 2018-02-25

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 9780692048337

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When Hannah Powers sustains a head injury, her prom queen world turns from white to black. During her best friend, Emily's funeral, she sees a white-gray ghost image radiating around Emily's casket, but no outline around Emily. This convinces Hannah that she is brain damaged even though her neuropsychologist tells her she is not. Then, she is plunged into a terrifying world of being able to predict death before it happens without being able to do anything about it.

The Death in their Eyes
The Death in their Eyes

Author: Vicente Sánchez-Biosca

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2024-09-01

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 1805396412

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Images that embody the point of view of the perpetrators of violent crimes, or their accomplices, force us to look at the pain of victims through the eyes of those who caused it. Accompanied by over sixty visuals of historically infamous violence, The Death in their Eyes goes beyond the visible aspects of images to reveal what has been left outside of the frame. Covering human abuse and humiliation at Abu Ghraib, the Auschwitz Album, religious desecration during the Spanish Civil War, an unfinished Nazi propaganda film made at the Warsaw Ghetto in the spring of 1942, and detainees at the S-21 torture center in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, this volume proposes a rigorous new methodology for analyzing perpetrator images, in photography and film, that continue to be used and re-appropriated in today’s media. Content warning: This book contains images of victims of murder and torture which are essential to the author’s analysis.

He Died with His Eyes Open
He Died with His Eyes Open

Author: Derek Raymond

Publisher: Profile Books

Published: 2011-05-26

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 1847655785

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When a middle-aged alcoholic is found brutally battered to death on a roadside in West London, the case is assigned to a nameless detective sergeant, a tough-talking cynic and fearless loner from the Department of Unexplained Deaths at the Factory police station. Working from cassette tapes left behind in the dead man's property, our narrator must piece together the history of his blighted existence and discover the agents of its cruel end. What he doesn't expect is that digging for the truth will demand plenty of lying, and that the most terrible of villains will also prove to be the most attractive. In the first of six police procedurals that comprise the Factory series, Derek Raymond spins a riveting, and vividly human crime drama. Relentlessly pursuing justice for the dispossessed, his detective narrator treads where few others dare: in the darkest corners of London, a city of sin plagued by unemployment, racism and vice, and peopled by a cast of low-lifes, all utterly convincing and brought to life by Raymond's pitch-perfect dialogue.

Death Will Have Your Eyes
Death Will Have Your Eyes

Author: James Sallis

Publisher: Mulholland Books

Published: 2014-07-29

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 0316403253

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Mulholland Books takes pleasure in restoring to print an acclaimed novel of espionage and suspense by the author of Drive. David (as he's currently known) was a member of an elite corps of spies trained during the coldest days of the Cold War. For almost a decade he has been out of the game, working as a sculptor. Then a phone call in the middle of the night awakens him: the only other survivor from that elite corps has gone rogue. David is tasked with stopping him. What ensues is an existential cat-and-mouse game played out across the American landscape, through the diners and motels that dot the terrain like green plastic houses on a Monopoly board. Both a suspenseful novel of pursuit and a thematically rich exploration of the mind of a spy, Death Will Have Your Eyes is a contemporary classic of the espionage genre.

Through the Eyes of a Dove
Through the Eyes of a Dove

Author: Suzanne Gene Courtney

Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing

Published: 2010-03-23

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 1609769791

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Suzanne G. Courtney writes of her family's path through grief to peace & on to acceptance, in the hope it will help bereaving parents.

My Soul To Take
My Soul To Take

Author: Erin Bedford

Publisher: Embrace the Fantasy Publishing, LLC

Published: 2020-12-23

Total Pages: 139

ISBN-13:

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What would you do for a well paying job and a dental plan? I know what I'd do. A whole helluva lot. And that's exactly what I got. Hell. Baby sitting a cemetery was supposed to be an easy job. Stay up all night. Keep an eye out for kids partying. Maybe get some school work in. What I wasn't supposed to do was deal with three ghosts that wanted nothing more than to drive me insane. Did I mention they're three guys who are as hot as the hell I'm in? I have one thing to say to my ghostly friends. Bring it on. keywords: urban fantasy, paranormal romance, thriller, horror, ghosts, mystery, supernatural suspense, reverse harem, why choose, work place romance, mythology

Estimation of the Time Since Death
Estimation of the Time Since Death

Author: Burkhard Madea

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2015-09-08

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 1444181777

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Estimation of the Time Since Death remains the foremost authoritative book on scientifically calculating the estimated time of death postmortem. Building on the success of previous editions which covered the early postmortem period, this new edition also covers the later postmortem period including putrefactive changes, entomology, and postmortem r