Clause of Death
Clause of Death

Author: Lorna Barrett

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2023-06-06

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 0593333519

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Bookstore owner Tricia Miles tries to open a new chapter in life, but murder mars the pages in the latest entry to Lorna Barrett's New York Times bestselling Booktown series. Tricia Miles and her sister, Angelica, are the co-presidents of the Stoneham Chamber of Commerce. Things are changing in the booktown, and some merchants would say not for the better. They grumble that too many non-book-related stores are moving into the village, taking up the most visible storefronts on Main Street, diluting the “Booktown” moniker. Of course, the members with other businesses, like the latest, The Bee’s Knees, are fine with other businesses moving in. No matter what side of the argument they're on, all the business owners agree on one thing: Tricia and Angelica are to blame. Still, it's a pretty typical day in the life of a small-town Chamber of Commerce until one of the disgruntled bookstore owners is killed—Eli Meier from The Inner Light Bookstore, the most vocal of the Chamber complainers. He sold religious and other spiritual books, but also stocked books on wild conspiracy theories and sold incense, crystals, etc. Eli had never been a member of the Chamber until Angelica recently convinced him to join. He hit on her and she, having good taste, turned him down. He hounded (but not stalked) her, and some might think that was a motive for murder. Stoneham's new police chief is an old friend of Tricia's, but that doesn't mean he's going to go easy on her sister. One might even say that he's going to throw the book at her.

Death Clause
Death Clause

Author: John Andrew Karr

Publisher: John Andrew Karr

Published: 2011-02-25

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13:

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Surgeon Victor Galloway kept death at bay in the operating room -- now death has claimed him. Resurrected against his will and forced to sign a Death Clause, he must fight for his family and his soul. Victor Galloway is a prominent surgeon and family man. When he suffers a heart attack, he claws his way to the phone and dials 911. Close to death and strapped to a gurney, he's offered an unholy deal by Tobias, H.E.L.L.s CEO: Use his surgical skills to harvest the living to feed the undead in exchange for immortality. Whether by chance or divine intervention, Victor is different from the others. He is a monster with a conscience, a force for good ensnared by evil, and the only one willing to stand against Tobias and his burgeoning nest of zombies.

Contract Made After Death
Contract Made After Death

Author: T.J. Sidebottom

Publisher: Abbott Press

Published: 2013-11-12

Total Pages: 516

ISBN-13: 1458212319

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Life and deathif one is lucky, they are far between, the latter negligible. Death does not choose who she takes, but she always has the chance. I was fortunate to be chosen, my end bloody and truly unforeseen. She waited for me on the other side, my new standards of life in hand. Once sealed, I was sent on my way. But not to Earth. Mertha, where humans were a minority compared to the dagger-toothed elves, omniscient angellum, and giggling goblins teeming on the four continents. Magic was the norm, technology now the taboo. I arrived in Sildred on Idoliam, an area waged in a war rekindled centuries after. I had much to learn, mostly through trial by fire. Many a danger lies ahead, some from myself. I will not bow; I will make the if to a when. I will complete my end of the bargain. I will return home but what truly awaits me there? Would it be better to stay? Death and lifeif one is lucky, they are far between, but neither is an end. Not when you sign the Contract Made after Death. Oh, and do play nice.

Death Clause: A Mackenzie Quinn Short Mystery
Death Clause: A Mackenzie Quinn Short Mystery

Author: Jacquelyn Smith

Publisher: WaywardScribe Press

Published: 2021-10-23

Total Pages: 103

ISBN-13: 1989650902

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An unplanned homecoming turns to homicide... Zee never expected to move back to her hometown to live with her parents. (And definitely not at the age of forty.) Then again, she never expected to stumble across a dead body either. She thought when she left Toronto for the quiet, small-town life, she had left her problems behind. But both cats and a killer have other plans... Meet Zee Quinn (only her mother calls her ‘Mackenzie’)—prodigal daughter of Ashwood, Ontario, and amateur sleuth with a secret—in this introductory short novel from the Mackenzie Quinn cozy mystery series by the author of the Kira Brightwell mysteries, Jacquelyn Smith.

Remembering and Disremembering the Dead
Remembering and Disremembering the Dead

Author: Floris Tomasini

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-08-01

Total Pages: 106

ISBN-13: 1137538287

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This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence. This book is a multidisciplinary work that investigates the notion of posthumous harm over time. The question what is and when is death, affects how we understand the possibility of posthumous harm and redemption. Whilst it is impossible to hurt the dead, it is possible to harm the wishes, beliefs and memories of persons that once lived. In this way, this book highlights the vulnerability of the dead, and makes connections to a historical oeuvre, to add critical value to similar concepts in history that are overlooked by most philosophers. There is a long historical view of case studies that illustrate the conceptual character of posthumous punishment; that is, dissection and gibbetting of the criminal corpse after the Murder Act (1752), and those shot at dawn during the First World War. A long historical view is also taken of posthumous harm; that is, body-snatching in the late Georgian period, and organ-snatching at Alder Hey in the 1990s.

Contract Made After Death: Clause IV- Appeal
Contract Made After Death: Clause IV- Appeal

Author: T. J. Sidebottom

Publisher:

Published: 2016-12-22

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 9781520217635

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Love blossoms among the golden fields of Santsero in this installment of Contract Made After Death.Join Shad as he is forced to realize his true fear: being alone. Accompany him as he traverses Santsero, the home of the Angellum, coming to face the truth that he is a star, and meets his true love: Elbon. Watch as their chemistry burns such a bright flame across the continent, smoldering under the moons, until they reach their end.Will their love be true? Will he give up on Elenion, on all from his past life? Will Malice ruin this for him? There's only one way to find out.

Defining Death
Defining Death

Author: Robert M. Veatch

Publisher: Georgetown University Press

Published: 2016-11-03

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 1626163561

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New technologies and medical treatments have complicated questions such as how to determine the moment when someone has died. The result is a failure to establish consensus on the definition of death and the criteria by which the moment of death is determined. This creates confusion and disagreement not only among medical, legal, and insurance professionals but also within families faced with difficult decisions concerning their loved ones. Distinguished bioethicists Robert M. Veatch and Lainie F. Ross argue that the definition of death is not a scientific question but a social one rooted in religious, philosophical, and social beliefs. Drawing on history and recent court cases, the authors detail three potential definitions of death — the whole-brain concept; the circulatory, or somatic, concept; and the higher-brain concept. Because no one definition of death commands majority support, it creates a major public policy problem. The authors cede that society needs a default definition to proceed in certain cases, like those involving organ transplantation. But they also argue the decision-making process must give individuals the space to choose among plausible definitions of death according to personal beliefs. Taken in part from the authors' latest edition of their groundbreaking work on transplantation ethics, Defining Death is an indispensable guide for professionals in medicine, law, insurance, public policy, theology, and philosophy as well as lay people trying to decide when they want to be treated as dead.

The Family Clause
The Family Clause

Author: Jonas Hassen Khemiri

Publisher: Macmillan + ORM

Published: 2020-08-25

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 0374719616

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“The son did as he was told. All his bloody life, he has done as he has been told. Time to change that, he thinks, grabbing a pen. He doesn’t write that this will be the last time his father stays here. He doesn’t write that he wants to break the father clause. Instead, he writes: Welcome, Dad. Hope you had a good flight.” A grandfather who lives abroad returns home to visit his adult children. The son is a failure. The daughter is having a baby with the wrong man. Only the grandfather is perfect—at least, according to himself. But over the course of ten intense days, relationships unfold and painful memories resurface. The grandfather is confronted by his past. The daughter is faced with an impossible choice. The son tries to write himself free. Something has to give. Per a longstanding family agreement, the grandfather has maintained his Swedish residency by coming to stay with his son every six months. Can this clause be renegotiated, or will it chain the family to its past forever? Through a series of quickly changing perspectives, in The Family Clause Jonas Hassen Khemiri evokes an intimate portrait of a chaotic and perfectly normal family, deeply wounded by the death of a child and the disappearance of a father.