D For Dead

Author : Erica Buist
Publisher : Unbound Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781783529551

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This Party's Dead by Erica Buist Pdf

What if we responded to death... by throwing a party? By the time Erica Buist’s father-in-law Chris was discovered, upstairs in his bed, his book resting on his chest, he had been dead for over a week. She searched for answers (the artery-clogging cheeses in his fridge?) and tried to reason with herself (does daughter-in-law even feature in the grief hierarchy?) and eventually landed on an inevitable, uncomfortable truth: everybody dies. While her husband maintained a semblance of grace and poise, Erica found herself consumed by her grief, descending into a bout of pyjama-clad agoraphobia, stalking friends online to ascertain whether any of them had also dropped dead without warning, unable to extract herself from the spiral of death anxiety... until one day she decided to reclaim control. With Mexico’s Day of the Dead festivities as a starting point, Erica decided to confront death head-on by visiting seven death festivals around the world – one for every day they didn’t find Chris. From Mexico to Nepal, Sicily, Thailand, Madagascar, Japan and finally Indonesia – with a stopover in New Orleans, where the dead outnumber the living ten to one – Erica searched for the answers to both fundamental and unexpected questions around death anxiety. This Party’s Deadis the account of her journey to understand how other cultures deal with mortal terror, how they move past the knowledge that they’re going to die in order to live happily day-to-day, how they celebrate rather than shy away from the topic of death – and how when this openness and acceptance are passed down through the generations, death suddenly doesn’t seem so scary after all.

Author : Erin Lange
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780571308286

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Dead Ends by Erin Lange Pdf

A riddle rarely makes sense the first time you hear it. The connection between Dane and Billy D doesn't make sense any time you hear it. But it's a collection of riddles that brings these two unlikely friends together. Dane Washington lives by two rules: don't hit girls and don't hit special kids. Billy D has Down's Syndrome and thinks a fierce boy who won't hit him could come in useful. Billy D has a puzzle to solve, after all, and he has the perfect plan to make Dane help him. Billy is sure the riddles in his atlas are really clues left by his missing dad. Together, Billy and Dane must embark on an epic road trip, although most of the clues lead to dead ends. What Dane doesn't realise is that Billy D isn't as innocent as he seems and the biggest secret is hidden close to home...

Author : Russel D McLean
Publisher : Saraband
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781915089250

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Ed's Dead by Russel D McLean Pdf

"A high-octane read." - Maxim Jakubowski Meet Jen. She works in a bookshop and likes the odd glass of Prosecco... oh, and she's about to be branded The Most Dangerous Woman in Scotland. Jen Carter is a failed writer with a rubbish boyfriend, Ed. That is, until she accidentally kills him one night. Now that Ed's dead, she has to decide what to do with his body, his drugs and a big pile of cash. And, more pressingly, how to escape the hitman who's been sent to recover Ed's stash. Soon Jen's on the run from criminals, corrupt police officers and the prying eyes of the media. Who can she trust? And how can she convince them that the trail of corpses left in her wake are just accidental deaths? A modern noir that proves, once and for all, the female of the species really is more deadly than the male. "a quick, gritty read, from an author with a confident voice..." Crime Review "A really authentic and remarkable read! I loved it!" Martina Cole "Pitch black humour... fascinating...gripping." Herald "A thoroughly contemporary crime thriller which has its tongue in its cheek while maintaining the suspense and tension that readers would expect... Terrific fun to read." Alistair Braidwood, Scots Whay Hae "Funny and fierce, and a heroine worth rooting for..." Brooke Magnanti "McLean has created an appealing protagonist, with a strong and consistent voice... It seems strange to say that a novel with so many bloody fatalities can be fun, but this one is!" Crime Fiction Lover "One of Scotland's most skilled noiristas... a book which will appeal to booksellers everywhere, especially homicidal ones." Mike Ripley, Shots magazine "This book is fantastic! Fast paced and at times just utter nuts... A beautiful masterpiece of modern Scottish Noir that leaves you unsure about whether you should laugh or cry." Amanda Gillies, Eurocrime "We're not sure when we last enjoyed a book quite this much... The sheer pace of the story carries you along breathlessly ... Hugely entertaining." Undiscovered Scotland

Author : Nate Lippens
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2024-08-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781635902150

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My Dead Book by Nate Lippens Pdf

Author : Bianca D' Arc
Publisher : Kensington Publishing Corp.
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780758272423

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Dead Alert by Bianca D' Arc Pdf

Sizzling attraction meets unstoppable adventure in Bianca D'Arc's captivating new paranormal romance. . . For Emily Parkington, the thrill of flying charter planes for Praxis Air has lately been tinged with dread. Mysterious cargo flights and a high number of fatal crashes lead Emily to suspect something sinister behind the scenes. And if her new colleague is involved, Emily won't hesitate to turn him in, in spite of Sam Archer's sexy charm and irresistibly easy confidence. Enemy or potential ally? Sam can't be sure of anything where Emily is concerned, except how much he wants her. Immune to the zombie virus created through military research, Sam is working undercover to find out if Praxis is trafficking forbidden technology. It was a potentially deadly assignment even before he found himself distracted by a woman he scarcely knows. And when a "controlled" experiment goes horribly wrong, there will be no limit to the danger they both face. . .or how far he's willing to go to save her. . . Praise for Bianca D'Arc "D'Arc delivers a creepy and pulse-pounding story of danger." -Romantic Times on Half Past Dead "D'Arc's stories are a pleasure to read." -Romantic Times

Author : Stuart Woods
Publisher : G.P. Putnam's Sons
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780451237859

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D.C. Dead by Stuart Woods Pdf

"Stone Barrington, his former NYPD partner Dino Bachetti and CIA agent Holly Barker investigate a possible serial killer with ties to the White House"--

Author : Jay D. Aronson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674971493

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Who Owns the Dead? by Jay D. Aronson Pdf

After the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center, Chief Medical Examiner Charles Hirsch proclaimed that his staff would do more than confirm the victims’ identity. They would attempt to return to families every human body part larger than a thumbnail. As Jay D. Aronson shows, delivering on that promise proved to be a monumentally difficult task.

Author : John Owen (Chaplain to Lord Grey of Ruthen.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1680
Category : Children
ISBN : BL:A0021780936

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Immoderate Mourning for the Dead, Prov'd Unreasonable and Unchristian. Or, Some Considerations of General Use to Allay Our Sorrow for Deceased Friends and Relations by John Owen (Chaplain to Lord Grey of Ruthen.) Pdf

Author : Jack Gantos
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-13
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781429962506

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Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos Pdf

Dead End in Norvelt is the winner of the 2012 Newbery Medal for the year's best contribution to children's literature and the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction! Melding the entirely true and the wildly fictional, Dead End in Norvelt is a novel about an incredible two months for a kid named Jack Gantos, whose plans for vacation excitement are shot down when he is "grounded for life" by his feuding parents, and whose nose spews bad blood at every little shock he gets. But plenty of excitement (and shocks) are coming Jack's way once his mom loans him out to help a fiesty old neighbor with a most unusual chore—typewriting obituaries filled with stories about the people who founded his utopian town. As one obituary leads to another, Jack is launced on a strange adventure involving molten wax, Eleanor Roosevelt, twisted promises, a homemade airplane, Girl Scout cookies, a man on a trike, a dancing plague, voices from the past, Hells Angels . . . and possibly murder. Endlessly surprising, this sly, sharp-edged narrative is the author at his very best, making readers laugh out loud at the most unexpected things in a dead-funny depiction of growing up in a slightly off-kilter place where the past is present, the present is confusing, and the future is completely up in the air.

Author : Jeanne Ann Macejko
Publisher : Shane Murphy Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780988464575

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Big D Dead by Jeanne Ann Macejko Pdf

The secret dread of runners isn’t blisters or shin splints. It’s finding a dead body. Joggers seem destined to discover the missing, the murdered and abandoned. Until Brynn Reeves stumbled across a severed human head. In Big D Dead, a feisty heroine who is afflicted with cerebral palsy joins a cloistered monk and a homicide detective on the trail of a hired killer. In the sizzling Texas heat, the body count climbs.

Author : George Bellairs
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504089869

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He'd Rather Be Dead by George Bellairs Pdf

The mayor of a seaside town is murdered, and a London police detective must sort through motives both political and personal . . . Thanks to its mayor, Sir Gideon Ware, the quiet harbor town of Westcombe has turned into a crowded and rather garish seaside destination where visitors can come to escape the stress of wartime. When Ware collapses at a lavish luncheon, felled by strychnine, Inspector Littlejohn must travel from London to solve the seemingly inexplicable murder. Ware was surrounded by local bigwigs at his table—but that’s just the beginning of the suspect list, as Littlejohn untangles the rivalries, resentments, and corrupt dealings that permeate this picturesque but troubled community . . . Praise for the Inspector Littlejohn mysteries “Assured prose, well-drawn characters, and the atmosphere of 1940s wartime England . . . well worth the reader’s time.” —Publishers Weekly “Everything is quite comparable in tone to a really good Simenon.” —The New York Times “Dryly ceremonious wit [that] shines from the very first page.” —Kirkus Reviews

Author : Walt Whitman
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-02
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781609387464

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"The Million Dead, Too, Summ'd Up" by Walt Whitman Pdf

This book is the first to offer a comprehensive selection of Walt Whitman’s Civil War poetry and prose with a full commentary on each work. Ed Folsom and Christopher Merrill carry on a dialogue with Whitman (and with each other) as they invite readers to trace how Whitman’s writing about the Civil War develops, shifts, and manifests itself in different genres throughout the years of the war. The book offers forty selections of Whitman’s war writings, including not only the well-known war poems but also his prose and personal letters. Each are followed by Folsom’s critical examination and then by Merrill’s afterword, suggesting broader contexts for thinking about the selection. The real democratic reader, Whitman said, “must himself or herself construct indeed the poem, argument, history, metaphysical essay—the text furnishing the hints, the clue, the start or frame-work,” because what is needed for democracy to flourish is “a nation of supple and athletic minds.” Folsom and Merrill model this kind of active reading and encourage both seasoned and new readers of Whitman’s war writings to enter into the challenging and exhilarating mode of talking back to Whitman, arguing with him, and learning from him.

Author : Hideyuki Kikuchi
Publisher : Dark Horse Comics
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781621154907

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Vampire Hunter D Volume 4: Tale of the Dead Town by Hideyuki Kikuchi Pdf

When a floating city becomes the target of a rash of vampire attacks, only one man can restore the oasis. "The City," a tiny metropolis of a few hundred sheltered citizens floating serenely on a seemingly random course a few feet above the ground, has long been thought safe from the predation of marauding monsters. It seemed like a paradise. A paradise shattered when an invasion of apparent vampires threatens the small haven. While the Vampire Hunter known only as "D" struggles to exterminate the scourge, a former denizen of the city, the attractive Raleigh Knight, and the brash John M. Brassalli Pluto VIII seize control of the city lurching it onto a new and deadly course. D's travails are just beginning. FOR MATURE READERS

Author : Melanie Thernstrom
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781940436135

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The Dead Girl by Melanie Thernstrom Pdf

Melanie Thernstrom's senior thesis was entitled Mistakes of Metaphor, an account of the mysterious disappearance and murder of her best friend, Bibi Lee. That thesis, reworked as The Dead Girl, was published by Pocket Books in 1990 to major critical acclaim. Berkeley student Roberta (Bibi) Lee went running with her lover Bradley Page on a Sunday in 1984. He came back alone. When she failed to return police mounted one of the largest missing–person searches in California history. Five weeks later Roberta's battered body was found and within hours, Page had confessed to Roberta's murder—a confession he was later to recant. With its enduring themes of innocence and evil, truth and uncertainty, human motives and emotions, The Dead Girl is a complex exploration of the nature of reality and the frail, shifting and suspect ways in which we respond to it.

Author : Ann Palmer
Publisher : CCB Publishing
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781771431262

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Letters to the Dead: Things I Wish I'd Said by Ann Palmer Pdf

With loving respect and a desire to pay homage to many who have passed on and to help keep their personalities and talents alive in the public's mind, I wrote letters to the following celebrities and special people in my life: Orson Welles, Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Bill Bryant, Howard Hawks, Robert Mitchum, David Janssen, Audrey Hepburn, George Peppard, Steve McQueen, Natalie Wood, Milton Krasner, Walter Matthau, Ray Walston, Rock Hudson, Cornel Wilde, Gardner McKay, Fred Holliday, John Carroll, Rex Harrison, Jessica Tandy & Hume Cronin, Richard Burton, Desmond Llewelyn, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Leon Shamroy, Stuart Lyons, Joan Jones, Arthur Shields, Harry Guardino, Nick Colasanto, Vince Edwards, Red Skelton, Bob Hope, Jayne Mansfield, Joan Crawford, Charles Bronson, Leon Mirell, Rick Jason, Richard E. Lyons, John Bernardino, Norma Connolly, Emily McLaughlin, David Lewis. And my family and friends: Richard Castle, Helen Coffey, Mary, Jack Kogel, my father, my mother, Dr. Richard E. Goodrich, and my daughter Debbie. This is my last tribute to many of those wonderful souls that passed through my life that I honor in this way.