Death At Dinner

Author : Michael Hebb
Publisher : Da Capo Lifelong Books
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-02
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780738235318

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Let's Talk about Death (over Dinner) by Michael Hebb Pdf

For readers of Being Mortal and When Breath Becomes Air, the acclaimed founder of Death over Dinner offers a practical, inspiring guide to life's most difficult yet important conversation. Of the many critical conversations we will all have throughout our lifetime, few are as important as the ones discussing death—and not just the practical considerations, such as DNRs and wills, but what we fear, what we hope, and how we want to be remembered. Yet few of these conversations are actually happening. Inspired by his experience with his own father and countless stories from others who regret not having these conversations, Michael Hebb cofounded Death Over Dinner—an organization that encourages people to pull up a chair, break bread, and really talk about the one thing we all have in common. Death Over Dinner has been one of the most effective end-of-life awareness campaigns to date; in just three years, it has provided the framework and inspiration for more than a hundred thousand dinners focused on having these end-of-life conversations. As Arianna Huffington said, "We are such a fast-food culture, I love the idea of making the dinner last for hours. These are the conversations that will help us to evolve." Let's Talk About Death (over Dinner) offers keen practical advice on how to have these same conversations—not just at the dinner table, but anywhere. There's no one right way to talk about death, but Hebb shares time—and dinner—tested prompts to use as conversation starters, ranging from the spiritual to the practical, from analytical to downright funny and surprising. By transforming the most difficult conversations into an opportunity, they become celebratory and meaningful—ways that not only can change the way we die, but the way we live.

Author : Gerald Anderson
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780738708744

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Death Before Dinner by Gerald Anderson Pdf

Do you like Garrison Keillor? Do you like Agatha Christie? Then you'll like Palmer Knutson and "Death Before Dinner." If Morse and Maigret and Sam Spade were all a little younger, they could tag along and watch Knutson move deftly through the quirky Scandinavian sub-culture portrayed by Anderson with warmth and wit, and, incidentally, an authenticity which outstrips "Fargo."

Author : Marvin Miller
Publisher : Scholastic Paperbacks
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Adventure games
ISBN : 059056871X

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Death Comes to Dinner by Marvin Miller Pdf

Ten short crime stories offer readers a chance to solve such cases as "The Big Money Switch," "The Accident on the 10:04," and "Death Comes to Dinner."

Author : A. G. Barnett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1672655781

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A Death at Dinner by A. G. Barnett Pdf

When Mary Blake is called to help an old acquaintance who's being blackmailed, the last thing she expected was to find herself in the midst of a murder investigation... again.However, within 24 hours of her taking on the case there is a suspicious death and the staff of the Rudolph Hotel are thrown into chaos before their big Christmas event.With the police unconvinced of foul play, Mary throws herself into the case along with her assistant Dot and her brother Pea, attempting to track down the killer and prove themselves for the new career they have planned.

Author : L a Nisula
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798764394763

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Death at Dinner by L a Nisula Pdf

Cassie Pengear did not want to spend her evening acting as a parlor maid even if the house was in Mayfair, but her landlady's friend was desperate and it was only night. But then one of the guests collapsed at the table. Now poison is suspected and the cook is convinced she's the main suspect and will be locked away if Cassie doesn't solve the death at dinner. A cozy mystery with a steampunk setting 56,000 words, approx 220 pages This book is also available as part of a bundle.In a Victorian England that almost existed, a steampunk London where tinkerers and clockwork devices exist alongside hansom cabs and corsets, murder is still solved by traditional observation and intuition. This is the London where American typist Cassandra Pengear finds herself stumbling over corpses and helping Scotland Yard detectives solve murders (although they inexplicably prefer to call it interfering). Follow her adventures in the Cassie Pengear Mystery series, beginning with The Killing at the Carnival.

Author : Nathan Hale
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-06
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781613125243

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Donner Dinner Party (Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales #3) by Nathan Hale Pdf

In author-illustrator Nathan Hale’s Donner Dinner Party, discover the shocking and true story of the ill-fated expedition in this Hazardous Tale from the New York Times bestselling graphic novel series. “These books are, quite simply, brilliant. . . . Thrilling, bloody, action-packed stories from American history.” —New York Times In the spring of 1846, a group of families left Illinois and began the long journey toward a new life in California. To save time, they took an ill-advised shortcut—with disastrous consequences. Their story would not take them to California but into history. Bad weather, bad choices, and just plain bad luck forced the pioneers to spend a long, cold winter in the mountains, slowly starving. What they did to stay alive and the lengths that others went to in order to rescue them make this one of the most tragic and infamous stories of the American frontier. Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales take young readers into American history with graphic novels that bring the dangerous, bloody, exciting history of America to life. The Revolutionary War and the Civil War, World War I and World War II, the Donner Party, the Marquis de Lafayette, Harriet Tubman, the Alamo, and more all come to life in a way that will excite young readers of history. Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales! Read them all—if you dare! One Dead Spy: A Revolutionary War Tale (#1) Big Bad Ironclad!: A Civil War Tale (#2) Donner Dinner Party: A Pioneer Tale (#3) Treaties, Trenches, Mud, and Blood: A World War I Tale (#4) The Underground Abductor: An Abolitionist Tale about Harriet Tubman (#5) Alamo All-Stars: A Texas Tale (#6) Raid of No Return: A World War II Tale of the Doolittle Raid (#7) Lafayette!: A Revolutionary War Tale (#8) Major Impossible: A Grand Canyon Tale (#9) Blades of Freedom: A Tale of Haiti, Napoleon, and the Louisiana Purchase (#10) Cold War Correspondent: A Korean War Tale (#11) Above the Trenches: A WWI Flying Ace Tale (#12)

Author : Phyllis de la Garza
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Serial murderers
ISBN : 096317729X

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Death for Dinner by Phyllis de la Garza Pdf

Author : L. A. Nisula
Publisher : Lisa Anne Nisula
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Death at Dinner by L. A. Nisula Pdf

Cassie Pengear did not want to spend her evening acting as a parlor maid even if the house was in Mayfair and it was just a small dinner party. Only their host, his niece, a couple people from his office, and a visiting businessman from Delhi. But her landlady’s friend was desperate and it was only one night. Then one of the guests collapsed at the table. Now poison is suspected, and the cook is convinced she’s the main suspect and will be locked away if Cassie doesn't solve the death at dinner. A cozy mystery with a steampunk setting 56,000 words, approx 220 pages This book is also available as part of a bundle. In a Victorian England that almost existed, a steampunk London where tinkerers and clockwork devices exist alongside hansom cabs and corsets, murder is still solved by traditional observation and intuition. This is the London where American typist Cassandra Pengear finds herself stumbling over corpses and helping Scotland Yard detectives solve murders (although they inexplicably prefer to call it interfering). Follow her adventures in the Cassie Pengear Mystery series, beginning with The Killing at the Carnival.

Author : Jenny Rosenstrach
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-19
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780062080912

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Dinner: A Love Story by Jenny Rosenstrach Pdf

Inspired by her beloved blog, dinneralovestory.com, Jenny Rosenstrach’s Dinner: A Love Story is many wonderful things: a memoir, a love story, a practical how-to guide for strengthening family bonds by making the most of dinnertime, and a compendium of magnificent, palate-pleasing recipes. Fans of “Pioneer Woman” Ree Drummond, Jessica Seinfeld, Amanda Hesser, Real Simple, and former readers of Cookie magazine will revel in these delectable dishes, and in the unforgettable story of Jenny’s transformation from enthusiastic kitchen novice to family dinnertime doyenne.

Author : Gabriela Ybarra
Publisher : Random House
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473545724

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The Dinner Guest by Gabriela Ybarra Pdf

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2018 MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE The Dinner Guest is Gabriela Ybarra’s prizewinning literary debut: a singular autobiographical novel piecing together the kidnap and murder of her grandfather by terrorists, reflecting on the personal impact of private pain and public tragedy. The story goes that in my family there’s an extra dinner guest at every meal. He’s invisible, but always there. He has a plate, glass, knife and fork. Every so often he appears, casts his shadow over the table, and erases one of those present. The first to vanish was my grandfather. In 1977, three terrorists broke into Gabriela Ybarra’s grandfather’s home, and pointed a gun at him in the shower. This was the last time his family saw him alive, and his kidnapping played out in the press, culminating in his murder. Ybarra first heard the story when she was eight, but it was only after her mother’s death, years later, that she felt the need to go deeper and discover more about her family’s past. The Dinner Guest is a novel, with the feel of documentary non-fiction. It connects two life-changing events – the very public death of Ybarra’s grandfather, and the more private pain as her mother dies from cancer and Gabriela cares for her. Devastating yet luminous, the book is an investigation, marking the arrival of a talented new voice in international fiction.

Author : Bronnie Ware
Publisher : Hay House, Inc
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-13
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781401956004

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Top Five Regrets of the Dying by Bronnie Ware Pdf

Revised edition of the best-selling memoir that has been read by over a million people worldwide with translations in 29 languages. After too many years of unfulfilling work, Bronnie Ware began searching for a job with heart. Despite having no formal qualifications or previous experience in the field, she found herself working in palliative care. During the time she spent tending to those who were dying, Bronnie's life was transformed. Later, she wrote an Internet blog post, outlining the most common regrets that the people she had cared for had expressed. The post gained so much momentum that it was viewed by more than three million readers worldwide in its first year. At the request of many, Bronnie subsequently wrote a book, The Top Five Regrets of the Dying, to share her story. Bronnie has had a colourful and diverse life. By applying the lessons of those nearing their death to her own life, she developed an understanding that it is possible for everyone, if we make the right choices, to die with peace of mind. In this revised edition of the best-selling memoir that has been read by over a million people worldwide, with translations in 29 languages, Bronnie expresses how significant these regrets are and how we can positively address these issues while we still have the time. The Top Five Regrets of the Dying gives hope for a better world. It is a courageous, life-changing book that will leave you feeling more compassionate and inspired to live the life you are truly here to live.

Author : Liz Hauck
Publisher : Dial Press Trade Paperback
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780525512455

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Home Made by Liz Hauck Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • An “extraordinary” (The New York Times Book Review) tender and vivid memoir about the radical grace we discover when we consider ourselves bound together in community, and a moving account of one woman’s attempt to answer the essential question Who are we to one another? “Your heart will be altered by this book.”—Gregory Boyle, S.J., New York Times bestselling author of Tattoos on the Heart Liz Hauck and her dad had a plan to start a weekly cooking program in a residential home for teenage boys in state care, which was run by the human services agency he co-directed. When her father died before they had a chance to get the project started, Liz decided she would try it without him. She didn’t know what to expect from volunteering with court-involved youth, but as a high school teacher she knew that teenagers are drawn to food-related activities, and as a daughter, she believed that if she and the kids made even a single dinner together she could check one box off her father’s long, unfinished to-do list. This is the story of what happened around the table, and how one dinner became one hundred dinners. “The kids picked the menus, I bought the groceries,” Liz writes, “and we cooked and ate dinner together for two hours a week for nearly three years. Sometimes improvisation in kitchens is disastrous. But sometimes, a combination of elements produces something spectacularly unexpected. I think that’s why, when we don’t know what else to do, we feed our neighbors.” Capturing the clumsy choreography of cooking with other people, this is a sharply observed story about the ways we behave when we are hungry and the conversations that happen at the intersections of flavor and memory, vulnerability and strength, grief and connection. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY SHE READS

Author : Sarah Gilmartin
Publisher : Pushkin Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2023-03-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781911590576

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Dinner Party by Sarah Gilmartin Pdf

A remarkable Irish family saga about the messiness of modern family life—a major debut from a blazing new talent that’s already an international sensation “Sarah Gilmartin gives us terrific, complex characters and strong themes, in prose that is charged with insight.” —Anne Enright “The search is off -- here is our next read. Here is an expert writer.” —Meg Mason A riveting, beautifully written, and poignant coming-of-age story about the heartrending complications of sibling relationships and the trauma of family secrets, perfect for fans of Kate Atkinson, Maggie O’Farrell, and Anne Enright. Kate has taught herself to be careful, to be meticulous. To mark the anniversary of a death in the family, she plans a dinner party - from the fancy table settings to the perfect Baked Alaska waiting in the freezer. Yet by the end of the night, old tensions have flared, the guests have fled, and Kate is spinning out of control. But all we have is ourselves, her father once said, all we have is family. Set between the 1990s and the present day, from a farmhouse in Carlow to Trinity College, Dublin, Dinner Party is a dark, sharply observed debut told with sharp, elegant humour that thrillingly unravels into family secrets and tragedy.

Author : Nick Hoare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1899712461

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Death After Dinner by Nick Hoare Pdf

Contains all the evidence relating to the murder of Harry Hilton. You are the detective who police hope will solve the gruesome crime.

Author : Jonathan A. Edlow
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-22
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780300154993

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The Deadly Dinner Party by Jonathan A. Edlow Pdf

Picking up where Berton Roueché's The Medical Detectives left off, The Deadly Dinner Party presents fifteen edge-of-your-seat, real-life medical detective stories written by a practicing physician. Award-winning author Jonathan Edlow, M.D., shows the doctor as detective and the epidemiologist as elite sleuth in stories that are as gripping as the best thrillers.In these stories a notorious stomach bug turns a suburban dinner party into a disaster that almost claims its host; a diminutive woman routinely eats more than her football-playing boyfriend but continually loses weight; a young executive is diagnosed with lung cancer, yet the tumors seem to wax and wane inexplicably. Written for the lay person who wishes to better grasp how doctors decipher the myriad clues and puzzling symptoms they often encounter, each story presents a very different case where doctors must work to find the accurate diagnosis before it is too late. Edlow uses his unique ability to relate complex medical concepts in a writing style that is clear, engaging and easily understandable. The resulting stories both entertain us and teach us much about medicine, its history and the subtle interactions among pathogens, humans, and the environment.