Best-selling author and mortician Caitlin Doughty answers real questions from kids about death, dead bodies, and decomposition. Every day, funeral director Caitlin Doughty receives dozens of questions about death. The best questions...
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Author:Doughty, CaitlinSummary: - Author:Spillett, TashaSummary:
Miikwan and Dez are in their final year of high school. Poised at the edge of the rest of their lives, they have a lot to decide on. Miikwan and her boyfriend, Riel, are preparing for university, but Dez isn't sure if that's what they...
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Author:Ruiz Zafón, CarlosSummary:It's wartime, and the Carver family decides to leave the capital where they live and move to a small coastal village where they've recently bought a home. But from the minute they cross the threshold, strange things begin to happen. In...
- Author:Harwood-Jones, MarkusSummary:
This YA title features Adrian Yates, who expected his summer would involve sharing Slurpees with his best friend Zoomer and pretending not to hear his dads' whispered fighting. And that's exactly how it was going, until the...
- Author:Gaiman, NeilSummary:
Nobody Owens is a normal boy, except that he has been raised by ghosts and other denizens of the graveyard, in which he must remain in order to stay safe.
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Author:Higgins, F. E.Summary:With his father, a fugitive, falsely accused of multiple murders and the real serial killer stalking the wretched streets of Urbs Umida, Pin Carpue, a young undertaker's assistant, investigates and soon discovers that all of the victims...
- Author:Lloyd-Jones, EmilySummary:
Seventeen-year-old Aderyn ("Ryn") only cares about two things: her family and her family's graveyard. And right now, both are in dire straits. Since the death of their parents, Ryn and her siblings have been scraping...
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Author:Roach, MarySummary:Stiff is an oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem. For two thousand years, cadavers―some willingly, some unwittingly―have been involved in science's boldest strides and weirdest...
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Author:Jennewein, Jim.Summary:In order to save his one true love and prevent the destruction of the earth, Dane the Defiant must defeat an old--and undead--enemy.
- Author:Clarke, SusannaSummary:
From the New York Times bestselling author of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, an intoxicating, hypnotic new novel set in a dreamlike alternative reality. Piranesi's house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors...
- Author:Doughty, CaitlinSummary:
The best-selling author of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes expands our sense of what it means to treat the dead with "dignity." Fascinated by our pervasive terror of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty set out to discover how other cultures...
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Author:Lashner, WilliamSummary:Elizabeth Webster is happy to stay under the radar (and under her bangs) until middle school is dead and gone. But when star swimmer Henry Harrison asks her to tutor him in math, it's not linear equations Henry really needs help with-it...
- Author:Sambury, LiselleSummary:
"A haunted house thriller packed with cryptic mystery, dark humor, and bone-chilling twists." -Ryan Douglass, New York Times bestselling author of The Taking of Jake Livingston The Haunting of Hill House meets Sadie in this...
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Author:Alguire, JudithSummary:Another summer, and The Pleasant Inn is filled to capacity. This season is especially exciting, as perennial guests Miss Miller and her long-time admirer Mr. Simpson have chosen to marry at the Inn. The guests and staff are clamouring...
- Author:Howard, Catherine RyanSummary:
No one even knew they were together. Now one of them is dead. Fifty-six days ago: Ciara and Oliver meet in a supermarket queue in Dublin and start dating the same week COVID-19 reaches Irish shores.Thirty-five days ago: When lockdown...
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Author:Reisz, KristopherSummary:Best friends Jane and Holly have jumped into the river off Swallow’s Nest Bluff hundreds of times. But one day, Holly’s jump goes wrong. Her body never comes up, yet something else does—a sad creature of mud, full of confusion and...
