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...
Undertakers and undertaking
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Author:Doughty, CaitlinSummary: - Author:Estleman, Loren D.Summary:
Revolutionizing traditional mortuary practices, Richard Connable develops a method of preserving the human dignity of the deceased. His wife Lucy struggles to keep their marriage whole as she stands by his side and supports him while he...
- Author:Gardner, ScotSummary:
Aaron Rowe walks in his sleep. He has dreams he can't explain, and memories he can't recover. Death doesn't scare him - his new job with a funeral director may even be his salvation. But if he doesn't discover the...
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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:Doughty, CaitlinSummary:
Most people want to avoid thinking about death, but Caitlin Doughty -- a twenty-something with a degree in medieval history and a flair for the macabre -- took a job at a crematory, turning morbid curiosity into her life's work. Thrown...
- Author:Bailly, GuillaumeSummary:
On l’a bien vu dans Six pieds sous terre, cette série culte de HBO : les funérailles sont souvent le théâtre d’événements drôles, gênants, étonnants, inoubliables ! Dans Mes sincères condoléances, l’entrepreneur en...
- Author:Storrie, Paul D.Summary:
Tom Stone stepped into Seward High and into Maria McBride's life like a bolt of lightning. He's the perfect guy for Maria--nice, smart, and well-built. There's just one problem: his family. Tom's father is the town...
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Author:De Castrique, MarkSummary:Barry Clayton has left the Charlotte police force to manage his ailing father’s funeral home in the peace and quiet of the Appalachian mountains. But Buryin’ Barry is an undertaker with a problem—he keeps finding unwanted business....
- 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:De Castrique, MarkSummary:The night before a funeral that will thrust the mountain town of Gainesboro, North Carolina, into the national spotlight, the body is stolen from the embalming room and funeral director Barry Clayton is knocked unconscious. How will...
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Author:De Castrique, MarkSummary:When Barry Clayton’s father developed Alzheimer’s, Barry gave up his career in law enforcement to return to the North Carolina mountain town of Gainesboro and run the family’s funeral home. But even a small town in the Appalachians is...
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Author:De Castrique, MarkSummary:“You want to borrow a casket?” Funeral director and part-time sheriff Barry Clayton finds Jaycee member Archie Donovan’s request absurd until he learns the casket will be the centerpiece of the Jaycees’ haunted house, a charity event...
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Author:De Castrique, MarkSummary:Barry Clayton has a job he doesn’t want. When his father became stricken with Alzheimer’s, Barry left the Charlotte police force for the small mountain community of Gainesboro, North Carolina, where his family runs the local funeral...
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Author:Wilde, CalebSummary:Wilde shares his experiences and pushes back against the death-negative ethos of our culture, opening conversation to help us see the end of life in a positive and liberating way. In the wry, compassionate, and honest voice that has...
