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All Men Are Cremated Equal: My 77 Blind Dates
by Elizabeth Fournier
Our Price: $16.16
Elizabeth chronicles her true life dating spree as a marriage-minded mortician in her mid-30's. Set off by her broken engagement, she enlists everyone in sight to set her up on blind dates in a passionate quest to meet just one really great guy. Bridget Jones would be proud of her American cousin.
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Bodies in Motion and at Rest: On Metaphor and Mortality
by Thomas Lynch
Our Price: $12.55
Masterful essays that illuminate not only how we die but also how we live. Thomas Lynch, poet, funeral director, and author of the highly praised
The Undertaking, winner of an American Book Award and finalist for the National Book Award, continues to examine the relations between the "literary and mortuary arts."
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Does This Mean You'll See Me Naked?
by Robert Webster
Our Price: $13.45
Funeral director
Robert Webster reflects on 30 years of serving the
living and deceased while providing us with a
behind-the-scenes story told with both empathy and
humor. He attempts to assuage our curiosity and answer
those questions that are uppermost in our minds when
faced with death.
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Mortician Diaries: The Dead-Honest Truth from a Life Spent with Death
by June Nadle
Our Price: $13.45
After 50 years in the funeral business, 80-year-old grandmother/undertaker June Knights Nadle has seen it all — at least all of what goes on before, during, and after life’s ultimate challenge. In
Mortician Diaries, she combines equal doses of charm, humanity, humor, and reality to tell it like it is on this taboo subject.
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The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade
by Thomas Lynch
Our Price: $12.00
Thomas Lynch serves his readership as a poet and memoirist, and his townspeople as a funeral director. In this wholly unique collection of essays, the two vocations meet as Lynch shows himself to be a competent functionary of mourning--dispensing comfort and homespun wisdom to the grief-stricken--as well as a poet poignantly tuning language to the right tones of private release.
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