Author: Lawrence Block
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061760315
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Book description to come.
Walk Among the Tombstones
Author: Lawrence Block
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061760315
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Book description to come.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061760315
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Book description to come.
Living Among Headstones
Author: Shannon Applegate
Publisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 9781560258476
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
In 1997, Shannon Applegate was bequeathed a small cemetery in western Oregon. The neglected five acres were not only the burial site for generations of her family but also the designated resting ground for many in the nearby, down-on-its-luck logging town. Living Among Headstones chronicles the author's experiences as she takes charge of this sacred land and finds herself plotting graves, consoling families, and confronting the funeral industry. Filled with humor, singular events, pathos, and unexpected smiles, the pages offer historical asides and moving personal stories. For example, Shannon explores the language and customs of funerals as she agonizes over how to approach families who have covered graves with plastic flowers and inappropriate ornaments. In doing so, she contemplates the myriad ways cultures past and present approach the dead. Living Among Headstones is, in part, about rural cemeteries in contemporary America, but the sum is a meditation on how we long for those we love to have a continuing place in our world, and it focuses as much on life as death.
Publisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 9781560258476
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
In 1997, Shannon Applegate was bequeathed a small cemetery in western Oregon. The neglected five acres were not only the burial site for generations of her family but also the designated resting ground for many in the nearby, down-on-its-luck logging town. Living Among Headstones chronicles the author's experiences as she takes charge of this sacred land and finds herself plotting graves, consoling families, and confronting the funeral industry. Filled with humor, singular events, pathos, and unexpected smiles, the pages offer historical asides and moving personal stories. For example, Shannon explores the language and customs of funerals as she agonizes over how to approach families who have covered graves with plastic flowers and inappropriate ornaments. In doing so, she contemplates the myriad ways cultures past and present approach the dead. Living Among Headstones is, in part, about rural cemeteries in contemporary America, but the sum is a meditation on how we long for those we love to have a continuing place in our world, and it focuses as much on life as death.
Farewell to Prague
Author: Desmond Hogan
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
ISBN: 1564789799
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
Following a crippling depression and institutionalization, the writer "Desmond" wanders from his native Dublin around an increasingly unrecognizable Europe, and as far as the southern United States, assembling a patchwork of small stories, conversations, love affairs, memories, regrets, and confrontations: "the labyrinth of stories of people whose lives you touch . . . so that your mind becomes like a polychromatic Irish pub." Whether a series of tragic postcards, a cubist novel, or a memoir shorn of its connective tissue, A Farewell to Prague stands as Desmond Hogan's greatest achievement: a catalog of the moments that justify a life "or shine a light on its emptiness."
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
ISBN: 1564789799
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
Following a crippling depression and institutionalization, the writer "Desmond" wanders from his native Dublin around an increasingly unrecognizable Europe, and as far as the southern United States, assembling a patchwork of small stories, conversations, love affairs, memories, regrets, and confrontations: "the labyrinth of stories of people whose lives you touch . . . so that your mind becomes like a polychromatic Irish pub." Whether a series of tragic postcards, a cubist novel, or a memoir shorn of its connective tissue, A Farewell to Prague stands as Desmond Hogan's greatest achievement: a catalog of the moments that justify a life "or shine a light on its emptiness."
The Life of Mansie Wauch, Taylor in Dalkeith. Written by Himself. [By David M. Moir.]
Author: Mansie WAUCH
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Historic Cemeteries of Portland, Oregon
Author: Teresa Bergen and Heide Davis
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 146714861X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Portland's historic cemeteries are some of the most beautiful and overlooked cultural treasures in the city. Full of fascinating secrets and eerie tales, these greenspaces are also the perfect spots for walking, biking and birding. Explore twenty-five burial grounds with public art in the form of remarkable tombstones that vary as much as the Portlanders they commemorate, including suffragists, spiritualists, Romani kings, politicians and murderers. From a photographer who captured the golden age of Broadway musicals to a celebrity orangutan, Portland's graves are full of surprises. Come along with cemetery sleuths Teresa Bergen and Heide Davis as they share their insights into the Rose City's remarkable past.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 146714861X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Portland's historic cemeteries are some of the most beautiful and overlooked cultural treasures in the city. Full of fascinating secrets and eerie tales, these greenspaces are also the perfect spots for walking, biking and birding. Explore twenty-five burial grounds with public art in the form of remarkable tombstones that vary as much as the Portlanders they commemorate, including suffragists, spiritualists, Romani kings, politicians and murderers. From a photographer who captured the golden age of Broadway musicals to a celebrity orangutan, Portland's graves are full of surprises. Come along with cemetery sleuths Teresa Bergen and Heide Davis as they share their insights into the Rose City's remarkable past.
Hearings
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 2052
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 2052
Book Description
Lorraine American Cemetery and Memorial
Author: American Battle Monuments Commission
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lorraine American Cemetery, France
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lorraine American Cemetery, France
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Sticks and Stones
Author: M. Ruth Little
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781469621357
Category : Epitaphs
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Sticks and Stones: Three Centuries of North Carolina Gravemarkers
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781469621357
Category : Epitaphs
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Sticks and Stones: Three Centuries of North Carolina Gravemarkers
The Winter Star
Author: Robert Burnett
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 9781469727462
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
Westburgh Pennsylvania, a small, quiet town on the outskirts of Wilkes-Barre. A town with a terrifying history that has long been forgotten. When a small prop plane crashes in the woods outside of town, a man running from his own past is drawn into a history he has no knowledge of. He is told to look for others that can help him, and is given a cryptic message: 'What's coming through is alive' What does it mean? A single phrase, linking three unlikely individuals against something they don't understand. A horror is reawakening, and will bring with it a darkness to the town no one can prepare for. Three people, chosen to finish something that began nearly a century before. Three people, formed by a shared past and an allegiance to stop the terror. They are the only hope the town has.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 9781469727462
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
Westburgh Pennsylvania, a small, quiet town on the outskirts of Wilkes-Barre. A town with a terrifying history that has long been forgotten. When a small prop plane crashes in the woods outside of town, a man running from his own past is drawn into a history he has no knowledge of. He is told to look for others that can help him, and is given a cryptic message: 'What's coming through is alive' What does it mean? A single phrase, linking three unlikely individuals against something they don't understand. A horror is reawakening, and will bring with it a darkness to the town no one can prepare for. Three people, chosen to finish something that began nearly a century before. Three people, formed by a shared past and an allegiance to stop the terror. They are the only hope the town has.
Ghosthunting Illinois
Author: John B. Kachuba
Publisher: Clerisy Press
ISBN: 1578603730
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Lock the doors, draw the curtains, and light a candle as you join author John Kachuba on a guided tour of Illinois's most terrifyingly haunted places. Your hair-raising journey will take you to: • Old State Capital, Springfield -- Lincoln lay in state here before his burial in Oak Ridge Cemetery. Could his ghost haunt the spot where his body lay? • Harpo Studios, Chicago -- When the Eastland steamer capsized in 1915, the building served as a temporary morgue. Oprah's employees have encountered the ghosts of the victims, including the "Gray Lady" who floats through the halls. • And many more scary sites. Maps and travel information are provided to every haunted location for those brave enough to make the journey in person.
Publisher: Clerisy Press
ISBN: 1578603730
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Lock the doors, draw the curtains, and light a candle as you join author John Kachuba on a guided tour of Illinois's most terrifyingly haunted places. Your hair-raising journey will take you to: • Old State Capital, Springfield -- Lincoln lay in state here before his burial in Oak Ridge Cemetery. Could his ghost haunt the spot where his body lay? • Harpo Studios, Chicago -- When the Eastland steamer capsized in 1915, the building served as a temporary morgue. Oprah's employees have encountered the ghosts of the victims, including the "Gray Lady" who floats through the halls. • And many more scary sites. Maps and travel information are provided to every haunted location for those brave enough to make the journey in person.