Author: Bill Wood
Publisher: Book Guild Publishing
ISBN: 1835740286
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
An engaging story of life and death, An Odd Undertaking features Bill Wood’s memories of his career as an undertaker in London during the 1990s. From learning the trade, to the challenging work of body removal, to humorous tales about what happens when things don’t go quite as planned, this is a thoroughly entertaining and thought provoking read. Follow Bill in the wake of the Grim Reaper as he meanders through topics as varied as funerals, exhumations and mortuary tales, while respecting the solemnity of death and quelling some of the myths and misunderstandings about undertakers and funerals along the way. An Odd Undertaking is a book that is as much about life as it is about death, a fascinating read on an unusual topic.
An Odd Undertaking
Author: Bill Wood
Publisher: Book Guild Publishing
ISBN: 1835740286
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
An engaging story of life and death, An Odd Undertaking features Bill Wood’s memories of his career as an undertaker in London during the 1990s. From learning the trade, to the challenging work of body removal, to humorous tales about what happens when things don’t go quite as planned, this is a thoroughly entertaining and thought provoking read. Follow Bill in the wake of the Grim Reaper as he meanders through topics as varied as funerals, exhumations and mortuary tales, while respecting the solemnity of death and quelling some of the myths and misunderstandings about undertakers and funerals along the way. An Odd Undertaking is a book that is as much about life as it is about death, a fascinating read on an unusual topic.
Publisher: Book Guild Publishing
ISBN: 1835740286
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
An engaging story of life and death, An Odd Undertaking features Bill Wood’s memories of his career as an undertaker in London during the 1990s. From learning the trade, to the challenging work of body removal, to humorous tales about what happens when things don’t go quite as planned, this is a thoroughly entertaining and thought provoking read. Follow Bill in the wake of the Grim Reaper as he meanders through topics as varied as funerals, exhumations and mortuary tales, while respecting the solemnity of death and quelling some of the myths and misunderstandings about undertakers and funerals along the way. An Odd Undertaking is a book that is as much about life as it is about death, a fascinating read on an unusual topic.
A Perilous Undertaking
Author: Deanna Raybourn
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0451476158
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Visiting a ladies-only club for intrepid women, Victorian adventuress Veronica Speedwell is challenged to save a society art patron from execution.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0451476158
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Visiting a ladies-only club for intrepid women, Victorian adventuress Veronica Speedwell is challenged to save a society art patron from execution.
An Odd Undertaking
Author: Bill Wood
Publisher: Troubador Publishing
ISBN: 9781915352255
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An engaging story of life and death, An Odd Undertakingfeatures Bill Wood's memories of his career as an undertaker in London during the 1990s. From learning the trade, to the challenging work of body removal, to humorous tales about what happens when things don't go quite as planned, this is a thoroughly entertaining and thought provoking read. Follow Bill in the wake of the Grim Reaper as he meanders through topics as varied as funerals, exhumations and mortuary tales, while respecting the solemnity of death and quelling some of the myths and misunderstandings about undertakers and funerals along the way. An Odd Undertaking is a book that is as much about life as it is about death, a fascinating read on an unusual topic.
Publisher: Troubador Publishing
ISBN: 9781915352255
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An engaging story of life and death, An Odd Undertakingfeatures Bill Wood's memories of his career as an undertaker in London during the 1990s. From learning the trade, to the challenging work of body removal, to humorous tales about what happens when things don't go quite as planned, this is a thoroughly entertaining and thought provoking read. Follow Bill in the wake of the Grim Reaper as he meanders through topics as varied as funerals, exhumations and mortuary tales, while respecting the solemnity of death and quelling some of the myths and misunderstandings about undertakers and funerals along the way. An Odd Undertaking is a book that is as much about life as it is about death, a fascinating read on an unusual topic.
The Undertaking of Lily Chen
Author: Danica Novgorodoff
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1596435860
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
"Fictional graphic novel telling a magical realist story set in the world of the black market for deceased brides in China"--
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1596435860
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
"Fictional graphic novel telling a magical realist story set in the world of the black market for deceased brides in China"--
A Curious Beginning
Author: Deanna Raybourn
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0451476018
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Receiving a warning from a mysterious baron after suffering a home invasion, Veronica Speedwell accepts the baron's shelter and teams up with an ill-tempered naturalist when her host is subsequently murdered.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0451476018
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Receiving a warning from a mysterious baron after suffering a home invasion, Veronica Speedwell accepts the baron's shelter and teams up with an ill-tempered naturalist when her host is subsequently murdered.
Odd & True
Author: Cat Winters
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1683351444
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
Gilded Age sisters face terrible monsters and their own haunted past in this “thought-provoking, atmospheric, and utterly bewitching” YA novel (Booklist, starred review). Growing up on their family’s Oregon farm, Trudchen Grey believed every word of her older sister Odette’s fantastical stories. But now that Tru’s gotten older, she’s starting to wonder if those tales of their monster-slaying mother were just comforting lies. There’s certainly nothing fantastic about Tru’s own life—permanently disabled and in constant pain from childhood polio. In 1909, after a two-year absence, Od reappears with a suitcase supposedly full of weapons—and a promise to rescue Tru from the monsters on their way to attack her. But it’s Od who seems haunted by something. And when the sisters’ search for their mother leads them to a face-off with the Leeds Devil, a nightmarish beast that’s wreaking havoc in the Mid-Atlantic states, Tru discovers the peculiar possibility that she and her sister—despite their dark pasts and ordinary appearances—might, indeed, have magic after all.
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1683351444
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
Gilded Age sisters face terrible monsters and their own haunted past in this “thought-provoking, atmospheric, and utterly bewitching” YA novel (Booklist, starred review). Growing up on their family’s Oregon farm, Trudchen Grey believed every word of her older sister Odette’s fantastical stories. But now that Tru’s gotten older, she’s starting to wonder if those tales of their monster-slaying mother were just comforting lies. There’s certainly nothing fantastic about Tru’s own life—permanently disabled and in constant pain from childhood polio. In 1909, after a two-year absence, Od reappears with a suitcase supposedly full of weapons—and a promise to rescue Tru from the monsters on their way to attack her. But it’s Od who seems haunted by something. And when the sisters’ search for their mother leads them to a face-off with the Leeds Devil, a nightmarish beast that’s wreaking havoc in the Mid-Atlantic states, Tru discovers the peculiar possibility that she and her sister—despite their dark pasts and ordinary appearances—might, indeed, have magic after all.
The Undertaking
Author: Thomas Lynch
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393041125
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Like all poets inspired by death, Lynch is, unlike others, also hired to bury the dead or to cremate them in a small Michigan town where he serves as funeral director. In this book, Lynch names the hurts and shapes the questions posed by the familiar mystery known as death.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393041125
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Like all poets inspired by death, Lynch is, unlike others, also hired to bury the dead or to cremate them in a small Michigan town where he serves as funeral director. In this book, Lynch names the hurts and shapes the questions posed by the familiar mystery known as death.
Works
Author: John Sage
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Desperate Undertaking
Author: Lindsey Davis
Publisher: Minotaur Books
ISBN: 1250799899
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
In Lindsey Davis's next book in the beloved Flavia Albia Series, Desperate Undertaking, a mad killer (or killers!) is strewing bodies around in the most gruesome of manners and, true to form, it is up to Flavia Albia to determine what is really going on and stop this bacchanal of death. In the first century, under Domitian's reign, strange and brutal goings on are nothing new in Rome. Flavia Albia, daughter of Marcus Didius Falco, has taken over her father's business as a private informer but she tries to shy away from the brutal, the complicated, and the political - because nothing good comes of any of them. Unfortunately, she's not very good at turning them down. This time a commission shows up on her doorstep - someone is staging brutal murders in some of the most beautiful buildings in Rome, each staging different. So far, the only clue was the phrase that one survivor managed to croak, "The undertaker did it..." With little to go on and bodies starting to pile up, Albia has to unravel the strangest mystery of her career in short order if she's to stop this dismaying orgy of murder.
Publisher: Minotaur Books
ISBN: 1250799899
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
In Lindsey Davis's next book in the beloved Flavia Albia Series, Desperate Undertaking, a mad killer (or killers!) is strewing bodies around in the most gruesome of manners and, true to form, it is up to Flavia Albia to determine what is really going on and stop this bacchanal of death. In the first century, under Domitian's reign, strange and brutal goings on are nothing new in Rome. Flavia Albia, daughter of Marcus Didius Falco, has taken over her father's business as a private informer but she tries to shy away from the brutal, the complicated, and the political - because nothing good comes of any of them. Unfortunately, she's not very good at turning them down. This time a commission shows up on her doorstep - someone is staging brutal murders in some of the most beautiful buildings in Rome, each staging different. So far, the only clue was the phrase that one survivor managed to croak, "The undertaker did it..." With little to go on and bodies starting to pile up, Albia has to unravel the strangest mystery of her career in short order if she's to stop this dismaying orgy of murder.
An Odd Kind of Fame
Author: Malcolm Macmillan
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262632591
Category : Brain
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
The true story of the first case to reveal the relation between the brain and complex personality characteristics.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262632591
Category : Brain
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
The true story of the first case to reveal the relation between the brain and complex personality characteristics.