Author: Harold Aspiz
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 081731377X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
Through a close reading of Leaves of Grass, its constituent poems, particularly Song of Myself and Whitman's prose and letters, Aspiz charts how the poet's exuberant celebration of life is a consequence of his central concern: the ever presence of death and the prospect of an afterlife.
Death Becomes Us
Author: Pamela Skjolsvik
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781519147417
Category : BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Almost everyone with a pulse fears death, but not everyone fears life. With crippling social anxiety, I feared both. But after an accidental call to a funeral home during my mid-life crisis trip to grad school, I reluctantly embarked on a journey to explore professions that dealt with death in order to come to terms with my own mortality. (From cover).
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781519147417
Category : BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Almost everyone with a pulse fears death, but not everyone fears life. With crippling social anxiety, I feared both. But after an accidental call to a funeral home during my mid-life crisis trip to grad school, I reluctantly embarked on a journey to explore professions that dealt with death in order to come to terms with my own mortality. (From cover).
Overcoming the Fear of Death
Author: Kelvin H. Chin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780997717402
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Discusses how to reduce or overcome fear of death for those who hold a variety of beliefs on death including: the belief that there is no afterlife, that the there is an afterlife and it is something to be feared, that there is an afterlife and that it is something to look forward to, and that there is reincarnation after death.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780997717402
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Discusses how to reduce or overcome fear of death for those who hold a variety of beliefs on death including: the belief that there is no afterlife, that the there is an afterlife and it is something to be feared, that there is an afterlife and that it is something to look forward to, and that there is reincarnation after death.
So Long! Walt Whitman's Poetry of Death
Author: Harold Aspiz
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 081731377X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
Through a close reading of Leaves of Grass, its constituent poems, particularly Song of Myself and Whitman's prose and letters, Aspiz charts how the poet's exuberant celebration of life is a consequence of his central concern: the ever presence of death and the prospect of an afterlife.
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 081731377X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
Through a close reading of Leaves of Grass, its constituent poems, particularly Song of Myself and Whitman's prose and letters, Aspiz charts how the poet's exuberant celebration of life is a consequence of his central concern: the ever presence of death and the prospect of an afterlife.
So Sure of Death
Author: Dana Stabenow
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780525945192
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
When the bodies of a local family are found adrift at sea, horribly murdered, Alaska State Trooper Liam Campbell is drawn straight into the heart of a family scandal involving adultery, tribal taboos, and forbidden romance. To find the killer, Liam will have to wade into the murky depths of Native-Alaskan politics, tribal mores, and deeply held secrets. In this, Dana Stabenow's second Liam Campbell mystery, she again earns her reputation as "Alaska's finest mystery writer." (The Anchorage Daily News)
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780525945192
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
When the bodies of a local family are found adrift at sea, horribly murdered, Alaska State Trooper Liam Campbell is drawn straight into the heart of a family scandal involving adultery, tribal taboos, and forbidden romance. To find the killer, Liam will have to wade into the murky depths of Native-Alaskan politics, tribal mores, and deeply held secrets. In this, Dana Stabenow's second Liam Campbell mystery, she again earns her reputation as "Alaska's finest mystery writer." (The Anchorage Daily News)
The Order of Death
Author: Hugh Fleetwood
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571304869
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
Lieutenant Fred O'Connor of the NYPD Narcotics Bureau has a secret: an apartment on Central Park West, jointly purchased with ill-gotten gains by Fred and a corrupt fellow officer. The place is a refuge for Fred from a society he finds repellently ill-ordered. But his own equilibrium is disturbed, first by a series of brutal murders of his colleagues, then by the appearance at the apartment's door of wan Leo Smith, who claims to be the cop-killer... 'Fleetwood is a compulsive pattern-maker, and a master of the ambiguous thread which finally pulls all together. It is a rich, gruesome, irresistibly readable book.' Times 'Fleetwood can write like a dream... and really get into your head. He reaches down and stirs with venomous delight the nameless, faceless things swimming far below the level of consciousness.' Scotsman
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571304869
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
Lieutenant Fred O'Connor of the NYPD Narcotics Bureau has a secret: an apartment on Central Park West, jointly purchased with ill-gotten gains by Fred and a corrupt fellow officer. The place is a refuge for Fred from a society he finds repellently ill-ordered. But his own equilibrium is disturbed, first by a series of brutal murders of his colleagues, then by the appearance at the apartment's door of wan Leo Smith, who claims to be the cop-killer... 'Fleetwood is a compulsive pattern-maker, and a master of the ambiguous thread which finally pulls all together. It is a rich, gruesome, irresistibly readable book.' Times 'Fleetwood can write like a dream... and really get into your head. He reaches down and stirs with venomous delight the nameless, faceless things swimming far below the level of consciousness.' Scotsman
Soldier of Death
Author: Kevin Saito
Publisher: Scare Street
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
He can see beyond the veil of death. And what he sees is terrifying… Gray Brooks knows all about death. A retired Marine, he survived the horrors of war, only to waste his life in a series of drunken nights and misdemeanors. But all that changed the day he was shot in a robbery gone wrong. After being pronounced clinically dead, Gray returns to life in the hospital. And something inside him has changed… Still tethered to the afterlife, Gray now sees the supernatural beings that stalk humanity. Demons, ghosts, and other creatures that defy logical explanation. And for once in his life, Gray is compelled to do the right thing—to defend innocent lives from the festering evil that plague them. Joining forces with a practitioner of the occult, Gray sets out to fend off sinister beings. But sensing these hideous forces is one thing and killing them is quite another. And unless Gray can discover these creatures’ weaknesses in time, he may find himself returned to the shadowy realm of death. And this time, there will be no coming back…
Publisher: Scare Street
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
He can see beyond the veil of death. And what he sees is terrifying… Gray Brooks knows all about death. A retired Marine, he survived the horrors of war, only to waste his life in a series of drunken nights and misdemeanors. But all that changed the day he was shot in a robbery gone wrong. After being pronounced clinically dead, Gray returns to life in the hospital. And something inside him has changed… Still tethered to the afterlife, Gray now sees the supernatural beings that stalk humanity. Demons, ghosts, and other creatures that defy logical explanation. And for once in his life, Gray is compelled to do the right thing—to defend innocent lives from the festering evil that plague them. Joining forces with a practitioner of the occult, Gray sets out to fend off sinister beings. But sensing these hideous forces is one thing and killing them is quite another. And unless Gray can discover these creatures’ weaknesses in time, he may find himself returned to the shadowy realm of death. And this time, there will be no coming back…
Holiday in Death
Author: J. D. Robb
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101203692
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Lieutenant Eve Dallas tails a serial killer who has a passion for the "Twelve Days of Christmas" in this novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling In Death series. No one likes to be alone during the holidays. For New York's most posh dating service, Personally Yours, it is the season to bring lonely hearts together. But Lieutenant Eve Dallas, on the trail of a ritualistic serial killer who likes to dress up as Santa Claus, has made a disturbing discovery: all of the victims have been traced to Personally Yours. As the murders continue, Eve enters into an elite world of people searching for their one true love. A world where the power of love leads men and women into the ultimate act of betrayal...
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101203692
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Lieutenant Eve Dallas tails a serial killer who has a passion for the "Twelve Days of Christmas" in this novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling In Death series. No one likes to be alone during the holidays. For New York's most posh dating service, Personally Yours, it is the season to bring lonely hearts together. But Lieutenant Eve Dallas, on the trail of a ritualistic serial killer who likes to dress up as Santa Claus, has made a disturbing discovery: all of the victims have been traced to Personally Yours. As the murders continue, Eve enters into an elite world of people searching for their one true love. A world where the power of love leads men and women into the ultimate act of betrayal...
A Concordance to the Poems of Robert Browning
Author: Leslie Nathan Broughton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1412
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1412
Book Description
Death Rings a Bell
Author: Linda Hope Lee
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press Inc
ISBN: 1509245545
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
Librarian Nina Foster is honored to present a program at Pacific Northwest University's Lit Fest. She especially looks forward to reconnecting with her former English professor and mentor. But then her professor falls to her death from the campus bell tower. The police rule the death accidental, but Nina suspects foul play and begins her own investigation. Newspaper reporter and Nina’s significant other, Stephen Kraslow, is on hand to assist and support her. Will they solve the mystery before the killer strikes again?
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press Inc
ISBN: 1509245545
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
Librarian Nina Foster is honored to present a program at Pacific Northwest University's Lit Fest. She especially looks forward to reconnecting with her former English professor and mentor. But then her professor falls to her death from the campus bell tower. The police rule the death accidental, but Nina suspects foul play and begins her own investigation. Newspaper reporter and Nina’s significant other, Stephen Kraslow, is on hand to assist and support her. Will they solve the mystery before the killer strikes again?
THE WORKS OF THE ENGLISH POETS, FROM CHAUCER TO COWPER; INCLUDING THE SERIES EDITED, WITH PREFACES, BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL,
Author: DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 736
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 736
Book Description