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"Every day, funeral director Caitlin Doughty receives dozens of questions about death. The best questions come from kids. What would happen to an astronaut's body if it were pushed out of a space shuttle? Do people poop when they die? Can Grandma have a Viking funeral?In Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?, Doughty blends her mortician's knowledge of the body and the intriguing history behind common misconceptions about corpses to offer factual, hilarious,...
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A moving meditation on coping with the loss of the animals that have enriched our lives. Jon Katz returns with a thoughtful exploration of the ways in which people grieve for their pets. Filled with helpful advice, philosophical questions, and emotional reflections about Katz's own animals, this book is about far more than just the grieving process; it's also a comfort to heartbroken pet owners, a guide to letting go, and a means to begin moving on....
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After writing Proof of Heaven, Dr. Eben Alexander heard from the thousands affected by his story. He studied what the world's religious traditions and philosophers have said about the soul's survival of death, often surprised that those voices were in synch. Part metaphysical detective story, part manual for living, The Map of Heaven explores our spiritual history and the birth of modern science, showing how we forgot, and are now at last remembering,...
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Until a horrific car accident on New York State's Taconic Parkway took the lives of her three beloved young daughters, Jackie Hance was an ordinary Long Island mom, fulfilled by the joyful chaos of a household bustling with life and chatter and love. Afterward, she was "The Taconic Mom, " whose unimaginable loss embodied every parent's worst nightmare. The story that Jackie Hance shares for the first time is one of devastation, heartbreak, forgiveness,...
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Historian Steven Gillon tells the story of how Johnson consolidated power in the twenty-four hours following the assassination. Based on scrupulous research and new archival sources, this narrative sheds new and surprising light on one of the most written-about events of the twentieth century.--From publisher description.
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"From when he first ambled into Paul Magrs's yard--skinny, covered in flea bites, and missing all but one and a half teeth--Fester knew he'd found his family. Paul and his partner, Jeremy, thought it was the ragged black-and-white stray, tired from a rough life on the streets, who was in desperate need of support. But clever Fester knew better. He understood that it was his newfound owners who needed the help. Over the course of seven years, the feisty...