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  Stealing Lincoln's Body

  by Thomas J. Craughwell

  On the night of the presidential election in 1876, a gang of counterfeiters out of Chicago attempted to steal the entombed embalmed body of Abraham Lincoln and hold it for ransom. The custodian of the tomb was so shaken by the incident that he willingly dedicated the rest of his life to protecting the president's corpse. In a lively and dramatic narrative, Thomas J. Craughwell returns to this bizarre, and... (more)
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  The Confession

  by John Grisham

  An innocent man is about to be executed.Only a guilty man can save him. In 1998, in the small East Texas city of Sloan, Travis Boyette abducted, raped, and strangled a popular high school cheerleader. He buried her body so that it would never be found, then watched in amazement as police and prosecutors arrested and convicted Donté Drumm, a local football star, and marched him off to death... (more)
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  Bury the Dead

  Tombs, Corpses, Mummies, Skeletons, & Rituals

  by Christopher Sloan

  Humans, and especially kids, have always been intrigued by death and the rituals that surround it in various cultures. Christopher Sloan now feeds this fascination with the latest scientific information and shows young readers what archeologists learn from studying the remains and graves of long-dead humans. The book reveals how Neandertals, ancient Egyptians, Maya, Sythians, and others buried their dead, then... (more)
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  Buried Alive

  The Terrifying History of Our Most Primal Fear

  by Jan Bondeson

  Readers of Edgar Allan Poe's tales—just think of The Premature Burial —may comfort themselves with the notion that Poe must have exaggerated: surely people of the 1800s could not have been at risk of being buried alive? But such stories filled medical journals as well as fiction, and fear in the populace was high. It was speculated, from the number of skeletons found in horrific, contorted positions inside their... (more)
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  Harry Potter: Book 6

  Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

  by J. K. Rowling

  In the sixth installment in the series the war against Voldemort is not going well; even the Muggles have been affected. Dumbledore is absent from Hogwarts for long stretches of time, and the Order of the Phoenix has already suffered losses, and yet...as with all disappointments, life goes on. Sixth-year students learn to Apparate. Teenagers flirt, fight, and fall in love. Harry receives some extraordinary help in... (more)
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  Stiff

  The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

  by Mary Roach

  An oddly compelling, often hilarious forensic exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem.For two thousand years, cadavers some willingly, some unwittingly have been involved in science's boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. They've tested France's first guillotines, ridden the NASA Space Shuttle, been crucified in a Parisian laboratory to test the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin... (more)
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  Vampires, Burial, and Death: Folklore and Reality

  by Paul Barber

  Barber has written a stimulating, authoritative discourse on the relationship between the historical concepts of vampires in folklore and fiction across the ages and throughout the world. To explain the underlying myraid interment and mourning practices designed to keep the dead at bay, he postulates a universal fear of the"vampire/revenant." Such fear was most probably based on universal lack of knowledge and... (more)
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  Love Cemetery: Unburying the Secret History of Slaves

  by China Galland

  "Love Cemetery" is the story of one woman trying to come to terms with racism - on both personal and public levels. When China Galland visited her childhood hometown in east Texas, she learned of an unmarked cemetery for slaves - Love Cemetery. Her ensuing quest to reclaim the ground, to mark it, unearths racial wounds that have never completely healed. Research into county historical records and interviews with... (more)
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  The Dark Before The Light At Dawn

  by Vannessagrace

  This book is riveting! You can actually imagine the settings, the moods, the expressions, and the depth of each character and situation. The characters are believable—you feel what they feel. The women in this book show great strength, each having their story of struggle and misfortune yet they maintain a great presence. It takes love for each of them to admit to past hurts and that same love... (more)
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  Theban plays

  The Oedipus Cycle

  Oedipus Rex / Oedipus at Colonus / Antigone

  by Sophocles

  To Laius, King of Thebes, an oracle foretold that the child born to him by his queen Jocasta would slay his father and wed his mother. So when in time a son was born the infant's feet were riveted together and he was left to die on Mount Cithaeron. But a shepherd found the babe and tended him, and delivered him to another shepherd who took him to his master, the King or Corinth. Polybus being childless adopted the... (more)
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  Coroner's Journal

  by Louis Cataldie

  The frank and unvarnished memoir of a life spent stalking death in the Deep South. Baton Rouge is a little town with big-city problems. Rich with Creole history, colorful locals, and a strong sense of community, it's also the home of Napoleonic codes, stubborn cops, and a sometimes-troubled leadership. Baton Rouge-which literally means "Red Stick"-lives up to its bloody namesake. And after more than... (more)
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  Caring for the Dead: Your Final Act of Love

  by Lisa Carlson

  This is a comprehensive guide for consumers making funeral arrangements with or without a funeral director. It contains detailed descriptions of the "tricks of the funeral trade", to avoid unwanted and overpriced goods and services, and how to file a complaint when subjected to unethical funeral home practices. It provides practical information on all aspects of death care, so that family, friends, and... (more)
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  The Last Summer of You and Me

  by Ann Brashares

  The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants author delivers her first novel for adults, a treacly tale about the tribulations a trio of longtime friends encounter. For as long as she can remember, 21-year-old Alice has spent summers on Fire Island with her parents and older sister, Riley. Riley, 24, is a beach lifeguard, more boyish in both looks and spirit than sweet, feminine Alice. An island neighbor and Riley's... (more)
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  Tom Broadbent: Book 1

  The Codex

  by Douglas Preston

  "Greetings from the dead," declares Maxwell Broadbent on the videotape he left behind after his mysterious disappearance. A notorious treasure hunter and tomb robber, Broadbent accumulated over a half a billion dollars' worth of priceless art, gems, and artifacts before vanishing---along with his entire collection---from his mansion in New Mexico. At first, robbery is suspected, but the truth proves far stranger:... (more)
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  In an Antique Land

  by Amitav Ghosh

  Reprint of a classic novel that makes the reader political boundaries and cultural assumptions. Excellent on history,Egyptian and Indian culture. by the author of Shadow lines and Glass Palace.
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  Lisey's Story

  by Stephen King

  Lisey Debusher Landon lost her husband Scott two years ago, after a twenty-five year marriage of the most profound and sometimes frightening intimacy. Scott was an award-winning, bestselling novelist and a very complicated man. Early in their relationship, before they married, Lisey had to learn from him about books and blood and bools. Later, she understood that there was a place Scott went -- a place that both... (more)
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  Theban plays: Book 3

  Antigone

  by Sophocles

  Filled with passionate speeches and sensitive probing of moral and philosophical issues, this powerful and often-performed Greek drama reveals the grim fate that befalls the children of Oedipus.
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  The Figured Wheel

  New and Collected Poems, 1966-1996

  by Robert Pinsky

  The Figured Wheel fully collects the first four books of poetry, as well as twenty-one new poems, by Robert Pinsky, the former U.S. Poet Laureate. Critic Hugh Kenner, writing about Pinsky's first volume, described this poet's work as "nothing less than the recovery for language of a whole domain of mute and familiar experience." Both the transformation of the familiar and the uttering of what has been hitherto... (more)
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  Up From Jericho Tel

  by E. L. Konigsburg

  Long before there was Dolly the sheep, Jeanmarie Troxell dubbed the look-alike, think-alike girls in her school "clones" and decided she wanted nothing to do with them. That's how Jeanmarie forms an unlikely friendship with another outsider, Malcolm Soo, over an equally unlikely activity -- burying dead animals at the remote spot they name Jericho Tel. It's at Jericho Tel that Jeanmarie and Malcolm encounter... (more)
• The Sutton Hoo ship burial: A handbookRupert Bruce-Mitford

  

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  The Sutton Hoo ship burial: A handbook

  by Rupert Leo Scott Bruce-Mitford