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The Graveyard Book
by Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean, Chris Riddell
Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn't live in a sprawling graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor of the dead. There are dangers and adventures in the graveyard for a boy-an ancient Indigo Man beneath the hill, a gateway to a desert leading to an abandoned city of... (more)
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Wait Till Helen Comes
A Ghost Story
by Mary Downing Hahn
Beware of Helen... Heather is such a whiny little brat. Always getting Michael and me into trouble. But since our mother married her father, we're stuck with her...our "poor stepsister" who lost her real mother in a mysterious fire. But now something terrible has happened. Heather has found a new friend, out in the graveyard behind our home -- a girl named Helen who died with her family in a mysterious fire over... (more)
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Her Fearful Symmetry
by Audrey Niffenegger
Six years after the phenomenal success of The Time Traveler's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger has returned with a spectacularly compelling and haunting second novel set in and around Highgate Cemetery in London. When Elspeth Noblin dies of cancer, she leaves her London apartment to her twin nieces, Julia and Valentina. These two American girls never met their English aunt, only knew that their mother, too, was a twin,... (more)
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Pet Sematary
by Stephen King
1st Edition - 1st Printing with all the right markers. Fifteen dollar & ninety five cents inside cover, 1183 inside back cover, Tabitha King mentioned on back cover, embossed stephen king signature front hard cover under dust jacket.
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Dead Connection
by Charlie Price
Murray, a loner who communes with the dead in the town cemetery, hears the voice of a murdered cheerleader and tries to convince the adults that he knows what happened to her. But who beleives him? He's a loser. Can he even beleive in himself? Also comes Pearl, the daughter of the cemetery caretaker, who befriends Murray and tries to enter his world. Together they may prove the astonishing possibility that Nikki... (more)
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The Haunting of Derek Stone: Book 3
The Red House
by Tony Abbott
Derek didn't ask for this. It's bad enough that his brother's body is hosting a dead soul. Then there's that whole business of the evil dead waging war. And don't even get him started on all the weird voices rattling around inside his head. But like it or not, the war is on. The Legion is back in full force, and they're heading for the mysterious, long-abandoned Red House. It holds a secret that could... (more)
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The American Resting Place
400 Years of History Through Our Cemeteries and Burial Grounds
by Marilyn Yalom
A sweeping history of America as seen through its gravestones, graveyards, and burial practices, stunningly illustrated with eighty black-and-white photographs Cemeteries and burial grounds, as illuminated by an acclaimed cultural historian, are unique windows onto our religious, ethnic, and deeply human history as Americans. The dedicated mother-son team of Marilyn and Reid Yalom visited hundreds of... (more)
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Necropolis: London and Its Dead
by Catharine Arnold
Necropolis is a luminous, oddly beguiling account of how London has treated its dead, ranging from Roman burial rites to the horrors of the plague, from the founding of the great Victorian cemeteries to the more recent trends of collective grief and the cult of mourning, such as that surrounding the death of Princess Diana. Leaving no headstone unturned, Catherine Arnold unearths one of the great untold histories... (more)
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Harrison Investigation: Book 2
Ghost Walk
by Heather Graham
This is no dream . . . Nikki DuMonde's newest employee is standing at the end of her bed at four o'clock in the morning begging for help. It's a joke, right? Besides, as manager of a successful New Orleans haunted-tour company, Nikki doesn't scare easily. But in the light of day, harsh reality sets in as a police officer informs her that Andy was brutally murdered -- at the exact time Nikki swears the... (more)
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Stories in Stone: The Complete Guide to Cemetery Symbolism
by Douglas Keister
Certain symbols abound in modern Western culture that are instantly recognizable: the cross signifies Christianity, the six-pointed Star of David is revered by Jews, the golden arches frequently means it's time for lunch. Other symbols, however, require a bit of decoding-particularly those found in cemeteries. Cemeteries are virtual encyclopedias of symbolism. Engravings on tombstones, mausoleums and... (more)
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Stairway to Heaven: The Final Resting Places of Rock's Legends
by J. D. Reed
Here lie Elvis, Buddy Holly, Selena, Tupac Shakur, and many more. A loving tribute in words and photos to music’s dearly departed. May they rock in peace! Stairway to Heaven: The Final Resting Places of Rock’s Legends commemorates the rock ‘n’ roll greats who have gone on to that big backstage party in the sky. With artful photos of graves and memorials, and text offering in-depth and never-before-published... (more)
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Cemetery Stories
Haunted Graveyards, Embalming Secrets and the Life of a Corpse After Death
by Katherine M. Ramsland
A unique collection of anecdotes and oral histories about death. Beginning with the story of the death of her grandfather, the author weaves an intriguing history of death and its accompanying rituals. Among the anecdotes recounted in the book is the night Jim Morrison (supposedly) died, and why there is speculation that he lives. Famous death rituals including the Odon Festival of the Dead are to be found here as... (more)
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A Fine and Private Place
by Peter S. Beagle
A novel about life after death, life during death, and life instead of death. Jonathan Rebeck lives alone in a cemetery, susbisting on sandwiches stolen for him by a Raven, much like Elijah of the bible. He makes it his job to welcome newcomers; the dead, it appears, do not go to heaven OR hell, but rather drift around in a haze of forgetting until they fade out of existence entirely. Michael, who is... (more)
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Permanent Parisians: An Illustrated Biographical Guide to the Cemeteries of Paris
by Judi; Randall, Tom Culbertson
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Graveyard Girl
by Anna Myers
During the yellow fever epidemic in Memphis in 1878, twelve-year-old Eli and Addie, a young child he befriends, struggle to survive with the help of Addie's ghost-mother and a girl who works at the busy graveyard.
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Graven Images
New England Stonecarving and its Symbols, 1650-1815
by Allan I. Ludwig
The classic study of gravestone art.
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Arlington National Cemetery
Shrine to America's Heroes
by James Edward Peters
Arlington National Cemetery is America's most treasured national burial ground, steeped in history and the site of our most solemn, national memories. Arlington National Cemetery: Shrine to America's Heroes, the definitive guide that describes Arlington, its history, and its heroes, is now available in an updated, second edition. Painstakingly researched, Arlington National Cemetery has been written in close... (more)
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Permanent Londoners: An Illustrated Guide to the Cemeteries of London
by Judi Culbertson
From the tombs of royalty to the Great Plague Pit in Bunhill Fields, Culbertson and Randall invite readers to visit London grave sites in the latest in their popular series of cemetery guides ( Permanent Parisians , LJ 6/15/86; Permanent New Yorkers , LJ 10/15/87). The authors provide a nice mix of architecture and history, as they describe the markers and give capsule biographies of those with more spectacular... (more)
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Cemetery Walk
by Minda Powers-Douglas
What awaits beyond the cemetery gates ...? Journey into the cemetery and beyond with author Minda Powers-Douglas and meet cemetery sextons, gravediggers, preservationists, writers, artists, authors, ghost hunters, the director of a funeral museum, a genealogist, and an assortment of taphophiles (people who love cemeteries). Discover what's really behind our attitudes toward death, graveyards and those resting... (more)
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New Orleans Cemeteries
by Eric J. Brock
The mysticism of cemeteries is inescapable. We are intrigued by the way these sacred cities of the dead have the ability to both fascinate and unnerve us at the same time. Within these final resting places lie many personal histories marked by nyriad monuments ranging from grand architectural homages to endearing sculptures and simple gravestones. The cemeteries of New Orleans have long enticed residents and... (more)

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