A memoir of grief, documenting the year after her father's death, interspersed with folk stories that chronicle how humans have responded to death and dying and the death rituals performed in various cultures. Also chronicled is the impact the lockdown (Covid-19 pandemic) had on the mourning process.
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Killing the Dead by Blair, John
A riveting history of vampire panics across cultures and down through the millennia--and why killing the dead is better than β¦
πβπππππ ππ ππππ. rated Bloodlust: 5 stars
Bloodlust by L. J. Smith (The Vampire Diaries, Stefan's Diaries, #2)
In this electrifying continuation of Stefan's Diaries, fans of the hit television show "The Vampire Diaries" will finally learn about β¦
πβπππππ ππ ππππ. rated Fallen: 2 stars
Fallen by Laury Falter (Guardian Saga, #1)
Fallen - the first book in the Guardian Saga... [Originally a Trilogy, now currently four books in the series.]
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Mischief in the Mountains by Vermont Life
From deep within the Green Mountains-- thirteen incredible tales of mystery, criminality, hardship and humor.
CONTENTS: The Man Who β¦
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
THE YELLOW WALLPAPER is a story by the American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, first published in January 1892 in The β¦
Romancing the Ordinary by Sarah Ban Breathnach
Organized as a saunter through the year, Romancing the Ordinary celebrates the spirituality of the senses, seasonally and monthly. Ban β¦
Witches and Ghosts, Pirates and Thieves, Murder and Mayhem by John P. Hunter
Based on Colonial Williamsburg's popular evening programs, "Cry Witch" and "Legends, Myths, Mysteries, and Ghosts". Stores that amused and frightened β¦
The Call of the Wild by Jack London (Amazon Classics)
In this classic American adventure from 1903, Jack London explores the laws of civilization and wildernessβand the pull of instinctβthrough β¦
πβπππππ ππ ππππ. quoted The Call of the Wild by Jack London (Amazon Classics)
In this classic American adventure from 1903, Jack London explores the laws of civilization and β¦
With the aurora borealis flaming coldly overhead, or the stars leaping in the frost dance, and the land numb and frozen under its pall of snow, this song of the huskies might have been the defiance of life, only it was pitched in minor key, with long-drawn wailings and half-sobs, and was more the pleading of life, the articulate travail of existence.
— The Call of the Wild by Jack London (Amazon Classics) (Page 33)
True Places by Sonja Yoerg
A girl emerges from the woods, starved, ill, and aloneβ¦and collapses.
Suzanne Blakemore hurtles along the Blue Ridge Parkway, β¦
It was the last of the ebbing days, the brink of the new season. It β¦
The Bleeding Tree
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A memoir of grief, documenting the year after her father's death, interspersed with folk stories that chronicle how humans have responded to death and dying and the death rituals performed in various cultures. Also chronicled is the impact the lockdown (Covid-19 pandemic) had on the mourning process.
Rules for a knight by Ethan Hawke
It is 1483, and Sir Thomas Lemuel Hawke, a Cornish knight, is about to ride into battle. On the eve β¦
A House Between Sea and Sky by Beth Cato
In 1920s California, two people in need of healing find strange refuge in a house with a mind of its β¦
The Bleeding Tree by Hollie Starling
It was the last of the ebbing days, the brink of the new season. It was the murky hours, the β¦