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Pub. Date
2022.
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"A deeply compelling exploration of the death industry and the people--morticians, detectives, crime scene cleaners, embalmers, executioners--who work in it and what led them there. We are surrounded by death. It is in our news, our nursery rhymes, our true-crime podcasts. Yet from a young age, we are told that death is something to be feared. How are we supposed to know what we're so afraid of, when we are never given the chance to look? Fueled by...
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Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
434 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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"Shedding light onto sometimes sinister and coercive groups, Secret Societies: The Complete Guide to Histories, Rites and Rituals is packed with details on nearly 200 organizations, religions and cults, government plots, and personalities, including their histories, beliefs, intentions, and impact. This important book uncovers and examines the hidden, overlooked, and buried history of some of the most notorious groups, including the Illuminati, the...
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Civilization of the American Indian volume 36
Pub. Date
1988
Physical Desc
xx, 143 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
6) Gussy
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Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"Gussy knows that being a village Protector is a big job, even if Grandpa Widow makes the role look easy. So when Grandpa Widow is suddenly called to travel across the desert surrounding the village, and Gussy has to step into the role of Protector herself, she barely feels ready to perform the magical Rites that keep her village safe from the Great Doom, the mysterious power that threatens the residents in the lands outside. On her very first night...
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Pub. Date
2017.
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3 volumes : illustrations ; 27 cm
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"This multivolume encyclopedia concentrates on rites of passage, traditions, rituals, and life customs that take place around the world. The scope of this book takes in North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Oceania, and even outer space, and covers customs experienced by men, women, children, and animals, in groups or as individuals. Volume 1 examines customs pertaining to birth and early childhood. Volume 2 looks at...
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"Each of us walks with deep, sacred wisdom. Our bodies contain an innate intelligence that knows how to heal, and with guidance, we can learn modalities that allow us to live and thrive in ways we dream about. The Vibration of Grace ushers us to our limitless power by sourcing the inexhaustible presence of sound. Here, we are taken on an unparalleled guided immersion with vocalist and sound healer gina Breedlove, who has practiced, shared, and lived...
9) The Loney
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"The eerie, suspenseful debut novel -- hailed as "an amazing piece of fiction" by Stephen King -- that is taking the world by storm. When the remains of a young child are discovered during a winter storm on a stretch of the bleak Lancashire coastline known as the Loney, a man named Smith is forced to confront the terrifying and mysterious events that occurred forty years earlier when he visited the place as a boy. At that time, his devoutly Catholic...
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This workbook, intended for you to record in great detail how you want your funeral to proceed, is a practical guide with worksheets and guided journal prompts. Benjamin offers a plethora of facts, stories, and inspiration to help you think outside the coffin to ensure that your wishes are recorded for posterity. Planning for death should be a celebration of your life-- even though you won't be able to attend. But you can have a blast planning it,...
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NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
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“[A] big, brilliant novel.”—The New York Times Book Review
Who is A. N. Dyer? & Sons is a literary masterwork for readers...
The Washington Post • The New Yorker • Esquire • The Austin Chronicle • Kansas City Star • The Guardian (UK) • BookPage • Flavorwire • Bookish
“[A] big, brilliant novel.”—The New York Times Book Review
Who is A. N. Dyer? & Sons is a literary masterwork for readers...
13) Powwow day
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Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Because she has been very ill and weak, River cannot join in the dancing at this year's tribal powwow, she can only watch from the sidelines as her sisters and cousins dance the celebration--but as the drum beats she finds the faith to believe that she will recover and dance again.
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When amateur actress Margaret Batten and her lover Miles Finn are found dead in Margaret's ramshackle gray bungalow, all of King George, New Hampshire, is abuzz. Is it foul play? (No, carbon monoxide poisoning.) Were they engaged? (Yes, if you believe the cleaning lady.) And why do Margaret's daughter Sunny and Miles's son Fletcher have the same kind of wispy, shiny, prematurely gray hair? (They're brother and sister, or so suggests Fletcher, annoyingly...
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Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 226 pages ; 22 cm
Description
A practical guide to managing the difficult legal aspects surrounding the death of a loved one offers succinct advice and checklists for a range of practical topics, from funeral arrangements and social security to accounts and taxes. Original.
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Series
Pub. Date
1997
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103 pages ; 22 cm
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The stories within these books have the poignancy of new discoveries as well as the unworn imagination of the ancestors. The commentary has the sharp edge of modern thought and the intricacy which results from the intellect being woven through the ritual complexities of tribal life. The purpose of constructing thresholds that bring this world together is to find the powers that can heal the rends in tribal as well as modern communities.? --Michael...
19) Sordid lives
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[2003], c2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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A Texas sized, twisted white-trash tale that involves the sordid details about a southern dysfunction family who have been brought together for the funeral of "Grandma Peggy". She dies after tripping over her lover's wooden legs.
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Pub. Date
[2013]
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43 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
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Follows Sharyl and Windy Downwind and their children as they travel from their home on the Red Lake Reservation in Minnesota to powwows all around the region. At ceremonies such as these, as well as in daily life, Windy and Sharyl celebrate Anishinaabe culture by teaching their children traditional skills, dance steps, and lifeways, all part of the circle of community and the seasons and life.
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