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Book Synopsis Funeral for the Reaper by : Christopher Plamondon
Download or read book Funeral for the Reaper written by Christopher Plamondon and published by Vantage Press, Inc. This book was released on 2007-07-16 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a future where scientists are able to alter the DNA that causes disease, aging and death, twins David and Harper Fitzgerald are the antithesis of this genetic ideal. When a friend's death leads them to a book about twin boys who are genetics as perfection David and Harper begin to wonder what could have been if only they had been genetically engineered. A tale that will captivate readers as it attempts to answer one of life's ultimate questions: Can man defy God and destroy death itself?
Book Synopsis The Reaper’s Garden by : Vincent Brown
Download or read book The Reaper’s Garden written by Vincent Brown and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-30 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Merle Curti Award Winner of the James A. Rawley Prize Winner of the Louis Gottschalk Prize Longlisted for the Cundill Prize “Vincent Brown makes the dead talk. With his deep learning and powerful historical imagination, he calls upon the departed to explain the living. The Reaper’s Garden stretches the historical canvas and forces readers to think afresh. It is a major contribution to the history of Atlantic slavery.”—Ira Berlin From the author of Tacky’s Revolt, a landmark study of life and death in colonial Jamaica at the zenith of the British slave empire. What did people make of death in the world of Atlantic slavery? In The Reaper’s Garden, Vincent Brown asks this question about Jamaica, the staggeringly profitable hub of the British Empire in America—and a human catastrophe. Popularly known as the grave of the Europeans, it was just as deadly for Africans and their descendants. Yet among the survivors, the dead remained both a vital presence and a social force. In this compelling and evocative story of a world in flux, Brown shows that death was as generative as it was destructive. From the eighteenth-century zenith of British colonial slavery to its demise in the 1830s, the Grim Reaper cultivated essential aspects of social life in Jamaica—belonging and status, dreams for the future, and commemorations of the past. Surveying a haunted landscape, Brown unfolds the letters of anxious colonists; listens in on wakes, eulogies, and solemn incantations; peers into crypts and coffins, and finds the very spirit of human struggle in slavery. Masters and enslaved, fortune seekers and spiritual healers, rebels and rulers, all summoned the dead to further their desires and ambitions. In this turbulent transatlantic world, Brown argues, “mortuary politics” played a consequential role in determining the course of history. Insightful and powerfully affecting, The Reaper’s Garden promises to enrich our understanding of the ways that death shaped political life in the world of Atlantic slavery and beyond.
Download or read book Reaper Man written by Terry Pratchett and published by Random House. This book was released on 2009-05-27 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Inside every living person is a dead person waiting to get out.' Death has been fired by the Auditors of Reality for the heinous crime of developing . . . a personality. Sent to live like everyone else, Death takes a new name and begins working as a farmhand. He's got the scythe already, after all. And for humanity, Death is just . . . gone. Which leads to the kind of chaos you always get when an important public service is withdrawn. If Death doesn't come for you, then what are you supposed to do in the meantime? You can't have the undead wandering about like lost souls - there's no telling what might happen. Particularly when they discover that life really is only for the living . . . 'One taste, and you'll scour bookstores for more' Daily Mail Reaper Man is the second book in the Death series, but you can read the Discworld novels in any order.
Book Synopsis The Green Reaper by : Elizabeth Fournier
Download or read book The Green Reaper written by Elizabeth Fournier and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Elizabeth Fournier was eight, her mother and grandparents died. She spent a lot of time in funeral homes as a kid since her family were frequently found in caskets. Fournier family members didn't have the best longevity record. As a young girl, Elizabeth found cemeteries a place of peace and tranquility. As a teen, she'd attend funerals of people she didn't know. Not surprisingly, she eventually headed into the local funeral home and asked for a job, any job. She landed the position of live-in night keeper, where she resided in a trailer in the far reaches of a large, hilly cemetery. She slept with a shotgun near her bed, experiencing the scariest summer of her life. In her memoir, Elizabeth Fournier writes about her calling to the funeral industry, and how her early struggles helped shape her life ministry: taking care of the dead and preparing more meaningful burials. As a one-woman funeral service in the rural town of Boring, Oregon, Mortician Elizabeth Fournier supports old-school burial practices that are kinder to humans and the Earth. She has been called "The Green Reaper" for her passionate advocacy of green burial. As an undertaker, she is always ready to lend a hand, or a shovel.
Download or read book Dead Jokes written by Jim Reaper and published by . This book was released on 2018-09-29 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Put the fun back in funeral with DEAD JOKES. A collection of tasteless jokes about death. Nothing is off limits.Most of these joke are crude and if you are easily offended then maybe you should check out DAD JOKES which are typically far less shocking. These jokes are not politically correct and will offend some people. Not suitable for children. Not suitable for adults who are not morally corrupt.
Book Synopsis The Unheard Requiem by : Rachel Lawson
Download or read book The Unheard Requiem written by Rachel Lawson and published by Rachel Lawson. This book was released on 2024-06-02 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Requiem "Why are you here it is not respectful to the dead or family and friends, Mortimer, you can't be here," said the dead man's best friend to a grim reaper who he knew was the soul of the dead man. "It's my party I can be here, Mass," said the drunk reaper. "You're drunk, you shouldn't come in," said Max Starfire. "I'm not drunk! I didn't know you had a twin?" said the reaper looking at an invisible nonexistent man induced by drink. "I don't I'm an only child," said Max nervously as the reaper pushed passed him. Mortimer sat with his widow, she knew who he was, it was awkward. "We are here to celebrate the life of the dearly departed Blake Alexander," said the Reverend in charge of the funeral, who looked at the wailing reaper with suspicion. Memento Mori The unnamed Mortimer, the king of the Grim Reapers, tells the story of how he promised to protect the son of a friend who died long before the Magicians came out. He appears to him as a friend when the son's relatives die at their funeral, and as a friend when he needs one. He becomes the ultimate Memento Mori. An adventure of a lifetime. Also in book 2 songs based on them (lyrics only)
Book Synopsis Creative Compounding in English by : Réka Benczes
Download or read book Creative Compounding in English written by Réka Benczes and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Metaphorical and metonymical compounds novel and lexicalised ones alike are remarkably abundant in language. Yet how can we be sure that when using an expression such as land fishing in order to speak about metal detecting, the referent will be immediately understood even if the hearer had not been previously familiar with the compound? Accordingly, this book sets out to explore whether the semantics of metaphorical and metonymical nounnoun combinations can be systematically analysed within a theoretical framework, where systematicity pertains to regularities in both the cognitive processes and the products of these processes, that is, the compounds themselves. Backed up by recent psycholinguistic evidence, the book convincingly demonstrates that such compounds are not semantically opaque as it has been formerly claimed: they can in fact be analysed and accounted for within a cognitive linguistic framework, by the combined application of metaphor, metonymy, blending, profile determinacy and schema theory; and represent the creative and associative word formation processes that we regularly apply in everyday language.
Download or read book Near the Exit written by Lori Erickson and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2019-08-13 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An ideal guidebook to facing the inevitable." Foreword Reviews After her brother died unexpectedly and her mother moved into a dementia-care facility, spiritual travel writer and Episcopal deacon Lori Erickson felt called to a new quest: to face death head on, with the eye of a tourist and the heart of a pastor. Blending memoir, spirituality, and travel, Near the Exit examines how cultures confront and have confronted death, from Egypt's Valley of the Kings and Mayan temples, to a Colorado cremation pyre and Day of the Dead celebrations, to Maori settlements and tourist-destination graveyards. Erickson reflects on mortalityâ€"the ways we avoid it, the ways we cope with it, and the ways life is made more precious by accepting itâ€"in places as far away as New Zealand and as close as the nursing home up the street. Throughout her personal journey and her travels, Erickson  helps us to see that one of the most life-affirming things we can do is to invite death along for the ride.
Book Synopsis One Thousand Thoughts for Funeral Occasions by :
Download or read book One Thousand Thoughts for Funeral Occasions written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jeremiah written by Robert Davidson and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 1983-04-15 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than any other prophet, Jeremiah struggled to understand God's will for him and for the people of God. This volume on the first twenty chapters of Jeremiah recounts the story of this poet-prophet and opens up for the reader one of the most warmly personal books of the Old Testament. Carrying forward brilliantly the pattern established by Barclay's New Testament series, The Daily Study Bible has been extended to cover the entire Old Testament as well. Invaluable for individual devotional study, for group discussion, and for classroom use, The Daily Study Bible provides a useful, reliable, and eminently readable way to discover what the Scriptures were saying then and what God is saying today.
Book Synopsis Under the Whispering Door by : TJ Klune
Download or read book Under the Whispering Door written by TJ Klune and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY, AND INDIE BESTSELLER One of Buzzfeed's "Best Books of 2022"! An Indie Next Pick! A Locus Awards Top Ten Finalist for Fantasy Novel A Man Called Ove meets The Good Place in Under the Whispering Door, a delightful queer love story from TJ Klune, author of the New York Times and USA Today bestseller The House in the Cerulean Sea. Welcome to Charon's Crossing. The tea is hot, the scones are fresh, and the dead are just passing through. When a reaper comes to collect Wallace from his own funeral, Wallace begins to suspect he might be dead. And when Hugo, the owner of a peculiar tea shop, promises to help him cross over, Wallace decides he’s definitely dead. But even in death he’s not ready to abandon the life he barely lived, so when Wallace is given one week to cross over, he sets about living a lifetime in seven days. Hilarious, haunting, and kind, Under the Whispering Door is an uplifting story about a life spent at the office and a death spent building a home. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book Reaper's Mark written by Jade Alters and published by Untamed Love LLC. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Killing the only man you’ve ever loved is no easy task… But that's what you get for falling in love with the enemy. Axel's easy on the eyes, irresistible, and a constant thorn in Arla's side, whose duty is to preserve magical order. When his meddling threatens to upset the very balance of the natural and supernatural world alike however, Arla’s charged with carrying out a more permanent solution. Heading off to deliver Axel’s final sentence, Arla couldn’t be happier to rid herself from his incessant headaches. Her plan seemed foolproof enough, but little does she know Axel would ignite desires she never even knew she had… Will Arla prevent a supernatural war from erupting and keep a broken heart at bay, or will their undeniable attraction spell disaster for them? Reaper’s Mark, is a steamy Paranormal Romance with a HEA. It features a strong heroine in her forties who inadvertently falls in love when she’s not looking. Filled with a mix of real and mythical references to magical city of New Orleans, lovers of the Crescent City are guaranteed to be delighted. ***Previously published as Magical Midlife Reaping.*** Select goodreads Reviews: ★★★★★ "Axel and Arla were amazing characters, the world building was superb, and the entire story was so full of action and mystery that it kept me entertained until the end. I can't wait to read more in the series!" ★★★★★ "Loved it!! Lots of action, seduction and questions. So much happens so fast, it kept me with my nose in the e-reader until it was done! It's so hard to choose between the people that you love. A must read! I highly recommend this book. You won't be disappointed." ★★★★★ "I loved this book and could not put it down. I felt like I was in New Orleans and the bayous. I laughed at the antics of the characters and was on the edge of my seat to see what would happen next. I cannot wait to see if there will be more set in this world." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Perfect for fans of K.F. Breene, Louisa West, Shannon Mayer, JL Wilder and Brenda Trim. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Keywords: free paranormal romance, romantic books, romance ebooks, books to read and download, contemporary romance, paranormal romance books, ebooks romance, romance books for adults no cliffhangers, supernatural romance books, paranormal romance books full novel, steamy romance books, happily ever after, guaranteed HEA, no cliffhangers, happy for now, HFN, witchcraft books, opposites attract, enemies to lovers, New Orleans, vampire books, werewolf romance, werewolf books, romantic comedy books, small town, forbidden love, shero, matriarch, family saga, family secrets, family drama, family feud, sibling romance novels, witch, psychic, vampire, matchmaker, new orleans, mermaid, werewolf, shifter, fantasy, matchmaking, demons
Download or read book Reaper's Stand written by Joanna Wylde and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sexy continuation of the New York Times bestselling Reapers Motorcycle Club series As Reapers Motorcycle Club president, Reese “Picnic” Hayes has given his entire life to the club. After losing his wife, he knew he’d never love another woman. And with two daughters to raise and a club to manage, that was just fine with him. These days, Reese keeps his relationships free and easy—he definitely doesn’t want to waste his time on a glorified cleaning lady like London Armstrong. Too bad he’s completely obsessed with her. London is independent, and she likes it that way. Besides running her own business, London’s got her junkie cousin’s daughter to look after—a more reckless than average eighteen-year-old. Sure she’s attracted to the Reapers’ president, but she’s not stupid. Reese Hayes is a criminal and a thug. But when her young cousin gets caught up with a ruthless drug cartel, Reese might be the only man who can help her. Now London has to make the hardest decision of her life—how far will she go to save her family?
Book Synopsis Don't Fear the Reaper by : Michelle Muto
Download or read book Don't Fear the Reaper written by Michelle Muto and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2011-11-17 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grief-stricken by the murder of her twin, Keely Morrison is convinced suicide is her ticket to eternal peace and a chance to reunite with her sister. When Keely succeeds in taking her own life, she discovers death isn't at all what she expected. Instead, she's trapped in a netherworld on Earth and her only hope for reconnecting with her sister and navigating the afterlife is a bounty-hunting reaper and a sardonic, possibly unscrupulous, demon. But when the demon offers Keely her greatest temptation-revenge on her sister's murderer-she must uncover his motives and determine who she can trust. Because, as Keely soon learns, both reaper and demon are keeping secrets and she fears the worst is true-that her every decision will change how, and with whom, she spends eternity.
Download or read book Rest in Peace written by Gary Laderman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-03-06 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though it has often been passionately criticized--as fraudulent, exploitative, even pagan--the American funeral home has become nearly as inevitable as death itself, an institution firmly embedded in our culture. But how did the funeral home come to hold such a position? What is its history? And is it guilty of the charges sometimes leveled against it? In Rest in Peace, Gary Laderman traces the origins of American funeral rituals, from the evolution of embalming techniques during and after the Civil War and the shift from home funerals to funeral homes at the turn of the century, to the increasing subordination of priests, ministers, and other religious figures to the funeral director throughout the twentieth century. In doing so he shows that far from manipulating vulnerable mourners, as Jessica Mitford claimed in her best-selling The American Way of Death (1963), funeral directors are highly respected figures whose services reflect the community's deepest needs and wishes. Indeed, Laderman shows that funeral directors generally give the people what they want when it is time to bury our dead. He reveals, for example, that the open casket, often criticized as barbaric, provides a deeply meaningful moment for friends and family who must say goodbye to their loved one. But he also shows how the dead often come back to life in the popular imagination to disturb the peace of the living. Drawing upon interviews with funeral directors, major historical events like the funerals of John F. Kennedy and Rudolf Valentino, films, television, newspaper reports, proposals for funeral reform, and other primary sources, Rest in Peace cuts through the rhetoric to show us the reality--and the real cultural value--of the American funeral.
Book Synopsis A Grim Reaper's Guide to Catching a Killer by : Maxie Dara
Download or read book A Grim Reaper's Guide to Catching a Killer written by Maxie Dara and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2024-10-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Murder is not her department. It’s not like it used to be. Modern-day grim reapers wear business casual, not black cloaks, and they don’t carry scythes, they work for S. C. Y. T. H. E. (Secure Collection, Yielding, and Transportation of Human Essences), where the Department of Natural Causes is the least exciting gig. And that’s how Kathy Valence likes it: boring and predictable. She has enough stress in her personal life; she’s mid-divorce, pregnant, and terrified she doesn’t have what it takes to be a good mom. Then, she goes to pick up a new client and finds his soul is missing. When she finally tracks down Conner Ortiz, he angrily insists he was murdered, and he refuses to move on until Kathy finds out why and by whom. Kathy has only forty-five days to solve the mystery before the boy’s soul is doomed to roam the earth as a ghost forever. To do that she’ll have to call on the help of her retired mentor, her almost ex-husband—and, inconveniently, Conner himself. This is the wildest case of her career . . . and one wrong move could cost Kathy her job, not to mention her life.
Book Synopsis The Reaper's Bride by : A J Richmond
Download or read book The Reaper's Bride written by A J Richmond and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-05-04 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's not an easy task ushering souls to the afterlife-just ask James, the Reaper. When he stumbles upon 83-year-old Molly at a funeral, he realizes she has the uncanny ability to see into the secret world of reaping souls. James must convince Molly of her talent and entice her to join him as a recruit. But if he thinks this task is without its challenges, he's sorely mistaken. Molly's best friend, Mildred, wants in too. Unlike Molly, Mildred is a sharp-tongued, politically incorrect senior who lacks the empathy and tact to make it as a successful recruit. With Molly's natural abilities at guiding souls, James is determined to add her to his growing network of recruits-even if this means taking on Mildred. He must ensure that Mildred fulfills her reaping contract without further angering the Gods and losing control of his reaping empire. Although Mildred seems hell-bent on making mischief for James, Molly isn't so innocent herself. She must outwit both James and Mildred to get what she truly wants. A suave reaper, two cantankerous elderly ladies, and a melange of dead souls make up the quirky cast of The Reaper's Bride.
