Alice Hoffman

A middle-aged woman, along with her fifteen-year-old daughter, returns to her small Massachusetts hometown for the funeral of the housekeeper who raised her and finds herself thrust into the lives of the people she left behind

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Texas

After nearly twenty years of living in California, March Murray, along with her fifteen-year-old daughter, Gwen, returns to the small Massachusetts town where she grew up, to attend the funeral of Judith Dale, the beloved housekeeper who raised her. Thrust into the world of her past, March slowly realizes the complexity of the choices made by those around her, including Mrs. Dale, who knew more of love than March could have ever suspected; Alan, the brother whose tragic history has left him grief-stricken, with alcohol his only solace; and Hollis, the boy she loved, the man she can't seem to stay away from.

Here on Earth

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Florida

The uplifting conclusion of The Christmas List, a heart-warming account of the power of encouragement and appreciation, is based on a true story that circulated on the Internet. A nun told her fourth-grade students to write their names on a piece of paper and then pass the paper to the next person, who was to write a sentence of appreciation about the person named at the top. When the exercise was done, each student had twenty-four comments of admiration and appreciation - one from each classmate.

The Christmas List follows James Engler, who returns home to Iowa one Christmas, after his fiancee calls off their marriage, and discovers that his best childhood friend, Mike, has just been killed in the Gulf War. When Mike's parents reveal at a memorial service that Mike had carried his fourth-grade list with him, most of James's former classmates confess that they, too, kept their lists as a reminder, even in the worst of times, of their admirable traits and that they were appreciated.

James also renews his acquaintance with his former classmate Sarah, who wrote on his list, "You are a great guy and some day I'm going to marry." And she does.

The Christmas List

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#hardcover #death #memorial #funeral #sermons #messages #comfort #hope 
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Arkansas

Comfort and praise in the presence of death

Memorial Messages 

Deborah Wiles

See pictures. Book was part of a classroom library 

Delaware

Ten-year-old Comfort Snowberger has attended 247 funerals. But that's not surprising, considering that her family runs the town funeral home. And even though Great-uncle Edisto keeled over with a heart attack and Great-great-aunt Florentine dropped dead--just like that--six months later, Comfort knows how to deal with loss, or so she thinks. She's more concerned with avoiding her crazy cousin Peach and trying to figure out why her best friend, Declaration, suddenly won't talk to her. Life is full of surprises. And the biggest one of all is learning what it takes to handle them.

Deborah Wiles has created a unique, funny, and utterly real cast of characters in this heartfelt, and quintessentially Southern coming-of-age novel. Comfort will charm young readers with her wit, her warmth, and her struggles as she learns about life, loss, and ultimately, triumph.


Each Little Bird That Sings

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Tod Benoit

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Washington

How Did They Die? Fitting Ends and Final Resting Places of the Famous, Infamous, and Noteworthy

The bestselling guide to the lives, deaths, and final resting places of our most enduring cultural icons, now revised and completely updated.


Where Are They Buried? has directed legions of fervent fans and multitudes of the morbidly curious to the graves, monuments, memorials, and tombstones of the nearly 500 celebrities and antiheroes included in the book. By far the most complete and well-organized guide on the subject, every entry features an entertaining capsule biography full of little-known facts, a detailed description of the death, and step-by-step directions to the grave, including not only the name of the cemetery but the exact location of the gravesite and how to reach it. The book also provides a handy index of grave locations organized by state, province, and country to make planning a grave-hopping road trip easy and efficient.

Where Are They Buried?

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Jane Igharo

Kentucky

Hannah Bailey has never had a relationship with her father, the Nigerian businessman who had a fling with her white mother. But when he dies, she's invited to Nigeria for the funeral. Searching for answers, Hannah boards a plane to Lagos. In Banana Island, Hannah meets her late father's prestigious and famed family - some who accept her and some who think she doesn't belong. In the chaotic days leading up to the funeral, she is shaped by a family she never thought she would have, a culture she never thought she would understand, and a love interest who makes her see herself in a new light.

The Sweetest Remedy

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Oro Creative Publishing

This "My final wishes" -book is ideal for writing into it all your wishes and the most important information you want to let your loved ones know.

Plenty of space to write in:

My Personal Information
List of Important Contacts & People to be Notified
Funeral Wishes & Other Arrangements
Important Documents
Financial information & Bank Accounts
Properties
Insurances
Utility Providers
Accounts & Passwords, Internet Logins & Passwords
Instructions for Dependents, Pets & Belongings
Other Important Information
My Final Thoughts

The information you will fill into this book may be a huge stress-relief for those who need to take care of things after you die!

A brilliant gift of peace of mind to your loved ones



End of Life Planner, Checklist and Organizer - Detailed Information about My Accounts, Affairs, Belongings and Wishes

My Final Wishes - Everything You Need to Know When I'm Gone

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Carolyn Brown

Nevada

New York Times bestselling author Carolyn Brown returns with a heartbreakingly hilarious novel about three women who had nothing in common, except their husband. Leaving one widow behind is unfortunate. Leaving three widows behind is just plain despicable. Oil heiress Kate Steele knew her not-so-dearly departed husband was a con man, but she's shocked that Conrad racked up two more wives without divorcing her first. The only remnant of their miserable marriage she plans to keep is their lakeside cabin in Bootleg, Texas. Unfortunately, she's not the only woman with that idea. Fiery, strong-willed Jamie wishes Conrad were still alive--so she could kill the scoundrel herself. But for their daughter's sake, she needs that property. As does Amanda--twenty-eight, pregnant, and still weeping over the loss of her true love. On a broiling July day, all three arrive in Bootleg...with a dogged detective right behind who's convinced that at least one of them conspired to commit murder. One momentous summer filled with revelations, quirky neighbors, and barefoot evenings on the porch offers three women the chance to make the journey from enemies to friends, and claim a bright, new beginning.

The Barefoot Summer

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Concetta Bertoldi

In good condition, but shows signs of shelf wear. see photos for details.

California

And Other Questions You've Been All but Dying to Ask a Medium





Medium Concetta Bertoldi answers all your questions about life after life

. . . from the irreverent:

(If the dead are always with us, do they have a XXX view of my bedroom)

. . . to the poignant:

(Will my deceased father be with me when I walk down the aisle on my wedding day)

. . . to the heartfelt:

(When loved ones leave this life too early or under tragic circumstances, are they eternally heartbroken or can they find peace in heaven)

Concetta Bertoldi has been communicating with the "Other Side" since childhood. In Do Dead People Watch You Shower, the first-ever book of its kind, she exposes the naked truth about the fate and happiness of our late loved ones with no-holds-barred honesty and delightfully wry humor, answering questions that range from the practical to the outrageous. In addition she shares with us her own intimate secrets, revealing with refreshing candor how her miraculous gift has affected her life, her marriage, her friendships, and her career, as well as the myriad ways she has used it to help others.

Do Dead People Watch You Shower?

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Life Studies from the Dismal Trade

A National Book Award Finalist

"One of the most life-affirming books I have read in a long time...brims with humanity, irreverence, and invigorating candor." --Tom Vanderbilt


"Every year I bury a couple hundred of my townspeople." So opens this singular and wise testimony. Like all poets, inspired by death, Thomas Lynch is, unlike others, also hired to bury the dead or to cremate them and to tend to their families in a small Michigan town where he serves as the funeral director.

In the conduct of these duties he has kept his eyes open, his ear tuned to the indispensable vernaculars of love and grief. In these twelve pieces his is the voice of both witness and functionary. Here, Lynch, poet to the dying, names the hurts and whispers the condolences and shapes the questions posed by this familiar mystery. So here is homage to parents who have died and to children who shouldn't have. Here are golfers tripping over grave markers, gourmands and hypochondriacs, lovers and suicides. These are the lessons for life our mortality teaches us.

The Undertaking

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Will Walton

South Carolina

From the author of the poignant and provocative debut Anything Could Happen comes an astonishing novel in verse about love, death, and the poetry we find when we most need it.How do you deal with a hole in your life?Do you turn to poets and pop songs?Do you dream?Do you try on love just to see how it fits?Do you grieve?If you're Avery, you do all of these things. And you write it all down in an attempt to understand what's happened -- and is happening -- to you.I Felt a Funeral, In My Brain is an astonishing novel about navigating death and navigating life, at a time when the only map you have is the one you can draw for yourself.

I Felt a Funeral, in My Brain

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Come Unto Me

Kris Radish

Massachusetts

A Novel

Katherine Givens, a corporate attorney and divorced mother of one, finds her uneventful life turned upside down when she receives an unexpected bequest from her late friend, Annie G. Freeman, taking her and four other women on a wild and life-transforming road trip from the deserts of New Mexico to the shores of Lake Superior, as they celebrate the bonds of female friendship. Reader's Guide available. Original. 100,000 first printing.

Annie Freeman's Fabulous Traveling Funeral

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Mark Harris

In the morbidly fascinating tradition of Stiff, Grave Matters follows families who found in "green" burial a more natural, more economic, and ultimately more meaningful alternative to the tired and toxic send-off on offer at the local funeral parlor.

Eschewing chemical embalming and fancy caskets, elaborate and costly funerals, the families followed in Grave Matters have embraced a range of natural options, new and old, that are redefining a better American way of death. Environmental journalist Mark Harris examines this new green burial underground, leading you into natural cemeteries and domestic graveyards, taking you aboard boats from which ashes and memorial "reef balls" are cast into the sea. He follows a family that conducts a home funeral, one that delivers a loved one to the crematory, and another that hires a carpenter to build a pine coffin.


Ohio

A Journey Through the Modern Funeral Industry to a Natural Way of Burial

Examines the embalming process and the impact the standard funeral has on the environment while also discussing alternative eco-friendly burials.

Grave Matters

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#paperback #waugh #vintage #satire #funeral #hollywood #classic

Idaho

Following the death of a friend, the poet and pets' mortician Dennis Barlow finds himself entering the artificial Hollywood paradise of the Whispering Glades Memorial Park. Within its golden gates, death, American-style, is wrapped up and sold like a package holiday-and Dennis gets drawn into a bizarre love triangle with Aimee Thanatogenos, a naive Californian corpse beautician, and Mr. Joyboy, a master of the embalmer's art. Waugh's dark and savage satire on the Anglo-American cultural divide depicts a world where reputation, love, and death cost a very great deal.

The Loved One {Dell, 1972}

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Coleen Murtagh Paratore

New York

Bundle

Twelve-year-old Willa Havisham is a classics reader, a cherry-cordial eater, and quite possibly the world's worst wisher. But when she and her glamorous single mother, Stella, move to Bramble, Cape Cod, Willa's wishes begin to come true: She makes her first-ever best friend, Tina. She bonds with her hip, candy-making Nana. And best of all, steely Stella is falling for Willa's English teacher, Sam -- he's perfect dad material! But before Willa can marry off her mother, or dance with her adorable crush, Joseph, a pit gets stuck in the wishing well.... Can Willa undo the damage before Stella misses her chance to say "I do"?

The Wedding Planner's Daughter

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Stephanie V. W. Lucianovic

Minnesota

A Practical Guide to a Backyard Funeral

"When your something wonderful becomes something dead, having a backyard funeral helps when everything feels awful and the words don't come."--Back cover.

The End of Something Wonderful

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Amy Lawlor Levine

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Connecticut

A Journal for Reflections on Life and Guidance for Settling Your Affairs

The End of Life Journal provides a comprehensive and compassionate guide to planning for life's wind-down. The topic of death and dying is--for many in our society--a taboo subject. People die every day and yet we rarely talk about these experiences or share the tasks associated with this stage of life. People are too often prevented by old age or illness from making their wishes known or having a sense of control over this time in their lives. Our caregivers and grieving loved ones are often left without the pertinent information needed to make decisions on our behalf, and explicit directions on how to proceed knowing that our wishes are being fulfilled can be a welcome gift. This beautifully designed journal includes a list of recommended documents and vital information needed to manage your personal, financial, and business affairs with care and consideration, including: Personal information Key contacts family, executor, attorney, primary care provider, healthcare power of attorney Initial tasks who to contact and when, arrangements/obituary, will Funeral and burial plans flowers, ceremony type, music, readings, memorials Healthcare medical conditions, health insurance, primary physician, hospital, how I wish to be cared for Dependents plans for their care Pets who will care for them, veterinary information Financial dealings outstanding debts, savings accounts, life insurance, employer benefits, social security, pensions, what beneficiaries can expect Important documents will, driver's license, passport, marriage certificate, birth certificate, etc, and where they can be found Business information accounts, wishes, information Insurance life, home, health, contents, vehicle, pet, other Utilities and accounts what to pay, what to close, what to cancel, user names, passwords, account information, social media and email accounts Personal property my home, my garden, vehicles, heirlooms, valuables, safe, storage unit Personal wishes who has access to this book, if I become unable to communicate, other notes Note that this book is not a legal document and in no way replaces the need for a will. The practical information is coupled with carefully crafted journal exercises for personal introspection, including: Think about a time someone you loved died. What information did they leave that was helpful? What did they leave behind? What was comforting? What did you not know/did you wish you had known? Why are you leaving this information? Who will it benefit? What are the pros of this exercise? Are there any potential cons? What makes you happy? What have you done in your life that has brought you most joy/been most fun? How did you get your first name? Who named you? Were you named after someone else? Is there an interesting family story behind your name or nickname? Think of your emergency contacts. What are your fondest memories of those people? What are your most treasured possessions? Why is it important to you that people know about these items? Small enough to fit into a lockable safe, the journal has an envelope for storing any additional items and die-cut tabs for ease of navigation. If you want to take control of your future and retain your autonomy and independence as you age, the End of Life Journal provides a place to express private thoughts, to explore life's lessons and meaning, and to share stories.

Final Wishes

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Theodore E. Hughes

David Klein

A Family Guide to Estate Planning, Funeral Arrangements and Settling an Estate after Death

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Gayden Metcalfe

Charlotte Hays

Oklahoma

The Official Southern Ladies Guide to Hosting the Perfect Funeral

OFFICIAL SOUTHERN LADIES GUIDE TO HOSTING THE PERFECT FUNERAL.

Being Dead Is No Excuse

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Being Dead Is No Excuse by Gayden Metcalfe is a hilarious Southern mystery that combines quirky characters with sharp wit. When a wealthy and eccentric man dies, his colorful family must untangle a web of secrets, misunderstandings, and a strange inheritance—while dealing with the chaos of his passing.

✨ Perfect for fans of The Help and Steel Magnolias, this charming and laugh-out-loud novel will keep you entertained from start to finish.

Colorado

A Southern hostess shares the secrets of throwing the proper Southern funeral in a hilarious compilation of recipes and humor that answers such essential questions as: Can you be properly buried without tomato aspic? and Who prepares better funeral fare, the Episcopal ladies or the Methodist ladies? 35,000 first printing.

Illinois

Two Parties and a Funeral 

This Town

Suzanne Kelly

Reclaiming Burial Practices and Restoring Our Tie to the Earth

Over the last fifteen years, people have been slowly waking up to the toxic and alienating practices that have come to make up the American Way of Death. Greening Death explores this awakening, arguing that beyond the greener and more cost-efficient practices of the Green Burial Movement lies an even greater promise--tying us back to the earth.

Greening Death

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Becky Brown

This is such a pretty book and even has a cute little silver place marker in it! 🐈‍⬛

A beautiful and sustaining volume of poetry which offers inspiration for funeral readings.

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The Sweetest Remedy

Oro Creative Publishing

My Final Wishes - Everything You Need to Know When I'm Gone

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The Barefoot Summer

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Come Unto Me

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