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Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Today, more and more relatives are abandoning their dead, leaving it to local governments to dispose of the bodies. Up to 150,000 Americans now go unclaimed each year. Who are they? Why are they being forgotten? And what is the meaning of life if your death doesn't matter to others? In this extraordinary work of narrative nonfiction, eight years in the making, sociologists Pamela Prickett and Stefan Timmermans follow four individuals in Los Angeles,...
Author
Publisher
Etruscan Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Seven years after her son Jim, a freelance journalist, was captured and killed by ISIS - a brutal act that produced one of the 21st century's most haunting images - Diane Foley is offered the opportunity to meet her son's murderer over three days in a Virginia courthouse. So begins American Mother-- which reads alternately like a thriller, a biography, a mystery, a memoir, and a literary examination of grace. In this astonishing book, we are all invited...
5) 49 days
Author
Publisher
LQ, Levine Querido
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
In Buddhist tradition, a person must travel for forty-nine days after they die, before they can fully cross over. Here in this book, readers travel with one Korean American girl, Kit, on her journey, while also spending time with her family and friends left behind. Agnes Lee's debut graphic novel is an unforgettable story of death, grief, love, and how we keep moving forward.
6) Matterhorn
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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Description
When his son Will dies following in his footsteps, former CIA agent Mac Dekker, forced into hiding after being framed for treason, returns to the field to uncover the secrets Will was hiding and finds himself working to stop a terrorist plot that threatens thousands.
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Returning to Amish Country to investigate the 1977 murder of pregnant wife and mother Ida Stutzman, the best-selling author, with the help of aging witnesses and shocking long-buried letters, finally uncovers the disturbing truth—and the conspiracy of silence and secrets that kept it hidden for 45 years.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Returning home to Pennywhistle, Tennessee, for her beloved daddy's funeral, PJ Spoon, abandoning her PhD program at Vanderbilt, impulsively takes a job as a fry cook at the Chickie Shak, where she meets and falls for Boof, a talented singer-songwriter searching for her birth mother.
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