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  Publication Date:  October 9, 2018 Format:  Paperback Genre:   Non-fiction, death, dying Publisher:  WW Norton & Co      Length:  288 pages Buy:    Kindle  |  Paperback  Synopsis Fascinated by our pervasive fear of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty embarks on a global expedition to discover how other cultures care for the dead. From Zoroastrian sky burials to wish-granting Bolivian skulls, she investigates the world’s funerary customs and expands our sense of what it means to treat the dead with dignity. Her account questions the rituals of the American funeral industry―especially chemical embalming―and suggests that the most effective traditions are those that allow mourners to pers...

Title: The Raising by Laura Kasischke Publisher: Harper Collins 496 pages Genre: Fiction/supernatural I received this book as an advanced electronic copy from the publisher via netgalley.com  it is due to be released at the end of March. Synopsis: The accident was tragic, yes. Bloody and horrific and claiming the life of a beautiful young sorority girl. NICOLE was a straight A student from a small town. Sweet-tempered, all-American, a fomer Girl Scout, and a virgin. But it was an accident. And that was last year. It’s fall again, a new semester, a fresh start. CRAIG, who has not been charged with murder, is focusing on his classes, and also on avoiding Nicole’s sorority sisters, who seem to blame him for her death even though the police did not. PERRY, Craig’s roommate, is working through his own grief (he grew up with Nicole, after all, and had known her since kindergarten) by auditing Professor Polson’s sociology class: Death, Dying, and the Undead. MIRA has been ...