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Where Are They Buried? How Did They Die? Fitting Ends and Final Resting Places of the Famous, Infamous, and ...

24 reviews
Tod Benoit

Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, 2003

Just as the book's title said.......
Just as the title of this book said, this is a book about where famous persons are buried and also how they died. I'm having so much fun reading this book because it gives a nice background about the famous person that died. Also, I did not know how 80% of the famous people in this book died, so those facts are a nice addition to the book (a sort of BONUS) . There are other books out ...

The Zombie Zone (A Stepping Stone Book(TM))

4 reviews
Ron Roy

Random House Books for Young Readers, 2005

For criminal's sake...by PH
I would give this book ten stars because of how the author describes the people. What happens is the pack of kids named Dink, Josh and Ruth Rose visit a cemetery in New Orleans, Louisiana, called Old Forest Trail. They stayed in a hotel with Ruth Rose's Grandmother. Meanwhile, they see their friend, Jack. So, they go on a camping trip mainly to see alligator nests. Then, two graves in the ...

The Jasmine Moon Murder (A Tea Shop Mystery)

15 reviews
Laura Childs

Berkley, 2005

Just keeps getting better ....
I love this mystery series and they keep getting better and better. I have often noticed that after about the fourth or fifth book in a mystery series, they often start losing their "punch". That is not the case with this one. In fact, I think this is the best book in the series. The tea info is enlightening, the characters are well-developed and the setting of Charleston intriging. What a ...

Stories in Stone

20 reviews

Gibbs Smith, Publisher, 2004

Fantastic
An outstanding book about the symbolism of tombstone art. It shows an enormous amount of research and conveys the meanings in everyday vernacular. 5 stars for sure

True Believer

210 reviews
Nicholas Sparks

Grand Central Publishing, 2005

My Absolute Favorite!
I've read most of Nicholas Sparks' books and True Believer is my favorite next to his newer one The Choice.

The American Resting Place: 400 Years of History Through Our Cemeteries and Burial Grounds

12 reviews
Marilyn Yalom

Houghton Mifflin, 2008

A Brilliant Literary and Photographic Resting Place
A great read! "The American Resting Place" is an extraordinary book. Written by Marilyn Yalom, who is best known for her scholarly works on women, and photographed by her son Reid, this book presents American cemeteries over a period of 400 years so as to recreate our cultural history, both textually and visually. Despite its vast scope, the book reads smoothly and managed to hold my attention ...

Your Guide to Cemetery Research

13 reviews
Sharon Debartolo Carmack

Betterway Books, 2002

Excellent book for cemetery enthusiasts and genealogists alike
This is the book I recommend to everyone who takes my Cemetery Art classes. There is information on how to use cemeteries as research, how to research cemeteries, how to perform gravestone rubbings properly, how to even make a cast of a gravestone, gravestone symbolism and so much more. It's the best book on cemetery research I've come across. Sharon's writing is friendly and inviting. This is a ...

Courthouse Research for Family Historians: Your Guide to Genealogical Treasures

9 reviews
Christine Rose

CR Publications, 2004

Excellent how-to source, expecially for "relative novices" (heh, heh . . .)
Rose is a Fellow of the American Society of Genealogists and a well-known speaker at national conferences. She's also an admitted courthouse junky. There are some 3,140 courthouses in the United States and she's poked around in more than 500 of them -- and she would be the first to tell you that every one is different, even in neighboring counties formed at the same time. (I've spent considerable ...

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

12 reviews
Mark Harris

Scribner, 2007

A Great Book on a Difficult Subject..
These pages do the human race a great service. Every Funeral Director needs to read this book. Death is not a pleasant subject. This book is more than worth the price. Everyone has trouble thinking about grave matters. Just as cremation came to America, so comes the green funeral. This book is the future in Funerals, it is well thought out, researched and well written. Practical How to tips are ...

Where Valor Rests: Arlington National Cemetery

23 reviews
Rick Atkinson

National Geographic, 2007

Excellent Book on Arlington
Stunning pictures and moving text combine to give you an awe inspiring tour of probably the most revered area of the United States. You may have visited Arlington on a tour of Washington D.C., but Rick Atkinson and National Geographic takes you past the tourists and delivers a book that shows the care, dedication, and honor that envelopes the cemetery. Contents: Preface Essay History Final ...

Johnny and the Dead (Johnny Maxwell Trilogy)

2 reviews
Terry Pratchett

HarperTrophy, 2007

Charming
Johnny Maxwell is an ordinary boy, living in the all-too ordinary town of Blackbury. However, when Johnny takes a short-cut through the local cemetery, he finds out he can see the dead. Their not ghosts...at least they don't think that they are ghost, they are just...post-living citizens. However, there's trouble afoot - the council has sold the cemetery to a developer, and the dead are ...

A Graveyard for Lunatics: Another Tale of Two Cities

9 reviews
Ray Bradbury

Harper Perennial, 2001

Bradbury continues the magic, this time in Hollywood.
Setting this novel during the glory days of Big Studio Hollywood, in which he himself was an earnest young screenwriter, Ray Bradbury sets out to create a murder mystery in which a twenty years-dead body is found on a ladder leaning against a wall between a graveyard and the movie studio next door. Over-the-top Hollywood characters and wannabes, "beasts" and monsters, and faux settings, such as ...

Rest in Peace: A History of American Cemeteries (People's History)
Meg Greene

Twenty-First Century Books (CT), 2007

From unsanitary pits to today's "green" cemeteries, Rest in Peace explores the evolution of burial practices and how they reflect the history and culture of the United States. Interspersed with primary source quotations and fascinating photographs, the book offers an unusual window in to the expression of American cultural identity across the ages.

Field Guide to Haunted Graveyards

3 reviews
Troy Taylor

Whitechapel Productions, 2003

Must have for any would-be ghost hunter!
This is the perfect companion piece to Taylor's Ghost Hunter's Guidebook! A must have for anyone wishing to do outdoor investigations and cemetary investigations.

Mount Carmel and Queen of Heaven Cemeteries (IL) (Images of America)

8 reviews
Jenny Floro-Khalaf, Cynthia Savaglio

Arcadia Publishing, 2006

A Book For Cemetery Connoisseurs
Prowling cemeteries searching for the graves of the famous and infamous is cheap and enlightening entertainment. I have to admit my main interest in this book was chapter four entitled "Gangsters in Granite." I have visited Mount Carmel and Queen of Heaven Cemetery twice in search of the graves of the infamous gangsters from the 1920's and found all but one, Machine Gun Jack McGurn even though ...

A Night in the Cemetery: And Other Stories of Crime and Suspense
Anton Chekhov

Pegasus, 2008

The English-language debut of Anton Chekhov's first collection of mystery and suspense tales. Considered one of the greatest dramatists of all time, Anton Chekhov actually began his literary career as a crime and mystery writer. Scattered throughout periodicals and literary journals from 1880-1890, Peter Sekirin brings together these psychological suspense stories in a premier collection that provides a fresh look into Chekhov's literary ...

Dead Connection

13 reviews
Charlie Price

Square Fish, 2008

Cool To Live Here
I love my "connection" to this inugural book. Maybe it's because I live in "Riverton," or that my father is actually buried in the cemetary used for the book's backdrop. I don't know. Anyway, I just finished this book this morning. I hopped on my bike and rode the four blocks to the cemetary (as I do from time to time, anyways). I walked through the place, taking a different impression of ...

Where the Bodies Are: Final Visits to the Rich, Famous, & Interesting

4 reviews
Patricia Brooks

Globe Pequot, 2002

A Book For Cemetery Connoisseurs
Visiting cemeteries is not only a lot of fun, but it is cheap entertainment when visiting a large city. Autor Patricia Brooks has divided the book into regions of the country and provided both pictures and interesting tidbits of the famous and infamous who are buried around the country. More photos in the book would have been desirable, but then the amount of text would have had to have been ...

Kill Whitey

3 reviews
Brian Keene

Cemetery Dance Pubns, 2008

Another great story from Keene
Kill Whitey is the latest release from Brian Keene, and it's a little different than his usual stories. I really really liked this and would highly recommend it to both regular Keene fans and new readers.

Cemetery Stories: Haunted Graveyards, Embalming Secrets, and the Life of a Corpse After Death

31 reviews
Katherine Ramsland

Harper Paperbacks, 2001

Great stories!
Loved the funny stories shared by funeral directors. Gives you the behind the scenes details on funerals and prepraration of bodies, without being to gory!

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