DEATH & TORTURE
For the morbid.
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Down Among the Dead Men: A Year in the Life of a Mortuary Technician
$14.95Michelle Williams is young and attractive, with close family ties, a busy social life . . . and an unusual occupation. When she impulsively applies to be a mortuary technician and is offered the position, she has no idea that her decision to accept will be one of the most momentous of her life. “What I didn’t realize then,” she writes, “was that I was about to start one of the most amazing jobs you can do.” Learn More -
Death Becomes Them: Unearthing the Suicides of the Brilliant, the Famous, and the Notorious
$14.99Kurt Cobain, Anne Sexton, Mark Rothko, Ernest Hemingway, Adolf Hitler . . . all famous, some rich and powerful, some beloved, some abhorred. But when life and circumstance got to be too much, each headed for the exit door. Learn More -
Curtains: Adventures of an Undertaker-in-Training
$15.95At forty-four, Tom Jokinen decided to quit his job in order to become an apprentice undertaker, setting out to ask the questions: What is the right thing to do when someone dies? Learn More -
Atrocities: The 100 Deadliest Episodes in Human History
$19.95"An amusing (really) account of the murderous ways of despots, slave traders, blundering royals, gladiators and assorted hordes." -New York Times Learn More
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