The story opens with the funeral of Adam Fletcher, a man whose death sets in motion a chain of events that unravel the tightly wound lives of those left behind. Claire Fletcher, his adopted granddaughter, is forced to choose between what her heart desires; i.e., follow the love of her ...
A lively reinterpretation of the Socratic style of discussion by the always-interesting public philosopher Agnes Callard. For her the Socratic method is key to making progress in answering the most important questions we can ask about love, sex, death, and politics. Read expert recommendations Buy...
Chosen before birth to uphold the desperate deal her ancestor struck to save his people, Sera must leave behind her life and offer herself to the Primal of Death as his Consort. However, Sera’s real destiny is the most closely guarded secret in all of Lasania—she’s not the well ...
“Over Your Dead Body is about the history and future of how we deal with the dead: everything about death, funerals and what happens to the body afterwards.” Connolly’s book is full of interesting facts on history, science, the death profession, and more. More than a look into the ...
day we must die, but usually we picture that day as far in the future. When we are in buoyant health, death is all but unimaginable. We seldom think of it. The days stretch out in an endless vista. So we go about our petty tasks, hardly aware of our listless attitude toward life....
“It’s about the battle for spices in what is now Indonesia and focuses on the rivalry between Spain and Portugal over 60 years in the 16th century. That spices should be worth more than their weight in gold and prompt people to risk death exploring treacherous routes to get to them is...
As I call time of death, my voice is steady. My colleagues stand hushed around me, their eyes on me, confused, concerned. I have never lost a patient until today. My hands tremble inside their gloves. I slide down the cold tiled walls, my heart racing in my chest. ...
Is that death?” Read more... The Best Nonfiction Books: The 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize Shortlist Isabel Hilton, Journalist Buy now Listen now Third Millennium Thinking: Creating Sense in a World of Nonsense Saul Perlmutter, Robert MacCoun and John Campbell 🎯 A bestselling book on ...
and the simple decencies seemed to embody some of the common values behind the fight against Nazism and Fascism. In 1946 his old college gave him an honorary fellowship, which enabled him to make his home in Cambridge and to keep incommunicationwith both old and young until his death. ...
(1985;film 2022), which won theNational Book Awardfor fiction, tells of a professor of Hitler studies who is exposed to an “airborne toxic event”; he discovers that his wife is taking an experimental substance said to combat the fear of death, and he vows to obtain the drug for ...