From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death


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A New York Times and Los Angeles Times Bestseller “Doughty chronicles [death] practices with tenderheartedness, a technician’s fascination, and an unsentimental respect for grief.” —Jill Lepore, The New Yorker 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 personally attend to the body of the deceased. Exquisitely illustrated by artist Landis Blair, From Here to Eternity is an adventure into the morbid unknown, a fascinating tour through the unique ways people everywhere confront mortality.




Eternity's Song


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Author LeeAnn Pappas gives readers a fast-paced glimpse into the world of English rock music and Greek shipping. Anna Winters is the young and beautiful daughter of rock legend, Richard Winters. Heiress to one of the largest Greek shipping fortunes in the world, Anna becomes the unwilling target of an unscrupulous game of blackmail and revenge.In a story spanning more than thirty years, Anna's fortunes, both romantic and financial, are entwined with her father's bitter ex-partner, an unstable childhood friend, an aspiring actor who spurns her affections, and friends who will do anything for her. The lives of these friends and foes collide in a high stakes game of passion, betrayal, power, and revenge.













Songs for the Sanctuary


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The Transcendent One


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The Transcendent One brings a new revelation to all who are created in the image, the Consciousness of God. It brings to Light the seemingly hidden things of darkness. It brings to Light the mystery of what one is within the Consciousness of God, the All in All of Being. The spirit and the letter of the Word are presented here as two parts of the same thing, preparing one for the reconciliation of all things through the Christ Self unto the All in All of Being, the Transcendent One. The Transcendent One brings the many and the one unto the reconciliation. The Transcendent One is revealed to be an infinity of many within the One. No matter where one might go, the Transcendent One is already there, for It is everywhere It is, and everywhere It is not as two parts of the same thing. It is neither here not there as separate places, for It is here, there, everywhere, and nowhere as parts of the same thing. The new revelation is the revelation of what you are, have been, and forever shall be, the same today, yesterday, and forever within the Consciousness of God.




Catalog of Copyright Entries


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Hope Springs Eternal


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Hope, born out of optimism and experience, describes the poems in this collection.