Download or read book One Tomb Short of a Graveyard written by Jason Krumbine and published by Jason Krumbine. This book was released on 2017-10-25 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Messer Building is located in the heart of downtown Callahan. It’s a building of architectural wonder. It’s visible from almost anywhere in the downtown area. And it’s home to the Darketo Sanction, a top secret organization that’s housing the largest collection of mad scientists anywhere in the country. Two weeks ago, the security system in the Messer Building tried to kill every single human onsite and nobody knows why. Since the geniuses in the Darketo Sanction can’t figure it out, they’ve decided to outsource the mystery to Alex Cheradon. (Although, to be fair, it’s a building filled with a bunch of mad scientists. This one shouldn’t be too hard to figure out, right? Right?) Meanwhile, Devon Christian is on the edge of sanity. The voices in his head get louder every day. At some point, he’s not going to be able to ignore those voices forever. And when he stops, there’s only one person at the top of his hit list

Download or read book 199 Cemeteries to See Before You Die written by Loren Rhoads and published by Black Dog & Leventhal. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hauntingly beautiful travel guide to the world's most visited cemeteries, told through spectacular photography andtheir unique histories and residents. More than 3.5 million tourists flock to Paris's Pè Lachaise cemetery each year.They are lured there, and to many cemeteries around the world, by a combination of natural beauty, ornate tombstones and crypts, notable residents, vivid history, and even wildlife. Many also visit Mount Koya cemetery in Japan, where 10,000 lanterns illuminate the forest setting, or graveside in Oaxaca, Mexico to witness Day of the Dead fiestas. Savannah's Bonaventure Cemetery has gorgeous night tours of the Southern Gothic tombstones under moss-covered trees that is one of the most popular draws of the city. 199 Cemeteries to See Before You Die features these unforgettable cemeteries, along with 196 more, seen in more than 300 photographs. In this bucket list of travel musts, author Loren Rhoads, who hosts the popular Cemetery Travel blog, details the history and features that make each destination unique. Throughout will be profiles of famous people buried there, striking memorials by noted artists, and unusual elements, such as the hand carved wood grave markers in the Merry Cemetery in Romania.

Download or read book A Tomb with a View the Stories and Glories of Graveyards written by Peter Ross and published by Headline. This book was released on 2021-08-05 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Enter a grave new world of fascination and delight as award-winning writer Peter Ross uncovers the stories and glories of graveyards. Who are London's outcast dead and why is David Bowie their guardian angel? What is the remarkable truth about Phoebe Hessel, who disguised herself as a man to fight alongside her sweetheart, and went on to live in the reigns of five monarchs? Why is a Bristol cemetery the perfect wedding venue for goths? All of these sorrowful mysteries - and many more - are answered in A Tomb With A View, a book for anyone who has ever wandered through a field of crooked headstones and wondered about the lives and deaths of those who lie beneath"--Publisher's description.

Download or read book The Graveyard Book written by Neil Gaiman and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-09-28 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It takes a graveyard to raise a child. Nobody Owens, known as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn't live in a graveyard, being raised by ghosts, with a guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor the dead. There are adventures in the graveyard for a boy—an ancient Indigo Man, a gateway to the abandoned city of ghouls, the strange and terrible Sleer. But if Bod leaves the graveyard, he will be in danger from the man Jack—who has already killed Bod's family.

Download or read book Wish You Were Here written by Loren Rhoads and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-21 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly every tourist destination has a graveyard. Over the past two and a half decades, Loren Rhoads has visited literally hundreds of graveyards. She's traveled to London's Highgate Cemetery, strolled through the Paris Catacombs, seen Hollywood Forever pulled back from the brink of destruction, studied Native American graveyards in Michigan, explored a circuit minister¿s churchyard on Maui, delved into the Protestant Cemetery of Rome and Zoshigaya Reien in Tokyo, and made stops in Venice, Boston, Los Angeles, Hiroshima, Yosemite, Sleepy Hollow, Gettysburg, and New Orleans along the way. Come along on her adventures in cemeteries around the world.

Download or read book One Stiletto in the Grave written by Jason Krumbine and published by Jason Krumbine. This book was released on with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When you have a bug problem, you call an exterminator. When someone skips out on their bail, you call a bounty hunter. And when a dead soul goes renegade, you call a grim reaper. Avery Graves is your typical type A personality who strives to achieve her best. Her sister, Brooke is…not that. Despite Avery’s best efforts, things aren’t working out as well for them as they are for the other reapers in town and the sisters find themselves a few dead souls short of making the rent. While chasing down a soul bounty that might get them out of their pauper’s grave and into a mausoleum, things take a turn for the worse when the sisters find themselves at odds with the worst thing possible: The living. Because the only thing worse than a dead soul that refuses to move on, is a living soul that refuses to let go.

Download or read book The American Resting Place written by Marilyn Yalom and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2008-05-15 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated cultural history of America through the lens of its gravestones and burial practices—featuring eighty black-and-white photographs. In The American Resting Place, cultural historian Marilyn Yalom and her son, photographer Reid Yalom, visit more than 250 cemeteries across the United States. Following a coast-to-coast trajectory that mirrors the historical pattern of American migration, their destinations highlight America’s cultural and ethnic diversity as well as the evolution of burials rites over the centuries. Yalom’s incisive reading of gravestone inscriptions reveals changing ideas about death and personal identity, as well as how class and gender play out in stone. Rich particulars include the story of one seventeenth-century Bostonian who amassed a thousand pairs of gloves in his funeral-going lifetime, the unique burial rites and funerary symbols found in today’s Native American cultures, and a “lost” Czech community brought uncannily to life in Chicago’s Bohemian National Columbarium. From fascinating past to startling future—DVDs embedded in tombstones, “green” burials, and “the new aesthetic of death”—The American Resting Place is the definitive history of the American cemetery.

Download or read book A is for Amnesia B is for Bullet written by Jason Krumbine and published by Jason Krumbine. This book was released on 2017-10-25 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Confessions of a Funeral Director written by Caleb Wilde and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-09-26 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Wise, vulnerable, and surprisingly relatable . . . funny in all the right places and enormously helpful throughout. It will change how you think about death.” —Rachel Held Evans, New York Times–bestselling author of Searching for Sunday We are a people who deeply fear death. While humans are biologically wired to evade death for as long as possible, we have become too adept at hiding from it, vilifying it, and—when it can be avoided no longer—letting the professionals take over. Sixth-generation funeral director Caleb Wilde understands this reticence and fear. He had planned to get as far away from the family business as possible. He wanted to make a difference in the world, and how could he do that if all the people he worked with were . . . dead? Slowly, he discovered that caring for the deceased and their loved ones was making a difference—in other people’s lives to be sure, but it also seemed to be saving his own. A spirituality of death began to emerge as he observed the family who lovingly dressed their deceased father for his burial; the nursing home that honored a woman’s life by standing in procession as her body was taken away; the funeral that united a conflicted community. Through stories like these, told with equal parts humor and poignancy, Wilde’s candid memoir offers an intimate look into the business of death and a new perspective on living and dying. “Open[s] up conversations about life’s ultimate concerns.” —The Washington Post “As a look behind the closed doors of the death industry, as well as a candid exploration of Wilde’s own faith journey, this book is fascinating and compelling.” —National Catholic Reporter “[A] stunner of a debut.” —Rachel Held Evans, author of Inspired

Download or read book Better Than Dead written by Jason Krumbine and published by Jason Krumbine. This book was released on with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The citizens of Clayton City have a problem. From beneath their beds, from deep in the corners of their darkest closets, things are stirring. Monstrous things. In the twin cities of Clayton and Callahan, Alex Cheradon and Devon Christian are two somewhat famous-ish private investigators. They’ve saved the twin cities a couple of times, stopped a werewolf apocalypse or two and are the best of friends, despite that short period of time when Devon went crazy and tried to kill Alex. But it’s all water under the proverbial bridge now. Times are tough and cheating spouses and missing kids don’t always pay the bills. Of course, thanks to a mysterious, mystical gem embedded in his chest, Devon can go weeks, sometimes even months without eating. Unfortunately for Alex, though, all he has is a sharp wit and an awesome collection of hilariously ironic T-Rex t-shirts, neither of which do much to satisfy the grumbling in his stomach. When Judy Brathweight darkens their doorstep with concerns about what’s making some creepily hungry noises under her child’s bed, Alex and Devon are in no position to turn her away. Monster hunting may not be their specialty, but at least it’ll put food on the table. Unless, of course, Alex and Devon end up as food on someone else's table first.

Download or read book The Test of Truth written by Jason Krumbine and published by Jason Krumbine. This book was released on 2019-11-02 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hundred years ago the Veneer Empire was one of the strongest members of the UPA. And then the Unity attacked. In the devastating aftermath, the Veneer Empire withdrew from the UPA and hasn’t been heard from since. Ambassador Caldwell Reynoso is the latest in a long line of dignitaries who spend their days waiting until the Veneer are ready to communicate again. While it is not a lifetime appointment, Ambassador Reynoso will not hold any other position before his untimely death. When an ambassador dies, the political ramifications can be complicated. When an ambassador is murdered, the ramifications can be disastrous. As the mystery of who murdered Ambassador Reynoso slowly unravels, Captain Mitchell and the crew of the Defiance find themselves sitting on a powder keg of galactic proportions. And unless they can stop it, when it goes off, it’s going to take half the galaxy with it.

Download or read book Dating the Villain written by Jason Krumbine and published by Jason Krumbine. This book was released on 2017-11-09 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adopted at age 4, Rose Gardens doesn’t know much about her life before her parents brought her to America. She has vague memories of her time in the small orphanage in the Hunan Province of China. But none of these memories offer any explanation as to how she can fly and bend steel pipes with her bare hands. Naturally, that didn’t stop Rose from becoming a superhero. Life is as close to perfect as Rose could imagine. She has the greatest parents, the perfect boyfriend, and her career as Star Girl has been fairly impressive. With true love in her grasp, marriage may even be on the horizon for Rose and her boyfriend. But when a new villain tears into Century City, Rose finds her heart unexpectedly torn between the good man she knows she loves and the bad boy she finds herself irresistibly attracted to.

Download or read book The Man Who Murdered Tomorrow written by Jason Krumbine and published by Jason Krumbine. This book was released on 2017-10-26 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They say flying is the safest way to travel. Clearly whoever said that has never traveled with a mad scientist in custody. After finding, and apprehending, his absentee father, Alex Cheradon and his team are ready for their flight back home to Clayton City. One six hour nonstop flight from Las Vegas and then everything’s back to normal. Except that this isn’t an ordinary flight. And Charles Cheradon isn’t an ordinary scientist. Hence the ‘mad’ label. And Devon Christian…Well, obviously he’s not normal. That just goes without saying. And Alex Cheradon has an excellent track record for being in the wrong place, at the wrong time, for the wrong reasons. This flight isn’t going to be any different. Trapped on a flight that feels like it’s going nowhere, Alex finds himself worrying about his crazy partner, having to go head-to head-with a terrorist and, worst of all, dealing with a deadbeat dad who just wants to have a heart-to-heart with his son.

Download or read book Everything s Coming Up Aces written by Jason Krumbine and published by Jason Krumbine. This book was released on 2017-10-25 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.” ~ Will Rogers Peter Perkins was born and raised in Las Vegas. He’s a jaded local through and through. So nobody’s more surprised than him when a sleazy street magician cons him out of a priceless family heirloom. So Peter Perkins does the only thing he can think of: He gets help. From Alex Cheradon? Wait a minute. Alex Cheradon? What’s he doing in Vegas?

Download or read book Dating the Hero written by Jason Krumbine and published by Jason Krumbine. This book was released on 2017-11-09 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the wake of Manifold’s attack, Rose Gardens, aka Star Girl, is desperate to get her life back to normal. That means spending time with her wonderful boyfriend Ben Royal, attending classes at Century City University and occasionally saving the day. But what Rose wants is drastically different from what she gets. Soon Star Girl finds herself in the crosshairs of an upstart super villain wannabe who’s on a devastating rampage through Century City. Before Star Girl even has a chance to fight back, she finds herself swept up in a mystery involving one of her teammates that could have disastrous implications for her secret identity. Once again, Rose finds herself torn between two men: her boyfriend, the man she loves, and her teammate, the man who’s secret could sweep her off her feet or destroy her life completely.

Download or read book The Devil in the Daffodil Dress written by Jason Krumbine and published by Jason Krumbine. This book was released on with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Devon Christian is a man of many secrets, some of them so secret even he doesn't know them, and apparently one of those secrets is his wife. When a sexy lady with a devil-may-care attitude by the name of Daisy Christian shows up on their doorstep claiming to be Devon’s long lost wife, Alex and Devon are immediately suspicious. Not only does Daisy appear to be almost twice as crazy as Devon, but at the same time, Alex and Devon find themselves under attack by a mysterious assailant who's very determined to see them pushing up daisies. The timing, as they say, is a mite suspicious. Under a hail of bullets and explosions Alex and Devon must find out who’s eager for them to join the choir invisible and unravel the mystery of whether or not Daisy is in fact Devon's true love or just another femme fatale out to help these two investigators get better at taking dirt naps. But more importantly, if she really is Devon’s old ball and chain, then where has she been all this time?

Download or read book The Emotion Thesaurus A Writer s Guide to Character Expression 2nd Edition written by Becca Puglisi and published by JADD Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-19 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling Emotion Thesaurus, often hailed as “the gold standard for writers” and credited with transforming how writers craft emotion, has now been expanded to include 56 new entries! One of the biggest struggles for writers is how to convey emotion to readers in a unique and compelling way. When showing our characters’ feelings, we often use the first idea that comes to mind, and they end up smiling, nodding, and frowning too much. If you need inspiration for creating characters’ emotional responses that are personalized and evocative, this ultimate show-don’t-tell guide for emotion can help. It includes: • Body language cues, thoughts, and visceral responses for over 130 emotions that cover a range of intensity from mild to severe, providing innumerable options for individualizing a character’s reactions • A breakdown of the biggest emotion-related writing problems and how to overcome them • Advice on what should be done before drafting to make sure your characters’ emotions will be realistic and consistent • Instruction for how to show hidden feelings and emotional subtext through dialogue and nonverbal cues • And much more! The Emotion Thesaurus, in its easy-to-navigate list format, will inspire you to create stronger, fresher character expressions and engage readers from your first page to your last.