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    Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory (eBook, ePUB)
    "Morbid and illuminating" (Entertainment Weekly)—a young mortician goes behind the scenes of her curious profession. Armed with a degree in medieval history and a flair for the macabre, Caitlin Doughty took a job at a crematory and turned morbid curiosity into her life's work. She cared for bodies of every color, shape, and affliction, and became an intrepid explorer in the world of the dead. In this best-selling memoir, brimming with gallows humor and vivid characters, she marvels at the gruesome history of undertaking and relates her unique coming-of-age story with bold curiosity and mordant wit. By turns hilarious, dark, and uplifting, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes reveals how the fear of dying warps our society and "will make you reconsider how our culture treats the dead" (San Francisco Chronicle).
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    Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?
    Everyone has questions about death. In Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?, best-selling author and mortician Caitlin Doughty answers the most intriguing questions she’s ever received about what happens to our bodies when we die. In a brisk, informative, and morbidly funny style, Doughty explores everything from ancient Egyptian death rituals and the science of skeletons to flesh-eating insects and the proper depth at which to bury your pet if you want Fluffy to become a mummy. Now featuring an interview with a clinical expert on discussing these issues with young people - the source of some of our most revealing questions about death - Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? confronts our common fear of dying with candid, honest, and hilarious facts about what awaits the body we leave behind.
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    A Dirty Job : J.J. Graves Mysteries, Book 8 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 355min
    A new chapter begins....J.J. Graves is trying to put the wounds caused by her father behind her. She and Jack have a shot at peace for the first time in their marriage, and it's new territory for them. A mortuary convention on a South Carolina island has J.J. and Jack combining work with pleasure. But things change quickly when a tropical storm traps them - and a colorful cast of morticians - in the hotel. Murder is the last thing they expect, but a dead body killed in a way only a mortician could accomplish has them racing against the clock to find the killer. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Laura Faye Smith. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/190695/bk_acx0_190695_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Three Viewings: Tell Tale; Thief of Tears; Thirteen Things About Ed Carpolotti, Hörbuch, Digital, 69min
    A funeral parlor in a small Midwestern town is the setting for these three darkly funny and touching short plays. In "Tell Tale", we enter the private thoughts of a respectable married mortician, lost in passion for a beautiful real estate broker who markets to the bereaved. In "Thief of Tears", we meet Mac, the attractive daughter of an upper-class WASP family who frequents the Viper Room and steals jewelry from corpses. And in "Thirteen Things about Ed Carpolotti", a newly widowed suburban matron finds her world crashing about her – only to be rescued by love from beyond the grave. Language: English. Narrator: Bruce Davison, Laura San Giacomo, Rue McClanahan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/pf/latw/000250/pf_latw_000250_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Skeletons In The Attic
    Skeletons In The Attic ab 23.49 € als Taschenbuch: More Tales From a Mortician. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Romane & Erzählungen,
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    Way of the Wanton: Shell Scott Mystery Series, Book 6 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 346min
    There was a fire in her eyes that was scorching me - me, who couldn't tell whether a dame wanted to kiss me or kill me! No matter how you look at it, 36-22-35 are magic numbers. They have a real message for me. I'm Shell Scott, the private eye, and I'm very good at figures. You might say I follow them very carefully. I've been following this one for several days and learned her name is Sherry. I hated to think she was mixed in murder. But somebody was planning to send me to my friendly neighborhood mortician and I had to find out who - or die trying. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Maynard Villers. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bimo/001131/bk_bimo_001131_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Mortician : The Fringes: Edge of the Universe, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 54min
    I felt the pain first, fire digging into my neck as something sharp split the skin open. It dragged me from a deep, healing slumber. Unable to tolerate it anymore, I forced my eyes open as the blade again bit deep into me.“What the f**k?!” I shouted as a wild haired madman pulled the knife back. His own eyes flew wide behind safety goggles as his other hand flinched away from my neck, dragging with it the ident chip that had quietly rested there for more than 20 years.“You’re not dead!” The short man took a step back, red dripping from his gloves.“I’d damn well hope not.” I struggled to sit up. Bad move. My side felt like it had been stabbed by a red hot poker. “Oh crap,” I moaned. “I’ve got to get back before they find out the job isn’t done....” Thrusters hummed in the background as I tried to identify the insignia on his uniform. Other than pegging him as Sovereignty, I didn’t recognize the distorted caduceus or black ring behind it.“No, no. I prefer you dead,” he stuttered, staggering back farther. “I don’t work on the living.They promised me - only dead ones. Aliens are okay. Even Zorixians, but not live ones.” He shook his head. “They need to know you’re not dead and take you away.”“Wait.” I stumbled as I tried to stand, my damaged body screaming in protest. Probably not a good time to tell him about the alien DNA from my father, then. Instead, I fixated on that one word, Zorixians. “I need to get back. How far are we from Zorix?”As the man tried to reach for a panel on the wall, the ship lurched, throwing us off our feet. I braced for my impact with the floor, waiting for the hot tendrils of pain to spike out from my wounds again, but they never came. It appeared the gravity in the ship cut out. “We shouldn’t be docking!” He squirmed in midair. “This isn’t right, this whole day isn’t right!” We floated awkwardly until gravity kicked back in. Then everything, including me, slammed to the floor.  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nikola Muckajev. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/210712/bk_acx0_210712_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Dying for a Living: A Jesse Sullivan Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 536min
    On the morning before her 67th death, it is business as usual for Jesse Sullivan: meet with the mortician, counsel soon-to-be-dead clients, and have coffee while reading the latest regeneration theory. Jesse dies for a living, literally. As a Necronite, she is one of the population's rare 2% who can serve as a death replacement agent, dying so others don't have to. Although each death is different, the result is the same: a life is saved, and Jesse resurrects days later with sore muscles, new scars, and another hole in her memory. But when Jesse is murdered and becomes the sole suspect in a federal investigation, more than her freedom and sanity are at stake. She must catch the killer herself - or die trying. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Hollie Jackson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/023021/bk_acx0_023021_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Cabaret: A Roman Riddle , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 361min
    Freda, a struggling mortician in working-class Rome, only married her repulsive ventriloquist husband, Alberto, because it was prophesied that she'd do so. Now that he's vanished mysteriously along with his equally abhorrent dummy (who Freda suspects is actually a midget), she'd like them both to stay missing - though she's devastated by the simultaneous disappearance of her soul mate, Pierino, her beloved talking parrot. While the police investigate this series of possible crimes, Freda will continue embalming by day, unleashing her caged passions at night in a seedy cabaret (until a tragic fire leaves the proprietor with a tuba stuck on his head), trying to make do with a talking hamster in lieu of dear Pierino…and recalling the vagaries of life that led her to this unfortunate juncture. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Karyn O'Bryant. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/007535/bk_adbl_007535_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Death and Other Dances , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 220min
    Autumn Franklin is an awkward, biracial girl growing up in a suburb of Detroit. Already disconnected from her peers at an early age because of her background, she becomes even more withdrawn when her young parents divorce. Ever-changing but stubbornly tenacious, she survives the cards she's been dealt by playing them against the odds. Transplanting herself from her factory-driven hometown to the alluring City of Angels, she has but one goal: to find herself. Struggling to make solid connections with those around her, Autumn swallows her reservations and pushes limits to the extreme as she transitions between two drastic career changes: from the bowels of the adult entertainment industry to her rebirth as a mortician. There amongst the dead, she learns what it is to live, love, and to allow others inside, finally landing in her most comfortable place of all: her own skin. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Carla Harvey. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/066997/bk_acx0_066997_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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