Product Description: Remembering the Fallen of the First World War takes a fascinating and detailed look at how servicemen killed during the First World War were commemorated. Beginning during the war itself, the book investigates the options available at the time - repatriation and normal burial were intially considered, but the sheer number of the dead precluded this, so cemeteries close the battlefields became the only realistic option...read more

Using family photographs and quotes from her books, the author provides glimpses into her life

Product Description: Bestselling novelist (How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents) and children's (The Tia Lola Stories) author Julia Alvarez's new Spanish-language picture book is a beautifully crafted poem for children that gently addresses the emotional side of death...read more

Product Description: As an historical foot note, some historians feel the Germans got their plan for their "final solution" to the Jewish problem from America’s treatment of Blacks between 1914 and 1935. The newspaper accounts of the East St. Louis Massacre and other lynching's and white race riots were widely circulated in the French, English and German press...read more

Product Description: Dealing with a death in the family is one of the most upsetting things that a young person can face. Whether it is a parent, grandparent, brother, sister, member of the extended family, or pet, this kind of loss can be heartbreaking...read more

A ten-year-old girl tells of the many feelings she has regarding her mother's cancer.

Product Description: My best friend went to heaven and I'm glad to know I'll see her again someday.

Product Description: It all started with forever, the word that kept David and Angela’s promise strong. These two special people were about to learn how strong their promise really was. David was sent to do a very important job and that’s how David became the Promise from Above!

Product Description: In If It Were up to Us, author Shannon Everhart Collins takes us on a journey to explore what our world would look like if there were no death. Collins gives us a humorous look at what our world would become if we were in control and no one we love ever died...read more

Product Description: If you’ve lost a sibling, you feel sad, confused, or even angry. For the first time, a psychotherapist specializing in teen and adolescent bereavement offers a compassionate guide to help you discover your unique coping style, deal with overwhelming emotions, and find constructive ways to manage this profound loss so you can move forward in a meaningful and healthy way...read more

Drawing on extensive historical and anthropological research, personal accounts, and interviews with people who work in the funeral industry, Penny Colman examines the compelling subjects of death and burial across cultures and societies. The text, enriched with stories both humorous and poignant, includes details about the decomposition and embalming processes (an adult corpse buried six feet deep without a coffin will usually take five to ten years to turn into a skeleton) and describes the various customs associated with containing remains (the Igala people in Nigeria have a custom of burying people in as many as twenty-seven layers of clothing). Intriguing facts are revealed at every turn; for example, in Madagascar winter was considered the corpse-turning season.This comprehensive book also includes a list of burial sites of famous people, images in the arts associated with death, fascinating epitaphs and gravestone carvings, a chronology and a glossary, and over a hundred black-and-white photographs, most of which were taken by the author.Penny Colman writes with compassion and intelligence and humanizes the difficult subjects of death and burial. The result is a powerful look at an inevitable part of life--death.