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Lily Bloom is an aging American transplanted to England who has lost her battle with cancer and lies wasting away at the Royal Ear Hospital. As her two daughters lumpy Charlotte, who runs a hugely successful chain of stationery stores called Waste of Paper, and beautiful Natasha, a junkiebuzz around her and the nurses pump her full of morphine, Lily slides in and out of the present, taking us on a surreal, opinionated trip through the stages of a lifetime of lust and rage.

It's 1988, and Lily Bloom, a 65-year-old American, lies dying of cancer in a London hospital. As her two daughters buzz around her and the nurses pump her full of morphine, she slides in and out of consciousness, outraged that there is so little time left and so many people still to disparage. As she begins her journey to the other world, she reflects on her husbands, her children, her entire life.

The Birth of Modern Zombies Long before zombies ruled television, streaming platforms, and blockbuster films, a small group of independent filmmakers in Pittsburgh unknowingly created a cultural revolution. At the center of that revolution was John A. Russo. In How I Gave Birth to The Return of the Living Dead, Russo tells the extraordinary true story of how a simple horror idea, dead people returning to devour the living, became one of the most influential concepts in movie history. From the groundbreaking creation of Night of the Living Dead to the long and unpredictable journey that led ...

The New York Times bestselling author of The Geography of Bliss and The Geography of Genius embarks on a rollicking intellectual journey, following in the footsteps of history’s greatest thinkers and showing us how each—from Epicurus to Gandhi, Thoreau to Beauvoir—offers practical and...

Daniel Kraus first saw George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead when he was five years old. Through watching it approximately three hundred times since, Kraus discovered the many ways the film is tied to his childhood trauma and how its influence has carried into his adulthood. He couldn’t help but wonder: Are there other admirers of the film out there who feel the same?

Living a life without your child in a physical presence is no longer going to be about living without them. Through this book, I'm going to help you to learn to live with them. What if I could teach you that your child is still very much with you? What if I can help you to feel your child at your side in all that you do? What if I can give you assurance that you will absolutely see your child again in heaven? I feel as though the more we know about heaven and life after life in heaven, the less we fear. I want you to know that your child in heaven made sure that you have this book in your ...

So how do you flip your mind from a negative spiral into realistic and rebellious hope? How do you stop focusing on the why and realise that 'why not me' is just as valid a question? How we learn to respond to any given situation empowers us or destroys us. We have the ability in our minds to dictate our own outcomes—bad or good—and with the right skills and approach, we can be the master of our lives. How to Live When You Could Be Dead will show you how. It will awaken you to question your life as if you didn't have a tomorrow and live it in the way you want to today. 

The Complete Guide to Overcoming Health Anxiety is an educational, humorous, and skills-driven self-help book (that can easily be used as a therapist guide).

We know that prayer is important—it’s the lifeblood of the Christian life. But almost all believers find prayer to be hard. We can experience discouragement or disillusionment in our prayer lives. We get distracted and disheartened.

When the police and FBI exhaust their abilities and options, and when grieving families run out of resources, their last best hope has been an Idaho couple who have spent their retirement years pursuing lost causes—and have located 130 victims from lakes and rivers across the United States and Canada. Gene and Sandy Ralston, a married Idaho couple in their mid 70s, are self-taught underwater search-and-recovery specialists who volunteer their time and equipment. And yet the Ralstons are counted among the best in the world.

New York Times bestselling author Theresa Caputo, star of Long Island Medium and Raising Spirits provides a guide to overcoming grief, filled with inspiring lessons from Spirit and astonishing stories from the clients who have been empowered and healed by her spiritual readings. After more than...

Tired of overthinking, people-pleasing, and living life by someone else’s rules? It’s time to stop caring what others think and build the life you want. Zero Fcks, Maximum Freedom is your unapologetic guide to finally breaking free. This is not another watered-down self-help book—it’s a bold manifesto for mental health, confidence, and living good daily on your own damn terms.

The Bible states: “As you go, preach this message: The kingdom of heaven is near. Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse those who have leprosy, drive out demons. Freely you have received, freely give” (Matthew 10:7-8). This is a command that is given to all followers of Jesus Christ. We hear a lot about going out and preaching, about healing and to a lesser degree, driving out demons. But what about raising the dead? Jesus’ words are right there. We are to “raise the dead.” But how do we as Christians go about doing that? As a believer we can never say that there are some things ...

Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, and gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it. For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly...

In 1943, ordinary people grew nearly half of America’s vegetables in their own yards, school lots, and community patches. In less than a lifetime, that power was handed to fertilizer plants, factories, and long supply chains you do not control. When shelves empty, trucks stop, or labels lie, most modern households have no backup plan. Backyard Food Security shows you how to build one. Drawing on more than 45 years of home inspection work and decades of hands‑on gardening, Marko Vovk walks you through a practical, no‑nonsense system for turning dead soil, tubs, and small patches of ...

Television shows have now eclipsed films as the premier form of visual narrative art of our time. This new book by one of our finest critics explains—historically, in depth, and with interviews with the celebrated creators themselves—how the art of must-see/binge-watch television evolved...

Much has been written about the storied New Hollywood of the 1970s, but while Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, and Francis Ford Coppola were making their first classic movies, a parallel universe of directors gave birth to the modern horror film - aggressive, raw, and utterly original. Based on unprecedented access to the genre's major players, New York Times critic Jason Zinoman's Shock Value delivers the first definitive account of horror's golden age.

In God Is Not Dead, Goswami moves beyond theory and shows how a God-based science puts ethics and values where it belongs: at the center of our lives and societies. He provides a scientific model that steers between scientific materialism and religious fundamentalism; a model that has implications for how we live both individually and collectively.   

Melanie may be a dead teenager but she's also an outrageously funny bad-mouthing bitch who doesn't care what you once thought about the life after death as she's gonna give you the straight goods. No bullshit, no church crap, no science dogma, no goody-two-shoes-gets-you-in crap. Yeah, it's the unvarnished truth as she sees it every hour of her deadlife - no denial,, no whitewash and no dumbing-down. Only the best, snippy sassy chictruth cutting through that men-in-suits society shit. Be who you want. Think what you like. Do who you fancy. It's all free. Every door is open. All you have to ...

Yes! You can survive working among the living dead; you can learn to deal with lifeless and negative people in the workplace. Desi Payne, author and humorous motivational speaker, will teach you strategies on how to handle negative people and the situations they create. You will learn about the different types of workplace zombies and what to do if you get infected by one of them.