Die Wise

Die WiseBy: Stephen Jenkinson A fierce, lyrical manifesto that dares readers to face death without sentimentalityand reveals dying well as one of the deepest acts of living, loving, and human responsibility. Die Wise does not offer seven steps for coping with death. It does not suggest ways to make dying easier. It pours no honey to make the medicine go down. Instead, with lyrical prose, deep wisdom, and stories from his two decades of working with dying

And what she wants is for scaredy-cat Tom to get out of her life

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Cleveland Plain Dealer

Burglar Bill lives all by himself in a tall house full of stolen property

Piper Whitley has always done her best to balance it all—raising her daughter Fern by herself while advancing her career as a crime reporter

the mysterious gods of India

until a deranged Steffi Graf fan plunged a knife into her back during a match in Hamburg and turned her life upside down

and laden with savory details of French cooking

to Babbage’s Difference Engine

the biblical King Solomon is said to have sent emissaries on land and sea to all corners of the ancient world

When a documentary filmmaker comes along to capture the phenomenon on film

and his erratic behavior