Author: P.H. Liotta
Publisher: Quale Pre
Keywords: monuments, fallen, graveyard
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 2007-06-01
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0974450383
ISBN-13: 9780974450384

Poetry. THE GRAVEYARD OF FALLEN MONUMENTS is a personal history of the author’s humanity. Comprising over a quarter century’s work of poems, from a memoir-in-verse of a near fatal ascent of Iran’s mythic Mount Damavand to reflections on the current disasters in the Middle East and Southwest Asia, this book is both a personal and a political statement. While the focus is often on personal, often incredible experience, Liotta never moves far from the issue of family--especially concerns for the future of his daughter, Gaia. In a larger sense, of course, this book is finally an

Author: Neil Gaiman
Publisher: HarperCollins
Keywords: book, graveyard
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2008-10-01
List price: $17.99
ISBN-10: 0060530928
ISBN-13: 9780060530921

Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn’t live in a sprawling graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor of the dead. There are dangers and adventures in the graveyard for a boy-an ancient Indigo Man beneath the hill, a gateway to a desert leading to an abandoned city of ghouls, the strange and terrible menace of the Sleer. But if Bod leaves the graveyard, then he will come under attack from the man Jack—who has already killed Bod’s

Author: Thom Nicholson
Publisher: Signet
Keywords: graveyard, stagecoach
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2009-04-07
List price: $5.99
ISBN-10: 0451226550
ISBN-13: 9780451226556

Bounty hunter Marty Keller hadn’t figured on riding shotgun on a threatened stagecoach line. But for the right price he’ll take on as many outlaws as necessary—because on this trip the cargo is hot lead and cold death.

Author: Ray Bradbury
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Keywords: cities, tale, lunatics, graveyard
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2001-07-01
List price: $13.99
ISBN-10: 0380812002
ISBN-13: 9780380812004

Halloween Night, 1954.  A young, film-obsessed scriptwriter has just been hired at one of the great studios.  An anonymous investigation leads from the giant Maximus Films backlot to an eerie graveyard separated from the studio by a single wall.  There he makes a terrifying discovery that thrusts him into a maelstrom of intrigue and mystery -- and into the dizzy exhilaration of the movie industry at the height of its glittering power.

Author: Seth G. Jones
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: afghanistan, war, america, empires, graveyard
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 2010-04-12
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0393338517
ISBN-13: 9780393338515

A definitive account of the American experience in Afghanistan from the rise of the Taliban to the depths of the insurgency. After the swift defeat of the Taliban in 2001, American optimism has steadily evaporated in the face of mounting violence; a new “war of a thousand cuts” has now brought the country to its knees. In the Graveyard of Empires is a political history of Afghanistan in the “Age of Terror” from 2001 to 2009, exploring the fundamental tragedy of America’s longest war since Vietnam. After a brief survey of the great empires in Afghanistan—the campaigns of Alexand

Author: Lynette Strangstad
Publisher: AltaMira Press
Keywords: local, history, books, state, association, preservation, primer, american, graveyard
Number of Pages: 126
Published: 1995-10-06
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 0761991301
ISBN-13: 9780761991304

This slender volume encapsulates more information on graveyard preservation than any other restoration guidebook available. Packed with effective methods of maintenance and repair, "A Graveyard Preservation Primer" will help you restore and prolong the life of the stones in your care. Numerous photos and illustrations further clarify and demonstrate different problems and remedies for the beginning preservationist. Strangstad, who is familiar with historic yards from Halifax to Savannah, provides a step-by-step guidebook that is an indispensable reference tool for anyone interested in graveyar

Author: Mark L. Thompson
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Keywords: lakes, books, graveyard
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2006-05
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0814332269
ISBN-13: 9780814332269

An analysis of the economic, social, and psychological factors that have influenced shipwrecks on the Great Lakes.