Bookshelf

Non-Fiction

Adams, Randy. Eternal prairie : exploring rural cemeteries of the west. Calgary : Fifth House Publishers, 1999. Review.

Applegate, Shannon. Living among headstones : life in a country cemetery. New York : Thunder's Mouth Pres, 2005.

Bartley, Scott Andrew. Researching American cemetery records. Toronto : Heritage Productions, 2004.

Brawn, Charles and Dale. Every stone a story : Manitoba's buried history. Winnipeg: Great Plains Publications, 2008.

Bunnen, Lucinda and Virginia Warren Smith. Scoring in heaven : gravestones and cemetery art of the American sunbelt states. New York : Aperture, 1991.

Carmack, Sharon DeBartolo. Your guide to cemetery research. Cincinnati : Betterway Books, 2002.

Coffin, Margaret. Death in early America : the history and folklore of customs and superstitions of early medicine, funerals, burials, and mourning. Nashville : Nelson, 1976.

Florin, Lambert. Boot Hill; historic graves of the Old West. Seattle : Superior Pub. Co., 1966.

--. Tales the western tombstones tell. Seattle : Superior Pub. Co., 1967.

Fraser, Alex W. Gravestones of Glengarry. vol. 2 Belleville: Mika Pub. Co., 1976

Kennedy, James R. Who's where : a guide to the cemeteries of Rideau Township. North Gower : Township of Rideau History Committee, Rideau Heritage Board, 1980.

Kerr, W. P. History etched in stone : gravestone art and the garrison graveyard at Annapolis Royal. Kingston : Canadian Defence Academy Press, 2011.

Marion, John Francis. Famous and curious cemeteries : a pictorial, historical, and anecdotal view of American and European cemeteries and the famous and infamous people who are buried there. New York : Crown Publishers, 1977.

Millar, Nancy. Remember me as you pass by : stories from prairie graveyards. Calgary : Glenbow, 1994. Review.

--. Once upon a tomb : stories from Canadian graveyards. Calgary : Fifth House Publishers, 1997.

--. The final word : the book of Canadian epitaphs. Calgary: Brindle & Glass, 2004.

Perl, Lila. Dying to know—about death, funeral customs, and final resting places. Brookfield : Twenty-First Century Books, 2001.

Reed, J. D. Stairway to heaven: the final resting places of rock's legends. New York : Wenner Books, 2005.

Robinson, David. Beautiful death : art of the cemetery. New York : Penguin Studio, 1996.

Wallis, Charles Langworthy. American epitaphs : grave and humorous. New York : Dover Publications, 1973.

Wilkins, Charles. In the land of long fingernails : a gravedigger's memoir. Toronto : Viking Canada, 2008.

Worpole, Ken. Last landscapes : the architecture of the cemetery in the west. London : Reaktion Books, LTD., 2003.

Yalom, Marilyn. The American resting place : four hundred years of history through our cemeteries and burial grounds. New York : Houghton Mifflin Company, 2008. 


Fiction

Dahme, Joanne. Tombstone tea. Philadelphia : Running Press Kids, 2009.

Fitch, Sherre. The gravesavers : a novel. Toronto : Doubleday Canada, 2005.

Gaiman, Neil. The graveyard book. New York : Harper Collins Publishers, 2008. Review.

Niffenegger, Audrey. Her fearful symmetry : a novel. Toronto : Knopf Canada, 2009.

Stevens, Amanda. The restorer: a Graveyard Queen novel. Don Mills : MIRA, 2011.

--. The kingdom: a Graveyard Queen novel. Don Mills : MIRA, 2012.

--. The prophet: a Graveyard Queen novel. Don Mills : MIRA, 2012.

Taylor, Sarah Stewart. Judgement of the grave : a Sweeney St. George mystery. New York : St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2005.

--. O' artful death : a Sweeney St. George mystery. New York : St. Martins Minotaur, 2003.

--. Mansions of the dead : a Sweeney St. George mystery. New York  : St. Martin's Minotaur, 2004.

--. Still as death : a Sweeney St. George mystery. New York : St. Martin's Minotaur, 2006.


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