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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & other lessons from the crematory by Caitlin Doughty

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & other lessons from the crematory is a collection of personal stories and lessons learned by Caitlin Doughty, a current mortician, writing about her time as a crematory operator in California. It sounds pretty morbid, and at times it is, but it’s also entertaining, funny at times, and refreshingly honest. I learned a lot about the death industry and what happens behind the curtains. I’m sure I’m not the only one to wonder.

Dread Nation by Justina Ireland

Jane McKeene is a black young woman living in a post-Civil War world; a post-Civil War world that is being overrun by the undead. In Dread Nation‘s version of history the war ended because the dead rose up and started killing people and turning them and the Native and Negro Reeducation Act required that children like Jane be sent to special schools that educate them in the arts of proper society as well as in how to fight and kill the shamblers (zombies).

The Astonishing Color of After by Emily X.R. Pan

Leigh’s mother recently took her own life. Since then Leigh has had mysterious encounters with a red bird that she is convinced is her mom.  This leads her and her father to Tawain and grandparents Leigh has never met and a family history Leigh has never been told.