West Routt Library District

Lists the lives, deaths, and final resting places for over 450 historical and cultural figures, including Christopher Columbus, Joe DiMaggio, Robert Frost, Alfred Hitchcock, Mother Teresa, and Oskar Schindler.

In this true crime memoir, Lana Wood offers a no-holds-barred account of the life and death of her sister, Natalie Wood, including exclusive new information from people directly involved in the investigation. Clearing up the myths and misconceptions behind her sister's death, the legendary Hollywood actress reveals the secrets she's been holding onto for decades, and in doing so, sets the record straight on one of Hollywood's most notorious celebrity...

Presents photographs of the gravesites of seventy-five famous people, accompanied by short biographies that highlight unusual and unexpected facts about their lives and deaths.

"Unlike any other book Browne has published, AFTERLIVES OF THE RICH AND FAMOUS addresses both the lives and the afterlives of forty celebrities we've loved and lost. Sylvia has written before about what transpires after death, but this is by far the most complete picture she's ever painted. Best of all, she's giving us another intimate glimpse of cherished lives we thought we'd lost. Alternately moving and rollicking, this is one read that's truly...

Kurt Cobain, Anne Sexton, Mark Rothko, Ernest Hemingway, Adolf Hitler . . . all famous, some rich and powerful, some beloved, some abhorred. But when life and circumstance got to be too much, each headed for the exit door. Sigmund Freud overdosed on morphine. Dorothy Dandridge stripped naked and swallowed a handful of antidepressants. Hunter S. Thompson shot himself while talking to his wife on the phone. These are the lonely personal nightmares...

When a life ends tragically whether by violence or accident, pathologists perform an autopsy to determine the cause of death. It is a methodical, morbid, and necessary task. These autopsy reports, often filled with medical terminology and intriguing diagrams of the bodies we knew so well from their lives on the big screen, offer an unusual insight into the nature of death itself. The reports you'll find here provide a fascinating glimpse into the...