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  • The Best Care Possible

    A Physician's Quest to Transform Care Through the End of Life

    by Ira Byock ...
    A palliative care doctor on the front lines of hospital care illuminates one of the most important and controversial ethical issues of our time on his quest to transform care through the end of life.It is harder to die in this country than ever before. Statistics show that the vast majority of Americans would prefer to die at home, yet many of us spend our last days fearful and in pain in a ... Read more

    S$ 7.29 SGD

  • When Breath Becomes Air

    Pulitzer Prize Finalist

    **#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • OVER TWO MILLION COPIES SOLDThis inspiring, exquisitely observed memoir finds hope and beauty in the face of insurmountable odds as an idealistic young neurosurgeon attempts to answer the question, What makes a life worth living?**“Unmissable . . . Finishing this book and then forgetting about it is simply not an option.”—Janet Maslin, The ... Read more

    S$ 13.29 SGD

  • Being Mortal

    Medicine and What Matters in the End

    by Atul Gawande ...
    **#1 New York Times BestsellerIn Being Mortal, bestselling author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its ending**Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable. But in the inevitable condition of aging and death, the goals of medicine ... Read more

    S$ 14.16 SGD

  • Death of an Ordinary Man

    Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction 2026

    by Sarah Perry ...
    LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2026WINNER OF THE NERO BOOK AWARD FOR NON-FICTION 2025LONGLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2026‘Please read this book. It may very well change how you live’ Rachel Clarke‘Profound…compelling…beautiful’ Nina Stibbe‘Filled with love…I was spellbound’ Kathryn Mannix‘Brilliant…so special’ Guardian</... ... Read more

    S$ 17.43 SGD

  • Über das Sterben

    Was wir wissen. Was wir tun können. Wie wir uns darauf einstellen

    Geburt und Tod sind Ereignisse, für die die Natur bestimmte Programme vorgesehen hat. Sie laufen dann am besten ab, wenn sie möglichst wenig gestört werden. Palliativbetreuung und Sterbebegleitung sind deshalb viel mehr als medizinische Symptomkontrolle. Sie leben vor allem von dem Gespräch zwischen allen Beteiligten, das die medizinische, psychosoziale und spirituelle Betreuung erst möglich macht ... Read more

    S$ 21.53 SGD

  • All That Remains

    A Life in Death

    'Utterly gripping' - The Guardian'Fascinating' - The Sunday Times'Moving' - Scotsman'Engrossing' - Financial TimesSue Black confronts death every day. As a Professor of Anatomy and Forensic Anthropology, she focuses on mortal remains in her lab, at burial sites, at scenes of violence, murder and criminal dismemberment, and when investigating mass fatalities d... ... Read more

    S$ 18.96 SGD

  • Notes on Grief

    **DREAM COUNT, the searing, exquisite new novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is out now!**A devastating essay on loss and the people we love from the bestselling author of Americanah and Half of a Yellow Sun.'Grief is a cruel kind of education. You learn how ungentle mourning can be, how full of anger. You learn how glib condolences can feel. You learn how much grief is about language, the failure ... Read more

    S$ 14.49 SGD

  • 當呼吸化為空氣:一位天才神經外科醫師最後的生命洞察(揪心感動暢銷版)

    When Breath Becomes Air

    Translated by 唐勤 ...
    Series series 人生顧問
    人終將一死,但當死亡迫近時,我們才會開始學習如何好好活著。*蟬聯亞馬遜書店長銷榜的經典動人之作。*榮獲紐約時報暢銷書。*入選普立茲獎決選名單、比爾.蓋茲2017年推薦書單。「這本小書擁有非常多層次的意義及諸多的對比關係,比如生與死、病人與醫生、兒子與父親、工作與家庭、信仰與理智。在保羅短暫的一生中,他透過書籍、寫作、醫學、手術、科學等各種方式探尋生命的意義。我非常有幸能閱讀這本書,得以見證這段旅程的一小部分。」──比爾.蓋茲「患病後,棘手之處在於,你的價值觀不斷在變……你決定要把時間花在當神經外科醫師,可是兩個月後,你不那麼想了。再過兩個月,你也許想去學吹薩克斯風,或想全心服事教會。死亡是個單一事件,可是身罹絕症地活下去,卻是個歷程。」──保羅.卡拉尼提即將攀上充滿希望的人生巔峰,死亡的陰影卻突然橫亙身前,一位三十七歲的... ... Read more

    S$ 9.85 SGD

  • Why We Die

    The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality

    "Utterly fascinating." —Bill Bryson"An incredible journey." —Siddhartha Mukherjee*WINNER OF THE 2025 ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN PUBLISHERS PROSE AWARD FOR BEST BOOK ON BIOLOGY**2025 NAUTILUS BOOK AWARDS GOLD WINNER FOR SCIENCE AND COSMOLOGY*A groundbreaking exploration of the science of longevity and mortality—from Nobel Prize-winning molecular biologist Venki Ramakrishnan... ... Read more

    S$ 15.90 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Unnatural Causes

    Gripping true stories from the Sunday Times bestselling forensic pathologist

    THE TRUE CRIME BOOK OF THE YEAR AND 18-WEEK SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER'One of the most fascinating books I have read in a long time. Engrossing, a haunting page-turner. A book I could not put down' The Times, BOOKS OF THE YEAR__________Meet the forensic pathologist, Dr Richard Shepherd.He solves the mysteries of unexplained or sudden death.He has performed over 2... ... Read more

    S$ 13.61 SGD

  • The Tibetan Book Of Living And Dying

    A Spiritual Classic from One of the Foremost Interpreters of Tibetan Buddhism to the West

    Written by the Buddhist meditation master and popular international speaker Soygal Rinpoche, this highly acclaimed book clarifies the majestic vision of life and death that underlies the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. It includes not only a lucid, inspiring and complete introduction to the practice of meditation but also advice on how to care for the dying with love and compassion, and how to bring ... Read more

    S$ 21.03 SGD

  • Dying to Meet You

    Confessions of a Funeral Director

    by Angjolie Mei ...
    Navigate death and grieving with greater openness, honesty, and preparation thanks to the supportive expertise of Singapore's leading "life celebrant." Growing up with a hardworking undertaker father known as the Coffin King, death was the family business for Angjolie Mei—but that didn't make it any easier to understand, or grief any easier to feel. When her father died unexpectedly, leaving debts ... Read more

    S$ 19.35 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Stiff

    The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

    by Mary Roach ...
    A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND THE PERFECT READ FOR FANS OF UNNATURAL CAUSESWhat happens to your body after you have died?Fertilizer? Crash Test Dummy? Human Dumpling? Ballistics Practise?Life after death is not as simple as it looks. Mary Roach's Stiff lifts the lid off what happens to our bodies once we have died. Bold, original and with a delightful eye for detail, Roach tells us everything we ... Read more

    S$ 15.03 SGD

  • The Year of Magical Thinking

    by Joan Didion ...
    From one of America's iconic writers, a portrait of a marriage and a life – in good times and bad – that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child. A stunning book of electric honesty and passion.Joan Didion explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: several days before Christmas 2003, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion saw their only daughter, Quintana, fall ... Read more

    S$ 11.33 SGD

  • Blink of an Eye

    A gripping crime thriller with an unforgettable detective duo

    by Louisa Scarr ...
    Series Book 3 - Butler & West
    Five friends meet. Only four come home.On Christmas morning, DS Robin Butler has no plans to celebrate. He'll be glad to get back to work a wish that comes true sooner than he anticipates. A dog walker at a local beach has discovered five unresponsive people strewn across the shingle. By the time Robin arrives, one is pronounced dead, and the other four are being treated in hospital.DC Freya West ... Read more

    S$ 13.61 SGD

  • Bittersweet

    How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole

    by Susan Cain ...
    AN OPRAH BOOK CLUB PICKTHE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER -- FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER QUIET: THE POWER OF INTROVERTS IN A WORLD THAT CAN'T STOP TALKING"Amazing and profound . . . every single person should read it" Johann Hari"Moving and eloquent" Sunday TimesWhether you long for the partner who broke up with you, or the one you dre... ... Read more

    S$ 18.96 SGD

  • The Girls in the Glen

    An unputdownable Scottish mystery

    by Lynne McEwan ...
    Series Book 3 - Detective Shona Oliver
    'A thrilling new voice in Scottish fiction' Marion ToddIf the dead could speak, what secrets would they tell?With her daughter on an archaeological dig, the only bodies DI Shona Oliver expects to find are long-dead. But when a corpse from the 1980s is unearthed, Shona quickly realises that it may be one of the missing "Girls in the Glen", victim of a notorious serial killer.Shona's superiors want ... Read more

    S$ 15.03 SGD

  • The Worm at the Core

    On the Role of Death in Life

    A transformative, fascinating theory—based on robust and groundbreaking experimental research—reveals how our unconscious fear of death powers almost everything we do, shining a light on the hidden motives that drive human behaviorMore than one hundred years ago, the American philosopher William James dubbed the knowledge that we must die “the worm at the core” of the human condition. In 1974, ... Read more

    S$ 17.43 SGD

  • Grief Works

    Stories of Life, Death and Surviving

    by Julia Samuel ...
    A Sunday Times Top 10 BestsellerDeath affects us all. Yet it is still the last taboo in our society, and grief is still profoundly misunderstood...In Grief Works we hear stories from those who have experienced great love and great loss - and survived. Stories that explain how grief unmasks our greatest fears, strips away our layers of protection and reveals our innermost selves.Julia Samuel, a ... Read more

    S$ 15.03 SGD

  • All the Living and the Dead

    A Personal Investigation into the Death Trade

    'A superlative piece of writing... provocative, loving and profound' THE TIMES'Without exaggeration, an awe-inspiring achievement' NIGELLA LAWSONAn Irish Times Book of the YearIn this profoundly moving and remarkable book, journalist Hayley Campbell explores society's attitudes towards death, and the impact on those who work with it every day. 'If the reason we're outsourcing this burden is ... Read more

    S$ 17.32 SGD

  • The Heart-Shaped Tin

    Love, Loss and Kitchen Objects

    by Bee Wilson ...
    Winner of the André Simon Food Book AwardShortlisted for the Fortnum & Mason Food Book Award‘Extraordinary’ TELEGRAPH ★★★★★'Delightful' GUARDIAN'Bee Wilson is one of my favourite writers and this may be her best book' CHRIS VAN TULLEKENThis strikingly original account from award-winning food writer Bee Wilson charts how everyday objects take on deepl... ... Read more

    S$ 23.32 SGD

  • Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism

    A New York Times BestsellerA Wall Street Journal BestsellerA New York Times Notable Book of 2020A New York Times Book Review Editors’ ChoiceShortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the YearA New Statesman Book to ReadFrom economist Anne Case and Nobel Prize winner Angus Deaton, a groundbreaking account of how the flaws in capitalism are fatal for America... ... Read more

    S$ 18.85 SGD

  • Curious Coffins and Riveting Rituals

    Death Practices Around the World

    by YY Liak ...
    Discover the world’s most fascinating death and funeral traditions in this illustrated modern-day memento mori.Embark on a whirlwind tour of burial, preservation, and memorial practices and landmarks from across the globe and throughout history, ranging from the customs of our ancestors to contemporary practices. In these vibrantly illustrated pages, you can explore how humans from time immemorial ... Read more

    S$ 2.75 SGD

  • Written In Bone

    hidden stories in what we leave behind

    WINNER OF THE CWA GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION'Gripping from the start, Written in Bone is superb' - Dr Richard Shepherd, author of Unnatural Causes'No Scientist communicates better than Sue Black' - Val McDermid, author of Still Life'Macabre, authoritative and fascinating.' - The Sunday TimesOur bones are the silent witnesses to the... ... Read more

    S$ 17.43 SGD