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1) Lost heart
Publisher
Lost Heart, LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Hannah Sweet is in a destructive spiral that threatens her career as a country music star. She hasn't been home to the sleepy lakeside town of Lost Heart since she ran away as a teenager. But when her estranged father, Harris, dies amidst claims of UFO encounters, Hannah begrudgingly returns for the funeral. She meets Milo, a forward-thinking, conspiracy-loving pastor who tries to lead Hannah towards reconciliation with her family, especially her...
Series
Criterion collection volume 720
Publisher
Columbia Pictures Industries
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
After the shocking suicide of their friend, a group of thirty-somethings reunite for his funeral and end up spending a weekend together, reminiscing about their shared pasts as children of the sixties and confronting the uncertainty of their lives as adults of the eighties.
Publisher
[Midwest Tape]
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A collection of DVDs all gathered into one "binge box" for a spectacular movie night.
For colored girls (R) (2010) (134 min.): A vibrant world where friends and strangers dream, fear, cry, love, and laugh out loud in an attempt to find their true selves. Adapted by writer/director Tyler Perry from Ntozake Shange's acclaimed choreopoem, this gripping film paints an unforgettable portrait of what it means to be a woman of color in the modern world.
Tyler...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"What do you think happens to you when you die? And what do you want done with your body? For three years Shannon Lee Dawdy travelled the U.S., from Vermont to California, Illinois to Alabama, posing such questions to a wide range of people from all walks of life. Many of her interlocutors recently lost loved ones. She also spoke to people who have made death their business: funeral directors, death care entrepreneurs, designers, cemetery owners,...
Author
Publisher
PowerKids Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Español
Description
Halloween is an exciting time of year. People decorate their houses and lawns with pumpkins and scary figurines. On the night of Halloween, some kids dress up in costumes and go out trick-or-treating for candy. Other people throw a Halloween party. This fun book shows children some American Halloween traditions through eye-catching illustrations. Age-appropriate language makes this book an easy read for emerging readers and enjoyable for children...
7) Bleachers
Author
Language
English
Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • High school all-American Neely Crenshaw was probably the best quarterback ever to play for the legendary Messina Spartans. Fifteen years have gone by since those glory days, and Neely has come home to Messina to bury Coach Eddie Rake, the man who molded the Spartans into an unbeatable football dynasty.
Now, as Coach Rake’s “boys” sit in the bleachers waiting for the dimming field...
Now, as Coach Rake’s “boys” sit in the bleachers waiting for the dimming field...
Series
Publisher
Penguin Group
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
The Book of the Dead is a unique collection of funerary texts from a wide variety of sources, dating from the fifteenth to the fourth century BC. Consisting of spells, prayers and incantations, each section contains the words of power to overcome obstacles in the afterlife. The papyruses were often left in sarcophagi for the dead to use as passports on their journey from burial, and were full of advice about the ferrymen, gods and kings they would...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A deeply compelling exploration of the death industry and the people-morticians, detectives, crime scene cleaners, embalmers, executioners-who work in it and what led them there. We are surrounded by death. It is in our news, our nursery rhymes, our true-crime podcasts. Yet from a young age, we are told that death is something to be feared. How are we supposed to know what we're so afraid of, when we are never given the chance to look? Fueled by...
Series
Criterion collection volume 1125
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
日本語
Description
"It's death, Japanese style, in the rollicking and wistful first feature from maverick writer-director Juzo Itami. In the wake of her lascivious father's sudden passing, a successful actor (Itami's wife and frequent collaborator, Nobuko Miyamoto) and her husband (Tsutomu Yamazaki) leave Tokyo and return to their family house to oversee a traditional funeral. Over the course of three days of mourning that bring illicit escapades in the woods, a surprisingly...
Author
Publisher
Jove
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"When a woman travels to Nigeria to attend the funeral of the father she never knew, she meets an over-the-top family, a new love interest, and discovers parts of herself she didn't know were missing in this engrossing novel from Jane Igharo, the acclaimed author of Ties That Tether. Hannah Bailey has never had a relationship with her father, the Nigerian businessman who had a fling with her white mother, so she's always felt clueless about part of...
Author
Series
Everday disasters volume 1
Publisher
Lucky Foot Press with Book View Café
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
"Celebrating death never felt so good. Beck Wyatt has always hated her mother--enough to kill her. As luck would have it, someone beats her to murdering Mommy Dearest and now Beck gets to plan the tackiest funeral the world has ever seen for the worst woman she's ever known. But first, Beck has a few minor problems to deal with. First on the list? Avoid getting kidnapped. She also has to convince the police she didn't kill her mother. And then there's...
Author
Publisher
Cicada Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Bastet is a mummified cat who is here to take you on a journey through the mystical death rituals of Ancient Egypt. Starting with some routine disembowelment and mummification, she explains about the role of the coffins, the separation of your soul, the importance of amulets and the various types of Egyptian tombs. Together, you will cross the river Styx and face the gods in one final judgement, the weighing of the heart. Bastet will make sure you...
Author
Publisher
Citadel Press/ Kensington Publishing
Pub. Date
2010, 2010
Language
English
Description
When the casket reached the front of the sanctuary, there was a loud cracking sound as the bottom fell out. And with a thump, down came Father Iggy. From shoot-outs at funerals to dead men screaming and runaway corpses, undertakers have plenty of unusual stories to tell and a special way of telling them. In this macabre and moving compilation, funeral directors across the country share their most embarrassing, jaw-dropping, irreverent, and deeply...
17) Edge of doom
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
An alienated young man is driven to murder when a priest refuses to give his deceased mother an expensive funeral.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Unfolding over the course of a single emotionally fraught day, this stunning novel encompasses a lifetime of dreams, regrets and reckonings. Maggie and Ira Moran are on a road trip from Baltimore, Maryland to Deer Lick, Pennsylvania to attend the funeral of a friend. Along the way, they reflect on the state of their marriage, its trials and its triumphs - through their quarrels, their routines, and their ability to tolerate each other's faults with...
19) Stone maidens
Author
Series
Christine Prusik volume 1
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
A serial killer is strangling young women and dumping their lifeless bodies in the steep forested ravines of southern Indiana. With each corpse he leaves a calling card: a stone figurine wedged deep inside the victim's throat. FBI forensic anthropologist Christine Prusik saw such figurines placed inside the bodies of the dead years ago when researching in Papua New Guinea. Is someone trying to send Christine a message?
20) Give me liberty
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Medical transport driver Vic is late, but it's not his fault. Roads are closed for a protest, and no one else can shuttle his Russian grandfather and emigre friends to a funeral. The new route uproots his scheduled clients, particularly Tracy, a vibrant young woman with ALS. As the day goes from hectic to off-the-rails, their collective ride becomes a hilarious, compassionate, and intersectional portrait of American dreams.
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