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Series
Publisher
Arcadia Publishing
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
"Join author and Louisiana historian Eric J. Brock on a visual tour of the most captivating New Orleans burial sites - above ground! The mysticism of cemeteries is inescapable and the cemeteries of New Orleans are no exception. They have long enticed residents and visitors alike with their beauty and rich history. We are intrigued by the way these sacred cities of the dead have the ability to both fascinate and unnerve us at the same time. Within...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It's early May in the small English village of Finch and the air is crackling with excitement: a newcomer is about to move into Pussywillows, a riverside cottage with a romantic reputation. Will the cottage's newest resident prove yet again its enchanting ability to matchmake? But when Crispin Windle arrives, no one knows what to make of him: seemingly a loner, he repels every welcoming gesture and appears altogether uninterested in being a part...
Series
Criterion collection volume 751 & 752
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Errol Morris changed the face of documentary filmmaking in the US, and his career began with two remarkable tales of American eccentricity: The first uses two Southern California pet cemeteries as the bases for a profound and funny rumination on love, loss, and industry; the second travels to a languorous southern backwater and meets a handful of fascinating folks; a determined turkey hunter, a curious minister, a laconic policeman, engaged in individualistic,...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year old orphan Emma Casey lives by a haunted graveyard in her Tennessee town, giving tours, and helping her brother and Granny Blue with the family bakery, and waiting for the destiny dream of her ancestors--but when it comes it shows her only a key, and she finds that she must solve a ghostly mystery that has haunted her town for generations.
Author
Series
Graveyard book (Graphic novels) volume 2
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
The concluding volume of the graphic novel adaptation. A boy, raised by the inhabitants of the local graveyard rally to protect him from a league of villains named Jack who seek to destroy him.
Author
Series
Qwikpick papers volume 3
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"Local legend has it that a slave master was buried standing up in the plantation's family tomb. Why? So that he could continue overseeing his slaves--even in death! When the Qwikpickers hear about this, they decide it's high time to administer some 200-year-overdue justice and knock him down. Mission Kick a Corpse is on"--
48) The American resting place: four hundred years of history through our cemeteries and burial grounds
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
49) Pet sematary
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Description
The Creeds move next door to a pet cemetery, which is built over old Native American burial grounds with the power of resurrection.
Author
Series
Publisher
Subterranean Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
When the mummified corpse of a beloved prize-winning dachshund named Coco Butternut is stolen from her final resting place, Hap Collins and Leonard Pine are hired by the owner to get her body back. The job is straightforward: they must simply exchange a bag full of cash for the missing pooch's mummy. But they can feel something's not on the up-and-up, and how right they are. With assistance from Hap's significant other, Brett, and his daughter, Chance,...
Author
Publisher
Lyons Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
A Holocaust survivor recounts her journey to her family's hometown of Šamorín, Slovakia, to exhume the bodies of her grandparents from a Jewish cemetery that would soon be flooded by a new dam on the Danube River, and take the bodies to Israel for reburial.
Author
Publisher
Flux
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Upon moving to her mother's upstate New York home after her gambler father leaves, ninth-grader Elizah just wants to be left alone until she meets Nathaniel in the cemetery where her mother is caretaker, and feels instantly drawn to him.
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Sweeney's chance encounter with a young boy sparks her interest in the boy's Revolutionary War-era ancestor, a stonecutter and gravestone maker. Coincidentally, Sweeney and the boy also stumble on the body of a murdered man in Revolutionary War clothing near the site of a recent historical reenactment. And, to make things more interesting, it turns out the dead man was writing a book on the boy's stonecutter ancestor. Sweeney and homicide detective...
54) Pure
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Engineer Jean-Baptiste Baratte is tasked with emptying an overflowing cemetery in Paris in 1785, work he considers noble until he begins to suspect that the destruction of the cemetery parallels his own fate and the demise of social order.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
♭2014.
Language
English
Description
"An emotionally-charged, brilliantly realized novel set in the l930's about five American women--Gold Star Mothers--who travel to France to visit the graves of their WWI soldier sons: a pilgrimage that will change their lives in unforeseeable and indelible ways. The women meet for the first time just before their journey begins: Katie, an Irish maid from Dorchester, Massachusetts; Minnie, wife of an immigrant Russian Jewish chicken farmer; Bobbie,...
59) The unknowns
Publisher
Time To Kill Productions
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Witness volunteers from the U.S. Army's most elite ceremonial unit as they volunteer to take on the intense training cycle at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery. Journey with the 'New Men' as they progress through a nine month gauntlet of instruction, correction, and the pursuit of perfection. Watch as these soldiers are exposed to the rich history and honorable traditions of the brotherhood of Sentinels who guard the...
Publisher
Icarus Films
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
Español
Description
Night after night, Martin watches over the extravagant mausoleums of Mexico's most notorious drug lords like a guardian angel. Set in a massive, labyrinthine cemetery in the hours between dusk and dawn, Natalia Almada's haunting documentary reminds us that even today, during the turmoil of Mexico's bloodiest conflict since the revolution, ordinary life persists. El Velador is a film about violence without violence. DVD format.
Award-winning filmmaker...
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