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41) The living tomb
Author
Series
Publisher
Peter Bedrick Books
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
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Description
Here is the classic anatomy of America's funeral practices, revised, expanded, and brought up-to-date for a new generation. This revised edition contains completely new chapters on, among other things, prepayment ("Pay Now - Die Poorer") and the new multinational corporations ("A Global Village of the Dead"), as well as a jaundiced look at the failure of the Federal Trade Commission to enforce the laws that the original edition of this book helped...
Author
Series
Patrick Melrose novels volume 5
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Friends, relatives, and foes trickle in to pay final respects to Patrick's mother, Eleanor. An American heiress, Eleanor married into the British aristocracy, giving up the grandeur of her upbringing for "good works" freely bestowed on everyone but her own son, who finds himself questioning whether his transition to a life without parents will indeed be the liberation he had so long imagined.
49) Tim's goodbye
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A touching picture book about a group of children who must say goodbye to a dear friend. Margot is sad because her beloved pet, Tim, has died. She and her friends band together to give him a proper sendoff. Melinda brings her French horn. Vincent brings balloons. Otto wears his best hat. When all gather together, they celebrate Tim's beautiful, simple life as they send him on a surprising farewell journey to a special place above the mountains and...
50) The last word
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Evan is a professional author of suicide notes. He meets with his clients, gets a sense of what they want, then asks them to keep a journal of their thoughts for a few weeks. Then Evan produces a poetic, client-customized suicide note. When Evan attends the funeral of a client, his sister Charlotte follows him out of the service and asks him if he was a friend of her brother's. Evan lies, stating that he went to Cornell with him. Soon he and Charlotte...
Author
Publisher
Hogarth, an imprint of Random House Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
"A young man journeys into Sri Lanka's formerly war-torn north, and into a country's soul, in this searing novel of love and the legacy of war from the award-winning author of The Story of a Brief Marriage. "The closest we seem to get to the present are those brief moments we stop to consider the spaces our bodies are occupying, the warmth of the sheets in which we wake, the scratched surface of the window on a train taking us somewhere else..." A...
53) Jazz
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner, a passionate, profound story of love and obsession that brings us back and forth in time, as a narrative is assembled from the emotions, hopes, fears, and deep realities of Black urban life. With a foreword by the author.
“As rich in themes and poetic images as her Pulitzer Prize–winning Beloved.... Morrison conjures up the hand of slavery on Harlem’s jazz generation....
“As rich in themes and poetic images as her Pulitzer Prize–winning Beloved.... Morrison conjures up the hand of slavery on Harlem’s jazz generation....
Author
Series
Jeremy Logan novels volume 3
Language
English
Description
Under the direction of famed explorer Porter Stone, an archaeological team is secretly attempting to locate the tomb of an ancient pharaoh who was unlike any other in history. Stone believes he has found the burial chamber of King Narmer, the near mythical god- king who united upper and lower Egypt in 3200 B.C., and the archaeologist has reason to believe that the greatest prize of all—Narmer’s crown—might be buried with him. No crown of an...
Author
Series
Man from Boot Hill volume 1
Publisher
Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Nick Graves is a Mourner. He arranges funerals and organizes gatherings for wakes as well as hangings, supplementing his meager income by making coffins. He's come to this profession he learned from his father after years making his living with a fast draw and a cool nerve. Nick wants to forget his past by assuming a simple life and a quiet vocation. But the town is full of corrupt men who will make it very difficult for Nick to continue the family...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Daniel is a decent young man who is married to Jane. They live at his father's home. When his father dies, it his up to him to organize his funeral. On the morning of the funeral, with a suitably grave expression on his face, Daniel is ready to welcome his father's friends and relatives. But preserving the dignity inherent in such a circumstance will be a hard task. Particularly with an undertaker who botches his work; his famous, but selfish brother...
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