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41) Jazz
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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
Publisher
The University of Georgia Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"American Afterlife by Kate Sweeney reveals this world through a collective portrait of Americans past and present who find themselves personally involved with death: a klatch of obit writers in the desert, a funeral voyage on the Atlantic, a fourth-generation funeral director--even a Midwestern museum that takes us back in time to meet our death obsessed Victorian progenitors. Each story illuminates details in another until something larger is revealed:...
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
''The Funeral Cryer long ago accepted the mundane realities of her life: avoided by fellow villagers because of the stigma attached to her job and underappreciated by her husband, whose fecklessness has pushed the couple close to the brink of breakup. But just when things couldn't be bleaker, she takes a leap of faith—and in so doing, things start to take a surprising turn for the better. Dark, moving and wry, The Funeral Cryer is both an illuminating...
50) Speechless
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"As if being stuffed into last year's dress pants at his cousin's wake weren't uncomfortable enough, thirteen-year-old Jimmy has just learned from his mother that he has to say a few words at the funeral the next day. Why him? What could he possibly say about his cousin, who ruined everything they did? He can't recall one birthday party, family gathering, or school event with Patrick that didn't result in injury or destruction. As Jimmy attempts to...
51) Good mourning
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Author
Language
English
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Description
Elizabeth Mountbatten never expected her father to die so suddenly, so young, leaving her with a throne to fill and a global institution to govern. Crowned at twenty-five, she was already a wife and mother as she began her journey towards becoming a queen. As Britain lifted itself out of the shadow of war, the new monarch faced her own challenges. Her mother doubted her marriage; her uncle-in-exile derided her abilities; her husband resented the sacrifice...
Author
Series
Publisher
Heinemann Library
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Discusses the role of pharoahs, priests, gods, goddesses, and various other official figures in ancient Egyptian society, and explains the rituals practiced when death occurred.
Author
Series
Publisher
Capstone Curriculum Pub
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Discusses ancient Egyptian customs and beliefs regarding death and the afterlife, the process of mummification, and the legend of a mummy's curse in relation to the discovery of King Tut's tomb in 1922.
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Dante Mancuso works for The Company, a security organization operating just this side of the law. Returning home to San Francisco's Little Italy to attend the funeral of his father, Dante finds himself being pursued by Frank Ying, a Chinese detective eager to know the secrets Dante hides.
57) 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
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Soon after his mother's death, Matt takes a job at a funeral home in his tough Brooklyn neighborhood and, while attending and assisting with funerals, begins to accept her death and his responsibilities as a man.
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