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Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
One of Victorian London's most respected undertakers, Violet Harper has the new duty of accompanying coffins from various undertakers on the London Necropolis Railway for respectful funerals and burials in Surrey. But on her fateful first trip, the mournful silence of the train is shattered by the shrill ringing of a coffin bell—a device that prevents a person from being buried alive. Inside the noisome coffin Violet finds a man wide-eyed with fear,...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
With the quiet precision of Jane Smileys A Thousand Acres and the technical clarity of Mary Roachs Stiff, this is a novel about a young woman who comes most alive while working in her fathers mortuary in a small, forgotten Western town. "The dead come to me vulnerable, sharing their stories and secrets . . . "Mary Crampton has spent all of her thirty years in Petroleum, a small Western town once supported by a powerful grain company. Living at home,...
Author
Series
Tales from the sinister city volume 2
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
With his father, a fugitive, falsely accused of multiple murders and the real serial killer stalking the wretched streets of Urbs Umida, Pin Carpue, a young undertaker's assistant, investigates and soon discovers that all of the victims may have attended the performance of a stage magician who claims to be able to raise corpses and make the dead speak.
Author
Publisher
Gotham Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Sheri Booker was only fifteen years old when she started working at Wylie Funeral Home in West Baltimore. She had no idea that her summer job would become nine years of immersion in a hidden world. Reeling from the death of her beloved great aunt, she found comfort in the funeral home, and soon has the run of the place, from its sacred chapels to the terrifying embalming room. With AIDS and gang violence threatening to wipe out a generation of black...
Series
Criterion collection volume 840
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Español
Description
An undertaker marries an executioner's daughter and reluctantly takes over her father's job so the family can keep their government allotted apartment.
29) William & Mary
Publisher
Distributed by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003, c2004
Language
English
Description
William Shawcross is looking for love, but few women are excited at the prospect of dating an undertaker. Wiliam sees Mary on a dating service video and is captivated - only she is too busy bringing babies into the world as a midwife to date someone whose job it is to see them out.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
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
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...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
While on a much-needed respite with her husband Sam in Nottinghamshire, undertaker Violet Harper is summoned to Welbeck Abbey by the Fifth Duke of Portland to prepare a body. His Grace is known as the "mad duke," and Violet has more than an inkling of why when she arrives at the grand estate and discovers that the corpse in question is that of the duke's favorite raven, Aristotle. Many of the duke's servants believe a dead raven is a harbinger of...
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"When Cherokee burial remains are unearthed on the site of a local cemetery's expansion, Barry Clayton, part-time deputy and full-time undertaker, finds his dual occupations collide. Then, during the interment of the wife of one of Gainesboro's most prominent citizens, Cherokee activist Jimmy Panther leads a protest. Words and fists fly. When Panther turns up executed on the grave of the deceased woman, Barry is forced to confront her family as the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Twopence Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Undertaker Violet Harper and her husband Sam are attending the long-anticipated opening of Egypt's new Suez Canal. The canal is the mastermind of the brilliant French engineer, Ferdinand de Lesseps. Fireworks, galas, and canal cruises are all part of the planned festivities at ports along the way. Tensions abound across the various European delegations in attendance. The Prussians, Dutch, French, British, Austrians, and Russians all have political...
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Towns like Gainesboro, North Carolina, may be small but go big on local traditions. When funeral director and part-time deputy sheriff Barry Clayton and his childhood nemesis, Archie Donovan, Jr., unite to create a fundraising float in Gainesboro's annual Apple Festival Parade, what could go wrong? With Archie involved - anything!"--
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
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Against the wishes of his mortician mother, Hadorah, twelve-year-old Walter and classmate Cordelia take a hearse on a road trip to meet legendary inventor Flasterborn, who once mentored Walter's long-dead father.
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
**Hypables Most Anticipated Queer YA Books of 2019**Book Riots 25 YA Book to Add to Your Winter TBR and Most Anticipated 2019 LGBTQ Reads**BookBubs Best Teen Books Coming Out in 2019** “A fearless and brutal look at friendships...you will laugh, rage, and mourn its loss when its over.” Justina Ireland, New York Times bestselling author of Dread Nation. “Simultaneously hilarious and moving, weird and wonderful.” Jeff Zentner, Morris Awardwinning...
40) Listening still
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"From Anne Griffin, the bestselling author of When All is Said, comes Listening Still, a refreshing new novel about a young woman who can hear the dead--a talent which is both a gift and a curse. Jeanie Masterson has a gift: she can hear the recently dead and give voice to their final wishes and revelations. Inherited from her father, this gift has enabled the family undertakers to flourish in their small Irish town. Yet she has always been uneasy...
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