Long, Thomas G.
Summary: "Two of the most authoritative voices on the funeral industry come together here in one volume to discuss the current state of the funeral. Through their different lenses -- one as a preacher and one as a funeral director -- Thomas G. Long and Thomas Lynch alternately discuss several challenges facing "the good funeral," including the commercial aspects that have led many to be suspicious of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 393 LONRehm, Diane
Summary: "In a deeply personal and moving book, the beloved NPR radio hostess speaks out about the long drawn-out death (from Parkinson's) of her husband of 54 years, and of her struggle to reconstruct her life without him"--
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 REHM, DIANE RehSummary: A housewife's life is shattered when she finds out the her husband Jim is killed in a gruesome car accident, but when she awakes the next morning, he is still alive and well. As she keeps having dreams about his death, she must decide what to do.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Premonition 2007Copies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PrSummary: The remarkable true story of one soldier's death in battle, another soldier's journey of discovery and a nation's reverence and gratitude toward its war dead. After hearing of the heroic death of a young Marine in Iraq, veteran officer Lt. Colonel Michael Strobl volunteers to escort the remains of Lance Corporal Chance Phelps back to his hometown in Wyoming. As Strobl crosses America's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Home Box Office 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TAKRehm, Diane.
Summary: "In a deeply personal and moving book, the beloved NPR radio hostess speaks out about the long drawn-out death (from Parkinson's) of her husband of 54 years, and of her struggle to reconstruct her life without him"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 REHM, DIANE REHAusiello, Michael
Summary: In this evocative and gorgeously wrought memoir reminiscent of Rob Sheffield’s Love Is a Mixtape and George Hodgman’s Bettyville, Michael Ausiello—a respected TV columnist and co-founder of TVLine.com—remembers his late husband, and the lessons, love, and laughter that they shared throughout their fourteen years together. For the past decade, TV fans of all stripes have counted upon Michael...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 AUSIELLO, MICHAEL AUSLukas, Christopher.
Contents: Introduction: Lukas's story -- What happens to the survivor after someone commits suicide -- Emotional reactions to suicide -- A family's story -- The bargain : a deal we make with life -- Bargains : the long good-bye -- Bargains : scapegoating -- Bargains : "I am guilty; I am a victim" -- Bargains : cutting off -- Bargains : a miscellany -- The saddest bargain : "because you died, I'll die" --...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.28 LUKEdelstein, Jean Hannah
Summary: 'In 2014 I moved back to the United States after living abroad for fourteen years, my whole adult life, because my father was dying from cancer. Six weeks after I arrived in New York City, my father died. Six months after that I learned that I had inherited the gene that would cause me cancer too.' When Jean Hannah Edelstein's world overturned she was forced to confront some of the big...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 EDELSTEIN, JEAN HANNAH EDEEdelstein, Jean Hannah
Summary: "In 2014 I moved back to the United States after living abroad for fourteen years--my whole adult life--because my father was dying from cancer. Six weeks after I arrived in New York City, my father died. Six months after that I learned that I had inherited the gene that would cause me cancer too." When Jean Hannah Edelstein's world overturned she was forced to confront some of the big...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 EDELSTEIN, JEAN HANNAH EDEHerring, Lucinda
Summary: "For all those seeking to reclaim their innate and legal right to care for their own dead, create home funeral vigils, and choose greener after-death care options that are less toxic and more sustainable for the earth More natural after-death care options are transforming the paradigm of the existing funeral industry, helping families and communities recover their instinctive capacity to care...
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Publisher / Publication Date: North Atlantic Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 393 HERStreeter, Leslie Gray
Summary: "Leslie Gray Streeter is not cut out for widowhood. She's not ready for hushed rooms and pitying looks. She is not ready to stand graveside, dabbing her eyes in a classy black hat. If she had her way she'd wear her favorite curve-hugging leopard print dress to Scott's funeral; he loved her in that dress! But, here she is, having lost her soulmate to a sudden heart attack, totally unsure of how...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 STREETER, LESLIE GRAY STROates, Joyce Carol
Summary: Joyce Carol Oates shares her struggle to comprehend a life absent of the partnership that had sustained and defined her for nearly half a century.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2011
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: 813 OATCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Self H Greif OatesHenderson, Artis.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 HENDERSON, ARTIS HENSummary: When death is your business, what is your life? For the employees at Fisher & Sons Funeral Home, the world outside continues to be at least as challenging, and far less predictable, as the one inside.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Home Box Office 2006
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SIXThomas, William G.
Summary: The story of the longest and most complex legal challenge to slavery in American history, in which a number of enslaved families challenged their bondage in court.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2020