Sorell, Traci
Summary: Because she has been very ill and weak, River cannot join in the dancing at this year's tribal powwow, she can only watch from the sidelines as her sisters and cousins dance the celebration--but as the drum beats she finds the faith to believe that she will recover and dance again.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SORCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SORThomas, Rebecca
Summary: "What does it mean to be Mi'kmaq? And if Swift Fox can't find the answer, will she ever feel like part of her family? When Swift Fox's father picks her up to go visit her aunties, uncles, and cousins, her belly is already full of butterflies. And when he tells her that today is the day that she'll learn how to be Mi'kmaq, the butterflies grow even bigger. Though her father reassures her that...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Annick Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE THOWilcox, Merrie-Ellen
Summary: "This nonfiction book for middle-grade readers examines the history, beliefs and customs surrounding death in cultures around the world."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2018
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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 306.9 WILSummary: The Grande Chartreuse, considered one of the world's most ascetic monasteries is based in the French Alps. In 1984, German filmmaker Philip Gröning wrote to the Carthusian order for permission to make a documentary about them. They said they would get back with him. Sixteen years later, they were ready. Gröning, sans crew or artificial lighting, lived in the monks' quarters for six months -...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Films 2007
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF INTFournier, Elizabeth
Summary: "A funeral home director discusses the environmental impact of common burial practices and provides ecologically sound alternatives that minimize the use of chemicals and non-biodegradable materials; also covers the financial and legal aspects of green burial methods"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: New World Library 2018
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 393 FOUSummary: "It's death, Japanese style, in the rollicking and wistful first feature from maverick writer-director Juzo Itami. In the wake of her lascivious father's sudden passing, a successful actor (Itami's wife and frequent collaborator, Nobuko Miyamoto) and her husband (Tsutomu Yamazaki) leave Tokyo and return to their family house to oversee a traditional funeral. Over the course of three days of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN FUNTreuer, Anton
Summary: Today's Ojibwe people have maintained a dazzling array of deep, beautiful, adaptive ways of connecting to the spiritual, natural, and human beings around them. Variations in Ojibwe cultural practices are, of course, as diverse as their homelands, which stretch across the Great Lakes, Canadian shield, pine forests, and prairie potholes of four US states and three Canadian provinces. And Ojibwe...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Minnesota Historical Society Press 2021
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.897 TREPettersen, Siri
Summary: Hirka has always been a little bit different, ostracized because her tail was cut off when she was an infant, so it is unexpected that she's summoned to take place in this year's Rite -- and even more shocking that her adoptive father reveals she is a tailless, powerless, human whose kiss rots flesh. The Rite also looms for Rime, a popular young man whose discovery of Hirka's secret threatens...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Arctis 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC PETContents: Festival music (a) (1:57) -- Festival music (b) (2:06) -- Solo song of a woman (1:57) -- Drum rhythms (3:16) -- Music for a chieftain (4:03) -- Singing at a wrestling-match (3:34) -- Sword-dance of the young girls (2:28) -- Sanza (:42) -- Song to encourage the rice sowers (4:05) -- Singing game of small girls (a) (1:20) -- Singing game of small girls (b) (1:27) -- Rice harvest (1:44) -- Music...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rounder Records 1998
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN ANTColman, Penny.
Summary: Documents the burial process throughout the centuries and in different cultures.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 393.09 COLSummary: Told from the perspective of pioneering Sligo funeral director David McGowan, this documentary unflinchingly draws back the veil on an industry that is rarely spoken of.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: "Peyton loves to dance, and especially at pow wow, but her Auntie notices that she's been dancing less and less. When Peyton shares that she just can't be comfortable wearing a dress anymore, Auntie Eyota asks some friends for help to get Peyton what she needs."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Flamingo Rampant 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ADEGalgut, Damon
Summary: "A modern saga that could only have come from South Africa, written in gorgeous prose by the Booker Prize-shortlisted author Damon Galgut. Haunted by an unmet promise, the Swart family loses touch after the death of their matriarch. Adrift, the lives of the three siblings move separately through the uncharted waters of South Africa; Anton, the golden boy who bitterly resents his life's...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GALCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction GalgutSummary: An old man's unexpected death creates hilarious havoc with his family. The traditional three-day undertaking becomes a sly comedy of manners as the younger generation struggles with the complex rituals of the Buddhist ceremony.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Lorber Home Video 1999
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FUNSummary: An American classic story about friendship heroism and patriotism; Watch a 50 year journey on the lives of four best friends as they reminisce after a funeral of one best friend.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: American Patriot Pictures 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD STIBenjamin, Kathy
Summary: "A practical guide to planning your funeral, including worksheets and guided journal prompts"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Quirk Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 393.93 BENHall, Brianna.
Summary: "Describes history of mummies of ancient Egypt"--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2012
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J932 CAPMetcalfe, Gayden.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Books 2005
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 395.2 METBak, Richard
Contents: Eternal thanks -- Here and gone -- Boneyards.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 393.1 BAKSummary: When Nate is invited to a big family reunion in Missouri, he sees it as an opportunity to reconnect with his estranged wife and growing children. Nate takes delivery on an expensive new SUV, persuades his wife, Dorothy, to tag along, and packs up his three kids for what he thinks will be a leisurely drive from L.A. to St. Louis. However, between his wary wife, arguing kids, angry police...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD JOHSummary: When a young girl mysteriously disappears, Police Sergeant Howie travels to a remote Scottish island to investigate. But this pastoral community, led by the strange Lord Summerisle, is not what it seems.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR WICSummary: Inglewood, a Los Angeles suburb, is called the Wood. It is largely home to Black middle class families. Mike, Slim, and Roland have been best friends since junior high. It's three hours before Roland's wedding and he has a bad case of cold feet. Mike and Slim must sober him up and help him decide if he wants to go through with the wedding. In flashbacks, they recall key moments of their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY WOOErdoes, Richard
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bear & Co. 2001