Summary: Two brothers discover that their local mortuary hides a legion of hooded killer dwarf creatures, a flying drill-ball, and the demonic mortician known as The Tall Man who enslaves the souls of the damned.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR PHASummary: The complicated lives and relationships of the Fisher family, owners and operators of an independent funeral home.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Entertainment 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: She brings people into the world (midwife), he ushers them out (undertaker), but for this unconventional pair, love is the greatest journey of all. A slightly jaded, but ever hopeful couple looking to finally get it right. From the minute they meet, the demands of family and their unpredictable professions keep things complicated. But they find that, like birth and death, love is a force that...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD WIL NOT RATEDHutchinson, Shaun David
Summary: A good friend will bury your body, a best friend will dig you back up. Dino doesn't mind spending time with the dead. His parents own a funeral home, and death is literally the family business. He's just not used to them talking back. Until Dino's ex-best friend July dies suddenly--and then comes back to life. Except not exactly. Somehow July is not quite alive, and not quite dead. As Dino and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HUTAbbott, Allan.
Summary: Allan Abbott ran the leading hearse, mortuary, and funeral services company in Hollywood and saw up close how celebrities really live and die. The Forrest Gump of the funeral industry, Abbott was everywhere celebrities died, from helping to prepare Marilyn Monroe's body for burial to standing next to Christopher Walken at Natalie Wood's funeral. This book tells the rags-to-shroud story of how a...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Audio 2015
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 921 ABBOTT, ALLAN AbbSummary: Daigo Kobayashi, a cellist, dreamt of going around the world with his wife Mika. Unfortunately, the orchestra folds, so he sells his instrument, retreats to the small town he came from, lives in his late mother's house, and tries to start a new life. He answers a classified ad entitled 'Departures' thinking it is for a travel agency. Daigo's actual responsibilities entail preparing the local...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Tokyo Broadcast System 2009
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF DEPSummary: When a young woman applies for a job in a decrepit mortuary, an eccentric undertaker gives her a tour of the facility and tells her a series of twisted tales about the people he buried.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2021
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MoRandall, Laura
Summary: Thoroughly updated and newly redesigned, this guide, originally published in 1971 and considered the "PCT Bible," starts at the Mexican border and guides you to Yosemite's beautiful backcountry.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wilderness Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.944 PACIFIC CREST TRAIL RANHulls, Tessa
Summary: "Tessa Hulls delves into her own family history and the intergenerational trauma caused by mental illness and political strife"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: MCD, Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2024
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 921 HULLS, TESSA HULSummary: In Carthage, TX, assistant funeral director Bernie Tiede is one of the town's most beloved residents. He sings in the church choir and is always willing to lend a helping hand. He befriends an affluent widow, and she soon becomes dependent on Bernie. Later it is reported that Marjorie Nugent has been dead for some time, and Bernie Tiede is charged with the murder.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Millennium Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BER RATED PG-13Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BERCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BERCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BERDoughty, Caitlin.
Summary: The blogger behind the popular Web series "Ask a Mortician" describes her experiences working at a crematory, including how she sometimes got ashes on her clothes and how she cared for bodies of all shapes and sizes.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 393 DOUSummary: A precocious 11-year-old tomboy obsessed with death shares a poignant summer with her widowed father, the sexy and kind cosmetician he hires, and most importantly with the boy-next-door who idolizes her.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 1998
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Play Misty for me: A radio disc jockey becomes the victim of psychotic obsession when he tries to end a torrid love affair with a fan.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Hutchinson, Shaun David
Summary: Dino doesn't mind spending time with the dead. His parents own a funeral home, and death is literally the family business. He's just not used to them talking back. Until Dino's ex-best friend July dies suddenly and then comes back to life. Except not exactly. Somehow July is not quite alive, and not quite dead. As Dino and July attempt to figure out what's happening, they must also confront why...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HUTPotter, J.R.
Summary: "Thirteen-year-old Thomas Creeper hasn't been dealt the best hand. He lives in the seaside town of Gloomsbury-a damp and miserable place overrun by scabber weed, where the sun shines for only a few days each year. With the inexplicable death of his older brother, David, Thomas becomes heir to Creeper & Sons, the family's funeral business, and his place as a mortician's apprentice seems set....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Fitzroy Books 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC POTSosna-Spear, Quinn
Summary: 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 Flasterhorn, who once mentored Walter's long-dead father.--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC SPE[Fic]Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Sosna-Spear 2019Summary: 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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Place a hold to request this item.De Castrique, Mark
Summary: "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!"--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DECDoughty, Caitlin.
Summary: The blogger behind the popular Web series Ask a Mortician describes her experiences working at a crematory, including how she sometimes got ashes on her clothes and how she cared for bodies of all shapes and sizes.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 393 DOUGriffin, Anne
Summary: "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 about censoring some of the dead's last messages to the living. Unsure, too, about the choice she made when she left school seventeen years...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GRICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Griffin 2022Yang, Kelly
Summary: "After years of hard work, Mia Tang finally gets to go on vacation with her family--to China! A total dream come true. Mia can't wait to see all her cousins and grandparents again, especially her cousin Shen. As she roams around Beijing, witnessing some of the big changes China's going through, Mia thinks about the changes in her own life, like . . . 1. Lupe's taking classes at the high school!...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Harris, Mark (Donald Mark)
Summary: By the time Nate Fisher was laid to rest in a woodland grave sans coffin in the final season of Six Feet Under, Americans all across the country were starting to look outside the box when death came calling. This book follows families who found in "green" burial a more natural, more economic, and ultimately more meaningful alternative to the tired and toxic send-off on offer at the local...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2008