Summary: 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
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF DEPSummary: 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
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR PHASummary: 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
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD WIL NOT RATEDSummary: 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
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Hutchinson, 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
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HUTSummary: "Isle of Dogs tells the story of Atari Kobayashi, 12-year-old ward to corrupt Mayor Kobayashi. When all the canine pets of Megasaki City are exiled to vast Trash Island, Atari sets off in search of his bodyguard dog, Spots. With the assistance of his newfound mongrel friends, he begins an epic journey that will decide the fate and future of the entire Prefecture."--Container
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Summary: 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
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MoSummary: 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
Copies Available at Peninsula
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
Copies Available at Woodmere
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
Sorry, no copies available
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
Copies Available at Woodmere
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
Copies Available at Kingsley
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
Copies Available at Fife Lake
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
Sorry, no copies available
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
Copies Available at Woodmere
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
Copies Available at Woodmere
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
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GRICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Griffin 2022Harris, 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
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.4 HARMeltzer, Brad
Summary: Mortician "Zig" Zigarowski, while working on the body of a successful military man, discovers something he was never meant to see, and, to get the answers he needs, sets out to find military artist Nola Brown--a search that reveals one of the U.S. government's most intensely guarded secrets.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Tomory, David.
Summary: David Tomory traces the continuous western influences at work on Goa from the time of the Portugese to the present day. This entertaining and informative tour through the totality of western contact with Goa reveals what Goa is actually like for both westerners and Goans, and catches Goa as it stands at the brink of a complicated future.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lonely Planet 2000
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 954.799 TomorSummary: The life stories of the five Marines and one Naval officer that were forever immortalized as a symbol of WWII by raising the American flag at the battle of Iwo Jima.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks Pictures 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FLACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DVD MOVIECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FLA RATED RSummary: "Centers on a revolutionary machine that allows scientists to enter and record a subject's dream. After it is stolen, a fearless detective and a brilliant therapist join forces to recover the device before it falls into the hands of a 'dream terrorist'"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007