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3) Bleachers
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Presents a novel about high school football in a small Texas town, a place in which football has become a religion.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 147 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
"We pray to our ancestors but we do not worship them. You, you need an intermediary, the priest. But for us, our intermediary is the ancestor who is sitting next to God," says Poundé, the old Cameroonian ethnologist, to the young Jewish director from Canada. And with this conclusive statement, everything becomes clear: the funerals in memory of "the dead who are not dead" organized several days or even years following the burial, the chants, brass...
Publisher
RLJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When horror guru Rad Chad Buckley's funeral turns into an elaborate series of hilarious death traps, the guests must band together and use the rules of horror to survive the bloody game.
7) Lost heart
Publisher
Lost Heart, LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Hannah Sweet is in a destructive spiral that threatens her career as a country music star. She hasn't been home to the sleepy lakeside town of Lost Heart since she ran away as a teenager. But when her estranged father, Harris, dies amidst claims of UFO encounters, Hannah begrudgingly returns for the funeral. She meets Milo, a forward-thinking, conspiracy-loving pastor who tries to lead Hannah towards reconciliation with her family, especially her...
Author
Publisher
Avery, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
viii, 215 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
"Writing an ethical will, a document that includes stories and reflections about your past, is an ancient tradition. It can include joy and regrets, and ultimately becomes both a way to remember a loved one who is gone and a primer on how to live a better, happier life. Beloved Rabbi Steve Leder has helped thousands of people to write their own ethical wills, and in this intimate book helps us write our own"--
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 10 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Every year, in the colonial city of Antigua, Guatemala, the "sorrowful way" of Good Friday is recreated by a path of colored sawdust and flower petals. Along this road several hundred people take turns carrying a ponderous mahoganybier. Indians from the surrounding countryside come to observe the spectacle of townspeople garbed in Biblical and Roman military uniforms.
10) Sons of Shiva
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 29 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Sons of Shiva is a sustained attempt to film a four-day ceremony concerned with the worship of Shiva. Devotees of the God Shiva are shown from the initial taking of the Sacred Thread through gradually intensifying action to a culmination in a variety of ascetic and self denying practices.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 33 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
To Serve the Gods is about the beliefs, rituals and performances of a week-long ceremony given by a Haitian family in honor of its ancestral spirits. We are told at the outset of the film that this sevis loua only occurs every twenty to thirty years. This particular service takes place in a rural community in southern Haiti, on family land, where relatives have gathered to propitiate gods inherited by their ancestors.
Author
Series
Publisher
Capstone Curriculum Pub
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
48 p. : ill. (some col.), col. map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Discusses ancient Egyptian customs and beliefs regarding death and the afterlife, the process of mummification, and the legend of a mummy's curse in relation to the discovery of King Tut's tomb in 1922.
13) The dead bird
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
Newly illustrated edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
22 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
One day, the children find a bird lying on its side with its eyes closed and no heartbeat. They are very sorry, so they decide to say good-bye. In the park, they dig a hole for the bird and cover it with warm sweet-ferns and flowers. Finally, they sing sweet songs to send the little bird on its way.
14) Monday's Girls
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 49 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Monday's Girls explores the conflict between modern individualism and traditional communities in today's Africa through the eyes of two young Waikiriki women from the Niger delta. Although both come from leading families in the same large island town, Florence looks at the iria women's initiation ceremony as an honor, while Azikiwe, who has lived in the city for ten years, sees it as an indignity. Ngozi Onwurah, director of such feminist classics...
15) Good-bye old man
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 66 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
At the request of a dying Tiwi man and his family on Melville Island, this film was made of the pukumani (bereavement) ceremony to follow his death. The film observes the family through the long period of preparation for the ceremony, following age-old traditions. Dancing and face-painting are rehearsed, to the family's satisfaction, and because "things should be right for this film". For the two days of ceremony, the community moves to Carslake Beach...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"We once disposed of our dead in earth-friendly ways--no chemicals, biodegradable containers, dust to dust. But over the last 150 years death care has become a toxic, polluting, and alienating industry in the United States. Today, people are slowly waking up to the possibility of more sustainable and less disaffecting death care, reclaiming old practices in new ways, in a new age. Greening Death traces the philosophical and historical backstory to...
17) Sordid lives
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertaiment
Pub. Date
[2003], c2000
Edition
Widescreen version (1.77:1)
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A Texas sized, twisted white-trash tale that involves the sordid details about a southern dysfunction family who have been brought together for the funeral of "Grandma Peggy". She dies after tripping over her lover's wooden legs.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 47 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
To the Land of Bliss is an intimate portrayal of the Chinese Pure Land Buddhist way of dying and living. In 1998, the filmmaker/anthropologist Wen-jie Qin returned to her home region in Sichuan Province in southwest China to research the post-Mao revival of Buddhism.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A deeply compelling exploration of the death industry and the people--morticians, detectives, crime scene cleaners, embalmers, executioners--who work in it and what led them there. We are surrounded by death. It is in our news, our nursery rhymes, our true-crime podcasts. Yet from a young age, we are told that death is something to be feared. How are we supposed to know what we're so afraid of, when we are never given the chance to look? Fueled by...
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