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Author
Series
Hitchcock Sewell mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2000
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
318 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When an unexpected blizzard dumps the body of a murdered waitress, along with the snow, on the steps of Sewell & Sons funeral home, undertaker and amateur sleuth Hitchcock Sewell races against time--and the media--to find the killer.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2008, ©2007
Edition
1st Scribner trade paperback ed.
Physical Desc
205 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
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 funeral parlor. Eschewing chemical embalming and fancy caskets,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Describes death customs and rituals from around the world, exploring how they compare to the impersonal American system and how mourners respond best when they participate in caring for the deceased.
"Fascinated by our pervasive fear of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty set out to discover how other cultures care for the dead. From Here to Eternity is an immersive global journey that introduces compelling, powerful rituals almost entirely unknown...
Publisher
WGBH Educational Foundation
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 60 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Thomas Lynch, 58, is a writer and a poet. He's also a funeral director in a small town in central Michigan where he and his family have cared for the dead -- and the living -- for three generations. For the first time, Lynch agreed to allow cameras inside Lynch & Sons, giving FRONTLINE producers Miri Navasky and Karen O'Connor rare, behind-the-scenes access -- from funeral arrangements to the embalming room -- to the Lynches' world for this film,...
7) My girl
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inches.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
309 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Compared to other more ordinary towns, Quiver Hollows is a very strange, very curious place. It is also home to longtime friends Grimsly, Ollie, Ming, and Penelope. In a town where everyone is spectacularly abnormal, Grimsly feels bad about being terribly, unforgivably normal, as the town's pet funeral director. So when a series of strange and disturbing mundane occurrences begins plaguing Quiver Hollows, well, Grimsly fears his growing celebrity...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Finding fulfillment in her job as an embalmer in her father's small town mortuary, outsider Mary bonds with a villainized local who was blamed for a fatal accident twenty years earlier, a friendship that compels her to consider what might happen if she were to leave their fading community.
Author
Series
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
©2000
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 308 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Hitchcock Sewell's just your average undertaker. Well, maybe he's a little better-looking than your average undertaker. And a bit of a wiseass. And his life might not be quite as quiet and dignified as one might imagine for a typical undertaker running a small family business in Baltimore. (Your typical undertaker doesn't, generally speaking, tend to play the lead in the local amateur theater production of 'Our Town, ' nor does he have such an unorthodox...
Author
Series
Hitchcock Sewell mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
338 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Undertaker-turned-sleuth Hitchcock Sewell finds himself in over his head with murder as he probes nefarious goings-on at a Baltimore nightclub populated by a host of bizarre characters.
Author
Series
Hitchcock Sewell mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
324 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
New American Library/Penguin Group
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
294 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Abby Knight is attending the Midwestern Funeral Directors' Associations regional convention, where the association's intensely disliked chairperson is found dead in a locked casket, her signature rose missing from her hair. Abby's determined to find out who loved the victim--and who loved her not.
Author
Series
The mortician's daughter volume 1
Publisher
EverAfter Romance
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First EverAfter Romance edition.
Physical Desc
323 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Once again, seventeen-year-old Riley Smith is the new kid in school and her dad's career has her back to being dubbed a freak. Truth is, she's a much bigger freak than her classmates think. The only company she keeps these days is the dead who follow Dad home from work. She can see them. She can speak to them. And Fate seems to think she can help them solve their last problems so that they can move on to the other side. Which is odd, because with...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
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. go\\vernment's most intensely guarded secrets.
When Archie Mint is killed while trying to stop a robbery in his own home, his family learns that his life, so perfect on the surface, held criminal secrets...
Publisher
Dreamscape Media
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 76 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 222 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Best-selling author and licensed mortician Caitlin Doughty answers real questions from kids about death, dead bodies, and decomposition. Every day, funeral director Caitlin Doughty receives dozens of questions about death. What would happen to an astronaut's body if it were pushed out of a space shuttle? Do people poop when they die? Can Grandma have a Viking funeral? In the tradition of Randall Munroe's What If?, Doughty's new book, Will My Cat...
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