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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 none of them could have imagined. Working on Mint's body, mortician "Zig" Zigarowski discovers a telling detail that leads him to Dover Air Force Base, where he uncovers Mint's involvement in a top-secret military unit and his connection to military artist and Sergeant First Class Nola Brown....
Author
Publisher
Sounds True
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"Ceremonies for honoring the departed are crucial parts of our lives, but few people know where our traditional practices come from--and what they reveal about our history, culture, and beliefs about death. In Last Rites, author Todd Harra takes you on a fascinating exploration of American customs around death, burial, and remembrance"--Dust jacket flap.
5) Phantasm
Series
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
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.
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Series
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English
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Abby Knight discovers that sometimes death can be a little fun in the sixth Flower Shop Mystery...
Abby is amused by the black humor of the usually somber “death professionals” who are attending the Midwestern Funeral Directors Association’s regional convention. Even organizer Sybil Blount—known for her cutthroat business practices and the signature rose she wears in her wig—comes as a surprise…especially...
Abby is amused by the black humor of the usually somber “death professionals” who are attending the Midwestern Funeral Directors Association’s regional convention. Even organizer Sybil Blount—known for her cutthroat business practices and the signature rose she wears in her wig—comes as a surprise…especially...
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English
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Towns like Gainesboro, North Carolina, may be small, but they go big when it comes to 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!
Author
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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A lonely marshal tasked with patrolling the magical wilds of Tanria, Hart writes Mercy, an exasperating undertaker, an anonymous letter baring his soul, which leads to a blossoming romance, but can it survive the ill-fated discovery that their pen pals are their worst nightmare--each other?
9) My girl
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
10) Bernie
Publisher
Millennium Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
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.
11) Shot in Detroit
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Publisher
Polis Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
302 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Violet Hart is a photographer who has always returned to cobble out a life for herself in the oddly womblike interiors of Detroit. Nearing forty, she's keenly aware that the time for artistic recognition is running out. When her lover, Bill, a Detroit mortician, needs a photograph of a body, she agrees to take the picture. It's an artistic success and Violet is energized by the subject matter, persuading Bill to allow her to take pictures of some...
12) Listening still
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
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 ago: to stay or leave for a new life in London with her...
Series
Training volume 3149-103
Publisher
Department of the Treasury, Internal Revenue Service
Pub. Date
[1996]
Physical Desc
1 volume (various pagings) : illustrations.
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
279 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Brünhilde Blum is a successful undertaker, a doting mother, the loving wife of a decorated police officer-- and a woman whose life that masks the terrible secrets of her past. A hit-and-run changes everything. As Blum's grief over the death of her husband, Mark, overwhelms her, only her two little girls can drag her back to the land of the living. Packing up Mark's office, Blum discovers a recorded conversation from a case he was investigating and...
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English
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Determined to help her roommate Nikki out of her singles slump, Abby Knight encourages her to give speed dating a try. Of course, Nikki wants the guy at the very bottom of Abby's list, Jonas Treat-a.k.a. "Treat the Cheat"-and figures just one date with him couldn't hurt. But then Jonas is found dead-and evidence points to Nikki as his killer. To clear Nikki's name, Abby enlists the help of her hunky ex-Army Ranger boyfriend, Marco. But Marco's rambunctious...
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