Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Description
"Morbid and illuminating" (Entertainment Weekly)—a young mortician goes behind the scenes of her curious profession.
Armed with a degree in medieval history and a flair for the macabre, Caitlin Doughty took a job at a crematory and turned morbid curiosity into her life's work. She cared for bodies of every color, shape, and affliction, and became an intrepid explorer in the world of the dead. In this best-selling memoir,
...Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The best-selling author of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes expands our sense of what it means to treat the dead with "dignity." Fascinated by our pervasive terror of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty set out to discover how other cultures care for their dead. In rural Indonesia, she observes a man clean and dress his grandfather's mummified body. Grandpa's mummy has lived in the family home for two years, where the family has maintained a warm and respectful...
Author
Series
Hitchcock Sewell mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2000
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 308 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Hitchcock Sewell, Baltimore's most eligible undertaker, finds himself in over his head when he becomes obsessed with a mysterious, beautiful woman who shows up at the mortuary wanting to talk about her own funeral arrangements.
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...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A sixth-generation funeral director and writer of the popular "must read" (Time magazine) blog Confessions of a Funeral Director reflects on mortality and the powerful lessons death holds for every one of us in this compassionate and thoughtful spiritual memoir that combines the humor and insight of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes with the poignancy and brevity of When Breath Becomes Air. Death. It happens to everyone, yet most of us don't want to talk about...
Author
Language
English
Description
"In this funny, insightful memoir, a young socialite risks social suicide when she takes a job at a legendary funeral chapel on New York City's Upper East Side. Good Mourning offers a behind-the-scenes look at one of the most famous funeral homes in the country?where not even big money can protect you from the universal experience of grieving..."-provided by the publisher.
Author
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Hart Ralston is a marshal, tasked with patrolling the wasteland of Tanria, hunting for drudges. It's an unforgiving job, and Hart's got nothing but time to ponder his loneliness. Mercy Birdsall never has a moment to herself. She's been single-handedly keeping Birdsall & Son Undertakers afloat - despite definitely not being a son - in defiance of sullen jerks like Hart Ralston, who seems to have a gift for showing up right when her patience is thinnest....
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"What's the one secret no one knows about you? Archie Mint has a secret. He's led a charmed life--he's got a beautiful wife, two impressive kids, and a successful military career. But when he's killed while trying to stop a robbery in his own home, his family is shattered--and then shocked when the other shoe drops. Mint's been hiding criminal secrets none of them could have imagined. While working on Mint's body before his funeral, mortician 'Zig'...
Author
Language
English
Description
From the bestselling author of When All is Said comes a delicious new novel about a young woman who can hear the dead - a talent which is both a gift and a curse.
Jeanie Masterson has a gift: she can hear the last words of the dead.
Passed down from generation to generation, this gift means she is able to make wrongs right, to give voice to unspoken love and dying regrets. She and her father have worked happily alongside each other for years, but...
10) After.life
Publisher
Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After a terrible car accident, Anna wakes to find the funeral director is preparing her body for her own funeral. Convincing her that she is in transition to the afterlife, the funeral director is leading Anna to accept her own death. But Paul, Anna's grief-stricken boyfriend, can't shake the nagging suspicion that the funeral director is not what he appears to be. As Paul gets close to unlocking the truth, it may be too late as Anna may have already...
11) My Girl
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c1991
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 102 min.) : sd., col. ; 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.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 200 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
My Girl: Coming-of-age film about eleven-year-old Vada Sultenfuss who lives with her widowed father, the town mortician -- My Girl 2: Vada Sultenfuss goes to California to visit her uncle, his girlfriend and her street-smart son Nick. Guided by Nick through Los Angeles in search of her late mother's history, Vada makes some surprising discoveries.
13) Bernie
Publisher
Millennium Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min) : sd., col. ; 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.
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
[2003], c2001
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (ca. 780 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Includes all 13 episodes of the first season. A look at members of a dysfunctional family that operates a funeral home in Pasadena. With the elder son returning home for the holidays to shattering news, the family must learn to deal with a death of their own, while figuring out how to go ahead with the business of the living. A funny and emotional look at a grieving American family ... that just happens to be in the grief management business.
16) Never grow old
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An Irish undertaker profits when outlaws take over a peaceful American frontier town, but his family comes under threat as the death toll rises.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request