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Series
Language
English
Description
Comfort Snowberger is well acquainted with death since her family runs the funeral parlor in their small southern town, but even so the ten-year-old is unprepared for the series of heart-wrenching events that begins on the first day of Easter vacation with the sudden death of her beloved great-uncle Edisto.
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"After an on-air gaffe goes viral and jeopardizes her career, journalist Desiree Turner retreats home to Verbena, California for some peace and quiet. She begins working one of the quietest jobs around: presiding over funerals for her great-grandfather's funeral parlor. But the action seems to follow her as a fistfight breaks out between neighbors Rosemarie Brewer and Lola Hansen at one of the first funerals she's in charge of running. It exposes...
Author
Series
Fairlawn ; 1
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Prolific Christy Award-winning author Angela Elwell Hunt, recipient of the Holt Medallion and eight Angel Awards, writes novels that percolate with cutting-edge Christian themes, including Uncharted. Now divorced and unemployed, a senator's no-nonsense chief of staff learns she has inherited a funeral home in Florida. Soon she'll learn some profound lessons from people dying to give her their business?
5) Mortuary
Series
Publisher
Scorpion Releasing
Pub. Date
[2012?]
Language
English
Description
"Christie Parson ... has been having terrifying nightmares ever since her father drowned in the family swimming pool. She knows his death was not an accident, but no one believes her. That is, until her boyfriend Greg ... sees a hooded figure, identical to the one that Christie has described as being in her nightmares, in the town's mortuary. Greg and Christie's curiosity plummets them into a series of bizarre and terror-filled circumstances at the...
Author
Series
Southern cousins ; 1
Language
English
Description
From a USA Today–bestselling author: First in the mystery series filled with "pure southern lunacy of the best possible kind" (Laurien Berenson).
They say you can't get to Heaven without passing through the Eternal Rest Funeral Home. And no one gets into Eternal Rest without passing muster with Elvis—the basset hound who's convinced he's the reincarnation of the King of Rock 'n' Roll. Brewing up a big ol' pitcher...
They say you can't get to Heaven without passing through the Eternal Rest Funeral Home. And no one gets into Eternal Rest without passing muster with Elvis—the basset hound who's convinced he's the reincarnation of the King of Rock 'n' Roll. Brewing up a big ol' pitcher...
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
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.
10) Dust & Grim
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Thirteen-year-old Molly doesn't know how she got the short end of the stick -- being raised by her neglectful father -- while Dustin, the older brother she's never met, got their mother and the keys to the family estate. But now the siblings are both orphaned, she's come home for her inheritance, and if Dustin won't welcome her into the family business, then she'll happily take her half in cash. There's just one problem: the family business is a...
13) The dead I know
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Language
English
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Description
Aaron Rowe's new job at a funeral parlor may be his salvation from sleepwalking, dreams he can not explain and memories he can not recover, but if he does not discover the truth about his hidden past soon, he may fall asleep one night and never wake up.
Author
Publisher
Witness
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Only a handful of people know that Emma Lee Raines, proprietor of a small-town Kentucky funeral home, is a "Betweener." She helps ghosts stuck between here and the ever-after - murdered ghosts. Once Emma Lee gets them justice they can cross over to the great beyond. But Emma Lee's own sister refuses to believe in her special ability. In fact, the Raines sisters have barely gotten along since Charlotte Rae left the family business for the competition....
17) Phantasm II
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"The tall man is back with a vengeance in the second chapter in the cult classic Phantasm series. Released after seven years in a mental hospital, Mike convinces his old pal Reggie to join forces with him to hunt down and destroy the tall man once and for all. Mike's visions lead the two to a quiet little town where a horde of flying killer balls aim to slice and dice their gruesome way through each of them." --
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
When death is your business, what is your life? For the employees at Fisher & Sons Funeral Home, the world outside continues to be at least as challenging, and far less predictable, as the one inside. Includes 13 episodes, audio commentaries, and more.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
The Campbell family moves to upstate Connecticut. They soon learn that their charming Victorian home has a disturbing history. The house was once a transformed funeral parlor where inconceivable acts occurred. The owner's clairvoyant son, Jonah, served as a demonic messenger. He provided a gateway for spiritual entities to crossover. Now unspeakable terror awaits when Jonah, the boy who communicated with the dead, returns to unleash horror on the...