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2) Jazz
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Series
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English
Description
In Harlem, 1926, Joe Trace, a door-to-door salemsan in his fifties, kills his teenage lover. At the funeral, his wife Violet slashes the dead girl's face and then desperately searches to find why Joe was unfaithful. The profound love story is immersed in the sights and sounds of Black urban life during the Jazz Age.
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Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
While a young black porter struggles with first-day duties on board the Robert F. Kennedy funeral train, a woman sneaks away from her disapproving husband to pay respects to the assassinated senator, and a wounded soldier awaits a reputation-restoring interview.
4) Powwow day
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English
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Because she has been very ill and weak, River cannot join in the dancing at this year's tribal powwow, she can only watch from the sidelines as her sisters and cousins dance the celebration--but as the drum beats she finds the faith to believe that she will recover and dance again.
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English
Description
As a Gracekeeper, Callanish administers shoreside burials, laying the dead to their final resting place deep in the depths of the ocean. Alone on her island, she has exiled herself to a life of tending watery graves as penance for a long-ago mistake that still haunts her. Meanwhile, North works as a circus performer with the Excalibur, a floating troupe of acrobats, clowns, dancers, and trainers who sail from one archipelago to the next, entertaining...
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English
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Breathing Lessons is the wonderfully moving and surprising story of Ira and Maggie Moran. She's impetuous, harum-scarum, easygoing; he's competent, patient, seemingly infallible. They've been married for 28 years. Now, as they drive from their home in Baltimore to the funeral of Maggie's best friend's husband, Anne Tyler shows us all there is to know about a marriage - the expectations, the disappointments, the way children can create storms in a...
11) Her three kisses
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Series
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
After the funeral of a great-aunt she never met, Amelia McBride is pressured into joining a game of spin-the-bottle with "the ninjas," who turn out to be the sons of Aunt Tanner's childhood enemy, Julie.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
Years after a 1960s religious guru's clandestine activities with his most fervent acolytes results in a grisly murder, a man struggles to make sense of what happened to his wife and friends by writing a book for which he asks former followers to relive their experiences.
Author
Series
Hitchcock Sewell mystery volume 2
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2001.
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.
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Series
World of the five gods volume 3
Language
English
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The half-mad Prince Boleso has been slain by a noblewoman he had intended to defile -- and Lord Ingrey kin Wolfcliff must transport the body to its burial place and the accused killer, the Lady Ijada, to judgment. With the death of the old Hallow King imminent and the crown in play, the road they must travel together is a dangerous one. And though he is duty-bound to deliver his prisoner to an almost certain death, Ijada may be the only one Ingrey...
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English
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"From the internationally best-selling author of Fatherland and the Cicero Trilogy--a chilling and dark new thriller unlike anything Robert Harris has done before. 1468. A young priest, Christopher Fairfax, arrives in a remote Exmoor village to conduct the funeral of his predecessor. The land around is strewn with ancient artifacts--coins, fragments of glass, human bones--which the old parson used to collect. Did his obsession with the past lead to...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
1972.
Language
English
Description
This story of a young woman's confrontation with death and her past is a poetic study of human relations. "The Optimist's Daughter" is the story of Laurel McKelva Hand, a young woman who has left the South and returns, years later, to New Orleans, where her father is dying. After his death, she and her silly young stepmother go back still farther, to the small Mississippi town where she grew up. Alone in the old house, Laurel finally comes to an understanding...
19) The dead bird
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Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2016.
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.
Author
Publisher
Hawthorn Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
"One summer day, we started a business called Funerals Ltd. To help all the poor dead animals in the world. Esther did the digging, I wrote the poems, and Esther's little brother Puttie cried. All the Dear Little Animals is a thoroughly offbeat, charming, and whimsical story of three children responding to death"--
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