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Aurora County trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
760L
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.
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Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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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 a...
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"Magnolia Brown is nineteen years old, broke, and effectively an orphan. She feels stuck and haunted: by her overdrawn bank account, her predatory landlord, and the ghost of her late grandmother Mama Brown. One night, while working at her dead-end gas station job, a mysterious, slick stranger named Cotton walks in and offers to turn Magnolia's luck around with a lucrative "modeling" job at his family's funeral home. She accepts. But despite things...
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English
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"When Cohen Marah steps over the body of his dead father on a cold spring morning in the basement embalming room of the family's funeral home, he steps into a labyrinth of memory. In the week that follows, he must confront his traumatic past, a violent present, and the most frightening question of all--did he kill his father?"--
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
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Funeral director Desiree Turner deals with death by natural causes all the time. Death by unnatural causes? Not so much. Yet, she and her boyfriend Nate have heard some not-so-dear things about the recently departed. A suspicious remark by the late Frank Fiore's daughters sparks some concern. And when Violet Daugherty faints behind the wheel of her car, Desiree suspects she's got a front seat to murder. Desiree can't help but look into Violet's untimely...
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English
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"A swoony, slow-burn rom-com, Melonie Johnson's Too Wrong to Be Right features a true romantic on a mission to find her happily ever after. After her latest jerk of a boyfriend dumps her (and ditches her with his pet hedgehog), florist Kat Kowalski is done chasing after Mr. Wrong. With her two best friends moving on to more serious relationships, she's ready to stop repeating the same mistakes that are leaving her stuck in the single lane. Armed with...
7) Dust & grim
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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"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 mortuary...
8) Funeral girl
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Lexile measure
720L
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English
Description
"When Georgia revives the spirit of a recently deceased classmate at her family's funeral home, she's forced to sort out her complex feelings about grief and mortality"--
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English
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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....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
Soon after his mother's death, Matt takes a job at a funeral home in his tough Brooklyn neighborhood and, while attending and assisting with funerals, begins to accept her death and his responsibilities as a man.
12) Working stiff
Author
Series
Revivalist volume 01
Language
English
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Bryn Davis knows working at Fairview Mortuary isn't the most glamour career choice, but at least it overs stable employment-until she discovers her bosses using a drug that resurrects the clientele..as part of an extortion racket. Now Brn faces being terminated (literally) with extreme prejudice.
14) The Dead I Know
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Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
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.
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English
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When the corpse of prominent physician Dr. Leonard Laton goes missing, Callie Valentine Jones, who fixes up the hairdos of the dead, goes in hot pursuit of the recently embalmed, last seen in Las Vegas, with the help of Elvis, a basset hound who knows how to sniff out a killer.
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Two very different sisters inherit a funeral home and its eccentric employees from their koro. While Ellie is determined to uphold her grandfather's legacy, Gwen can't wait to get to Bali and become a DJ. Can they figure out their lives while staring death in the face? Season one, includes episodes 1-6.
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Two very different sisters inherit a funeral home and its eccentric employees from their koro. While Ellie is determined to uphold her grandfather's legacy, Gwen can't wait to get to Bali and become a DJ. Can they figure out their lives while staring death in the face? Season two, includes episodes 1-6.
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...
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