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Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hank is stranded on a deserted island, having given up all hope of ever making it home again. One day everything changes when a corpse names Manny washes up onshore. The two become fast friends, and ultimately go on an epic adventure that will bring Hank back to the woman of his dreams.
Author
Series
The Corax trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
There's no formal training for battlefield salvage. You just have to pick things up as you go along. Swords, armour, arrows--and the bodies, of course. Over the years, Saevus Corax has picked up a lot of things. Some of them have made him decent money, others have brought nothing but trouble. But it's a living, and somebody has to deal with the dead. Something else that Saevus has buried is his past. Unfortunately, he didn't quite succeed.
5) Evil dead 2
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
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Description
Ash, the sole survivor of 'The Evil Dead', returns to the same cabin in the woods and again unleashes the forces of the dead. With his girlfriend possessed by the demons and his body parts running amok, Ash is forced to single-handedly battle the legions of the damned as the most lethal-and groovy-hero in horror movie history! Welcome to 'Evil Dead II', director Sam Raimi's infamous sequel to 'The Evil Dead' and outrageous prequel to 'Army of Darkness'!...
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The body of an unidentified immigrant is found in the Arizona Desert. In an attempt to retrace his path and discover his story, director Marc Silver and Gael Garcia Bernal embed themselves among migrant travelers on their own mission to cross the border, providing rare insight into the human stories which are so often ignored in the immigration debate.
7) Whichwood
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Laylee, thirteen, is nearly worn out from washing and packaging corpses for the Otherwhere and being shunned by villagers when two strangers, Alice and Oliver, arrive determined to help.
8) Dead Dicks
Publisher
Artsploitation Films
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
This lighthearted, metaphysical sci-fi horror film is a bizarre celebration of death, resurrection, and insanity. Think Harold and Maude meets Groundhog Day. Richie is a suicidal young man who, every time he kills himself, finds himself very much alive but with a dead body of him in his apartment. His sister comes to the rescue, but as the bodies pile up, the pair think that a vagina-like opening in Richie's bedroom might hold the answer.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"Are you there, Satan? It's me, Madison," declares the whip-tongued thirteen-year-old narrator of Damned, Chuck Palahniuk's subversive new work of fiction. The daughter of a narcissistic film star and a billionaire, Madison is abandoned at her Swiss boarding school over Christmas, while her parents are off touting their new projects and adopting more orphans. She dies over the holiday of a marijuana overdose--and the next thing she knows, she's in...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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Description
The film follows a group of medical students who discover a way to bring dead patients back to life. After a successful, yet unsanctioned, trial on a newly deceased animal, the team is ready to unveil their breakthrough to the world. When the dean of their university learns of their underground experiments, their project is unexpectedly shut down and their materials confiscated.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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Description
Stiff is an oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem. For two thousand years, cadavers-some willingly, some unwittingly-have been involved in science's boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. In this fascinating account, Mary Roach visits the good deeds of cadavers over the centuries and tells the engrossing story of our bodies when we are no longer with them.
12) Everwild
Author
Series
Skinjacker trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Nick, known as the dreaded "chocolate ogre," is trying to find all the children in Everlost and release them from the limbo they are in, while Mikey and Allie have joined a band of skinjackers and are putting themselves in danger by visiting the world of the living.
Author
Publisher
Monterey Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
In October of 1980, the Grateful Dead played the world-famous Radio City Music Hall in New York in a week long marathon of sell-out shows. DVD includes more than 50 minutes of previously unreleased concert footage.
"More perhaps than any other attraction in rock, the Dead audience is part of the show."--Los Angeles Times.
"***1/2...a sweet acoustic set...Highly recommended."--Video Librarian.
14) Everfound
Author
Series
Skinjacker trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 20
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Description
In the limbo that's Everlost, Mary, Nick, Allie, and others face the decisions that will determine whether that place and the Earth itself will continue to exist, as well as where their own futures lie.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Tru Davies, a medical grad student in Boston whose grant is suddenly pulled out from under her, takes a job at a local morgue. There, she discovers that she has the power to "re-live" the previous day over again to help the people who wrongly ended up dead.
Author
Publisher
Hay House, Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"If the dead could speak, don't you wonder what they would say to those of us they've left behind? What would they tell us to soothe our sorrow for their loss, calm our fears of what happens when we die, and fire us up to live the best possible lives we can right now? ... Dooley explores our most pressing and profound questions about the afterlife--and this life--from the fresh perspective of those who have made the transition to the next phase"--Amazon.com....
Author
Language
English
Formats
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...
18) Rooms
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Wealthy Richard Walker has just died, leaving behind his country house full of rooms packed with the detritus of a lifetime. His estranged family -- bitter ex-wife Caroline, troubled teenage son Trenton, and unforgiving daughter Minna -- have arrived for their inheritance. But the Walkers are not alone.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the wake of a highly contagious virus, California is under quarantine. Sequestered in high rise towers, the living can't go out, but the dead can come in--and they come in all forms, from sad rolling cans to manufactured bodies that can pass for human. Wealthy participants in the "companionship" program choose to upload their consciousness before dying, so they can stay in the custody of their families. The less fortunate are rented out to strangers...
Publisher
Sentai Filmworks
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The end of the war with the Gaz Empire only meant unemployment for former Saboteur Toru Acura. So when he collides with fate in the form of a young girl carrying a coffin through a forest, it doesn't take much convincing for Toru and his similarly inclined step-sister Akari to join young wizard Chaika on her bizarre quest: to collect the scattered body parts of the former Emperor.
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