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Author
Series
Echo archives volume 1
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Kembral Thorne is spending a few hours away from her newborn, and she's determined to enjoy herself at this party no matter what. But when the guests start dropping dead, Kem has no choice but to get to work. She is a Hound, after all, and she can't help picking up the scent of trouble. She's not the only one. Her professional and personal nemesis, notorious burglar Rika Nonesuch, is on the prowl. They quickly identify what's causing the mayhem:...
Author
Publisher
Zibby Publishing
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Bud Stanley is an obituary writer who is afraid to live. Yes, his wife recently left him for a 'far more interesting' man. Yes, he goes on a particularly awful blind date with a woman who brings her ex. And yes, he has too many glasses of Scotch one night and proceeds to pen and publish his own obituary. The newspaper wants to fire him. But now the company's system has him listed as dead. And the company can't fire a dead person. The ensuing fallout...
Author
Publisher
LB Kids, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Hearth's Warming Eve is a very special day. It is a time when families gather to remember when the three pony tribes joined in harmony and founded Equestria. When Applejack's and Pinkie Pie's families celebrate the holiday together, however, they soon realize that not everypony has the same traditions. What can the two different families learn from each other?"--
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"We pray to our ancestors but we do not worship them. You, you need an intermediary, the priest. But for us, our intermediary is the ancestor who is sitting next to God," says Poundé, the old Cameroonian ethnologist, to the young Jewish director from Canada. And with this conclusive statement, everything becomes clear: the funerals in memory of "the dead who are not dead" organized several days or even years following the burial, the chants, brass...
Author
Publisher
DK Publishing
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
"ABOUT DK SUPER READERS LEVEL 4 SECRETS OF THE MUMMIES Find out about mummies from all around the world. Make reading your superpower with DK's beautiful, leveled nonfiction. Use your reading superpowers to learn all about what mummies are and some famous mummies - a high-quality, fun, nonfiction reader - carefully leveled to help children progress. Secrets of the Mummies is a beautifully designed reader all about mummies - how they were made,...
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Français
Description
The Grande Chartreuse, considered one of the world's most ascetic monasteries is based in the French Alps. In 1984, German filmmaker Philip Gröning wrote to the Carthusian order for permission to make a documentary about them. They said they would get back with him. Sixteen years later, they were ready. Gröning, sans crew or artificial lighting, lived in the monks' quarters for six months - filming their daily prayers, tasks, rituals, and rare outdoor...
Author
Series
Barrier lands volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Unwilling is the story of Judah, a foundling born with a special gift and raised inside Highfall castle along with Gavin, the son and heir to Lord Elban's vast empire. Judah and Gavin share an unnatural bond that is both the key to her survival - and possibly her undoing. As Gavin is groomed for his future role, Judah comes to realize that she has no real position within the kingdom, in fact, no hope at all of ever traveling beyond its castle...
Author
Publisher
Castle Point Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
An irreverent book of morbid curiosities that leaves no headstone unturnedThis isn't your average walk through the graveyard. Filled with facts that will tickle your gray matter, You'll Leave This World with Your Butt Sewn Shut provides answers to all the questions about death that you've ever wanted to ask (and more than a few you never thought to). You'll learn how to avoid incendiary pacemakers and exploding caskets, why Victorians ate mummies...
11) The promise
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A modern saga that could only have come from South Africa, written in gorgeous prose by the Booker Prize-shortlisted author Damon Galgut. Haunted by an unmet promise, the Swart family loses touch after the death of their matriarch. Adrift, the lives of the three siblings move separately through the uncharted waters of South Africa; Anton, the golden boy who bitterly resents his life's unfulfilled promises; Astrid, whose beauty is her power; and the...
12) Long past dues
Author
Series
Unorthodox chronicles volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Grimsby, the newest Auditor in the magical Department of Unorthodox Affairs, finds himself in hot water when he intercepts a friend's case in this fast-paced and thrilling urban fantasy. Against all odds, Grimshaw Griswald Grimsby has become an Auditor, enforcing laws about magic for Boston's Department of Unorthodox Affairs. But Grimsby soon realizes the daily grind of his job is far removed from the glamour he imagined. Overlooked for every exciting...
13) The Loney
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"The eerie, suspenseful debut novel -- hailed as "an amazing piece of fiction" by Stephen King -- that is taking the world by storm. When the remains of a young child are discovered during a winter storm on a stretch of the bleak Lancashire coastline known as the Loney, a man named Smith is forced to confront the terrifying and mysterious events that occurred forty years earlier when he visited the place as a boy. At that time, his devoutly Catholic...
14) The big chill
Series
Criterion collection volume 720
Publisher
Columbia Pictures Industries
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
After the shocking suicide of their friend, a group of thirty-somethings reunite for his funeral and end up spending a weekend together, reminiscing about their shared pasts as children of the sixties and confronting the uncertainty of their lives as adults of the eighties.
15) The broken tower
Author
Series
Barrier lands volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Judah the Foundling chose freedom over betrayal when she leaped from the top of the castle tower. Now she finds herself wandering an unknown forest, far from everything and everyone she loves. For the first time in her life, she's beyond the great Wall that surrounds Highfall castle; for the first time, she's alone. Away from the Seneschal, the power behind the throne; away from Nate Clare, the House Magus who was her teacher, friend, betrayer. Away...
Author
Publisher
Red Chair Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"What happens at a funeral or memorial service? These are sometimes held in a church or temple so that the person can be remembered for their life. While many people at the service will be sad and it may seem scary, one way to say good bye at a funeral is to think about the happy times you may have had with the person who is gone. Did they make you laugh or feel loved? Discover what to expect at a funeral so you will be brave"-- Provided by publisher....
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Every year, in the colonial city of Antigua, Guatemala, the "sorrowful way" of Good Friday is recreated by a path of colored sawdust and flower petals. Along this road several hundred people take turns carrying a ponderous mahoganybier. Indians from the surrounding countryside come to observe the spectacle of townspeople garbed in Biblical and Roman military uniforms.
18) Sons of Shiva
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Sons of Shiva is a sustained attempt to film a four-day ceremony concerned with the worship of Shiva. Devotees of the God Shiva are shown from the initial taking of the Sacred Thread through gradually intensifying action to a culmination in a variety of ascetic and self denying practices.
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
To Serve the Gods is about the beliefs, rituals and performances of a week-long ceremony given by a Haitian family in honor of its ancestral spirits. We are told at the outset of the film that this sevis loua only occurs every twenty to thirty years. This particular service takes place in a rural community in southern Haiti, on family land, where relatives have gathered to propitiate gods inherited by their ancestors.
20) Cheyenne
Author
Series
Publisher
Creative Education, Creative Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"An introduction to the Cheyenne lifestyle and history, including their forced relocation and how they keep traditions alive today. A Cheyenne story recounts how people became chief of the animals." -- Provided by publisher.
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