A whole decade has passed since Baldwin, Brenden, Bria, and Christopher last saw each other. Now they are reunited in a small North Carolina town to attend the funeral of one of their own. Baldwin, the romantic, Brenden, the do-gooder,...
Funeral rites and ceremonies
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Author:Parks, Electa RomeSummary: -
Author:Mda, ZakesSummary:In Ways of Dying, Zakes Mda's acclaimed first novel, Toloki is a "professional mourner" in a vast and violent city of the new South Africa. Day after day he attends funerals in the townships, dressed with dignity in a threadbare suit,...
- Author:Estleman, Loren D.Summary:
Revolutionizing traditional mortuary practices, Richard Connable develops a method of preserving the human dignity of the deceased. His wife Lucy struggles to keep their marriage whole as she stands by his side and supports him while he...
- Author:Galgut, DamonSummary:
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...
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Author:Hodgins, JackSummary:It's the summer of 1956 and Rusty Macken is itching to leave for the big city. But first he must endure an epic funeral with his huge, rowdy family. Glory, a glamorous city girl who fell for the wildest Macken of all, has met a tragic...
- Author:James, MattSummary:
Norma and her parents are going to her great-uncle Frank's funeral, and Norma is more excited than sad. She is looking forward to playing with her favorite cousin, Ray, but when she arrives at the church, she is confronted with rituals...
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Author:Cooney, DougSummary:Ernie, a twelve-year-old tycoon, makes a tidy profit in the pet funeral business. When he refuses to give a raise to his star employee, a tomboy named Swimming Pool, the enterprise starts falling apart. It takes the death of Ernie'...
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Author:Erickson, LoriSummary:After her brother died unexpectedly and her mother moved into a dementia-care facility, spiritual travel writer and Episcopal deacon Lori Erickson felt called to a new quest: to face death head-on, with the eye of a tourist and the...
- Author:Bailly, GuillaumeSummary:
On l’a bien vu dans Six pieds sous terre, cette série culte de HBO : les funérailles sont souvent le théâtre d’événements drôles, gênants, étonnants, inoubliables ! Dans Mes sincères condoléances, l’entrepreneur en...
- Author:Naud, DanielSummary:
Préparons-nous un bon petit bouillon de poulet ou une délicieuse infusion. Quelque chose de réconfortant, croyez-moi, vous en aurez besoin. Installons-nous confortablement sur le divan et tamisons les lumières partout dans la maison....
- Author:Naud, DanielSummary:
Cette fois-ci, nous explorerons ensemble de nouvelles avenues qui nous porteront vers des recoins sombres, poussiéreux et inédits. Nous mettrons en lumière certaines facettes insoupçonnées qui se terrent derrière l'évidente devanture de...
- Author:Hage, RawiSummary:
1978. La guerre civile bat son plein et ravage Beyrouth. Pavlov, fils d'un entrepreneur de pompes funèbres, habite une rue surplombant le cimetière de l'enclave chrétienne de la ville. À la mort de son père, il reçoit la visite d'...
- Author:HOLLOWAY, JudithSummary:
Ruby loves her half-sister, Hine, and treasures all the fun times they share together. Hine has suffered from a serious illness since her birth, and she dies a few months before her tenth birthday. Ruby attends Hine's tangi and...
- Author:Doughty, CaitlinSummary:
The best-selling author of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes expands our sense of what it means to treat the dead with "dignity." Fascinated by our pervasive terror of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty set out to discover how other cultures...
- Author:Campbell, HayleySummary:
"Journalist Hayley Campbell explores the often hidden world of those who work closely with death, finding compassion in unexpected settings. Campbell's British accent and matter-of-fact delivery take the listener on a tour of...
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Author:Wilcox, Merrie-EllenSummary:Why do we die? Why can't we live forever? What happens to us after death? Moving between science and culture, After Life: Ways We Think About Death takes a straightforward look at these and other questions long taboo in our society...
- Author:Arudpragasam, AnukSummary:
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE - A young man journeys into Sri Lanka’s war-torn north in this searing novel of longing, loss, and the legacy of war from the author of The Story of a Brief Marriage. “A novel of tragic power and...
- Author:Smart, SusanSummary:
A Better Place describes the practices around death and burial in 19th-century Ontario. Funeral rituals, strong religious beliefs, and a firm conviction that death was a beginning not an end helped the bereaved through their times of...
