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61) After.life
Publisher
Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 DVD (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After a terrible car accident, Anna wakes to find the funeral director is preparing her body for her own funeral. Convincing her that she is in transition to the afterlife, the funeral director is leading Anna to accept her own death. But Paul, Anna's grief-stricken boyfriend, can't shake the nagging suspicion that the funeral director is not what he appears to be. As Paul gets close to unlocking the truth, it may be too late as Anna may have already...
Author
Description
After a childhood filled with poverty and neglect, Beyah Grim finally has her hard-earned ticket out of Kentucky with a full ride to Penn State. With only two short months separating her from the future she's built and the past she desperately wants to leave behind, an unexpected death leaves Beyah with no place to go during the interim. Forced to reach out to her last resort, Beyah has to spend the remainder of her summer on a peninsula in Texas...
68) Ikiru
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Description
Discovering that he is in the terminal stages of cancer, a clerk spends his last months in search of the meaning to life. After his pursuit of pleasure has failed, he finds self-realization in bringing about the building of a children's playground in the slums and dies quietly fulfilled.
Author
Description
Modern medicine has transformed the dangers of childbirth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable. But in the face of our inevitable aging and death, what it can do often runs counter to what it should do. Now Atul Gawande reveals the suffering this has produced. He examines the profession's limitations and failures as life draws to a close, and he shows how the ultimate goal is not a good death, but a good life -- until the very...
71) The confession
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Description
Travis Boyette, recently paroled and suffering from an inoperable brain tumor, resolves to confess that he committed a murder nine years earlier for which another man was convicted and awaits execution, but finds it difficult to convince lawyers and judges of their error.
72) Scream
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2022]
Formats
Description
Twenty-five years after the original series of killings in Woodsboro, a new killer has emerged to resurrect secrets from the past.
Author
Publisher
Owlkids Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Description
After her grandfather's death, a young girl explores her Baba Bazorg's house. As the girl wanders through the house, almost idly, her Baba Bazorg's house stands in for the man himself, with each object she describes standing as a touchstone to a memory, and each memory serving as a window into the relationship between the child and her grandfather. As she looks through its rooms, the things she sees and the object she touches bring to life memories...
75) Scream
Author
Formats
Description
While talking to his friend on the phone, Mark Stone is startled by a cacophany of otherworldly screams. Seconds later, a tragic accident claims his friend's life. When this happens several more times--screams followed by an untimely death--he is compelled to act.
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (627 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Dark, irreverent and wickedly funny, this critically acclaimed comedy follows a college dropout who's about to find her purpose ... in the afterlife! When smart, cynical, 18-year-old George is crushed to death, she joins the ranks of an undead group of grim reapers.
77) Secondhand souls
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Formats
Description
Something really strange is happening in the City by the Bay. People are dying, but their souls are not being collected. Someone -- or something -- is stealing them and no one knows where they are going, or why, but it has something to do with that big orange bridge. Death Merchant Charlie Asher is just as flummoxed as everyone else. He's trapped in the body of a fourteen-inch-tall "meat" waiting for his Buddhist nun girlfriend, Audrey, to find him...
78) Chasing Redbird
Author
Formats
Description
Thirteen-year-old Zinnia Taylor uncovers family secrets and self truths while clearing a mysterious settler trail that begins on her family's farm in Kentucky.
79) Valhalla rising
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After a mute Norse slave kills his captor, he joins forces with a young boy and they escape on a Viking ship to an unknown land where they face violence and death.
80) Parentless parents: how the loss of our mothers and fathers impacts the way we raise our children
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
282 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
Discusses how an increase in the average age at which women give birth has resulted in greater numbers of children growing up without grandparents and examines how the absence of grandparents affects the way parents raise their children.
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