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61) Smoke in mirrors
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Language
English
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Description
A con artist and seductress, Meredith Spooner lived fast-and died young. But her final scam-embezzling more than a million dollars from a college endowment fund-is coming back to haunt Leonora Hutton. The tainted money is stashed away in an offshore account for Leonora. And while she wants nothing to do with the cash, she discovers two other items in the safe-deposit box: a book about Mirror House-the place where Meredith engineered her final deception...
66) Midnight
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Language
English
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Description
The death of Manhattan judge Alvin Canter on New Year's Eve in his chambers presents a serious problem to his law clerk, Tom Carroway, and his secretary, Carol Scilingo. When a judge dies, the members of his staff keep their jobs until the end of the year, so the two are suddenly faced with unemployment at the end of the day unless they can make it appear as if the judge died after midnight. Carol is a single parent and the only support for her son,...
68) Norwegian wood
Author
Publisher
Vintage International
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
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Toru, a young college student in Tokyo, is devoted to Naoko, but before they can find true love with one another, they must come to terms with the tragic death of their best friend.
Author
Publisher
Companion Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Since its debut thirty years ago, this favorite by one of the world's most beloved grief counselors has found a place in the homes and hearts of hundreds of thousands of mourners across the globe. Filled with compassion and hope, Understanding Your Grief helps you understand and befriend your painful, complex thoughts and feelings after the death of someone loved. Befriending grief may sound counterintuitive, but actually, your grief is your love...
71) The ring
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Language
English
Description
A strange videotape full of bizarre and haunting images is watched by a handful of teenagers. After the viewing the tape, they receive phone calls in which they are warned they will die in seven days. Rachel, the aunt of one of the ill-fated teens, is a journalist who has decided to investigate the matter. She manages to find the cabin in the woods and watches the video herself; afterward, she receives the same phone call, and realizes she must solve...
72) Free radicals
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Deutsch
Description
A group of friends in a suburban Austrian town reexamine their lives after the unexpected death of a young woman who appeared to be leading a charmed life.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Description
In a near-future New York City where a service alerts people on the day they will die, teenagers Mateo Torrez and Rufus Emeterio meet using the Last Friend app and are faced with the challenge of living a lifetime on their End Day.
74) After Caroline
Author
Language
English
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Description
Joanna Flynn escapes death twice in a matter of minutes only to begin having a haunting dream that leads her to Cliffside, Oregon where she learns she is the image of a woman named Caroline who died on the same day, at the same time as Joanna's near-fatal accident.
Author
Publisher
Chalice Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
When infertility painfully interrupted Elizabeth Hagan's plan to start a family, the path of grace offered her another way. Instead of giving birth to a child, she birthed herself instead. Along the way, she learned you can't control how fast your dreams come true, if they come true at all, but you can find grace for embracing your life in the present tense, grief and all. Through her new book Birthed, Elizabeth Hagan offers her story as a companion...
77) The dog, Ray
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Daisy, age twelve, has died in a car accident. She finds herself in the afterworld, which resembles nothing more than a job center. Her soul is being returned to Earth, but not as a human beingshes returning as a dog. A dog who retains Daisys thoughts and pluck and is determined to get back to her parents and to get back home. What she doesnt expect is that life as a dog named Ray would come with such worriesand moments of jubilationas she grows to...
Author
Publisher
Magination Press
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
Amanda the squirrel is upset that she is going to lose her friend Gentle Willow, but the tree wizards give advice that helps both her and Gentle Willow accept the change that comes with death. Includes a note to parents.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
From euthanizing a sick dog to slaughtering cows for food, how do we reconcile our feelings about killing when it comes to the non-human animals around us? Ponder the moral and spiritual dimensions of the death of other animals--and what that might reveal about our views of our own mortality.
80) Inhale, Exhale
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
At Saint Boniface General Hospital in Manitoba two women pass each other in the corridors. Gisèle Fontaine hurries to help women in childbirth, while Louise Saurette attends the dying. Birth and death, moments of transition that involve a transformative journey, have much in common. The midwife and the chaplain offer themselves as guides on the painful and essential path of abandonment. With delicacy and restraint this film reveals the essence of...
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