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Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
After an on-air gaffe goes viral and jeopardizes her career, journalist Desiree Turner retreats home to Verbena, California for some peace and quiet. She begins working one of the quietest jobs around: presiding over funerals for her great-grandfather's funeral parlor. But the action seems to follow her as a fistfight breaks out between neighbors Rosemarie Brewer and Lola Hansen at one of the first funerals she's in charge of running. It exposes a...
Author
Series
Fairlawn volume 1
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
When Jennifer Graham, a divorced, unemployed single mom forced to live with her mother, inherits a funeral home in a small Florida town, she discovers a rewarding career that teaches her far more about life than death.
Author
Series
Publisher
Witness
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Only a handful of people know that Emma Lee Raines, proprietor of a small-town Kentucky funeral home, is a "Betweener." She helps ghosts stuck between here and the ever-after - murdered ghosts. Once Emma Lee gets them justice they can cross over to the great beyond. But Emma Lee's own sister refuses to believe in her special ability. In fact, the Raines sisters have barely gotten along since Charlotte Rae left the family business for the competition....
8) Moeru hyōka
Author
Publisher
Kōbunsha
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
日本語
Description
"Seventeen years after his son's unsolved murder, Detective Miki gets pulled into a new case involving the same funeral home that handled his son's final arrangements. As he delves into the investigation, he uncovers unexpected connections and must confront the past to move forward"--Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Nineteen years old, broke, and effectively an orphan, Magnolia doesn't have much to look forward to. She feels stuck and haunted: by her overdrawn bank account, by her predatory landlord, by the ghost of her late grandmother Mama Brown. One night while working at her dead-end gas station job, a mysterious, slick stranger named Cotton walks in and offers to turn Magnolia's luck around. He offers her a lucrative "modeling" job at his family's funeral...
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Funeral director Desiree Turner deals with death by natural causes all the time. Death by unnatural causes? Not so much. Yet, she and her boyfriend Nate have heard some not-so-dear things about the recently departed. A suspicious remark by the late Frank Fiore's daughters sparks some concern. And when Violet Daugherty faints behind the wheel of her car, Desiree suspects she's got a front seat to murder. Desiree can't help but look into Violet's untimely...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Childrens Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
When you grow up in a funeral home, death is just another part of life. But for sixteen-year-old Jaxon Santiago-Noble, it's also part of his family's legacy. Most dead bodies in the town of Jacob's Barrow wind up at Jaxon's house; his mom is the local mortician, after all. He doesn't usually pay them much mind, but when Christian Reyes is brought in after a car accident, Jaxon's world is turned upside down. There are a lot of things Jaxon wishes he...
12) Fallen Grace
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Childrens Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
In Victorian London, impoverished fifteen-year-old orphan Grace takes care of her older but mentally unfit sister Lily, and after enduring many harsh and painful experiences, the two become the victims of a fraud perpetrated by the wealthy owners of several funeral businesses.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"After her latest jerk of a boyfriend dumps her (and ditches her with his pet hedgehog), florist Kat Kowalski is done chasing after Mr. Wrong. With her two best friends moving on to more serious relationships, she's ready to stop repeating the same mistakes that are leaving her stuck in the single lane. Armed with a list of qualities for her perfect Mr. Right, Kat swears off dating until she finds him. Then in a meet-disaster involving a corpse and...
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A good friend will bury your body, a best friend will dig you back up. Dino doesn't mind spending time with the dead. His parents own a funeral home, and death is literally the family business. He's just not used to them talking back. Until Dino's ex-best friend July dies suddenly--and then comes back to life. Except not exactly. Somehow July is not quite alive, and not quite dead. As Dino and July attempt to figure out what's happening, they must...
15) Funeral girl
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Lab
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"When Georgia revives the spirit of a recently deceased classmate at her family's funeral home, she's forced to sort out her complex feelings about grief and mortality"--
16) The third sister
Author
Series
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The riveting conclusion to the Family Secrets trilogy picks up right where the cliffhanger ending of Her Father's Secret left off with the astonishing revelation that Ilka's father is actually still alive. Reeling from the news, Ilka sets off for her father's last known location, where she is faced with a formidable task: to confront a man who abandoned her as a child - then pulled her as an adult into a frightening, violent world - and finally get...
Author
Series
Aurora County trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Gulliver Books/Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Comfort Snowberger is well acquainted with death since her family runs the funeral parlor in their small southern town, but even so the ten-year-old is unprepared for the series of heart-wrenching events that begins on the first day of Easter vacation with the sudden death of her beloved great-uncle Edisto.
Author
Series
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Already widowed by the age of forty, Ilka Nichols Jensen, a school portrait photographer, leads a modest, regimented, and uneventful life in Copenhagen. Until unexpected news rocks her quiet existence: Her father--who walked out suddenly and inexplicably on the family more than three decades ago--has died. And he's left her something in his will: his funeral home. In Racine, Wisconsin. Clinging to this last shred of communication from the father...
20) Bless your heart
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Rise and shine. The Evans women have some undead to kill. It's 1999 in Southeast Texas and the Evans women, owners of the only funeral parlor in town, are keeping steady with...normal business. The dead die, you bury them. End of story. That's how Ducey Evans has done it for the last eighty years, and her progeny--Lenore the experimenter and Grace, Lenore's soft-hearted daughter, have run Evans Funeral Parlor for the last fifteen years without drama....
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