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"Magnolia Brown is nineteen years old, broke, and effectively an orphan. She feels stuck and haunted: by her overdrawn bank account, her predatory landlord, and 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 with a lucrative "modeling" job at his family's funeral home. She accepts. But despite things...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Elaine's home is...different. It's a funeral home that has been in her family since the 1800s--and it's why everybody calls her Funeral Girl. Everyone assumes Elaine will take over the business someday--everyone except Elaine. When Xander, a new boy with a passion for ghost-hunting, arrives in town, Elaine feels an instant spark. He's daring and spontaneous. With Xander, she feels herself transforming from Funeral Girl to Fun Girl. But not everyone...
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
©2006.
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
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...
Author
Publisher
Roca
Pub. Date
2020
Language
Español
Description
"Claudia ha sido la primera mujer tanatopractora del país y es una autoridad mundial en el ámbito funerario, aunque su profesión no le ha facilitado las relaciones personales. Firme defensora de la eutanasia, el hastagh #LaMuerteEsMía le servirá para orquestar una campaña de inesperadas consecuencias. Y lamentará que sus deseos se hayan hecho realidad... Rita es una mujer espectacular acostumbrada a los retos, por eso, cuando le ofrecen la...
8) Dust & Grim
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Thirteen-year-old Molly doesn't know how she got the short end of the stick -- being raised by her neglectful father -- while Dustin, the older brother she's never met, got their mother and the keys to the family estate. But now the siblings are both orphaned, she's come home for her inheritance, and if Dustin won't welcome her into the family business, then she'll happily take her half in cash. There's just one problem: the family business is a...
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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
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...
11) Bless your heart
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Series
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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