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Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Description
When Megan, a cop who is fresh out of rehab, takes the graveyard shift in the morgue at the city hospital, she faces multiple strange, violent events. The events are caused by an entity in the corpse of Hannah Grace.
Author
Publisher
Thames & Hudson
Language
English
Description
Since the first scrolls were found in 1947, the Dead Sea Scrolls have been the subject of passionate speculation and controversy. This book, written by three noted scholars in the field, draws together all the evidence and presents the first fully illustrated survey of every major manuscript, from the Copper Scroll, the Community Rule, and the Temple Scroll to less well-known scripts such as the Florilegium and New Jerusalem. "The Scrolls Revealed"...
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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Description
Hank is stranded on a deserted island, having given up all hope of ever making it home again. One day everything changes when a corpse names Manny washes up onshore. The two become fast friends, and ultimately go on an epic adventure that will bring Hank back to the woman of his dreams.
Publisher
Universal Television
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The show follows Eleanor (Kristen Bell), Chidi (William Jackson Harper), Tahani (Jameela Jamil), and Jason (Manny Jacinto) - ordinary people who enter the afterlife, and thanks to some kind of error, find themselves in The Good Place instead of The Bad Place (which is definitely where they belong). At the end of Season 2, Michael (Ted Danson) and Janet (D'Arcy Carden) appeared in front of the Judge (Maya Rudolph) to argue that the humans may have...
5) Everwild
Author
Series
Skinjacker trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nick, known as the dreaded "chocolate ogre," is trying to find all the children in Everlost and release them from the limbo they are in, while Mikey and Allie have joined a band of skinjackers and are putting themselves in danger by visiting the world of the living.
Publisher
Allen Lane/Penguin Press
Language
English
Description
Nothing in the modern study of ancient Judaism and the birth of Christianity can match the 50-year saga of these documents, discovered by a lowly goatherd in the spring of 1947. Now, after years of academic debate and maneuvering as tense as any espionage novel, the Dead Sea Scrolls and fragments are at last available in their entirety, in the established standard English version. The texts which endure as the nonbiblical center of Judeo-Christianity...
Author
Series
Redwinter chronicles volume 1
Language
English
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Description
"Those who see the dead soon join them. From the author of the critically-acclaimed Blackwing trilogy comes Ed McDonald's Daughter of Redwinter, the first of a brilliant fantasy series about how one choice can change a universe. Raine can see-and speak-to the dead, a gift that comes with a death sentence. All her life she has hidden, lied, and run to save her skin, and she's made some spectacularly bad choices along the way. But it is a rare act of...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"For the first time in twenty-five years, the cast and crew of all five films in the cult horror-comedy franchise reveal the stories behind the movies? making in their own words, going into detail about life on the sets of some of the most fraught productions in cinema history, and the feuds, controversies, legal battles, and sackings that plagued the filmmakers. Supported by dozens of cast and crew members including Dan O?Bannon, Linnea Quigley,...
Author
Series
Corax trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
There's no formal training for battlefield salvage. You just have to pick things up as you go along. Swords, armour, arrows--and the bodies, of course. Over the years, Saevus Corax has picked up a lot of things. Some of them have made him decent money, others have brought nothing but trouble. But it's a living, and somebody has to deal with the dead. Something else that Saevus has buried is his past. Unfortunately, he didn't quite succeed.
Series
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Since 1976, the Dead Sea's level has dropped more than 100 feet, leaving its coastline pockmarked with thousands of sinkholes. NOVA follows the unprecedented endeavor to connect the Red Sea to the Dead Sea by way of a massive desalination plant - perhaps the world's largest water chemistry experiment - as scientists race to save the Dead Sea and bring water to one of the driest regions on Earth.
11) Vampire legend
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Bram Stoker penned his gothic horror Dracula and popularized the vampire myth, but evidence now suggests those myths originating in England, not Eastern Europe. Oxford professor John Blair follows clues that offer insight into the formation of the myths. The cases hint at a belief that the dead could rise and bring fear to the living, that predates Eastern European lore and forcing a reexamination of the modern vampire legend.
12) Doomed
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"The continued adventures of Madison, the heroine of DAMNED, who escapes Hell and comes back to Earth"--
Publisher
Cleopatra Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
It tells the chilling story of a group of US film-makers who travel to Cyprus to film a documentary in the tragically famous Hotel Gula a once popular resort where more than 100 people died in mysterious circumstances. What begins as just another day at the office will eventually turn into a terrifying journey into the unknown.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
"Although almost everyone has heard of the Dead Sea Scrolls, few people can explain what they say or why they are significant. In The Mystery and Meaning of the Dead Sea Scrolls, Hershel Shanks, the distinguished editor of Biblical Archaeology Review, gives a vivid account of their religious and historical context and their dissemination, meaning, and implications." "Of the eight hundred manuscripts that were eventually found, fewer than a dozen were...
16) Grave
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"Examines the design of the grave and how the ways in which we care for the dead are changing as old systems of burial are seen as expensive and unsustainable while new trends are emerging for people who want a more personal, meaningful final statement"--
Author
Language
English
Description
Because the Dead Sea Scrolls include the earliest known manuscripts of the Bible as well as Jewish documents composed just after the Hebrew biblical period, they contain a gold mine of information about the history of Judaism and the early roots and background of Christianity. Schiffman refocuses the controversy from who controls access to the Scrolls today to what the Scrolls tell us about the past. He challenges the prevailing notion of earlier...
19) Funerals to die for: the craziest, creepiest, and most bizarre funeral traditions and practices ever
Author
Language
English
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Description
True stories that put the, er, "fun" back into funerals!
The hereafter may still be part of the great unknown, but with Funerals to Die For you can unearth the rich—and often, dark—history of funeral rites. From getting a portrait painted with a loved one's ashes to purchasing a safety coffin complete with bells and breathing tubes, this book takes you on a whirlwind tour of funeral customs and trivia from all over
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Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
"Are you there, Satan? It's me, Madison," declares the whip-tongued thirteen-year-old narrator of Damned, Chuck Palahniuk's subversive new work of fiction. The daughter of a narcissistic film star and a billionaire, Madison is abandoned at her Swiss boarding school over Christmas, while her parents are off touting their new projects and adopting more orphans. She dies over the holiday of a marijuana overdose--and the next thing she knows, she's in...