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1) Calypso
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When he buys a beach house on the Carolina coast, David Sedaris envisions long, relaxing vacations spent playing board games and lounging in the sun with those he loves most. And life at the Sea Section, as he names the vacation home, is exactly as idyllic as he imagined, except for one tiny, vexing realization: it's impossible to take a vacation from yourself. Sedaris sets his powers of observation toward middle age and mortality, that vertiginous...
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At the age of sixty-one, George Hall settles to a comfortable retirement. His tempestuous daughter, Katie, then announces that she is getting remarried to the deeply inappropriate Ray to her family's displeasure. Her mother, Jean, is disgusted with the huge preparation the wedding entails, which also disrupts her late-life affair with one of her husband's ex-colleagues. The seemingly neat and pleasant life of George and Jean's son, Jamie, disintegrates...
4) Human lost
Publisher
FUNimation
Pub. Date
[2020]
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In 2036, a revolutionary medical treatment conquers death, but only for the rich. Yozo Oba makes a trip to see how they live but learns that life without death has awful side effects. Now he faces the monsters plaguing the world, including himself.
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"It seems like any other day: You wake up, pour a cup of coffee, and head out. But today when you open your front door, waiting for you is a small wooden box. This box holds your fate inside: the answer to the exact number of years you will live. From suburban doorsteps to desert tents, every person on every continent receives the same box. In an instant, the world is thrust into a collective frenzy. Where did these boxes come from? What do they mean?...
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Edwidge Danticat's The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story is at once a personal account of her mother dying from cancer and a deeply considered reckoning with the ways that other writers have approached death in their own work. "Writing has been the primary way I have tried to make sense of my losses, " Danticat notes in her introduction. "I have been writing about death for as long as I have been writing." The book moves outward from the shock...
10) Narc
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Paramount
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
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Suspended from the force following a drug bust gone wrong, undercover narcotics officer Nick Tellis is reluctantly goaded back into active duty when a fellow officer is slain. Promised reinstatement in exchange for his efforts, Tellis is paired with the victim's volatile ex-partner Henry and soon begins to actively seek the killer in an increasingly complex case. Tellis struggles with his conscience as he navigates a twisting road of half-realized...
11) Mermaid moon
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
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Blood calls to blood; charm calls to charm. It is the way of the world. Come close and tell us your dreams. Sanna is a mermaid -- but she is only half seavish. The night of her birth, a sea-witch cast a spell that made Sanna's people, including her landish mother, forget how and where she was born. Now Sanna is sixteen and an outsider in the seavish matriarchy, and she is determined to find her mother and learn who she is. She apprentices herself...
12) The oath
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Pub. Date
2002
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Attorney Dismas Hardy makes a discovery that threatens his family and his friendship with homicide lieutenant Abe Glitsky while representing Dr. Eric Kensing, a man accused of murdering the head of San Francisco's largest HMO.
13) Mortality
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Twelve
Pub. Date
2012
Description
The author of Hitch-22 describes his losing battle with esophageal cancer while writing columns for Vanity Fair on politics and culture and also describing his personal and philosophical view of life and death.
14) Cop dog
Publisher
Gaiam Americas
Pub. Date
[2010]
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Every since Robby's police officer dad was killed in the line of duty, Robby has been angry and reclusive. But then he meets Marlow, his dad's former police dog. The two become fast friends, but abruptly, while the cop dog pursues two criminals onto a busy street, Marlow too is taken from Robby's life. But this is really just a beginning of a miracle as Marlowe returns to take Robby and his best friend Deb on the adventure of their lives.
15) Rouge: a novel
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Marysue Rucci Books
Pub. Date
©2023.
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"With the help of a pair of red shoes, Belle is lured into the barbed embrace of La Maison de Meduse, the same lavish, culty spa to which her mother was devoted. There, Belle discovers the frightening secret behind her (and her mother's) obsession with the mirror--and the great shimmering depths (and demons) that lurk on the other side of the glass.
16) Saw trilogy
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2007
Description
Saw: Obsessed with teaching his victims the value of life, a deranged, sadistic serial killer is abducting morally wayward people and forcing them to play horrifric games for their own survival. Faced with impossible choices, each victim must struggle to win back his or her life, or else die trying.
Saw II: Jigsaw ... returns in this ... bloody sequel. Eric Matthews (Donnie Wahlberg) is a police detective who, after discovering the aftermath of a...
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Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
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The Silk Road begins on a mat in yoga class, deep within a labyrinth on a settlement somewhere in the icy north, under the canny guidance of Jee Moon. When someone fails to arise from corpse pose, the Astronomer, the Archivist, the Botanist, the Keeper, the Topologist, the Geographer, the Iceman, and the Cook remember the paths that brought them there--paths on which they still seem to be traveling. The Silk Road also begins in rivalrous skirmishing...
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Boom! Studios
Pub. Date
2023.
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"Humanity is on the verge of discovering immortality. As a result, the avatar of Death is cast down to Earth to live a mortal life in Mumbai as twenty-something Laila Starr. Struggling with her newfound mortality, Laila has found a way to be placed in the time and place where the creator of immortality will be born. Will Laila take her chance to stop mankind from permanently altering the cycle of life, or will death really become a thing of the past?"--...
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