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Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
107 p. ; 20 cm.
Description
An array of tales speculates about the future that awaits us after death, presenting diverse versions of human purpose that range from experimental subjects for gods trying to understand emotional attachment to mobile robots for cosmic mapmakers.
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (627 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Dark, irreverent and wickedly funny, this critically acclaimed comedy follows a college dropout who's about to find her purpose ... in the afterlife! When smart, cynical, 18-year-old George is crushed to death, she joins the ranks of an undead group of grim reapers.
6) Lifeblood
Author
Series
Everlife volume 2
Publisher
Harlequin Teen
Pub. Date
[2017].
Physical Desc
440 pages : maps ; 22 cm.
Description
Having chosen her realm in the Everlife, Ten faces the consequences of her decision and endeavors to save her Secondlife. Meanwhile the war between Troika and Myriad rages, a situation that is further complicated by Ten's inability to forget Killian.
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Formats
Description
The story of a small town on Lake Michigan that gets worldwide attention when its citizens start receiving phone calls from the afterlife. Is it the greatest miracle ever or a massive hoax? Sully Harding, a grief-stricken single father, is determined to find out. An allegory about the power of belief, and a page-turner that will touch your soul. Albom's masterful storytelling has never been so moving and unexpected.
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
259 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Description
Jason Sloane and his seventh-grade friends are the first to sign up for a strange new club that monitors school security footage, but when the new computers show the club members themselves as unlikable high school seniors five years in the future they scramble to solve the mystery.
9) Firstlife
Author
Series
Everlife volume 1
Formats
Description
Locked in an asylum for her refusal to let her parents dictate her afterlife choices, Ten Lockwood finds herself caught in a violent power struggle between the two leading Everlife realms that would do anything to claim her powerful soul.
Tenley "Ten" Lockwood has spent the past thirteen months locked inside an asylum-- because of her refusal to let her parents choose where she'll live after she dies. In the Everlife, two realms are in power: Troika...
Author
Description
Lordor Nordstrom created, in his wisdom, not only a lively town and a prosperous legacy for himself but also a beautiful final resting place for his family, friends, and neighbors yet to come. "Resting place" turns out to be a bit of a misnomer, however. Odd things begin to happen, and it starts the whole town talking. With her wild imagination, great storytelling, and deep understanding of folly and the human heart, the beloved Fannie Flagg tells...
11) Goldfish Ghost
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Description
The adventures of a goldfish who just died.
13) Secondhand souls
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Something really strange is happening in the City by the Bay. People are dying, but their souls are not being collected. Someone -- or something -- is stealing them and no one knows where they are going, or why, but it has something to do with that big orange bridge. Death Merchant Charlie Asher is just as flummoxed as everyone else. He's trapped in the body of a fourteen-inch-tall "meat" waiting for his Buddhist nun girlfriend, Audrey, to find him...
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 375 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Eleanor, Chidi, Tahani, and Jason are four cosmically bound friends in the fight for their eternity, alongside their former torturer, Michael. Michael, in a fit of panic, had relinquished his role as the Architect to Eleanor, so that she and the gang could help four new residents become better people. Unfortunately, the Bad Place doesn't exactly make their task easy, and its latest move places Chidi in a dire situation, putting his relationship with...
15) Zero K: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
"Jeff's father, Ross, a billionaire in his sixties with a younger wife, Artis, with failing health, is the primary investor in a secret, remote compound where death is controlled and bodies are preserved until biomedical and technological advances can return them to a life of promise causing all three to examine their views on life and death"--
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
379 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"Hubert, Seth, and their ultra-rich heiress friend Natalie are getting a little old to hang out at the "Communist parties," techno-raveups in abandoned industrial spaces, full of insta-printed drugs and toys. And Natalie was finished, years ago, with her overcontrolling zillionaire dad. And now that anyone can manufacture food, clothing, shelter with equipment comparable to a computer printer, there seems to be little reason to to stick with the world...
17) J: a novel
Author
Publisher
Hogarth
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"A profound, darkly comedic parable set in a future where collective memory has vanished following a historic catastrophe, and one young couple's love affair could have shattering consequences for the human race. In a world where the past is a dangerous country, not to be talked about or visited, J is a love story of incomparable strangeness, both tender and terrifying. After the devastation of WHAT HAPPENED, IF IT HAPPENED, all that should remain...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
On a perfect June day, Vivian Howe, author of thirteen beach novels and mother of three nearly grown children, is killed in a hit-and-run car accident while jogging near her home on Nantucket. She ascends to the Beyond where she's assigned to a Person named Martha, who allows Vivi to watch what happens below for one last summer. Vivi also is granted three "nudges" to change the outcome of events on earth, and with her daughter Willa on her third miscarriage,...
19) Three souls
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Canada
Pub. Date
[2013], ©2013
Physical Desc
471 pages ; 23 cm
Description
"In the tradition of Lisa See and Amy Tan, Three Souls is a captivating debut novel about a young woman who must make amends on earth to earn her entry into the afterlife"--
20) Soul
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
2 blu-rays (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Joe Gardner is a middle-school band teacher who gets the chance of a lifetime to play at the best jazz club in town. A misstep takes him from New York City to The Great Before, a fantastical place where new souls get their personalities before going to Earth. Determined to return to his life, Joe teams up with a precocious soul, 22, who has never understood the appeal of the human life. As Joe tries to show 22 what's great about life, he may discover...
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