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11351) Stealing Chaplin
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"Two indebted Las Vegas con men, running out of time and options, hatch an insane scheme to steal Charlie Chaplin's body and sell it for a fortune"--Container.
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Renowned journalist Bill Moyers interviews dozens of terminally ill patients and caregivers in an emotional and pragmatic look at the way Americans face death. The series offers illuminating perspectives on the sometimes controversial ethical, medical, and economic forces that can drive a person's choices about death.
[1] Living with Dying : Describes the search for new ways of thinking and talking about dying. Forgoing the usual reluctance that...
11355) The Great Death
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As their Alaskan village's only survivors of sickness brought by white men one winter early in the twentieth century, sisters Millie, aged thirteen, and Maura, ten, make their way south in hopes of finding someone alive.
11356) No solo amigos
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Thirteen years ago Vivi LeBrun first met and fell for her friend's brother, David St. James. Since then his family rescued her from a lonely, tumultuous childhood, but after his mother's death David distanced himself from his family. As she travels to Block Island, Rhode Island to vacation with the St. James siblings, Vivi hopes he'll see her as his soul mate. Now, though, he's brought a girlfriend along-- who's pushing for a serious commitment. Will...
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"An inspirational and heartrending memoir about Ben Breedlove, whose videos about his near-death experiences and visions of heaven went viral in 2012, written by his sister Ally Breedlove. On Christmas Day 2011, Ben Breedlove's soul went to heaven. But it wasn't his first time there. Ben suffered from hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), a heart condition that posed a constant risk of sudden death. His condition, a thickening of the heart muscle, worsened...
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The Book of the Dead of Sobekmose', in the collection of the Brooklyn Museum, New York, is one of the most important surviving examples of the ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead genre. Such papyrus scrolls were composed of traditional funerary texts, including magic spells, that were thought to assist a dead person on their journey into the afterlife. This publication is the first to offer a continuous English translation of a single, extensive, major...
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When Charlie Hart first visited Peverels, a small farmhouse, he was at breaking point: grieving the loss of his father and facing the impending death of his mother. At Peverels he found untouched meadowland, the perfect setting for an audacious garden. This is a story of mental health at an all-time low, the healing powers of digging and, ultimately, a celebration of nature.
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