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Author
Series
Heaven volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Killed in a tragic accident, Eddie, an elderly man who believes that he had an uninspired life, awakens in the afterlife, where he discovers that heaven consists of having five people explain the meaning of one's life.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Elmwood Springs, Missouri, is a small town like any other, but something strange is happening out at the cemetery. 'Still Meadows, ' as it's called, is anything but still. Tells a surprising story of life, afterlife, and the mysterious goings-on of ordinary people. --Amazon.com
6) Everbound
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Now that Nikki Beckett's boyfriend has been sucked into the tunnels of the Everneath, Nikki must journey down to the underworld to bring him back before he is lost forever"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Language
English
Description
"The Pine Creek Motel has seen better days. Henny would call it charming, but she's always seen the best in things. Like now, when she's just met an untimely end crossing the road. She's not going to let a tiny thing like death stop her from living fully - not when her friends and family need her the most. After the funeral is over, her body is buried, and the last casserole dish is empty, Henny is still around. She's not sure why, but she realizes...
8) Damned
Author
Series
Damned trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2011
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...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Wallace Price is incredibly successful, but at the expense of all human connection, and he dies alone in his office. Then he finds himself at his own funeral, unsure of how he got there. There are only five attendees, including a young woman he doesn't know. She, as it turns out, is a Reaper. Wallace is her first solo job, and she's determined to make his transition smooth. The first step is to take him to the ferryman, Hugo. Hugo runs a tea shop,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices. Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance to undo your regrets? Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality....
Author
Language
English
Description
Set over the course of that one night and populated by ghosts of the recently passed and the long dead, Lincoln in the Bardo is a thrilling exploration of death, grief, the powers of good and evil, a novel - in its form and voice - completely unlike anything you have read before. It is also, in the end, an exploration of the deeper meaning and possibilities of life, written as only George Saunders can: with humor, pathos, and grace.
12) Croak
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
A delinquent sixteen-year-old girl is sent to live with her uncle for the summer, only to learn that he is a Grim Reaper who wants to teach her the family business.
14) The next place
Author
Publisher
Waldman House Press
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
An inspirational journey of light and hope to a place where earthly hurts are left behind.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
This powerful novel explores the legacy of dispossession across continents and generations. With devastatingly clear-eyed vision of political and personal trauma, The Blue Between Sky and Water is the story of flawed yet profoundly courageous women, of separation and heartache, endurance and renewal. --Provided by publisher.
17) Graveyard shift
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
In an alternative London, thirteen-year-old Ben Harvester is recruited by the Ministry of Pandemonium, a secret organization responsible for shepherding lost souls to the afterlife, but soon learns there is another, more sinister soul-hunting organization that now considers him an enemy.
18) Three souls
Author
Publisher
William Morrow Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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"--
Author
Series
Madison Avery volume 2
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When Madison Avery, seventeen, spunky, and technically dead, takes on the role of Dark Timekeeper, she struggles to figure out her place in the war between light and dark reapers.
Author
Publisher
Ignatius Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"One morning, attorney Dan Geary, seventy-seven years old, finds himself in the middle of a rolling, polychrome landscape... but somehow-- with the doctors and beeping monitors suddenly gone-- he knows exactly where he is: the afterlife."
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