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Author
Series
A Royal Street novel volume 2
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The Crescent City, with its long and tangled history, its glorious architecture and subtropical allure, along with its inarguably dark past and requisite restless spirits, is a forgiving place. A city with accepting arms for society's lost and hungry souls, and a haven for people like me who'd stumbled and fallen yet managed to pull themselves back up. People who were brave enough to try again in a place known for its extremes, or simply too hardheaded...
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 21
Physical Desc
442 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Twenty years after a serial killer murdered four families and was himself killed by the only surviving member of the final family, homicide detective John Calvino--the lone survivor of that killing spree--fears for the safety of his own family when someone recreates the murders of two decades ago.
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
197 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Lizzie is now an established member of Fitzy's Circus, but when the circus arrives in Kensal Green they are plagued by accidents and sickness--and Lizzie needs to put her psychic talents to use to solve the mystery of a graveyard haunted by a devil hound.
Author
Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Saga Press hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
570 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In the Jim Crow South, twelve-year-old Robbie Stephens, Jr., who can see ghosts, is sent to The Reformatory where boys forced to work to remediate their so-called crimes have gone missing, while his sister Gloria rallies everyone in Florida to get him out before it's too late.
65) Inland: a novel
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
374 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
An unexpected relationship between a frontierswoman riding out the Arizona Territory drought of 1893 and a former outlaw, who has the ability to see ghosts, inspires an epic journey across the West.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Bells that ring themselves. Record players that turn on an play music to empty rooms. Ghosts that can climb out of wardrobes... Maggie Holt doesn't believe in these things, even though they are the details of the story that made her family famous. Twenty-five years ago, she and her parents, Ewan and Jess, moved to Baneberry Hall, a rambling Victorian estate in the Vermont woods. They spent twenty days there before fleeing in the dead of night, an...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
This third collection of short fiction by Gaiman includes previously published pieces of short fiction--stories, verse, and a Doctor Who story written for the series' fiftieth anniversary (Nothing o'clock). There is also "Black Dog," a new tale that revisits the world of his novel American Gods. The collection explores the masks we all wear and the people we are beneath them to reveal our vulnerabilities and our truest selves. Horror and ghosts stories,...
Author
Publisher
Graydon House
Language
English
Description
Two centuries after the Salem witch trials, there's still one witch left in Massachusetts. But she doesn't even know it. Take this as a warning: if you are not able or willing to control yourself, it will not only be you who suffers the consequences, but those around you, as well. New Oldbury, 1821 In the wake of a scandal, the Montrose family and their three daughters--Catherine, Lydia and Emeline--flee Boston for their new country home, Willow Hall....
69) As it lies!
Author
Series
Ghost detectors volume 22
Publisher
Calico, an imprint of Magic Wagon
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
79 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
After a father-son miniature golf tournament is cancelled due to ghost-related incidents, the boys sneak into the park with Grandma Eunice to zap the ghost.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
Struggling with the loss of her parents, who helped haunted souls find peace, Sylvie Mason pursues the mystery, moving closer to the truth of what happened that night as she comes to terms with her family's past.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Writing a short story inspired by the unsolved disappearance of a merchant vessel's crew, unproven young writer Arthur Conan Doyle stirs up a sensation involving a Philadelphia medium, a journalist who would expose the medium as a fraud, and the ship captain's grieving family.
Author
Series
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
While trying to convince brilliant writer Ted Shriver, a recluse who is slowly dying of cancer, to keep her company on this side of eternity, Dorothy Parker, tired of haunting the halls of the Algonquin alone, uncovers startling secrets about his past.
Author
Publisher
Chicken House, Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
323 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The Lake District, 1899. The Earl is dead and cruel Cousin Clarence has inherited everything. Twelve-year-old Lady Agatha Asquith is cast out of Gosswater Hall to live in a tiny, tumbledown cottage with a stranger who claims to be her father. Aggie is determined to discover her real identity, but she is not alone on her quest for the truth. On the last day of the year, when the clock strikes midnight, a mysterious girl of light creeps through the...
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Like everyone else in Palm Springs, Gish idolizes her smart, beautiful, kind older sister. Even their parents compare Gish unfavorably to Gloria--threatening to send her to boarding school once the more perfect sister leaves for college. But Gloria has an unwavering love for Gish, even if that connection belies a weariness with her own accomplishments. Wanting a better life for her overlooked sibling, Gloria teaches Gish how to talk to boys, embrace...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Ginny is unhappy when her family moves from Chicago to upstate Michigan for the summer; her father has a job restoring a 1930s mansion, but there are rumors about Woodmoor and the forest next to it: rumors about strange mutant creatures; Ginny, an aspiring mystery writer, is soon half convinced that the rumors are true, because something or someone is haunting the house--and she plans to investigate, with the help of Will, the older boy who lives...
Author
Publisher
Dial Press
Physical Desc
435 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Entreated by the bossy ghost of her great aunt to track down a missing necklace, Lara Lington finds her search challenged by her floundering start-up business, her best friend's defection, and her unfaithful boyfriend.
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking
Language
English
Description
"In the 23rd installment of the bestselling Aunt Dimity series, a dark and stormy night kicks off a ghost chase in rural England On a dull and dreary October day, Lori Shepherd and her husband Bill set off for the historic town of Rye, on the southeast coast of England, for a quiet weekend together without the kids. Bill must first pay a visit to a reclusive client--but after Lori drops him off, a powerful storm drives her off course and leaves...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
1997
Edition
Reissue
Physical Desc
303 p.
Language
English
Description
Edith Wharton was one of the most successful authors of the early 20th century. In 1921, she became the first woman to ever receive the Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Age of Innocence. Aside from her literary fiction, Wharton was widely respected as a writer of ghost stories. Collected here are her best tales, including 'The Duchess at Prayer', 'The Triumph of the Night', 'A Journey and many more'.
Author
Publisher
Faith Words
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
355 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When popular suspense writer Dennis Shore is stricken by a paralyzing case of writer's block and a looming deadline, he claims someone else's writing as his own, and soon becomes tormented by a man who knows his secret.