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1) The jumbies
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers, an imprint of Algonquin Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Corinne must call on her courage and an ancient magic to stop an evil spirit and save her island home.
Author
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
322 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A novel inspired by Russian fairy tales follows the experiences of a wild young girl who taps the mysterious powers of a precious necklace given to her father years earlier to save her village from dark and dangerous forces.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
A modern retelling of the myth, Orpheus and Eurydice, in which Eury leaves Puerto Rico for the Bronx, haunted by losing all to Hurricane Maria and by evil spirit Ato, and meets a bachata-singing charmer, Pheus.
4) Killing it
Author
Publisher
Polis Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
The Square, an important New York club for the alt-comedy scene in the late 1980s, had a much darker purpose in the past and four comics find themselves in a desperate situation after a literal "killing" on stage.
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Bailey Ruth loves to return to earth as an emissary from Heaven's Department of Good Intentions. Problem is, she's a bit of a loose cannon as far as ghosts go--forgetting to remain invisible, alarming earthly creatures--so she's far from the top of department head Wiggins's go-to list for assignments. That's why she's surprised when the Heaven-sent Rescue Express drops her off at a frame house on the outskirts of her old hometown, Adelaide, Oklahoma,...
Author
Series
A Bailey Ruth ghost novel volume 4
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Assigned to guide the spirit of a young man to the next life, Bailey Ruth Raeburn assists her charge in his efforts to prove the innocence of his girlfriend, who has been falsely accused of murdering a senior partner.
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Nineteen years old, broke, and effectively an orphan, Magnolia doesn't have much to look forward to. She feels stuck and haunted: by her overdrawn bank account, by her predatory landlord, by the ghost of her late grandmother Mama Brown. One night while working at her dead-end gas station job, a mysterious, slick stranger named Cotton walks in and offers to turn Magnolia's luck around. He offers her a lucrative "modeling" job at his family's funeral...
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Lestat, Prince of the vampire world, shares how he became the reigning monarch and his battle with Rhoshamandes, a demon spirit who refuses to live in harmony at the Court of Prince Lestat and threatens all that Lestat holds dear.