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Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
The author of the acclaimed novel The Brief History of the Dead now gives us one hundred funny, poignant, scary, and thought-provoking ghost stories that explore all aspects of the afterlife. A spirit who appears in a law firm reliving the exact moment she lost her chance at love, a man haunted by the trees cut down to build his house, nefarious specters that snatch anyone who steps into the shadows in which they live, and parakeets that serve as...
3) The grownup
Author
Language
English
Description
A canny young woman is struggling to survive by perpetrating various levels of mostly harmless fraud. On a rainy April morning, she is reading auras at Spiritual Palms when Susan Burke walks in. A keen observer of human behavior, our unnamed narrator immediately diagnoses beautiful, rich Susan as an unhappy woman eager to give her lovely life a drama injection. However, when the "psychic" visits the eerie Victorian home that has been the source of...
4) Remembrance
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The highly anticipated return of Meg Cabot's bestselling Mediator series featuring fan-favorite ghost whisperer Susannah Simon. You can take the boy out of the darkness. But you can,t take the darkness out of the boy. All Susannah Simon wants is to make a good impression at her first job since graduating from college (and since becoming engaged to Dr. Jesse de Silva). But when she's hired as a guidance counselor at her alma mater, she stumbles across...
5) Dream Lake
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the exquisite setting of Friday Harbor, Zoe Hoffman, an innkeeper who has all but given up on love, is attracted to Alex Nolan, a bitter and cynical man battling his demons with the help of a whiskey bottle, until he is visited by a mysterious ghost who is stuck in the Nolans' Victorian house. All the ghost knows is that he loved a girl once. And Alex and Zoe hold the key to unlocking the mystery that keeps him trapped there.
Author
Language
English
Description
When the ghost of Lara's great-aunt Sadie--a feisty, demanding girl with firm ideas about fashion, love, and the right way to dance--mysteriously appears, she has one last request: Lara must find a missing necklace that had been in Sadie's possession for more than seventy-five years, and Sadie cannot rest without it. Never mind that Lara has her own problems--which Sadie could care less about. Will this sparring duo ever find what they're after?
7) Lost
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Winifred Rudge travels to London to jump-start her new novel about a woman who is being haunted by the ghost of Jack the Ripper. Upon her arrival, she finds that her stepcousin and old friend John Comestor has disappeared, and a ghostly presence seems to have taken over his apartment in the nineteenth-century rowhouse once owned by Winnie's great-great-grandfather. Is it the spirit of this ancestor, who, family legend claims, was Charles Dickens's...
Author
Series
Portrait of crime mystery volume 1
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
Berkley Prime Crime mass-market ed.
Language
English
Description
When Rory's favorite uncle dies, he bequeaths to his niece a beautiful Victorian home and a list of clients from his detective business. With the house comes the ghost of a federal marshal who was killed in the 1870s. The ghost had been helping Rory's uncle in his detective business in exchange for finding the identity of the marshal's killer. Now the ghost would like to continue working with Rory.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
For most of Tony Gilbert's life, he has thought of his uncle as "Weird Uncle Charlie." That is, until Uncle Charlie moves in with Tony and his family. Uncle Charlie is still odd, of course--talking about spirits and other supernatural stuff--but he and Tony become fast friends, and Tony ends up having a lot of fun with Uncle Charlie. When Uncle Charlie dies suddenly, Tony is devastated. Then he starts seeing Uncle Charlie everywhere! It doesn't help...
12) Johnny Angel
Author
Language
English
Description
In her fifty-eighth bestselling novel, Danielle Steel tells the breathtaking story of a mother’s love and a son’s gift, of the tragedy that nearly destroyed a family...and the miracle that saved them.
Johnny Angel
With a word or a smile, seventeen-year-old Johnny Peterson could light up a room, fill his mother’s heart with pride, and inspire the best in those around him. A star athlete and class valedictorian, tall,...
Johnny Angel
With a word or a smile, seventeen-year-old Johnny Peterson could light up a room, fill his mother’s heart with pride, and inspire the best in those around him. A star athlete and class valedictorian, tall,...
13) The collectors
Author
Series
Fright watch volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Quinn is suspicious of her new neighbors, the Ladies in White, and when her friend Lex starts to act strangely after spending so much time with them, Quinn enlists Mike to help her uncover who the Ladies in White are and what they want with their friend.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First Edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"When Henry Davis moves into the neighborhood, Barbara Anne and her classmates at Washington Carver Elementary don't know what to make of him. He's pale, small, odd. For curious Barbara Anne, Henry's also a riddle--a boy who sits alone at recess sketching in a mysterious notebook, a boy, she soon learns, who's being haunted by a ghost named Edgar. With the help of some new friends, this unlikely duo is off on an adventure to discover who Edgar was...
Author
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Maggie Kim's parents have always dreamed of operating their own hotel, so when the historic Wharton Mansion goes up for sale, they see it as the perfect opportunity to open their own ski lodge. This weekend, Maggie and her family are going to check the place out and perhaps even buy it on the spot. But Maggie doesn't want to move to a run-down old mansion all the way up on a desolate mountain, and the ghost that lives there doesn't want her there...
16) Fetch
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Presents three novella-length tales of horror set in the world of Five nights at Freddy's.
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Aladdin pbk. ed.
Language
English
Description
Do you believe in ghosts? Don't say no until you take a walk down Fear Street. Past the woods--where no birds sing. Past the lake--where something lurks beneath the water. Past the cemetery--where everyone is dying to meet you. Vinny Salvo's shadow has been looking a bit different lately. A bit...creepy. It has horns. And big black claws. Now it's coming after Vinny. But how can he hide from his own shadow? Find out in 'Revenge of the shadow people'....
Author
Series
Royal sweets volume 4
Publisher
Aladdin QUIX
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Aladdin QUIX hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
When Princess Mini, Taffy, and Prince Frosting hear scary noises, Mini worries that her sleepover at Candy Castle may be haunted.
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