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2) Piranesi
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, an intoxicating, hypnotic new novel set in a dreamlike alternative reality. Piranesi's house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls are lined with thousands upon thousands of statues, each one different from all the others. Within the labyrinth of halls an ocean is imprisoned; waves thunder up staircases, rooms are flooded in an...
3) Whichwood
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Laylee, thirteen, is nearly worn out from washing and packaging corpses for the Otherwhere and being shunned by villagers when two strangers, Alice and Oliver, arrive determined to help.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The body of an unidentified immigrant is found in the Arizona Desert. In an attempt to retrace his path and discover his story, director Marc Silver and Gael Garcia Bernal embed themselves among migrant travelers on their own mission to cross the border, providing rare insight into the human stories which are so often ignored in the immigration debate.
Author
Language
Español
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Formats
Description
"Una novela cruda y desgarradora en la que el lector quedará envuelto, atrapado por las palabras y la atmósfera de terrible, aunque gozosa, fatalidad. Un grupo de niños encuentra un cadáver flotando en las aguas turbias de un canal de riego cercano a la ranchería de La Matosa. El cuerpo resulta ser de la Bruja, una mujer que heredó dicho oficio de su madre fallecida, y a quienes los pobladores de esa zona rural respetaban y temían. Tras el...
Author
Publisher
Harmony Books
Pub. Date
1997
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
#1 New York Times bestselling author Sheri Reynolds delivers an emotionally moving novel of Finch Nobles, a girl severely burned as a child, who later discovers she can hear the voices of the dead.
After sustaining terrible burns from a household accident as a young girl, Finch Nobles refuses the pity of her hometown. The brave and feisty loner finds comfort in visiting her father's cemetery, where she soon discovers that she can hear the voices...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
It looks like Sarah's afterlife will be pretty exciting. She woke up dead at the Mall of America, where the universe sends teens who are murdered. Now, with the help of her death coach, she must learn to move on or she could meet a fate totally worse than death: becoming a mall walker. While she has no idea who killed her, or why, Sarah finds out that someone she loves is in grave danger. Can she live with herself if she doesn't make her death matter?...
8) Doomed
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The continued adventures of Madison, the heroine of DAMNED, who escapes Hell and comes back to Earth"--
Author
Publisher
Underland Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First hardback Underland Press edition.
Language
English
Description
While a wizard prepares to operate on her to extend his life, Pomp, an immortal fairy, joined by Heraclix, a stitched-together monster, escapes and travels through a turbulent eighteenth century on a quest to find out who and what she is.
11) Song of the Dead
Author
Series
Reign of the fallen volume 02
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Odessa and Meredy journey beyond Karthia to a land where the Dead rule the night and dragons roam the streets, but just as they are beginning to explore the new world a terrifying development in Karthia summons them home at once.
12) Black Sunday
Series
Publisher
Kino Classics
Pub. Date
©2012
Edition
Remastered ed.
Language
English
Description
In Mario Bava's gothic horror masterpiece steeped in rich atmosphere, condemned witch Princess Asa returns from the dead two centuries after her execution and wreaks vengeance on her killers' family. Possessing the body of a descendant who happens to look just like her, Asa pulls out all the stops to exact her revenge. This is Bava's credited directorial debut, and it catapulted Steele and him to stardom.
Author
Series
Wells of Sorcery volume 1
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Isoka, an eighteen-year-old ward boss in the great port city, Kahnzoka, is sent on an impossible mission to steal Soliton, a legendary ghost ship, or her sister will be killed.
14) The bone garden
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Made from bone dust and imagination, Irreelle accidentally destroys another of Miss Vesper's creations and flees to the underside of the graveyard, seeking the magic that brings bones to life.
Author
Series
Publisher
Roca Editorial de Libros
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1. ed.
Language
Español
Description
After the grisly murder of his entire family, a toddler wanders into a graveyard where the ghosts and other supernatural residents agree to raise him as one of their own.
Despues de que un asesino despiadado acabe con toda su familia, un bebe escapa de la cuna en medio de la noche y logra alcanzar el cementario mas cercano a su casa.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The acclaimed directorial debut from veteran Austrian actor Karl Markovics (star of the Academy Award-winning The counterfeiters), is an eloquent, affecting portrait of an incarcerated teenager (newcomer Thomas Schubert) attempting to win parole by working at a local morgue. Raised from birth in institutions, he is initially impassive and self-sabotaging in his behavior; soon, though, he begins to respect the solemn work of handling the dead, and...
Author
Series
Graveyard book (Graphic novels) volume 1
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]-
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Nobody Owens is a normal boy, except that he has been raised by ghosts and other denizens of the graveyard.
20) I Cannibali
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Italiano
Description
On the streets of a damp metropolis lie the corpses of hundreds and hundreds of boys and girls. No one can give them a resting place because of a law enacted by a repressive state. But the young Antigone, with the help of a foreigner, Tiresias, violates this rule in the name of pietas, undermining the established order. I Cannibali, third feature film by Liliana Cavani, starring a trio of excellent actors (Pierre Clementi, Britt Ekland and Tomas Milian),...
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