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Pub. Date
2023.
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.
Author
Publisher
Dragonsteel Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Originally appearing in the Dangerous Women anthology and now available as a solo ebook, Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell is a chilling novella of the Cosmere, the universe shared by Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn series and the #1 New York Times bestselling Stormlight Archive.When the familiar and seemingly safe turns lethal, therein danger lies. Amid a forest where the shades of the dead linger all around, every homesteader knows to follow...
4) Keeper
Author
Publisher
North Star Editions
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
When a 200-year-old witch attacks her, sixteen-year-old bookworm Lainey Styles is determined to find a logical explanation. Even with the impossible staring her in the face, Lainey refuses to believe it—until she finds a photograph linking the witch to her dead mother.
After consulting a psychic, Lainey discovers that she, like her mother, is a Keeper: a witch with the exclusive ability to unlock and wield the Grimoire, a dangerous but powerful...
Author
Publisher
Beyond the Page Publishing
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Still undecided about a return to her teaching career, Abby Kimball has thrown herself into restoring the grand Victorian she shares with her boyfriend, Ned. She's happy to put thoughts of her strange ability to see the dead on the back burner for a while, but she realizes that won't be so easy when she's faced with two new compelling encounters.First, a plumber she's hired has a shocking experience with an old tool they find buried in the house's...
6) Little Girls
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp.
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
From Bram Stoker Award nominee Ronald Malfi comes a brilliantly chilling novel of childhood revisited, memories resurrected, and fears reborn. . . When Laurie was a little girl, she was forbidden to enter the room at the top of the stairs. It was one of many rules imposed by her cold, distant father. Now, in a final act of desperation, her father has exorcised his demons. But when Laurie returns to claim the estate with her husband and ten-year-old...
Author
Publisher
Celtic Sea Publishing
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Alex may have lost his ability to play sports, but he gained the ability to see ghosts. Now he must figure out how to put an evil spirit to rest—or die trying. Once an athlete and popular kid, Alex is in a terrible car accident that severely injures his hip and leaves him with a rare power: he can hear and see ghosts. All Alex wants is to be normal. But when a malevolent spirit begins haunting him, Alex must accept his unwanted...
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English
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Told in alternating timelines, seventeen-year-old Daisy and her mother move into her deceased uncle's mansion, only to find horrors waiting inside, and ten years later, Brittney investigates the mystery behind the Miracle Mansion that turned her mother's life around.
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Language
Español
Description
¡Te presentamos esta nueva versión de aniversario masterizada de Odisea del mole, una aventura culinaria espectral que no te puedes perder! Ingrid Pimienta es una calavera de azúcar que vive en el Cacahuatal, uno de los cementerios que existen en el inframundo, y lugar de míticos cocineros que abastecen con sus complicados platillos a todos los seres sobrenaturales que los visitan; particularmente en la famosa Yoliliesta: la fiesta de los espíritus....
10) Walls Around Us
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
With evocative language, a shifting timeline and more than one unreliable narrator, Suma subtly explores the balance of power between the talented and the mediocre, the rich and the poor, the brave and the cowardly . . . To reveal more would be to uncover the bloody heart that beats beneath the floorboards of this urban-legend-tinged tale." -The New York Times The Walls Around Us is a ghostly story of suspense told in two voices--one still living...
11) The ghost job
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Language
English
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"Zenith and her friends may be dead, but lucky for them, even getting ghosted wasn't enough to tear them apart. The four of them were thick as thieves long before an unfortunate lab accident sent them careening into the afterlife. So when they hear about a machine that could return them to the land of the living, they are determined to steal it. Unfortunately, the magical device belongs to a dangerous necromancer who's out for their ectoplasm. Fortunately,...
Author
Publisher
North Star Editions
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Isabella Rodriguez is thrilled that she and her sister get to spend a week with their aunt in sunny Los Angeles, California. A budding photographer, Isa keeps her camera at the ready to capture all the iconic sights—especially those of the historic Hollywood neighborhood where her aunt lives. After one of Isa's photos shows a mysterious shadowy figure, she learns that Hollywood Hills is haunted. Now the ghost in the photo won't leave Isa alone....
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp.
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Delightful, intriguing." -Carolyn Hart Cookie Chanel has a passion for fashion-and a murder mystery to solve! Cookie Chanel has opened her own vintage clothing boutique, It's Vintage, Y'All, in the charming town of Sugar Creek, Georgia. Always on the lookout for stylish second-hand steals, she attends the estate sale of deceased socialite Charlotte Meadows. But she gets a lot more than she bargained for when Charlotte's ghost appears before her-offering...
Author
Publisher
Akashic Books
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"Following her best-selling, award-winning novel Glorious, McFadden produces a fantastical historical novel featuring the spirit of Emmett Till. GATHERING OF WATERS is a deeply engrossing tale narrated by the town of Money, Mississippi--a site both significant and infamous in our collective story as a nation. Money is personified in this haunting story, which chronicles its troubled history following the arrival of the Hilson and Bryant families....
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Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Kaz and Claire take a trip downtown, hoping to find Kaz's long-lost uncle. Instead, they meet a group of ghosts who live in the movie theater. But soon the ghosts start mysteriously disappearing! Who or what is chasing them away? And can Kaz and Claire bring the ghosts back?"--
Author
Series
Royal Street novels volume 2
Language
English
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"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...
19) The Return
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
A tale of supernatural possession, The Return tells the story of Arthur Lawford, who falls asleep by the grave of a Huguenot adventurer who died by his own hand, and awakens to find himself physically transformed into that man. Author Walter de la Mare's rich imagery and superb story-telling skills come alive through the reactions of Lawford's friends and family, and the truths that are revealed.
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Language
English
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"On a creepy island where everyone has a strange obsession with the year 1994, a newcomer arrives, hoping to learn the truth about her son's death-but finds herself pulled deeper and deeper into the bizarrely insular community and their complicated rules..."--
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