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Jeremy Marsh volume 1
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IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 15
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As a science journalist with a regular column in Scientific American, Jeremy Marsh specializes in debunking the supernatural and has a real nose for the strange and unusual. A born skeptic, he travels to the small town of Boone Creek, North Carolina, determined to find the real cause behind the ghostly apparitions that appear in the town cemetery. What he doesn't plan on, however, is meeting and falling hopelessly in love with Lexie Darnell, granddaughter...
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Fresh off a bad breakup with a longtime boyfriend, Nantucket sweetheart Lizbet Keaton is desperately seeking a second act. When she's named the new general manager of the Hotel Nantucket, a once Gilded Age gem turned abandoned eyesore, she hopes that her local expertise and charismatic staff can win the favor of their new London billionaire owner, Xavier Darling, as well as that of Shelly Carpenter, the wildly popular Instagram tastemaker who can...
3) Holy Ghost
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Pinion, Minnesota: a huge city of all of seven hundred folks who define the phrase 'small town'. Nothing has ever happened in Pinion and nothing ever will ... until the mayor of sorts (campaign promise: "I'll Do What I Can") comes up with a scheme to put Pinion on the map. He's heard of a place where a floating image of the Virgin Mary turned the whole town into a shrine, attracting thousands of curious people and making the townsfolk rich overnight....
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What's so perfect about the past for Sybil and Blake Gregory, a successful Manhattan couple with three children who land in San Francisco when Blake impulsively accepts the job of a lifetime as CEO of a start-up? The family moves into a grand, surprisingly affordable Pacific Heights mansion and soon meets the affable Butterfield family, who lived there a century ago. Of course the Butterfields are ghosts, and only the Gregorys can see them, but that...
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2020.
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Thorne Manor has always been haunted and it has always haunted Bronwyn Dale. As a young girl, Bronwyn could pass through a time slip in her great-aunt's house, where she'd visit William Thorne, a boy her own age, born two centuries earlier. In the wake of a family tragedy, the house was shuttered and Bronwyn was convinced that William existed only in her imagination. Twenty years later, Bronwyn inherits Thorne Manor, exactly when she needs it most,...
6) Superstition
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[1998]
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Psychologist Sam Towne, certain that the human mind has the psychic ability to create a ghost, assembles a group of eight people to test his theories and ends up fighting for his life against a powerful and deadly apparition.
8) The hexed
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Krewe of Hunters volume 13
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Devin Lyle has recently returned to the Salem area, but her timing couldn't be worse. Soon after she moved into the eighteenth-century cabin she inherited from her great-aunt Mina-her "crazy" great-aunt, who spoke to the dead-a woman was murdered nearby. Craig Rockwell-known as Rocky-is a new member of the Krewe of Hunters, the FBI's team of paranormal investigators. He never got over finding a friend dead in the woods. Now another body's been found...
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"Ann Holmes seems an unlikely candidate for revelation. A sixteen-year-old runaway, she is an itinerant mushroom picker who lives in a tent. But on a November afternoon, in the foggy woods of North Fork, Washington, the Virgin comes to her, clear as day." "Father Collins - a young priest new to North Fork - finds Ann disturbingly alluring. But it is up to him to evaluate - impartially - the veracity of Ann's sightings: Are they delusions, or a true...
11) Whiplash
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FBI special agents Dillon Savich and his wife, Lacey Sherlock, look into the possible haunting of a U.S. senator by his dead wife as well as a more earthly crime: Germany's Schiffer Hartwin Pharmaceutical, which has its U.S. headquarters in Connecticut, might be deliberately withholding an inexpensive cancer fighting drug, Culovort, to force cancer patients to require the far more expensive Eloxium, in short supply. The FBI probe dovetails with one...
12) Darkroom
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[2022]
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IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
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Beatrice knows she doesn't have any followers. Nobody wants to watch her living her ordinary life. But then she strumbles across a new app, DARK[room]. Some users say it's super cool. Others say it's super dangerous. Beatrice downloads it and discovers that it allows her to see ghosts everywhere around her. And they're going to get her if she doesn't get them first. When Beatrice streams her haunted encounters, people think she's making them up. But...
13) Tree girl
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IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
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Despite the warnings of the old man with whom she has always lived, nine-year-old Rowanna is drawn to the forest and a huge tree she can just barely see from her home at the edge of the sea-especially after she befriends a bear who is much more than he seems.
15) Fellside
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Confronting the possibility that she might be forced to spend the rest of her life in a maximum security prison on the edge of the Yorkshire Moors, Jess Moulson discovers that the prison is haunted by the ghost of a little boy who imparts a chilling message.
16) Ghost ships
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2015.
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IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
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"Engaging images accompany information about ghost ships. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 2 through 7"--
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2008
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"The woman in white first appears at night on a lonely heath near London and is next seen at a grave-side in Cumberland. Who is she? Where has she come from, and what is her history? She seems alone and friendless, frightened and confused. And it seems she knows a secret - a secret that could bring ruin and shame to a man who will do anything to keep her silent. This famous mystery thriller has excitement, suspense, romance, and a plot that twists...
18) Whisper
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Riley Bloom series volume 4
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2012
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IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 7
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Twelve-year-old ghost Riley, having been assigned to Roman gladiator Theocoles, is convinced by the beautiful Messalina that the only way to get through to Theocoles is to become human and helps Riley transform into a mature teenager, which gives Riley the opportunity to experience her first boyfriend and her first kiss, but makes her question if she wants to return to the afterlife.
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Fatima, Portugal, 1917: The Virgin Mary appears to three peasant children, sharing with them three secrets, two of which are soon revealed to the world. The third secret is sealed away in the Vatican, read only by popes, and not disclosed until the year 2000. When revealed, its quizzical tone and anticlimactic nature leave many faithful wondering if the Church has truly unveiled all of the Virgin Mary's words--or if a message far more important has...