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It was expecting them.
Conrad and Joanna Harrison, a young couple from Los Angeles, attempt to save their marriage by leaving the pressures of the city to start anew in a quiet, rural setting. They buy a Victorian mansion that once served as a haven for unwed mothers, called a birthing house. One day when Joanna is away, the previous owner visits Conrad to bequeath a vital piece of the house's historic heritage, a photo album that he claims "belongs...
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A once-respected college professor and novelist, Dale Stewart has sabotaged his career and his marriage -- and now darkness is closing in on him. In the last hours of Halloween he has returned to the dying town of Elm Haven, his boyhood home, where he hopes to find peace in isolation. But moving into a long-deserted farmhouse on the far outskirts of town -- the one-time residence of a strange and brilliant friend who lost his young life in a grisly...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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Iggy is delighted when Ada Twist's Aunt Bernice inherits a mansion featuring his favorite architectural periods, but unless the Questioneers can find its missing antiques, the house may be lost forever. Includes information about Art Deco and Art Nouveau, facts about unusual cats, a recipe for ice cream, and a biographical note on Ida B. Wells.
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English
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A family burdened by the sins of their forebears seeks redemption in this Gothic masterpiece from one of the most influential voices in American literature In a small New England town, the haunted halls of Pyncheon House trap its current owners-Hepzibah Pyncheon and her brother, Clifford-in an atmosphere of gloom and despair. Two hundred years ago, their ancestor seized the property from a man sentenced to death for practicing witchcraft. At his execution,...
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Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Amid magical shenanigans in charming Starfall Point, this book might just have you laughing out loud." -Hazel Beck, author of Big Little Spells and Small Town, Big Magic
Juggling newfound witchy powers, a house full of ghosts, and verbal battles with the handsome local librarian is almost too much for a new witch to manage. A new witch with a coven, however, can get so much more done...
From the moment Riley Everett set foot in Starfall Point,...
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Goosebumps Slappyworld volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 3
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English
Description
Slappy's back as a ghost! And this time, the only thing you'll play is hide-and-go-shriek!
8) House
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Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2008]
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English
Description
A mind-bending supernatural thriller from the creators of This Present Darkness and Sinner . Ted Dekker and Frank Peretti -- two of the most acclaimed writers of supernatural thrillers -- have joined forces for the first time with this non-stop thrill ride. Enter House -- where you'll find yourself thrown into a killer's deadly game in which the only way to win is to lose ... and the only way out is in. One game. Seven players. Three rules. Game ends...
10) Let Him In
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Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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" Let Him In is a feast of a novel." -- Darcy Coates, USA Today bestselling author An October Library Reads Pick! "Daddy, there's a man in our room..." Alfie wakes one night to find his twin daughters at the foot of his bed, claiming there's a shadowy figure in their bedroom. When no such thing can be found, he assumes the girls had a nightmare. He isn't surprised that they're troubled. Grief has made its home at Hart House: nine months ago, the twins'...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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Tired of the rules that have bound them ever since "the bad thing happened," twelve-year-old Diana ignores her brother's warnings and befriends the daughter of the new caretaker, setting in motion events that lead to the release of the spirit of an evil, crazy woman who once ruled the old Willis place.
12) No Child of Mine
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Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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" No Child of Mine is a hauntingly powerful, equal parts a ghost story and a tale of what we are prepared to do for love. " -- Darcy Coates, USA Today bestselling author There's something in the dark. And it's starting to whisper... Essie Singh has defined herself by her ambitions, a fiercely independent woman whose only soft spot is her husband, Sanjay. She never imagined herself as a mother. It was never a part of the plan. But then she finds out...
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Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
An unforgettable contemporary ghost story in the tradition of Henry James's The Turn of the Screw from the award-winning author of October . Rising from the fog over the waters of Devil's Lake, Blackmore Island is home to the infamous summerhouse called Wild Fell. A sinister past lies within its walls, and rumors of teenagers disappearing nearby have become the stuff of local legend. The townspeople do their best to avoid the place, and no one has...
14) The Little Men
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MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
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English
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In 1953, Penny is just another washed-up, wannabe Hollywood actress who is past her prime. She has settled in to a quiet lifestyle, and when she finds a low-rent bungalow in Canyon Arms, it's a dream come true; Penny takes to the place instantly. But the dream cottage with its French doors and tiled courtyard may not be as perfect as it seems. Penny's new neighbors start filling her head with stories about past tenants, whispering voices, and a suicide...
15) Deadly gift
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MIRA
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English
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An outsider in a world of extraordinary wealth, Caer Donahue must learn who can be trusted ... and who should be feared Caer is spending this Christmas among strangers. Brought to Newport, Rhode Island, from her native Ireland to nurse ailing millionaire Sean O'Riley, she's living a life few can imagine. But money can't hide the tension between O'Riley's trophy wife, his paranoid daughter, the eccentric aunt in the attic and the staff members who...
16) The White Lady
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Series
Publisher
Barbour Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When Pastor John Endicott returns from burying his mother, he discovers the legendary haunted house in town really is inhabited, and he sets out to determine if the lady in white is a ghost or real. Constance Whetherhill left the city when her wealth failed rather than endure the sympathy of her socialite circle. Renting a "haunted" house was the most economical choice she could make to secure a home for her aging grandmother. But when wealth and...
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Baby-sitters Club volume 9
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English
Description
Convinced there is a ghost in her house, Dawn sets out to investigate the spooky noises and happenings in her home.
18) Rooms: A Novel
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
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English
Description
The New York Times bestselling author of Before I Fall and the Delirium trilogy makes her brilliant adult debut with this mesmerizing story in the tradition of The Lovely Bones, Her Fearful Symmetry, and The Ocean at the End of the Lane a tale of family, ghosts, secrets, and mystery, in which the lives of the living and the dead intersect in shocking, surprising, and moving ways. Wealthy Richard Walker has just died, leaving behind his country house...
19) Deadly Decision
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Publisher
Pelican Book Group
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Bill Iver didn't expect anything more than hard work when he offered to help his daughter and son-in-law restore their rented historic South Carolina home, but then he sees two boys in the attic - and his hand passes through one of them. Bill has always believed that being absent from the body meant being present with the Lord, but if that is true, what did he see? And why does the boy dressed in 19th century clothing look familiar while the second...
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Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Home is where the horror is…
Jilted thriller writer Lady Violet Thorn has withdrawn to the Suffolk market town of Montford with two servants and her leading character, the adventuress Ruby Gibson, for company.
Violet's peace is disturbed when a stranger asks her for help, claiming that a friend is being kept prisoner in her own home. Her visitor seems so afraid that Violet, despite her scepticism, is persuaded to investigate.
A woman is killed...
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