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Publisher:
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date:
[2005]
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
When Caroline Ellis takes a job as a hospice worker in Louisiana's bayous, she unlocks a deadly secret involving magic, conjure, and sacrifice that pulls her into a terrifying world of strange, frightening, and unexplained incidents. The key to escaping may lie in a decrepit attic, but if she dares to believe in what she discovers, everything she fears will become real.
Series:
Boxcar children mysteries volume 156
Language:
English
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The Aldens try out a Halloween escape room. The puzzle are fun to solve. But when eerie events start scaring people away, the children find a much bigger case to crack.
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Publisher:
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
Description:
This reunion will tear a family Summer, 2021. Nell has come home at her family's insistence to celebrate an anniversary. Fifty years ago, her father wrote The Golden Bones. Part picture book, part treasure hunt, Sir Frank Churcher created a fairy story about Elinore, a murdered woman whose skeleton was scattered all over England. Clues and puzzles in the pages of The Golden Bones led readers to seven sites where jewels were buried-gold and precious...
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Sigma Force volume 6.50
Language:
English
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From New York Times bestselling author James Rollins comes a thrilling short story that delves deep beneath the city of Paris to a dark necropolis, where the only means for escape is…The Skeleton Key. Seichan is ripped out of the Sigma series for an adventure all her own-but can she survive? The beautiful and elusive assassin wakes in a hotel in Paris with a deadly electronic collar fastened to her throat. Joined by a boy who is similarly threatened,...
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Publisher:
Dover Publications
Pub. Date:
2013
Language:
English
Description:
As the title promises, this helpful volume offers easy access to the abstract principles common to science and mathematics. It eschews technical terms and omits troublesome details in favor of straightforward explanations that will allow scientists to read papers in branches of science other than their own, mathematicians to appreciate papers on topics on which they have no specialized knowledge, and other readers to cultivate an improved understanding...
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Series:
Code Busters Club volume Case 1
Lexile measure:
710L
Language:
English
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Using their code-breaking skills, four middle-schoolers solve the mystery of the eccentric man who draws stick figures on his second-floor bedroom window.
9. Skeleton Key
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Series:
Alex Rider adventure volume 3
Lexile measure:
630L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
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Reluctant teenage-spy Alex Rider, on a routine mission at the Wimbledon tennis championships, gets caught up in Chinese gangs, illegal nuclear weapons, and the suspect plans of his Russian host, General Sarov.
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Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
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"Known for her wonderfully addictive characters, multiple award-winning author Gigi Pandian introduces her newest heroine in this heartfelt series debut. Under Lock & Skeleton Key layers stunning architecture with mouthwatering food in an ode to classic locked-room mysteries that will leave readers enchanted. An impossible crime. A family legacy. The intrigue of hidden rooms and secret staircases. After a disastrous accident derails Tempest Raj's...
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Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date:
2015
Language:
English
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The fourth in a new series of classic detective stories from the vaults of HarperCollins involves a tragic accident during a shooting party. As the story switches between Paris and Hampshire, the possibility of it not being an accident seems to grow more likely. "The Detective Story Club", launched by Collins in 1929, was a clearing house for the best and most ingenious crime stories of the age, chosen by a select committee of experts. Now, almost...
12. Skeleton Key
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Publisher:
Ravensburger Verlag GmbH
Pub. Date:
2011
Language:
German
Description:
Der Bestseller ALEX RIDER - die Vorlage zur actiongeladenen TV-Serie! Alex Riders Wunden sind kaum verheilt, als er den nächsten Auftrag vom MI6 erhält: Er soll zwei CIA-Agenten dabei unterstützen, den russischen Ex-General Sarow zu stellen. Schauplatz ist Skeleton Key, eine traumhafte Karibikinsel. Doch statt Ferien unter Palmen erwartet Alex ein skrupelloser General, der einen teuflischen Plan verfolgt ... Band 3 der actionreichen Agenten-Reihe...
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Publisher:
ABDO Publishing Company
Pub. Date:
2022
Lexile measure:
510L
Language:
English
Description:
When a friend of Grandpa's complains of ghostly shrieking in the long-ago burned-out Waverly hotel on the edge of their town, Murky Creek, Phantom Finders Abby and Theo use a hotel master key and brave a raging snowstorm to find out what all the noise is about and hopefully stop it. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Spellbound is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO.
14. Skeleton key
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Language:
English
Description:
Former FBI agent Gregor Demarkian travels to a quiet Connecticut town to investigate the murder of a debutante, who was the only heir of a multibillionaire venture capitalist.
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Series:
Sammy Keyes volume 2
Lexile measure:
820L
Language:
English
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On Halloween night, seventh grader Sammy stumbles onto a mystery involving a twenty-year-old family feud and some heirlooms stolen by a man in a skeleton costume.
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Publisher:
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date:
2020
Lexile measure:
820L
Language:
English
Description:
Dark magic meets the Old West in The Key of Skeleton Peak: Legends of the Lost Causes, the epic conclusion to the action-adventure series! Keech Blackwood and his fellow Lost Causes have won their share of battles, but the war against the forces of darkness still rages on. In their final standoff against the ruthless outlaw and sorcerer, Reverend Rose, the Lost Causes face their most perilous trial yet: stopping Rose and his henchmen from retrieving...
19. Skeleton key
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Xanth novel volume 44
Language:
English
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Upgrading her shape-changing abilities to lead a mission against an adversarial Demon, Squid joins a covert group disguised as traveling dancers before new friendships and a growing bond with a secret companion challenge their goals.
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Publisher:
Findaway Voices
Pub. Date:
2021
Language:
English
Description:
A 2020 Kirkus Review Indie Editor Feature Pick Told in the style of the hit TV show THIS IS US, the ORPHAN DREAMER SAGA is a modern-day retelling of ANNE OF GREEN GABLES meets THE DA VINCI CODE in a play of fate that will change the destiny of an orphan and the future of humanity. This second full-length novel in the Orphan Dreamer series-ORPHAN TREE and the VANISHING SKELETON KEY (OT and VSK)-is an ambitious tale where betrayal, harsh realities,...