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1. Taxi ghost
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Publisher:
RH Graphic
Pub. Date:
[2024]
Lexile measure:
GN: Graphic Novel 320L
Language:
English
Description:
"Adèle just wants to spend her winter break at the library, but she learns she comes from a long line of mediums and that not only can she interact with ghosts, but apparently they have been using her sister's car to get around the city for years."--
2. Oracle night
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Language:
English
Description:
Several months into his recovery from a near-fatal illness, thirty-four-year-old novelist Sidney Orr enters a stationery shop in the Cobble Hill section of Brooklyn and buys a blue notebook. It is September 18, 1982, and for the next nine days Orr will live under the spell of this blank book, trapped inside a world of eerie premonitions and puzzling events that threaten to destroy his marriage and undermine his faith in reality. Why does his wife...
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Series:
Twice upon a time volume 1
Lexile measure:
810L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
Rapunzel and Prince Benjamin are both trapped, one in a tower by an evil witch, the other by his royal duties, but when their paths cross, aided by friends and a little luck, conditions change for them both.
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Pub. Date:
2016
Language:
English
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"In 1119 A.D., a group of nine crusaders became known as the Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon--a militant monastic order charged with protecting pilgrims and caravans traveling on the roads to and from the Holy Land. In time, the Knights Templar would grow in power and, ultimately, be laid low. But a small offshoot of the Templars endure and have returned to the order's original mission: to defend the roads of the world...
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Language:
English
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"The Joy Document is probing and uplifting, both a celebration of a half-century well lived and a meditation on what comes next. The book contains fifty essays of varying length and explores spirituality, aging, women's empowerment, identity, and the practices of cultivating gratitude and radically reclaiming joy, all while gently inspiring readers to find their own joy, to imagine or perhaps re-imagine their own best lives. In The Joy Document, almost...
Author:
Publisher:
Mythography Studios
Pub. Date:
2018
Language:
English
Description:
Scrooge Is Looking For A Taxi Dickens meets I, Robot in this sci-fi retelling of a classic story. In this modern retelling of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol," Scrooge is looking for a taxi to get home on Christmas Eve. But, he will get the ride of his life, as he is walked through his past, his present and his future to end up a changed man. Set in modern day Athens, this science-fiction version of the classic ghost story is guaranteed, to bring...
Author:
Pub. Date:
[2021]
Language:
English
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Description:
"Nephthys Kinwell is a taxi driver of sorts in Washington, DC, ferrying passengers in a 1967 Plymouth Belvedere with a ghost in the trunk. Endless rides and alcohol help her manage her grief over the death of her twin brother, Osiris, who was murdered and dumped in the Anacostia River. Unknown to Nephthys when the novel opens in 1977, her estranged great-nephew, ten-year-old Dash, is finding himself drawn to the banks of that very same river. It...
Author:
Publisher:
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date:
2012
Language:
English
Average Rating:
1 stars
Description:
When it is believed that the ghost of the Amina Slave Princess from the 1733 Slave Revolt on St. John caused the disappearance of a tourist and the sinking of a water taxi, resort manager Pen Hoffstra must prove to the locals that the culprit responsible is only human.
Author:
Publisher:
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date:
2015
Language:
English
Description:
Considering representations of torture in such television series as 24, Alias, and Homeland; the documentaries Taxi to the Dark Side (2007), Ghosts of Abu Ghraib (2007), and Standard Operating Procedure (2008); and "torture porn" feature films from the Saw and Hostel series, Hilary Neroni unites aesthetic and theoretical analysis to provide a unique portal into theorizing biopower and its relation to the desiring subject. Her work ultimately showcases...
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Publisher:
The SOUL Retriever
Pub. Date:
2020
Language:
English
Description:
As a soul retriever, I play a role within a spiritual team to help trapped souls (or ghosts, if you prefer) move on and find peace. I act as a conduit between my angelic friends in Heaven and souls trapped on Earth. Taxi for Spirit tells the story of my work over the last four years as I progressed from novice to master status, though I still have much to learn! From a soul retrieval for a solitary bee to escorting thousands from a battlefield, from...
Author:
Publisher:
Deep Vellum Publishing
Pub. Date:
2011
Language:
English
Description:
In this nominally true story of an epic, transcontinental road trip, Jean Rolin travels to Africa from darkest France, accompanying a battered Audi to its new life as a taxi to be operated by the family of a Congolese security guard. The ghost of Joseph Conrad haunts Rolin's journey, as do memories of his expatriate youth in Kinshasa in the early 1960s-but no less present are W. G. Sebald and Marcel Proust, who are the guiding lights for Rolin's sensual...
Author:
Publisher:
Tin House
Pub. Date:
2021
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
"At the end of a long, sweltering day, as markets and businesses begin to close for the evening, an earthquake of 7.0 magnitude shakes the capital of Haiti, Port-au-Prince. Award-winning author Myriam J. A. Chancy masterfully charts the inner lives of thecharacters affected by the disaster--Richard, an expat and wealthy water-bottling executive with a secret daughter; the daughter, Anne, an architect who drafts affordable housing structures for a...
13. Butcher's Hands
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Publisher:
Scare Street
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
Description:
Subject B's terrifying ordeal continues. And this time, he may have met his match…When Marcus Holt is kidnapped by the brilliant and sadistic Professor Worthe, the battle-hardened Vietnam vet is forced to endure a never-ending gauntlet of terror. He thought his days of death and horror were over, but Worthe's Village promises only more of the same. And his next horrific encounter is about to begin.There is a new test subject in Worthe's haunted...
Author:
Publisher:
thissmallplace
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
Description:
A young girl discovers a curious London magic shop and begins a peculiar journey to rescue a missing friend. Chloe Ashley is feeling lonely and dejected. She's estranged from her best friend and ignored by her busy parents. One dreary afternoon, she wanders into a newly refurbished curiosities shop in the heart of London. The shop is owned by Mr. Ixworth and Mr. Maddox, two eccentric gentlemen who are in the business of magic. Real magic. Chloe becomes...
Author:
Publisher:
House of Anansi Press Inc
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
Description:
Discover Toronto's wild, weird history and the 100 unique beers it inspired! Discover Toronto's wild, weird history and the 100 unique beers it inspired! Did you know that Babe Ruth hit his first home run in Toronto? Or that the city's first taxi service was operated by a former slave from the American South? Or that, during the Second World War, anti-submarine technology was developed in a carriage house at Casa Loma? These are the sorts of stories...
Author:
Publisher:
Roaring Forties Press
Pub. Date:
[2014]
Language:
English
Description:
"Susan Spano, America's original Frugal Traveler, explores some of the most romantic, most exotic, and wildest corners of the world in this captivating collection of her best-loved pieces. French Ghosts, Russian Nights, and American Outlaws : Souvenirs of a Professional Vagabond takes the reader on magical trips, when everything conspired to make a place unforgettable, like a temple in Java at sunrise or an ice hotel in the Artic Circle at sunset....
Author:
Publisher:
DCO Books
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
Description:
AND YOU THOUGHT IT WAS ALL OVER Roger Crutchley's book The Long Winding Road to Nakhon Nowhere wasn't the 'end of the road' for the author. After many years working at the Bangkok Post, even after retirement readers still look forward to his musings in the Sunday edition. His column makes them smile, laugh out loud or get angry and write letters to the editor. In his new book, Beyond Nowhere, Roger has come up with more amusing reflections of his...
Author:
Publisher:
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
Description:
"Taxi drivers love to talk, and when astrobiologist Charles Cockell is their passenger, they love to talk about aliens. This humorous, insightful collection gathers essays inspired by conversations with cabbies, ranging over the possible nature of alien societies, the inevitability of life, and links between environmentalism and space exploration"--
19. Gogmagog
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Publisher:
Dreamscape Media
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
Description:
Gogmagog tells the story of an epic journey through the sixty-mile long ghost of a dragon. We travel by boat, a rickety steam launch captained by Cady Meade, a veteran taxi pilot on the river Nysis. In her heyday, she carried people and goods from the thriving seaports of the estuary into Ludwich, the capital city. But that was years ago. Now she's drunk, holed up in a rundown seaside resort, telling her bawdy tales for shots of rum. All that's about...
20. Magnetized
Author:
Publisher:
Dreamscape Media
Pub. Date:
2020
Language:
English
Description:
Over the course of one ghostly week in September 1982, the bodies of four taxi drivers were found in Buenos Aires, each murder carried out with the same cold precision. The assailant was a nineteen-year-old boy, odd and taciturn, who gave the impression of being completely sane. But the crimes themselves were not: four murders, as exact as they were senseless. More than thirty years later, Argentine author Carlos Busqued began visiting Ricardo Melogno,...