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1. Not quite a ghost

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Author:
Ursu, Anne
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
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From the award-winning author of "The Troubled Girls of Dragomir Academy" comes an unforgettable and deeply personal story of the ghosts that surround us-and the ones we carry inside. The house seemed to sit apart from the others on Katydid Street, silent and alone, like it didn't fit among them. For Violet Hart-whose family is about to move into the house on Katydid Street-very little felt like it fit anymore. Like their old home, suddenly too small...

2. Sisters

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Author:
Telgemeier, Raina
Lexile measure:
GN: Graphic Novel 290L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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Graphic Novel, Hoopla eComic
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Raina Telgemeier's #1 New York Times bestselling, Eisner Award-winning companion to Smile! Raina can't wait to be a big sister. But once Amara is born, things aren't quite how she expected them to be. Amara is cute, but she's also a cranky, grouchy baby, and mostly prefers to play by herself. Their relationship doesn't improve much over the years, but when a baby brother enters the picture and later, something doesn't seem right between their parents,...

3. The night gardener

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Author:
Auxier, Jonathan
Series:
Thorndike Press large print mini-collections
Lexile measure:
690L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
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Irish orphans Molly, fourteen, and Kip, ten, travel to England to work as servants in a crumbling manor house where nothing is quite what it seems to be, and soon the siblings are confronted by a mysterious stranger and secrets of the cursed house.

4. The dead romantics

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Author:
Poston, Ashley
Language:
English
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3.3 stars
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"Ghost meets The Bold Type in this sparkling adult debut about a disillusioned millennial ghostwriter who, quite literally, has some ghosts of her own, from nationally bestselling author Ashley Poston. Florence Day is a ghostwriter for one of the most prolific romance authors in the industry, and she has a problem-after a terrible break-up, she no longer believes in love. It's as good as dead. When her new editor, a too-handsome mountain of a man,...

5. Practical magic

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Author:
Hoffman, Alice
Series:
Practical Magic volume 1
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
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For most adults, fairy tales are among the childish things we've put away. Alice Hoffman, however, feels differently. Practical Magic starts out as a tale of Gillian and Sally Owens, two orphaned girls whose aunts are witches--of a mild sort. For the past two centuries, Owens women have been blamed for all that has gone wrong in their Massachusetts town, ever since their ancestor arrived, rich, independent, and soon accused of theft: "And then one...

6. Rosie Revere, engineer

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Author:
Beaty, Andrea
Series:
Innovator
Questioneers Picture Books
Lexile measure:
AD: Adult Directed 780L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3.8 stars
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A young aspiring engineer must first conquer her fear of failure.

7. The cabin at the end of the world: a novel

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Author:
Tremblay, Paul
Language:
English
Average Rating:
2.9 stars
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"The Bram Stoker Award-winning author of A Head Full of Ghosts gives a new twist to the home invasion horror story in a heart-palpitating novel of psychological suspense that recalls Stephen King's Misery, Ruth Ware's In a Dark, Dark Wood, and Jack Ketchum's cult hit The Girl Next Door"--

8. Doll bones

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Author:
Black, Holly
Lexile measure:
840L
Language:
English
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Zach, Alice, and Poppy, friends from a Pennsylvania middle school who have long enjoyed acting out imaginary adventures with dolls and action figures, embark on a real-life quest to Ohio to bury a doll made from the ashes of a dead girl.

9. On the run

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Author:
Johansen, Iris
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English
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Horse handler and former CIA agent Grace Archer turns to the father of her child for help for the first time in eight years when the Middle Eastern magnate who wants her dead finds her at the Alabama horse farm where she has been hiding.

10. Ghosts of New England

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Author:
Holzer, Hans, 1920-2009
Language:
English
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East Hampton Adult Nonfiction
133.1 HOL
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“From Hans Holzer, an internationally known expert in the field of the paranormal, here is a chilling collection of true ghost stories. Two books in one, this volume combines Holzer's Yankee Ghosts and Ghosts of New England, each describing spine-tingling encounters with spirits in some of New England's most eerie haunts” -- Ghosts of New England is a collection of true ghost stories, incursions from the World Beyond witnessed or reliably reported...

11. Blunt impact

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Author:
Black, Lisa, 1963-
Series:
Theresa Maclean volume 5
Language:
English
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A twisting forensic thriller from the New York Times–bestselling author, “quite simply, one of the best storytellers around” (Tess Gerritsen).
 
Forensic scientist Theresa MacLean is puzzled by the questionable death of a female construction worker at a Cleveland building site. A witness to the death—a young girl nicknamed Ghost—may be able to help. Ghost says the woman was pushed by someone...

12. The secret of snow

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Author:
Shipman, Viola
Language:
English
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5 stars
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"When Sonny Dunes, a SoCal meteorologist whose job is all sunshine and seventy-two-degree days, is replaced by a virtual meteorologist that will never age, gain weight or renegotiate its contract, the only station willing to give the fifty-year-old another shot is the very place Sonny's been avoiding since the day she left for college, her northern Michigan hometown ... To distract herself from the memories she's spent her life trying to outrun, Sonny...

13. Bleeding edge

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Author:
Pynchon, Thomas
Language:
English
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It is 2001 in New York City, in the lull between the collapse of the dot-com boom and the terrible events of September 11th. Silicon Alley is a ghost town, Web 1.0 is having adolescent angst, Google has yet to IPO, Microsoft is still considered the Evil Empire. There may not be quite as much money around as there was at the height of the tech bubble, but there's no shortage of swindlers looking to grab a piece of what's left.

14. Wuthering Heights

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Author:
Brontë, Emily, 1818-1848
Series:
Oxford world's classics
Penguin classics deluxe edition
Barnes and Noble classics
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Lexile measure:
880L
Average Rating:
3.7 stars
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"Wuthering Heights is one of the most famous love stories in the English language. It is also one of the most potent revenge narratives. The intense and unbreakable bond between the fiery Catherine Earnshaw and the foundling Heathcliff has startled and fascinated readers since its first publication in 1847. Of uncertain parentage and ethnicity, Heathcliff comes to Wuthering Heights as a child when Catherine's father finds him wandering alone through...

15. Rogue heroes: the history of the SAS, Britain's secret special forces unit that sabotaged the Nazis and changed the nature of war

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Author:
Macintyre, Ben, 1963-
Publisher:
Crown
Pub. Date:
2016
Language:
English
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Britain's Special Air Service--or SAS--was the brainchild of David Stirling, a young, gadabout aristocrat with a remarkable strategic mind. Where his colleagues looked at a map of World War II's African theater and saw a protracted struggle with Rommel's desert forces, Stirling saw an opportunity: given a small number of elite, well-trained men, he could parachute behind Nazi lines and sabotage their airplanes and supplies. Paired with his constitutional...

16. All the beauty in the world: the Metropolitan Museum of Art and me

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Author:
Bringley, Patrick
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
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"A fascinating, revelatory portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its treasures by a former New Yorker staffer who spent a decade as a museum guard"-- "Only a few select people enjoy unrestricted access to every nook and cranny of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and among them are the guards who keep a watchful eye on the two-million-square-foot treasure house. For Bringley, the Museum was a temporary refuge that became his home away from...

17. The ghost of the Mary Celeste: a novel

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Author:
Martin, Valerie, 1948-
Series:
Thorndike Press large print basic
Pub. Date:
2014
Language:
English
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"A captivating, atmospheric return to historical fiction that is every bit as convincing and engrossing as Martin's landmark Mary Reilly. In 1872 the American merchant vessel Mary Celeste was discovered adrift off the coast of Spain. Her cargo was intact and there was no sign of struggle, but the crew was gone. They were never found. This maritime mystery lies at the center of an intricate narrative branching through the highest levels of late- nineteenth-century...

18. Candy corn murder: a Lucy Stone mystery

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Author:
Meier, Leslie
Series:
Lucy Stone mystery volume 22
Language:
English
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Covering the town's annual Giant Pumpkin Fest during the Halloween season, reporter Lucy Stone follows leads to a local general store-turned-Internet hotspot when her husband, Bill, is framed for a friend's murder.

19. Shadow kiss

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Author:
Mead, Richelle
Series:
Vampire Academy novel volume 3
Vampire Academy
Lexile measure:
HL: High-Low 660L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
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While Rose is coping with the darker effects of being shadow-kissed, her relationship with Dimitri is finally taking off, and when he disappears during a Strigoi attack on St. Vladimir's Academy, she must make a terrible choice.

20. The night tiger

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Author:
Choo, Yangsze
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
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A vivacious dance-hall girl in 1930s colonial Malaysia is drawn into unexpected danger by the discovery of a severed finger that is being sought by a young houseboy in order to protect his late master's soul.
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