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1) Sugar Sands
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Michigan's sunset coast turns deadly when a group of vacationers encounter a dying author who sees the ghosts of children. When Arnie refuses surgery for his bum knee, Laurel takes the family on a relaxing trip to the beautiful sunset coast on Lake Michigan to recuperate. Accompanying them are Arnie's sixteen-year-old son, Sawyer, and things are made even better when their close friends Claire and Charles join them for a visit. The area is known for...
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It was a ghastly horror of a house party. Miss Penelope Childe and all the others were awaiting the end of the wicked earl's rotten life.Murder is done. The centuries-old curse has struck again. Penelope alone heard the supernatural scream and sees the ghosts that no one else can.Penelope is a reluctant bride-to-be, contracted to wed a man she's never met before. With a murderer in the haunted house, dare she trust her betrothed, Lord Taredell? Is...
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When the Misty Hollow town treasurer is murdered in her own home for once it looks like it is an open and shut case.The alleged murderer is caught red handed near the body but is it that straight forward?Darcy Sweet knows that nothing is ever that easy where murder is concerned when she sees the ghost of the murder victim.Things are complicated even further by the relationship that the alleged murderer has with Darcy's cop boyfriend. Darcy finds out...
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Contemporary short story collection exploring privilege, perspective, and contradiction from the celebrated author of Brighten the Corner Where You Are and A Bird on Every Tree. From the critically acclaimed, award-winning author of Brighten the Corner Where You Are, A Circle on the Surface, and Purple for Sky comes the first collection of short stories since the Thomas Raddall Award–nominated A Bird on Every Tree.
Moving from a worldly insouciance...
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Three tales of the macabre:The Room of Ambiguity, where nothing is as it seems. A room where fantastical things happen which culminate in a trial and a sentence being given. Does such a place exist? It does for Jason.The Ghost Machine. Broadbent believes ghosts are recordings of electrical impulses, constantly playing. Only those with the ability to 'tune' in to these impulse can see the ghosts.To prove his theory, Broadbent has built the ghost machine.The...
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Behind Put-in-Bay's breathtaking scenery and wild nightlife is a side of the island that will make your hair stand on end.
Passersby claim to see the ghost of assistant lighthouse keeper Sam Anderson, who jumped to his death in the turbulent water of Lake Erie during an 1898 smallpox outbreak. Doors open and close of their own accord, and some say a spirit named Benny tosses things around at the Put-in-Bay Brewery and Distillery. Stage actor T. B....
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A riddle, a game, and a clue in the garden. Don't miss the page-turning sixth book in the award-winning Accidental Alchemist Mystery Series, perfect for fans of cozy mysteries and urban fantasy.When Zoe Faust sees the ghost of a murdered young woman, is it really a spirit-or a flesh and blood woman who stopped aging because she's a fellow alchemist? Sixteen years ago, high school student Ridley Price discovered a secret she planned to reveal through...
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Rosie Thompson is an eighteen-year-old girl with her whole life ahead of her. The Homecoming Dance is just one night away and she can already feel the weight of the crown upon her head. But when she leaves her home that Friday night, it's for the very last time. When her body is found in a park the next morning, a whole town is turned upside down and a family is torn apart.
Fifteen years later, Olivia still hasn't moved on from her sister's murder....
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Books 17-20 in this USA Today Bestselling Series... Firing LineJones finally has his number called. Someone from his past is gunning for him. What's really worrisome is that whoever it is, might have skills that even surpass Jones'. After finding out that their secret office isn't as secretive as they thought, the team has to assume that they're being watched, and listened to, at all times. Recker will have to call on old friends, and some new ones,...
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A COLLECTION OF GHOST STORIES BOTH REAL & FICTIONALTHE ENFIELD HAUNTINGThe Enfield Poltergeist was a claim of "paranormal phenomena" that occurred in England between 1977 and 1979 involving two sisters, aged 11 and 13. It is one of the few incidents that renowned ghost hunters believe to be the genuine article of a real life haunting. While some stage magicians cried "hoax", the case nevertheless garnered attention from the mainstream press in England....
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"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 since her mother remarried and the new baby arrived. Or Violet's group of friends, which, since they started middle school, isn't enough for Violet's best friend, Paige. Everything...
13) Ferris
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During the summer before fifth grade, Ferris Wilkey has her hands full with her little sister terrorizing the town, her Aunt Shirley moving into their basement and her grandmother seeing a ghost--one who has wild, impractical and illuminating plans.
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"There are stories that are as different from one another as the plumages of birds. But the story of this tale was something else: no one had ever read it! It lived hidden in a dark corner of the library. Every time a reader approached, he curled its spine, repeating: "I'm a phantom, no one sees me, I'm a phantom"--BTCat.
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"Have you spotted a ghost? Do carrots help you see in the dark? The world is full of mysteries, but many things can be explained with science. Learn about the scientific method and how it can help you discover the truth. Get ready to blow up some totally-not-true stories about people"--
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"Jesse Logan doesn't want a fresh start. He wants his old life back-before an injury made his career as a firefighter impossible, before his grandfather's Alzheimer's got so bad he doesn't recognize Jesse anymore. When a friend tells him about a paid psychological study, Jesse sees it as a chance to get back to the man he was while making a little extra cash. All Lulu Banks is asking for is a fresh start. Back home after a devastating breakup, she's...
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As a child, Ashley Whitelam could often see odd things nobody else could: quiet, watchful figures she called the Heedful Ones kept a strange vigil wherever she went. As an adult, she keeps these visions to herself, but she's turned her taste of the beyond into a career as a psychic, parting people from their money with a combination of psychology and internet research. When the Lake District is gripped by a series of grisly child murders, Ashley offers...
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"If the dead can wake and walk among us, how can we know what is truly real? Roos Beckman has a spirit companion only she can see. Ruth-strange, corpse-like, and dead for centuries-is the light of Roos' life. That is, until the wealthy young widow Agnes Knoop visits one of Roos' backroom seances, and the two strike up a connection. Soon, Roos is whisked away to the crumbling estate Agnes inherited upon the death of her husband, where an ill woman...
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Last Mrs. Parrish novels volume 2
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"Daphne and Amber Parrish are thrust back into one another's lives upon the resurgence of a long-forgotten threat, forcing a vicious game of cat and mouse where everything is on the line, in this thrilling sequel to the million-copy-bestselling Reese's Book Club Pick The Last Mrs. Parrish. Amber Patterson Parrish has come a long way from being an invisible wallflower. Her hard work and immaculate planning have paid off now that she's a prominent socialite,...
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"Germany, 1946: Emmy Clarke is a librarian not a soldier. But that doesn't stop the Library of Congress from sending her overseas to Germany to help the Monuments Men retrieve and catalog precious literature that was plundered by the Nazis. The Offenbach Archival Depot and its work may get less attention than returning art to its rightful owners, but for Emmy, who sees the personalized messages on the inside of the books and the notes in margins of...
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