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It's not easy to enjoy a picnic when you have unseeable interlopers to contend with! In a new trio of stories for beginning readers, the affable Max the dog and mischievous Baby Cakes the cat encounter a scare-happy ghost who has a run-in with a mirror, the wind at its blustery best, and a teeny-tiny fairy with a wayward wand who may have met her match. -- From the publisher.
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"Montserrat has always been overlooked. She's a talented sound editor, but she's left out of the boys' club running the film industry in '90s Mexico City. And she's all but invisible to her best friend, Tristán, a charming if faded soap opera star, though she's been in love with him since childhood. Then Tristán discovers his new neighbor is the cult horror director Abel Urueta, and the legendary auteur claims he can change their lives--even if...
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It's a normal day for The Silencer team. On a routine mission, though, things are about to get strange. Recker locks eyes with a foreign agent he crossed paths with years ago. The only problem is the man is supposed to be dead. And Recker was the one that killed him. Is he seeing a lookalike? Or is he really seeing the ghost of a man he thought he once killed?
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When a cab driver named Red sees the ghosts in Clara's house, the doors are opened to a much deeper secret. A rainy day and an accident on a country road leads mediums Wesley and Clara to a large manor house where they stumble upon a deadly conspiracy, and find that the recent murders all have a chilling connection.
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Roy, Dale and Pat see the ghost of One-Arm Johnny. According to legend, whoever sees the spirit of the old miner will soon die a violent death. When ranchers who reported seeing the specter are found murdered, the Sheriff asks Roy to help with his investigation. One of the best episodes in the series!
6) The Gift
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Zeke's parents have split up. His dad is hurt and angry when Zeke sides with his mother. But Zeke's emotions go on a crazy roller coaster ride when he's visited by a mysterious kid that only he can see ... until he finds out his grandpa can also see the ghost. Zeke's world is rocked in new ways when he finds out that he can see and talk to the dead.
7) 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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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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This is book 3 in the Lin Coffin cozy mystery series. Lin Coffin and her new business partner, Leonard, have started a landscaping business on the island of Nantucket, Massachusetts. One evening while reviewing a new project, Lin's dog digs in a pile of dirt in the new client's yard and finds a bone. When Lin goes to see what the little creature has found, she sees the ghost of her ancestor watching her and knows that the bone must be human. Lin and...
15) The Ghost
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From the day Emily rescued her dog Zack, they have always shared a special connection. But, it's more than special-they can read each other's minds. And, since Zack can sense when someone is in danger, they've been using their special power to help save people. But now, Emily and Zack have discovered something new. They can see ghosts! And, one ghost in particular needs their help. Shocked by her new discovery Emily is determined to find out who this...
16) Lifting the Veil
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Psychic? Not if I can help it.
I took a birthday trip to Salem on Halloween night, and now nothing will ever be the same.
I have a haunting secret.
One I can't tell my family or friends without them locking me up in some loony bin.
So, for now, I remain quiet and pretend not to get visions or see the ghosts that are haunting me.
I pretend to be normal in this new boring job.
Until one day, I can't.
And this time, there's a witness.
Regardless of how...
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Can Jon find a ghostly horse that's been extinct for centuries? Jon is a lonely orphan who lives on a farm with his adopted parents. When they ask what he'd like for his birthday, Jon knows immediately: to see the Moropus, a prehistoric horse that's big and furry, with claws on its feet instead of hooves. According to legend, it haunts the lonely moors at a waterfall that is known as Horse Force because its gushing cascade sound just like a mare's...
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Private detective Reiji Akiba has a theory about those awkward moments and weird coincidences we all encounter in life. They are actually encounters with the dead-their way of sending us a message. But you may not want to open such strange mail from beyond-not unless you can see the ghostly attachment, like Akiba can. And not unless you carry a tool that can kill what isn't alive, like Akiba's sanctified gun Kagutsuchi . . . digging a divine grave...
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Private detective Reiji Akiba has a theory about those awkward moments and weird coincidences we all encounter in life. They are actually encounters with the dead-their way of sending us a message. But you may not want to open such strange mail from beyond-not unless you can see the ghostly attachment, like Akiba can. And not unless you carry a gun that can kill what isn't alive, like Akiba's aptly named Kagutsuchi, "the tool between God and earth"...
20) An Adventure
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On 10th August 1901, two English women walked into the past. This is a documented true story that was extensively researched by the women who experienced this timeslip.
During a visit to the Palace of Versailles, on the anniversary of the French Revolution, two ordinary women saw the French Queen, Marie Antoinette, sitting in the gardens in front of them, along with nobles, gardeners, houses, bridges and stones that when they went back, were no longer...
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