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As a science journalist with a regular column in Scientific American, Jeremy Marsh specializes in debunking the supernatural and has a real nose for the strange and unusual. A born skeptic, he travels to the small town of Boone Creek, North Carolina, determined to find the real cause behind the ghostly apparitions that appear in the town cemetery. What he doesn't plan on, however, is meeting and falling hopelessly in love with Lexie Darnell, granddaughter...
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"Elmwood Springs, Missouri, is a small town like any other, but something strange is happening at the cemetery. Still Meadows, as it's called, is anything but still. Original, profound, The Whole Town's Talking, a novel in the tradition of Thornton Wilder's Our Town and Flagg's own Can't Wait to Get to Heaven, tells the story of Lordor Nordstrom, his Swedish mail-order bride, Katrina, and their neighbors and descendants as they live, love, die, and...
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IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
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Nobody Owens is a normal boy, except that he has been raised by ghosts and other denizens of the graveyard.
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2022.
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English
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In the old house on a hill, where the city meets the rainforest, Yejide's mother is dying. She is leaving behind a legacy that now passes to Yejide: one St Bernard woman in every generation has the power to shepherd the city's souls into the afterlife. But after years of suffering her mother's neglect and bitterness, Yejide is looking for a way out. Raised in the countryside by a devout Rastafarian mother, Darwin has always abided by the religious...
5) Pet Sematary
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 23
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English
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When Dr. Louis Creed takes a new job and moves his family to the idyllic rural town of Ludlow, Maine, this new beginning seems too good to be true. Despite Ludlow's tranquility, an undercurrent of danger exists here. Those trucks on the road outside the Creed's beautiful old home travel by just a little too quickly, for one thing, as is evidenced by the makeshift graveyard in the nearby woods where generations of children have buried their beloved...
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Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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A hauntingly beautiful travel guide to the world's most visited cemeteries, told through spectacular photography and their unique histories and residents. More than 3.5 million tourists flock to Paris's Père Lachaise cemetery each year. They are lured there, and to many cemeteries around the world, by a combination of natural beauty, ornate tombstones and crypts, notable residents, vivid history, and even wildlife. Many also visit Mount Koya cemetery...
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Abrams Press
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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“Astonishing. . . fascinating . . . powerful. . .This clever, sensitive book gives us a new way to think about death, not as the final chapter, but as a window onto life in America.”٬٢٠١٣؛٬٢٠١٣؛NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW A lively tour through the history of US cemeteries that explores how, where, and why we bury our dead The summer before his senior year in college, Greg Melville worked at the cemetery in his hometown, and thanks...
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Carmel Publishing Co
Pub. Date
[2004]
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English
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"Marilyn Newton's images of solitary graves standing watch over desert valleys swept by clouds evoke the simple drama of life and death in early Nevada. Her work reminds us that Nevada is not a roped-off museum exhibit. Even in its historic past, Nevada is alive."--
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A sci-fi film writer discovers a body frozen in time and poised to climb from the city of the dead to the city of light.
Halloween Night, 1954. A young, film-obsessed scriptwriter has just been hired at one of the great studios. An anonymous investigation leads from the giant Maximus Films backlot to an eerie graveyard separated from the studio by a single wall. There he makes a terrifying discovery that thrusts him into a maelstrom of intrigue and...
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Garden Squad volume 5
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English
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"The ever-quintessential New England town of Goosebush, Massachusetts truly shines in springtime, but when an underhanded undertaker digs herself an early grave, it’s up to sixty-something gardening sleuth Lilly Jayne—and her fellow Garden Squad members of course— to unearth the cryptic killer. With spring’s arrival in Goosebush, Lilly and the Beautification Committee turn their eyes to new projects. A cleanup of the historic Goosebush Cemetery...
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Big Buddy Books, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
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English
Description
Photographs and text describe eight cemeteries from around the world, including Highgate Cemetery in England, Saint Louis Cemetery No. 1 in Louisiana, Chase Vault in Barbados and others.
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Spotlight Club mysteries volume 16
Publisher
Albert Whitman and Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
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English
Description
"What does the long-deceased Serafina Winslow have to do with the disappearance of a valuable locket? Leave it to the Spotlight Club to dig up the answers!"--
17) Dead connection
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Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
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English
Description
A loner who communes with the dead in the town cemetery hears the voice of a murdered cheerleader and tries to convince the adults that he knows what happened to her.
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Gravekeeper novels volume 2
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
Description
"When Keira woke in a strange forest, she remembered only two things: she can see ghosts, and frightening, mask-wearing men were hunting her. She thought she would be forever haunted, but now, with the help of unexpected new allies, she's coming into her own. Yet the dead still whisper to Keira at night, and soon she'll be faced with an insatiable darkness-a powerful ghost fueled by rage and a dreadful, dangerous hunger that can never be quenched"--...
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University Press of Mississippi
Pub. Date
[2000]
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English
Description
"For many years Eudora Welty wished to produce a book about country churchyards." "Published at long last, in her ninety-first year, this collection includes ninety of her photographs along with a conversation in which Welty shares her impressions and her memories of the 1930s and 1940s when she rambled through Mississippi cemeteries taking these pictures." "Accompanying the photographs are selected passages about graveyards and funerals from her...
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Johnny Maxwell trilogy volume 2
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[1993]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
After twelve-year-old Johnny Maxwell suddenly starts seeing and talking to ghosts, he and his friends become involved in a battle to save the local cemetery.
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