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Winternight trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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"In a village at the edge of the wilderness of northern Russia, where the winds blow cold and the snow falls many months of the year, a stranger with piercing blue eyes presents a new father with a gift - a precious jewel on a delicate chain, intended for his young daughter. Uncertain of its meaning, Pytor hides the gift away and Vasya grows up a wild, willful girl, to the chagrin of her family. But when mysterious forces threaten the happiness of...
Author
Series
Winternight trilogy volume 2
Language
English
Description
"The magical adventure begun in The Bear and the Nightingale continues as brave Vasya, now a young woman, is forced to choose between marriage or life in a convent and instead flees her home--but soon finds herself called upon to help defend the city of Moscow when it comes under siege"--
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"A captivating collection of ghost stories from "one of the most gifted writers working today" (New York Times), Night Side of the River is as ingeniously provocative as it is downright spooky. In this delightfully chilling collection, the iconic Jeanette Winterson turns her fearless gaze to the realm of ghosts, interspersing her own encounters with the supernatural alongside hair-raising fictions. Lifting the veil between the living and the dead,...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Nineteen years old, broke, and effectively an orphan, Magnolia doesn't have much to look forward to. She feels stuck and haunted: by her overdrawn bank account, by her predatory landlord, by the ghost of her late grandmother Mama Brown. One night while working at her dead-end gas station job, a mysterious, slick stranger named Cotton walks in and offers to turn Magnolia's luck around. He offers her a lucrative "modeling" job at his family's funeral...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A psychologist's journey to understand one of the most unusual experiences known to humankind: the universal, disturbing feeling that someone or something is there when we are alone. These experiences of sensing a Presence when no one else is there havebeen given many names-the Third Man, guardian angels, shadow figures, "social" hallucinations-and they have inspired, unsettled, and confounded in equal measure"--
"A psychologist's journey to understand...
6) The tempest
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Language
English
Description
A five-act drama of William Shakespeare's "The Tempest," the story of Prospero, an old magician, and his daughter who live on an enchanged island.
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Language
English
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"The village of Saint-Ferdinand has all the trappings of a quiet life: farmhouses stretching from one main street, a small police precinct, a few diners and cafés, and a grocery store. Though if an out-of-towner stopped in, they would notice one unusual thing—a cemetery far too large and much too full for such a small town, lined with the victims of the Saint-Ferdinand Killer, who has eluded police for nearly two decades. It’s not until after...
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Description
"All 12-year-old Marinka wants is a friend. A real friend. Not like her house with chicken legs. Sure, the house can play games like tag and hide-and-seek, but Marinka longs for a human companion. Someone she can talk to and share secrets with. But that's tough when your grandmother is a Yaga, a guardian who guides the dead into the afterlife. It's even harder when you live in a house that wanders all over the world . . . carrying you with it. Even...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In Aspen, Colorado, in 1941, Rachel Brewster is a slalom skier at the National Downhill and Slalom Championships. Little Ray, as she is called, finishes nowhere near the podium, but she manages to get pregnant. Back home, in New England, Little Ray becomes a ski instructor. Her son, Adam, grows up in a family that defies conventions and evades questions concerning the eventful past. Years later, looking for answers, Adam will go to Aspen. In the...
Author
Series
Publisher
ReferencePoint Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
For centuries, people have reported being frightened by, attacked by, and even possessed by unseen forces. This book explores the nature of these ghostly experiences, discussing such phenomena as spirit communication, haunted houses, poltergeists, and exorcism.
11) Talk to me
Publisher
A24 Films
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
When a group of friends discover how to conjure spirits using an embalmed hand, they become hooked on the new thrill, until one of them goes too far and opens the door to the spirit world forcing them to choose who to trust: the dead or the living.
Author
Series
Fairy Realm volume 8
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
During her most recent visit to the Fairy Realm, Jessie inadvertently allows a baby fairy to be captured by water sprites who want to hold the child captive until their missing moonstone is returned.
13) Spirited away
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
During her family's move to the suburbs, a sullen ten-year-old girl wanders into a world ruled by gods, witches, and spirits, and where humans are changed into beasts.
14) Cemetery boys
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Description
Yadriel, a trans boy, summons the angry spirit of his high school's bad boy, and agrees to help him learn how he died, thereby proving himself a brujo, not a bruja, to his conservative family.
Author
Series
Redwinter chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Those who see the dead soon join them. From the author of the critically-acclaimed Blackwing trilogy comes Ed McDonald's Daughter of Redwinter, the first of a brilliant fantasy series about how one choice can change a universe. Raine can see-and speak-to the dead, a gift that comes with a death sentence. All her life she has hidden, lied, and run to save her skin, and she's made some spectacularly bad choices along the way. But it is a rare act of...
17) Tree girl
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Rowanna is drawn to the forest and a huge tree, despite the warnings of the old man with whom she has always lived at the edge of the sea--especially after she befriends a bear who is much more than he seems.
18) The restorer
Author
Series
Graveyard Queen series volume 1
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Discovering a young woman's brutalized body in an old Charleston graveyard, Amelia Gray, a cemetery restorer who sees ghosts, places her own life in danger as she tries to help a police detective assigned to the case.
19) Gideon
Author
Series
Nightwalkers volume 2
Publisher
Zebra Books
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
With the necromancers threatening his people and the Demon Kings sister--the woman he loves--the Demon Gideon must battle against these evil forces as he fights to reclaim his love.
When necromancers threaten to destroy his people, Gideon, a Demon healer, must fulfill his destiny in the arms of a woman who despises him--Magdalegna, the Demon King's sister--in order to save his race from evil forces.
Author
Publisher
TOR
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The Witch in the Well is a dark Norwegian thriller from Camilla Bruce, author of You Let Me In. When two former friends reunite after decades apart, their grudges, flawed ambitions, and shared obsession swirl into an all-too-real echo of a terrible town legend. Centuries ago, beautiful young Ilsbeth Clark was accused of witchcraft after several children disappeared. Her acquittal did nothing to stop her fellow townsfolk from drowning her in the...
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