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"A warm and wry family drama with a magical twist about four generations of Black women, a family curse, and one very complicated year of heartache, miscommunication, and learning to let go Generations of Montrose women—Augusta, Victoria, Willow—have lived together in their quaint two-story bungalow in California for years. They keep to themselves, never venture far from home, and their collection of tinctures and spells is an unspoken bond between...
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Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 11
Publisher
Scribner
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English
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Kathy Reichs's eleventh forensic mystery thriller, in which Temperance Brennan heads to Charlotte, North Carolina to solve a demonic plot involving ritual sacrifice before the town's vengeful citizens take matters into their own hands.
In a house under renovation, a plumber uncovers a cellar no one knew about and makes a grisly discovery: a decapitated chicken, animal bones, and cauldrons containing beads, feathers, and other relics of religious...
In a house under renovation, a plumber uncovers a cellar no one knew about and makes a grisly discovery: a decapitated chicken, animal bones, and cauldrons containing beads, feathers, and other relics of religious...
4) Play dead
Author
Series
Elise Sandburg thrillers volume 1
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011
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English
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The funhouse: Two teenage couples find themselves trapped in a maze of a carnival funhouse where they are stalked by monsters.
Phantasm II: Released after seven years in a mental hospital, Mike convinces his old pal Reggie to join forces with him to hunt down and destroy "the tall man" once and for all.
The serpent and the rainbow: In his quest to find a powerful miracle drug in Haiti, an anthropologist encounters zombies, blood rites and ancient...
6) Bay of souls
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Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
[2003]
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English
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Becoming involved with new faculty member Lara, who claims to be possessed, professor Michael Ahern journeys to Lara's native island of St. Trinity, where he is enmeshed in a smuggling scheme.
Publisher
VCI Entertianment
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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MONSTER FROM THE OCEAN FLOOR: While vacationing in a coastal Mexican village, an artist learns of a local superstition about a man-eating sea devil and decides to investigate with her oceanographer boyfriend. Little do they know that the local populace has set her up to be the monster's next sacrificial victim! SERPENT ISLAND: An Eastern girl hires a California dockside bum to take her to a Caribbean island where one of her ancestors reportedly buried...
8) Sweet unrest
Author
Series
Sweet unrest volume 1
Publisher
Flux
Pub. Date
[2014]
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IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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"When seventeen-year-old Lucy Aimes moves to New Orleans and meets Alex, a boy who behaves as if they've known each other forever, she becomes caught up in a centuries-old vendetta"--
9) Voodoo laws
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Series
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Dark Sky Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
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As Denver homicide detective Bryson Coventry frantically searches for a missing woman, he is pulled deeper into an edgy world of voodooism and death curses. Meanwhile, beautiful young attorney Mackenzie Lee takes on a dangerous case--a case that is destined to sweep everyone who touches it into the spiraling vortex of a deadly thriller.
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Series
Twisted tales (Liz Braswell) volume 13
Publisher
Disney/Hyperion
Pub. Date
2022.
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IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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A year after Tiana makes a deal with Dr. Facilier, she has her restaurant, her friends are safe, and her father is still alive, but soon shadows begin to gather and Tiana must work with Naveen and Charlotte to set things right or risk losing her soul.
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Quincredible volume 1
Publisher
Oni-Lion Forge Publishing Group, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"When meteors fell to Earth, Quinton West was gifted with the power of invulnerability. Seeing others take up hero identities, Quinton decided to help his city of New Orleans....becoming Quincredible, hero of New Orleans...Quinton's newest assignment is to learn the history of New Orleans and voodoo. An assignment that leads him to the mysterious Madame Adelaide...Is Madame Adelaide a spirit? An enhanced human? And what is the evil that threatens...
12) Royal street
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Series
Sentinels of New Orleans volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
c2012
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English
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As the junior wizard sentinel for New Orleans, Drusilla Jaco's job involves a lot more potion mixing and pixie retrieval than sniffing out supernatural bad guys like rogue vampires and lethal were-creatures. Her boss and mentor, Gerald St. Simon, is the wizard tasked with protecting the city from anyone or anything that might slip over from the preternatural beyond. Then Hurricane Katrina hammers New Orleans' fragile levees, unleashing more than just...
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Series
Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 11
Publisher
Wheeler Pub
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Temperance Brennan is back and her latest case takes her deep into the world of Voodoo, Santeria, and Witchcraft.
14) The skeleton key
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
When Caroline Ellis takes a job as a hospice worker in Louisiana's bayous, she unlocks a deadly secret involving magic, conjure, and sacrifice that pulls her into a terrifying world of strange, frightening, and unexplained incidents. The key to escaping may lie in a decrepit attic, but if she dares to believe in what she discovers, everything she fears will become real
Author
Publisher
Weiser Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Marie Laveau may be the most influential-and is among the most famous-American practitioner of the magical arts. She is the subject of songs, films, and legends and the star of New Orleans ghost tours. Her grave in New Orleans ranks among the most popular spiritual pilgrimages in the US. This book explores Laveau's life and work-the history and mystery. It gives an overview of New Orleans Voodoo, its origins, history, and practices. It contains spells,...
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Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
""None but the righteous" is a southern gothic fever dream, a voodoo-laced journey through the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Set adrift when his hometown of New Orleans is ravaged by Hurricane Katrina, Ham struggles for belonging between the Atlanta home of a childhood friend and the rural Alabama home of the mother of his child. As he reckons with his impending fatherhood, Ham navigates his new circumstances under the guidance of the spirit of St. Martin...
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Violet Dancey is spending the Civil War with a new stepmother and stepsister and her young cousin when she comes upon a wounded Yankee soldier, Thomas, who is being kept alive by mysterious voodoo practitioners.
18) Angel heart
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
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A down on his luck detective travels from the tough streets of Brooklyn, to the hot jazz clubs of New Orleans, and finally to voodoo rituals in the swamps of Louisiana.
Brooklyn private detective Harry Angel is hired by the mysterious Louis Cyphre to find a man named Johnny Favorite which takes him from Brooklyn to the Louisiana swamps.
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
New Orleans. Arrogant, carefree Prince Naveen and hardworking waitress Tiana cross paths. Prince Naveen is transformed into a frog by a conniving voodoo magician. Tiana follows suit when she decides to kiss the amphibian royalty. With the help of a trumpet-playing alligator, a Cajun firefly, and an old blind lady who lives in a boat in a tree, Naveen and Tiana must race to break the spell and fulfill their dreams.
20) Drumsticks
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Series
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Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"Nanette is on the rocks. Heartbroken and alone, she finds what comfort she can in the bottom of a bottle. But her life seems to turn around when she’s given a voodoo doll, so much so that Nan seeks out the doll’s creator, Ida, to thank her. Unfortunately, the meeting doesn’t go so well, and Ida ends up with a bullet in her head. Guilt-ridden, Nan resolves to get justice for her new friend, only to find that Ida was hiding some dark skeletons...
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