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1) The invited
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Language
English
Description
"A chilling ghost story with a twist: the New York Times bestselling author of THE WINTER PEOPLE returns to the woods of Vermont to tell the story of a husband and wife who don't simply move into a haunted house, they start building one from scratch, without knowing it, until it's too late... In 1924, a young mother, Hattie Breckenridge, is hanged from a tree in her yard by the town mob, accused of a crime that was actually committed by her daughter....
Author
Language
English
Description
A small independent bookstore in Minneapolis is haunted from November 2019 to November 2020 by the store's most annoying customer. Flora dies on All Souls' Day, but she simply won't leave the store. Tookie, who has landed a job selling books after years of incarceration that she survived by reading with murderous attention, must solve the mystery of this haunting while at the same time trying to understand all that occurs in Minneapolis during a year...
3) The seekers
Author
Series
Krewe of hunters volume 28
Language
English
Description
"Kerri Wolf has joined the crew of The Seekers, a show that searches for paranormal phenomena, as they explore a supposedly haunted old inn on the road between Philadelphia and Harrisburg. The place is famous for its warm welcome - and infamous for being the site of an ax murder rampage in the 1920s. They've barely begun when a very real dead body is discovered in the basement. As a nonfiction author, Kerri is supposed to be the rational one, but...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
After his mother's death, eleven-year-old Marcus is sent to live on a small South Carolina island with his great aunt, a reclusive painter with a haunted past. Aunt Charlotte, otherwise a woman of few words, points out a ruined cottage, telling Marcus she had visited it regularly after she'd moved there thirty years ago because it matched the ruin of her own life. Eventually she was inspired to take up painting so she could capture its utter desolation.The...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
A collector of obscure and macabre artifacts, unscrupulous metal band musician Judas Coyne is unable to resist purchasing a ghost over the Internet, which turns out to be the vengeful spirit of his late girlfriend's stepfather.
Author
Series
(Karen S.).Tradd Street volume 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Return to the house on Tradd Street for one last time as the bestselling series featuring psychic medium Melanie Trenholm comes to a hauntingly spectacular finale. After the devastating events of the past few months, the last thing Melanie Trenholm wants is to think about the future. Why, when her husband, Jack, has asked for a separation-a separation that might have been her fault? Nevertheless, with twin toddlers, a stepdaughter leaving for college...
7) True love
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
After she mysteriously inherits a nineteenth-century Nantucket house, Alix Madsen gets drawn into the unsolved disappearance of her ancestor two hundred years ago and begins to have feelings for Jared Montgomery, who lives in the property's guesthouse.
8) The grownup
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Gillian Flynn’s Edgar Award-winning homage to the classic ghost story, published for the first time as a standalone.
A canny young woman is struggling to survive by perpetrating various levels of mostly harmless fraud. On a rainy April morning, she is reading auras at Spiritual Palms when Susan Burke walks in. A keen observer of human behavior, our unnamed narrator immediately diagnoses beautiful,...
A canny young woman is struggling to survive by perpetrating various levels of mostly harmless fraud. On a rainy April morning, she is reading auras at Spiritual Palms when Susan Burke walks in. A keen observer of human behavior, our unnamed narrator immediately diagnoses beautiful,...
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Jeremy Marsh, a science journalist and professional skeptic, finds himself in over his head when he arrives at the small town of Boone Creek, North Carolina, and falls head over heels for the granddaughter of the supposed town psychic.
10) As it lies!
Author
Series
Ghost detectors volume 22
Publisher
Calico, an imprint of Magic Wagon
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
79 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
After a father-son miniature golf tournament is cancelled due to ghost-related incidents, the boys sneak into the park with Grandma Eunice to zap the ghost.
12) White horse
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"White Horse is a gritty, vibrant debut from Erika T. Wurth about an Indigenous woman who must face her past when she discovers a bracelet haunted by her mother's spirit. Some people are haunted in more ways than one. Old denim jackets, ripped jeans, Stephen King novels, and the occasional beer at the White Horse Lounge have defined urban Indian Kari James's life so far. But when her cousin Debby finds an old family bracelet that once belonged to...
13) Dream lake
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
374 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the exquisite setting of Friday Harbor, Zoe Hoffman, an innkeeper who has all but given up on love, is attracted to Alex Nolan, a bitter and cynical man battling his demons with the help of a whiskey bottle, until he is visited by a mysterious ghost who is stuck in the Nolans' Victorian house. All the ghost knows is that he loved a girl once. And Alex and Zoe hold the key to unlocking the mystery that keeps him trapped there.
14) Girl in white
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Mallory is still adapting to life in her new town of Eastport when she is haunted by a reoccurring nightmare, leading her to investigate the legend of Sweet Molly.
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
274 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
After a devastating loss, Brynn Wilder escapes to Wharton, a tourist town on Lake Superior, to reset. Checking into a quaint boardinghouse for the summer, she hopes to put her life into perspective. In her fellow lodgers, she finds a friendly company of strangers: the frail Alice, cared for by a married couple with a heartbreaking story of their own; LuAnn, the eccentric and lovable owner of the inn; and Dominic, an unsettlingly handsome man inked...
18) The Others
Publisher
Dimension home video
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 104 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
19) Later
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jamie Conklin, a boy born with an unnatural ability to see and learn things no one else can, is enlisted to help an NYPD detective pursue a killer who has threatened to strike from beyond the grave.
Sometimes growing up means facing your demons. The son of a struggling single mother, Jamie Conklin just wants an ordinary childhood. But Jamie is no ordinary child. Born with an unnatural ability his mom urges him to keep secret, Jamie can see what no...
20) The summoning
Author
Series
Krewe of Hunters volume 27
Language
English
Description
A startling manifestation during a s�eance at her Savannah bed-and-breakfast prompts Kristi Stewart to partner with investigator Dallas Wicker, who ties the property's history to the suspicious death of a colleague.