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61) Big pumpkin
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c1992
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 21 x 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
A witch trying to pick a big pumpkin on Halloween discovers the value of cooperation when she gets help from a ghost, a vampire, a mummy, and a bat.
Author
Series
Dave Robicheaux novels volume 22
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
447 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Detective Dave Robicheaux's world isn't filled with too many happy stories, but Desmond Cormier's rags-to-riches tale is certainly one of them. Robicheaux first met Cormier on the streets of New Orleans, when the young, undersized boy had foolish dreams of becoming a Hollywood director. Twenty-five years later, when Robicheaux knocks on Cormier's door, it isn't to congratulate him on his Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations. Robicheaux has discovered...
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English
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"Peter Straub's Ghost Story meets Liane Moriarty's Big Little Lies in this American Indian horror story of revenge on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation. Four American Indian men from the Blackfeet Nation, who were childhood friends, find themselves in a desperate struggle for their lives, against an entity that wants to exact revenge upon them for what they did during an elk hunt ten years earlier by killing them, their families, and friends"--
66) White smoke
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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"Marigold is running from ghosts. The phantoms of her old life keep haunting her, but a move with her newly blended family from their small California beach town to the embattled Midwestern city of Cedarville might be the fresh start she needs. Her mom has accepted a new job with the Sterling Foundation that comes with a free house, one that Mari now has to share with her bratty ten-year-old stepsister, Piper. The renovated picture-perfect home on...
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English
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When Indian Princess Alexandrina is left penniless by the sudden death of her father, the Maharaja of Brindor, Queen Victoria grants her a grace-and-favor home in Hampton Court Palace. Though rumored to be haunted, Alexandrina and her lady's maid, Pooki, have no choice but to take the Queen up on her offer. Aside from the ghost sightings, Hampton Court doesn't seem so bad. The princess is soon befriended by three eccentric widows who invite her to...
Author
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
70 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Use your LEGO(R) collection to conjure up a giant bat, a ghost ship, a witch's house, and many more creepy creations. Plus, challenge your friends to spooky LEGO games. These Halloween-themed models and activities will keep you busy throughout the spooky season."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Krewe of hunters volume 8
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
344 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
1777: In the throes of the Revolutionary War, Landon Mansion is commandeered by British Lord "Butcher" Bedford. He stabs Lucy Tarleton -- who spurned his king and his love -- leaving her to die in her father's arms. Now: After the day's final tour, docent Allison Leigh makes her rounds while locking up...and finds a colleague slumped over Bedford's desk, impaled on his own replica bayonet. Resident ghosts may be the stock-in-trade of stately Philadelphia...
Author
Series
Ella Clah mysteries volume 18
Publisher
Forge Books
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
320 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Former Navajo Police officer Harry Ute's body is found in an isolated part of the Navajo Reservation, rumored to be skinwalker country. This makes Navajo Police Special Investigator Ella Clah's job much harder -- no one wants to speak to her for fear of incurring the wrath of the Navajo witches. Harry's latest P.I. case involves tracking down property stolen from the county. This leads Ella to work with county Detective Dan Nez. Ella doesn't trust...
Author
Series
In the garden volume 3
Publisher
Jove Books
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
304 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Hayley loves her life in Memphis: her precious baby girl, Lily, her job at the In the Garden nursery, and her close friendships with her boss, Roz, and coworker Stella. Hayley isn't about to risk all this on the chance that Roz's son, Harper (his mother's last name), might be interested in her. But when her desire for Harper finally proves to be too strong to resist, Hayley discovers not only that Harper feels the same about her but also that everyone...
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English
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"Summer is coming to a close on the East End of Long Island, and Alex is no longer welcome. A misstep at a dinner party, and the older man she's been staying with dismisses her with a ride to the train station and a ticket back to the city. With few resources and a waterlogged phone, but gifted with an ability to navigate the desires of others, Alex stays on Long Island and drifts like a ghost through the hedged lanes, gated driveways, and sun-blasted...
73) Bark: stories
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Description
In "Debarking," a newly divorced man tries to keep his wits about him as the United States prepares to invade Iraq, and against this ominous moment, we see -- in all its irresistible hilarity and darkness -- the perils of divorce and what can follow in its wake...In "Foes," a political argument goes grotesquely awry as the events of 9/11 unexpectedly manifest at a fund-raising dinner in Georgetown...In "The Juniper Tree," a teacher, visited by the...
74) A drop of night
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016?]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
v, 439 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A lucky break turns deadly when 17-year-old Anouk is invited to Paris for an exclusive, fully-funded exploration of the Palace of the Butterfly's hidden underground. Anouk and her four fellow gifted teenagers must race for their lives when they learn their benefactors are plotting to kill them. The ancient palace's fatal traps and lurking monsters only make the task tougher.
75) Easter
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Series
Publisher
Arista Records
Pub. Date
p1996
Physical Desc
1 sound disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
Mona is twenty-three, emotionally adrift and cleaning houses to get by. While handing out clean needles to drug addicts, she falls for a man she calls Mr Disgusting, who proceeds to break her heart in unimaginable ways. In search of healing, she decamps to New Mexico for a fresh start, but always lurking just beneath the surface are the ghosts of her past, and the crushing legacy of a chaotic, destructive childhood. It seems running further away...
Author
Series
Makana mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Description
A lost child. A missing hero. A bitter rivalry. In Cairo the ghosts of the past are stirring... Makana is a former police inspector who fled for his life to Cairo from his native Sudan seven years ago. Down on his luck and haunted by the past, he lives on a rickety Nile houseboat. When the notorious and powerful Saad Hanafi hires him to track down a missing person Makana is in no position to refuse him. Hanafi, whose past is as shady as his fortune...
78) Cult classic
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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One night in New York City's Chinatown, a woman is at a work reunion dinner with former colleagues when she excuses herself to buy a pack of cigarettes. On her way back, she runs into a former boyfriend. And then another. And . . . another. Nothing is quite what it seems as the city becomes awash with ghosts of heartbreaks past. What would normally pass for coincidence becomes something far stranger as the recently engaged Lola must contend not only...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
276 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1976, David, a college student, takes a summer job at a run-down family resort in a dying English resort town. This is against the wishes of his family because it was at this resort where David's biological father disappeared fifteen years earlier. But something undeniable has called David there. A deeper otherworldliness lies beneath the surface of what we see. The characters have a suspicious edge to them. David is haunted by eerie visions of...
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
246 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In these ten glittering stories, debut author Karen Russell takes us to the ghostly and magical swamps of the Florida Everglades. Here wolf-like girls are reformed by nuns, a family makes their living wrestling alligators in a theme park, and little girls sail away on crab shells.
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