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Fresh off a bad breakup with a longtime boyfriend, Nantucket sweetheart Lizbet Keaton is desperately seeking a second act. When she's named the new general manager of the Hotel Nantucket, a once Gilded Age gem turned abandoned eyesore, she hopes that her local expertise and charismatic staff can win the favor of their new London billionaire owner, Xavier Darling, as well as that of Shelly Carpenter, the wildly popular Instagram tastemaker who can...
2) Holy ghost
Author
Series
Virgil Flowers novels volume 11
Language
English
Description
Wheatfield, Minnesota, is a metropolis of six hundred souls and change for which the word 'moribund' might have been coined. Nothing ever happened there, and nothing ever would, until the mayor (of sorts--campaign slogan: 'I'll do what I can') and his precocious ttnage buddy come up with a scheme to put Wheatfield on the map. Should something dramatic occur--say, an apparition of the Virgin Mary miraculously appear at the local Catholic church--the...
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Series
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Description
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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Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Novelist Aaron Holland Broussard is shattered when his daughter Fannie Mae dies suddenly. As he tries to honor her memory by saving two young men from a life of crime amid their opioid-ravaged community, he is drawn into a network of villainy that includes a violent former Klansman, a far-from-holy minister, a biker club posing as evangelicals, and a murderer who has been hiding in plain sight. Aaron's only ally is state police officer Ruby Spotted...
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Language
English
Description
"Sybil and Blake Gregory have established a predictable, well-ordered Manhattan life. But everything changes when Blake is offered a dream job he can't resist as CEO of a start-up in San Francisco. He accepts it without consulting his wife and buys a magnificent, irresistibly underpriced historic Pacific Heights mansion as their new home. The past and present suddenly collide for them in the elegant mansion filled with tender memories and haunting...
6) Whiplash
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Language
English
Description
Married FBI agents Lacey Sherlock and Dillon Savich are investigating a rather unusual case: Senator David Hoffman is experiencing a ghostly apparition with possible malicious intent. They're no closer to cracking the case when a call comes in from Connecticut: A top foreign Schiffer Hartwin employee has been found murdered behind the drug company's U.S. headquarters.
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Language
English
Description
Nora Brown teaches high school English and lives a quiet life in Seattle with her husband and six-year-old daughter. But one November day, moments after dismissing her class, a girls face appears above the students desks a wild numinous face with startling blue eyes, a face floating on top of shapeless drapes of purples and blues where arms and legs should have been. Terror rushes through Noras body the kind of raw terror you feel when there's no...
Author
Series
Haunted library volume 5
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2015.
Lexile measure
510L
Physical Desc
128 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Now that Kaz can finally pass through walls without feeling all "skizzy," he can go explore Beckett's secret room at the back of the library. What he finds there is a mystery he never expected!
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Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Ann Holmes, a sixteen-year-old itinerant mushroom picker has seen the Virgin Mary in the woods near North Fork, Washington. Father Collins finds Ann disturbingly alluring, but must stay impartial so he can judge the veracity of her sightings. Carolyn Greer becomes Ann's impromptu publicity manager, and Tom Cross sees the visions as the last chance for redemption for himself and his son.
10) Boo who?
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
AD 290L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) ; color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"Boo is new--and it can be scary being new, especially for a shy ghost who can't play any of the other kids' games. Can Boo find a way to fit in and make friends with the rest of the group?" --
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Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2021.
Lexile measure
790L
Physical Desc
188 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
It's the summer before middle school and eleven-year-old Bug's best friend Moira has decided the two of them need to use the next few months to prepare. For Moira, this means figuring out the right clothes to wear, learning how to put on makeup, and deciding which boys are cuter in their yearbook photos than in real life. But none of this is all that appealing to Bug, who doesn't particularly want to spend more time trying to understand how to be...
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Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Berkley Prime Crime mass-market edition.
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Emma and Granny Apples hit the road for Las Vegas to help out Dolly, a former showgirl who is being haunted by a dead Vegas hood named Lenny. Lenny is concerned that an aging mobster named Nemo is coming after Dolly. But when Nemo winds up dead and Dolly goes missing, Emma and Granny find themselves investigating a casino heist gone bad, a stash of hidden loot, and a missing wiseguy who's not letting death stand between him and setting things straight....
14) The silent rose
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Series
Publisher
Zebra Books/Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
507 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
After she experiences a ghostly vision, author Devon James is determined to unravel the mystery of the quaint bed-and-breakfast she is staying in, but its owner, Jonathan Stafford, will stop at nothing to hinder her investigation.
Author
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
414 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Helena Walton-Cisneros, known for finding answers to the impossible, has started her own detective agency. She takes on two new uncanny cases, both located in Paris - which itself is too much of a coincidence to ignore. In the first case, two English women claim to have seen the ghost of Marie Antoinette in the gardens of Versailles. The second case is the murder of a young woman working at the mysterious Melies Star Films studio outside Paris.
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Language
English
Description
"In the spirit of The Notebook and The Time Traveler's Wife comes Robert Barclay's haunting and romantic novel of passion, destiny, loss and an eternal love that will bring two people together across time. His name was Garrett Richmond and he had always wanted to live by the ocean. So when the opportunity to buy--and renovate--the old home known as Seaside arrived, he leapt at the chance. Never mind that his friends and family thought he was crazy,...
17) The hexed
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Series
Language
English
Description
When a ghost leads Devin Lyle to a body in the woods where years earlier FBI paranormal investigator Craig Rockwell found his friend dead, they find themselves drawn deeper into the case and Salem's history.
Author
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
291 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Bestselling crime writer Gino Costello is working on his next book in a historic farmhouse in the heart of Massachusetts. His story features some paranormal elements, so he's invited family friend Emma to provide her input as a medium. But as soon as Emma arrives--with her fiancé, Phil, and Granny Apples in tow--that's when the real trouble begins. Emma is immediately contacted by the Browns, a family of ghosts who originally owned the house in...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Lexile measure
520L
Language
English
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Description
When their friend Tina Maria Carlos tells them her family is moving away because their house is haunted, the Makers (Michael, his cousin Liv, and their friend Leo) set out to investigate--Liv believes the ghost is real and wants to prove it, but Michael is convinced that someone is creating a clevillusionion, and he wants to know how and why.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
333, 6 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
When Jess and Clare Martin move from Williamsburg, Brooklyn, to their former college town in the Hudson River valley, they are hoping for rejuvenation -- of their marriage, their savings, and Jess's writing career. They take a caretaker's job at Riven House, a crumbling estate and the home of their old college writing professor. While Clare once had dreams of being a writer, those plans fell by the wayside when Jess made a big, splashy literary debut...