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1) Graveminder
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rebekkah Barrow never forgot the tender attention her grandmother, Maylene, bestowed upon the dead of Claysville. Now Maylene is dead and Bek must go back to the place--and the man--she left a decade ago. But what she soon discovers is that Maylene was murdered. It turns out that in placid Claysville, the worlds of the living and the dead are dangerously connected.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
After the death of her father, Zoe, escaping from life, loses herself in a dream scape until a chance encounter at a used record store opens up a portal to the world of the restless dead, forcing her to decide just how far she is willing to go to see her father again.
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor Teen
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 760L
Physical Desc
366 pages : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the lower wards of the port city of Kahnzoka, young ward boss Isoka comes to collect when there's money owing. When her ability to access the Well of Combat is discovered by the Empire, she's sent on an impossible mission: steal Soliton, a legendary ghost ship--a ship from which no one has ever returned. If she fails, her sister's life is forfeit. When Isoka becomes part of the ship's brutal crew, facing off against unimaginable threats, nothing...
4) Whichwood
Author
Lexile measure
1080L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Laylee, thirteen, is nearly worn out from washing and packaging corpses for the Otherwhere and being shunned by villagers when two strangers, Alice and Oliver, arrive determined to help.
Author
Publisher
Flux
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (229 pages)
Language
English
Description
Best friends Jane and Holly have jumped into the river off Swallow's Nest Bluff hundreds of times. But one day, Holly's jump goes wrong. Her body never comes up, yet something else does-a sad creature of mud, full of confusion and sorrow. It's Holly, somehow, trapped and mixed up with the river. And if Jane can't do something to help, Holly will take everybody down with her-even the people she loves the most. Blending Looking for Alaska's theme of...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Blum is a successful undertaker, a doting mother, the loving wife of a decorated police officer--and a woman whose life that masks the terrible secrets of her past. A hit-and-run changes everything. As Blum's grief over the death of her husband, Mark, overwhelms her, only her two little girls can drag her back to the land of the living. Packing up Mark's office, Blum discovers a recorded conversation from a case he was investigating and learns his...
8) Between
Author
Lexile measure
HL 620L
Language
English
Formats
Description
By weaving through her memories and watching the family and friends she left behind, eighteen-year-old Liz Valchar solves the mystery of how her life ended in the Long Island Sound.
Author
Series
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
155 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Despite her parents' rules about the Qwikpick Adventure Society, Marilla and her friends are off on another adventure when they hear a local legend about a slave owner's grave.
Author
Language
English
Description
Welcome to Charon's Crossing. The tea is hot, the scones are fresh, and the dead are just passing through. When a reaper comes to collect Wallace from his own funeral, Wallace begins to suspect he might be dead. And when Hugo, the owner of a peculiar tea shop, promises to help him cross over, Wallace decides he's definitely dead. But even in death he's not ready to abandon the life he barely lived, so when Wallace is given one week to cross over,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
448 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Estranged from Gabriel when his past comes to light, Olivia Taylor-Jones receives a sinister warning in the form of a murder victim dressed to look like her and struggles to learn the truth about the victim, the role of her new home, and her susceptibility to old enemies.
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
274 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"When the teenage daughter of a powerful Washington, D.C., judge is found dead, three local black kids are arrested for her murder--but reporter Sully Carter suspects there's more to the case. From the city's grittiest backstreets to the elegant halls of power, wry yet wounded Sully pursues a string of cold cases, all the while fighting against pressure from government officials, police, suspicious locals, and his own bosses at the newspaper. Based...
Author
Language
English
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Description
""What happens when you mix 1 (accidental) murder with 2 thousand wedding guests, and then, toss in a possible curse on 3 generations of an immigrant Chinese-Indonesian family? You get 4 meddling Asian aunties coming to the rescue! When Meddelin Chan ends up accidentally killing her blind date, her meddlesome mother calls for her even more meddlesome aunties to help get rid of the body. Unfortunately, a dead body proves to be a lot more challenging...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Erin and her friends from college, now in their mid-twenties, are shaken by the death of Silas, one of their own. They are plunged into a waking nightmare when they take a pill Silas learned of that allows them to see-and interact with-ghosts"--
Erin hasnt been able to set a single boundary with her charismatic but reckless college ex-boyfriend, Silas. When he asks her to bail him out of rehabagainshe knows she needs to cut him off. But days after...
15) The Corpse Queen
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2021]
Lexile measure
HL 700L
Physical Desc
401 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Orphaned seventeen-year-old Molly Green is eager to start a new life in her aunt's lucrative business selling corpses to medical students, but she quickly becomes entangled in a murderer's plans.
16) Everwild
Author
Series
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nick, known as the dreaded "chocolate ogre," is trying to find all the children in Everlost and release them from the limbo they are in, while Mikey and Allie have joined a band of skinjackers and are putting themselves in danger by visiting the world of the living.
17) The shadow glass
Author
Series
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2019]
Lexile measure
HL 810L
Physical Desc
xvi, 456 pages : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Tea's life, and the fate of the kingdoms, hang in the balance as the Dark grows in her day by day.
Tea is a bone witch. Her dark magic can raise the dead, and she has used this magic to breathe life into those she has loved and lost-- and those who would join her army against the deceitful royals. But Tea's quest to conjure a shadowglass, which would grant immortality for the one person she loves most in the world, threatens to consume her heart....
18) Before I fall
Author
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Formats
Description
After she dies in a car crash, teenaged Samantha relives the day of her death over and over again until, on the seventh day, she finally discovers a way to save herself.
Author
Series
Cainsville novel volume 3
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
453 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Olivia Taylor-Jones's life has exploded. She's discovered she is not only adopted, but her real parents are convicted serial killers. Fleeing the media frenzy, she took refuge in the oddly secluded town of Cainsville. She has since solved the town's mysteries and finds herself the target of its secretive elders and her stalker ex-fiancé, James. Visions continue to haunt her, particularly a little blond girl in a green sundress who insists she has...
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
247 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Are you there, Satan? It's me, Madison," declares the whip-tongued thirteen-year-old narrator of Damned, Chuck Palahniuk's subversive new work of fiction. The daughter of a narcissistic film star and a billionaire, Madison is abandoned at her Swiss boarding school over Christmas, while her parents are off touting their new projects and adopting more orphans. She dies over the holiday of a marijuana overdose--and the next thing she knows, she's in...