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1) Brother Odd
Author
Series
Odd Thomas novels volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Loop me in, odd one. The words, spoken in the deep of night by a sleeping child, chill the young man watching over her. For this was a favorite phrase of Stormy Llewellyn, his lost love. In the haunted halls of the isolated monastery where he had sought peace, Odd Thomas is stalking spirits of an infinitely darker nature.
As he steadfastly journeys toward his mysterious...
Loop me in, odd one. The words, spoken in the deep of night by a sleeping child, chill the young man watching over her. For this was a favorite phrase of Stormy Llewellyn, his lost love. In the haunted halls of the isolated monastery where he had sought peace, Odd Thomas is stalking spirits of an infinitely darker nature.
As he steadfastly journeys toward his mysterious...
2) Odd hours
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Haunted by dreams of a powerful red tide, Odd Thomas, accompanied by two otherworldly sidekicks--his dog Boo and the Chairman of the Board--is drawn to a small California coastal town, where nothing is at it appears and where he confronts overwhelming and sinister forces out to stop his quest.
Author
Language
English
Description
Provides guideposts for living a rich and fulfilling life. In her beautiful worldview, Laura Lynne Jackson reminds us that our relationship to those we love endures across space and time; that we are all connected and invested in one another's lives; and that we are here to give and receive love selflessly. Her story offers a new understanding of the vast reach of our consciousness and enlarges our view of the human experience.
4) Odd Thomas
Author
Series
Odd Thomas novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Over the course of two days, Odd Thomas, his soulmate Stormy Llewellyn, and an assortment of allies make their way through a dark, terrifying world in which past and present, and life and death collide as they try to avert a cataclysm.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A reluctant medium is about to discover the ties that bind can unleash a dangerous power . . . . When Jessamyn Teoh starts hearing a voice in her head, she chalks it up to stress. Closeted, broke and jobless, she's moving back to Malaysia with her parents - a country she last saw when she was a toddler. She soon learns the new voice isn't even hers, it's the ghost of her estranged grandmother. In life, Ah Ma was a spirit medium, avatar of a mysterious...
Author
Series
Krewe of Hunters volume 25
Language
English
Description
"The crime scene is horrific: the corpse of a young actress, drained of blood and cut in two. LAPD Detective Sophie Manning s new case is high-profile and difficult there s no evidence to work with. And it s a disturbing echo of the infamous Black Dahlia killing. Sophie is burning the candle at both ends, desperate to catch the murderer before he strikes again, when she starts to experience inexplicable visits&from ghosts. Bruce McFadden has a particular...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"In 1981, a young father and son set out on a road trip across Argentina, devastated by the mysterious death of the wife and mother they both loved. United in grief, the pair travels to her family home near Iguazú Falls, where they must confront the horrific legacy she has bequeathed. For the woman they are grieving came from a family like no other--a centuries-old secret society called the Order that pursues eternal life through ghastly rituals....
Author
Series
Charley Davidson novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Charley Davidson, Grim Reaper Extraordinaire, is back in this sexy, suspenseful novel of supernatural shenanigans. Readers are sure to enjoy the most hilarious story of the summer.
Author
Series
Charley Davidson novels volume 4
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Charley's last case went so awry, she's taking time off to wallow in the wonders of self-pity. When a woman shows up on her doorstep convinced someone is trying to kill her, Charley realizes something is amiss when everyone the woman knows swears she's insane. In the meantime, the sexy, sultry son of Satan, Reyes Farrow, is out of prison and out of Charley's life. But his absence has put a serious crimp in her sex life...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In World War I Paris, Opaline Duplessi, an employee at the famous La Fantasie Russie jewelry store, spends her time making trench watches for soldiers at the front, and mourning jewelry for the mothers, wives, and lovers of those who have fallen. People say that Opaline's creations are magical, a word she would rather not use. But she does have a rare gift, a form of lithomancy that allows her to translate the energy emanating from the stones and...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"Odd Thomas never asked for his special ability. He's just an ordinary guy trying to live a quiet life in the small desert town of Pico Mundo. Yet he feels an obligation to do right by his otherworldly confidants, and that's why he's won hearts on both sides of the divide between life and death. But when a childhood friend disappears, Odd discovers something worse than a dead body and embarks on a heart-stopping battle of will and wits with an enemy...
Author
Series
Charley Davidson novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Using her ability to see ghosts in her work as a private investigator, Charley Davidson begins experiencing intense sensual dreams about a mysterious Entity that has been following her throughout her life.
16) Mr. Splitfoot
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"A contemporary gothic from an author in the company of Kelly Link and Aimee Bender, Mr. Splitfoot tracks two women in two times as they march toward a mysterious reckoning. Ruth and Nat are orphans, packed into a house full of abandoned children run by a religious fanatic. To entertain their siblings, they channel the dead. Decades later, Ruth's niece, Cora, finds herself accidentally pregnant. After years of absence, Aunt Ruth appears, mute and...
17) Infinite detail
Author
Publisher
MCD x FSG Originals, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
A timely and uncanny portrait of a world in the wake of fake news, diminished privacy, and a total shutdown of the Internet BEFORE: In Bristols center lies the Croft, a digital no-mans-land cut off from the surveillance, Big Data dependence, and corporate-sponsored, globally hegemonic aspirations that have overrun the rest of the world. Ten years in, its become a center of creative counterculture. But its fraying at the edges, radicalizing from inside....
18) Late edition
Author
Series
Godmothers novels volume 3
Publisher
Kensington Pub. Corp
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Toots and the Sisters travel to Charleston, where they search for the murderer of Ida's late husband--and try to protect Ida from similar fate.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
At the height of Victorian London's obsession with Spiritualism, the city's premier medium, Mrs. Violet Woods, while a newspaperman works to expose false mediums across London, takes in a girl with an uncanny talent for the craft to spice up her brand, which could lead to her downfall.
Author
Series
Pepper Martin mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
One night in 1966 after a Beatles concert, a teenager named Lucy started home with her friends and was never seen again--until she decides to haunt reluctant medium Pepper Martin. Lucy's spirit can't rest in peace until her body is found and buried, but how will Pepper track down a missing corpse after 45 years?
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