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Flynn brothers trilogy volume 2
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English
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A dark legend comes to life
When a young woman is found dead in a field, dressed up as a scarecrow with a slashed grin and a broken neck, the residents of Salem, Massachusetts, begin to fear that the infamous Harvest Man is more than just a rumor. But out-of-town cop Jeremy Flynn doesn't have time for ghost stories. He's in town on another investigation, looking for a friend's wife, who mysteriously vanished in a cemetery.
Complicating his efforts...
When a young woman is found dead in a field, dressed up as a scarecrow with a slashed grin and a broken neck, the residents of Salem, Massachusetts, begin to fear that the infamous Harvest Man is more than just a rumor. But out-of-town cop Jeremy Flynn doesn't have time for ghost stories. He's in town on another investigation, looking for a friend's wife, who mysteriously vanished in a cemetery.
Complicating his efforts...
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English
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Every gift has a price . . . every piece of lace has a secret.
Towner Whitney, the self-confessed unreliable narrator, hails from a family of Salem women who can read the future in the patterns in lace, and who have guarded a history of secrets going back generations. Now the disappearance of two women is bringing Towner back home to Salem—and is bringing to light the shocking truth about the death of her twin sister.
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English
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When a teenage boy dies suspiciously on Halloween night, Salem's chief of police, John Rafferty, now married to gifted lace reader Towner Whitney, wonders if there is a connection between his death and Salem's most notorious cold case, a triple homicide dubbed "The Goddess Murders," in which three young women, all descended from accused Salem witches, were slashed on Halloween night in 1989. He finds unexpected help in Callie Cahill, the daughter...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
This is a classic tale of a house cursed through the centuries by a man hung for witchcraft, and haunted by the ghosts of its sinful dead, is now available in this special 150th anniversary edition that contains new supplementary material and a new afterword.
5) Bewitched
Author
Series
Betwixt and between volume 2
Language
English
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Forty-something Defiance Dayne only recently discovered she comes from a long line of powerful witches. Added to that was the teensy, infinitesimal fact that she is what's called a charmling. One of three on the entire planet. And there are other witches who will stop at nothing to steal her immense power, which would basically involve her unfortunate and untimely death. No one told her life after forty would mean having to learn new lifeskills--such...
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English
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"It was supposed to be a fun girls' weekend in Salem, but when a past-life regression session instead sends a terrifying vision of murder to Kylie Connelly, she's shaken and doesn't know what to think. Worse, later she identifies the attacker from her vision: he's a prominent local politician. Special Agent Jon Dickson of the FBI's Krewe of Hunters is on the trail of a suspected serial killer based on the scantest of clues and unreliable witness testimony....
Author
Series
These witches don't burn volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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When evidence of dark magic begins to appear all over Salem, Massachusetts, Elemental Witch Hannah and her ex-girlfriend Veronica are forced to team up to stop the deadly attacks.
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Series
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
When a wannabe witch turns up dead, witch sisters Darcy and Harper Merriweather, who have the power to grant wishes and have come to Salem, Massachusetts, to join the family business, find themselves trying to find the murderer.
Author
Series
These witches don't burn volume 2
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
High school senior Hannah and her new girlfriend, Morgan, are the Witches' best hope for stopping the Hunters, who are now nationwide, from destroying magic for good.
Author
Series
How to hang a witch volume 2
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Samantha Mather, fifteen, is having recurring dreams of the Titanic and while awake, receives strange missives and visions of those who went down with the ship.
13) Just Ash
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Lab
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Ash has never thought much about being intersex. But when he gets his period and his parents pressure him to 'try being a girl,' he must fight for who he really is"--
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English
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"Seventeen-year-old Eleanor is the last person in Salem to believe in witchcraft -- or think that her life could be transformed by mysterious forces. After losing her best friend and first love, Chloe, Eleanor has spent the past year in a haze, vowing to stay away from anything resembling romance. But when a handwritten guide to tarot arrives in the mail at the witchy souvenir store where Eleanor works, it seems to bring with it the message that magic...
Author
Series
How to hang a witch volume 1
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Follows fifteen-year-old Samantha Mather, who has moved to Salem with her stepmother 300 years after her family hanged witches there, to find she is ostracized by the witch descendants at school, as she unravels the lost secrets of the hangings and her family.
17) See something
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Using her psychic gifts to help a distraught woman recover her memory, Lee wonders if she is harboring a killer when a body is found washed up in a local cove.
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Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"When she discovers a pile of old bones in her Aunt Ve's garage under a mess of memories and forgotten possessions, wish-granting witch Darcy Merriweather must solve a cold case to keep her aunt from doing a spell in prison." --
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Series
Publisher
Obsidian
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
When her closest friend and fellow witch Staria Sullivan is stalked by her murderous ex-husband, Kyle, who is invisible to everyone but her, Darcy Merriweather must discover the secret behind his latest disappearing act before he does something they can't see coming.
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Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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Description
In an unforgettable novel that traces a centuries-old curse to its source, beloved author Alice Hoffman unveils the story of Maria Owens, accused of witchcraft in Salem, and matriarch of a line of the amazing Owens women and men featured in Practical Magic and The Rules of Magic.
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