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101) The cursed
Author
Series
Krewe of Hunters volume 12
Language
English
Description
When the spirit of a murder victim asks for her help, Hannah O'Brien turns to the FBI's elite unit of paranormal investigators to solve the case, which is linked to a historical mystery involving sunken treasure and a curse.
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"For lovers of the supernatural and the macabre comes this collection of ghostly and chilling stories from legendary mystery writer Agatha Christie. Fantastic psychic visions, specters looming in the shadows, encounters with deities, a man who switches bodies with a cat--be sure to keep the light on whilst reading these tales. The Last Séance gathers twenty stories, some featuring Christie's beloved detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, in one...
103) Bitter spirits
Author
Series
Roaring twenties volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's the Roaring Twenties, and San Francisco is a hotbed of illegal boozing, raw lust, and black magic. The fog-covered Bay Area can be an intoxicating scene, particularly when you specialize in spirits .... Aida Palmer performs a spirit medium show onstage at Chinatown's illustrious Gris-Gris speakeasy. However, her ability to summon (and expel) the dead is more than just an act. Winter Magnusson is a notorious bootlegger who's more comfortable with...
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A sinister novel based on the real Bloody Benders, a family of serial killers in the old West bound by butchery and obscured by the shadows of American history. The winds shift nervously on the Kansas plain whispering of travelers lost and buried, whispering of witches. Something dark and twisted has taken root at the Bender inn. At first the townspeople of Cherryvale welcome the rising medium Kate Bender and her family. Kate's messages from the...
105) Personal shopper
Series
Criterion collection volume 899
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
This evocative character study tells the story of a young American fashion assistant and spiritual medium who is living in Paris and searching for signs of an afterlife following the sudden death of her twin brother. A stirring depiction of grief in the form of a psychological thriller, and a chilling meditation on modern modes of communication and the way we mourn those we love.
Author
Series
Publisher
Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Hazel Hughes finds romance and danger as she travels to Romania with her employer, Dr. Sam MacInnes, and her uncle, Count Petrescu, in an attempt to save her twin sister, who is slowly going mad inside the Coppergate Tower. Hazel and Sam must fight their way past vampires, clockwork beasts, and their own insecurities as they try to reach her sister in the impenetrable tower before time runs out."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Set in the early 1900s, the novel follows young Lucia Rutkowski who, thanks to the influence of her beloved grandmother, escapes the Warsaw ghetto to work as a kitchen maid in one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in the bustling city of Paris. Too talented for her lowly position, Lucia is thrown out on the street. Her only recourse is to take a job working for two disorganized, rather poor married scientists so distracted by their work that their...
108) Listening still
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"From Anne Griffin, the bestselling author of When All is Said, comes Listening Still, a refreshing new novel about a young woman who can hear the dead-a talent which is both a gift and a curse. Jeanie Masterson has a gift: she can hear the recently dead and give voice to their final wishes and revelations. Inherited from her father, this gift has enabled the family undertakers to flourish in their small Irish town. Yet she has always been uneasy...
109) Doctor Mirage
Author
Publisher
Valiant Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
How do you solve the case of your own death? Paranormal detective Doctor Shan Fong Mirage had the ability to see and speak to the dead. Except the dead have gone silent, their spirits mysteriously vanished, including Hwen, her deceased husband. Now, Doctor Mirage must face the most challenging question of her life: Is she dead but doesn't know it?"-- cover page 4.
110) Ghost wood song
Author
Publisher
Harper Teen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Shady Grove inherited her father's ability to call ghosts from the grave with his fiddle, but she also knows the fiddle's tunes bring nothing but trouble and darkness. But when her brother is accused of murder, she can't let the dead keep their secrets. In order to clear his name, she's going to have to make those ghosts sing.
111) Ghost blows a kiss
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The late - as in Dearly Departed - Bailey Ruth Raeburn is delighted when she's assigned a new mission by Heaven's Department of Good Intentions, even if she is no good at following the rules for Earthly Visitations. This time she's determined to be the perfect unseen emissary, no matter what it takes. Arriving late in the evening in her old hometown of Adelaide, Oklahoma to find a woman drowning in a pond, Bailey Ruth carries out a daring rescue...
112) Odd is on our side
Author
Series
Odd Thomas prequels volume 2
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
With Halloween approaching, fry cook Odd Thomas begins to feel like something evil is lurking in Pico Mundo, California, and, with the help of his girlfriend and the ghost of Elvis Presley, he sets out to uncover the truth.
113) In Odd we trust
Author
Series
Odd Thomas prequels volume 1
Publisher
Del Ray/Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A young writer travels to Maine to tell the unusual story of America's longest-running camp devoted to mysticism and the world beyond. They believed they would live forever. So begins Mira Ptacin's haunting account of the women of Camp Etna--an otherworldly community in the woods of Maine that has, since 1876, played host to generations of Spiritualists and mediums dedicated to preserving the links between the mortal realm and the afterlife. Beginning...
115) The fire witness
Author
Series
Publisher
Farrar, Straus And Giroux
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Flora Hansen calls herself a medium and makes a living by pretending to commune with the dead. But after a gruesome murder at a rural home for wayward girls, Hansen begins to suffer visions that are all too real. She calls the police, claiming to have seen a ghost, but ony one detective puts aside his skepticism long enough to listen: Joona Linna. Linna has spent more time at the scene of the crime than any other detective would. The case seems obvious...
116) Odd Thomas
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Small-town fry cook Odd Thomas is an ordinary guy with a paranormal secret: he sees dead people, everywhere. When a creepy stranger shows up with an entourage of ghostly "bodachs"- predators who feed on pain and portend mass destruction- Odd knows that his town is in serious trouble. Teaming up with his sweetheart, Stormy, and the local sheriff, Odd will plunge into an epic battle of good vs evil to try and stop a disaster of apocalyptic proportions....
117) Ghost talkers
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Ginger Stuyvesant, an American heiress living in London during World War I, is engaged to Captain Benjamin Hartshorne, an intelligence officer. Ginger is a medium for the Spirit Corps, a special Spiritualist force ... Ginger and her fellow mediums contribute a great deal to the war efforts, so long as they pass the information through appropriate channels. While Ben is away at the front, Ginger discovers the presence of a traitor. Without the presence...
119) Mother doll: a novel
Author
Publisher
The Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Zhenia is adrift in Los Angeles, pregnant with a baby her husband doesn't want, while her Russian grandmother and favorite person in the world is dying on the opposite coast. She's deeply disconnected from herself and her desires when she gets a strange call from Paul, a psychic medium who usually specializes in channeling dead pets, with a message from the other side. Zhenia's great-grandmother Irina, a Russian Revolutionary, has approached him...
120) Rin-Ne: Vol. 1
Author
Publisher
Viz Media
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"Sakura's curiosity about the mysterious Rinne draws her deeper into an amazing world on the boundary between the living and the dead. Helping Rinne is one thing, but will tagging along with him leave her trapped in the afterlife? And does Rinne really know what he's doing? Dealing with the afterlife isn't easy, especially when you don't know all the rules!"--P. [4] of cover.
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