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A small independent bookstore in Minneapolis is haunted from November 2019 to November 2020 by the store's most annoying customer. Flora dies on All Souls' Day, but she simply won't leave the store. Tookie, who has landed a job selling books after years of incarceration that she survived by reading 'with murderous attention,' must solve the mystery of this haunting while at the same time trying to understand all that occurs in Minneapolis during a...
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An Old Man's Winter Night: Ghostly Tales is the newest collection of ghost stories by Tom Dawe, one of Newfoundland and Labrador's most distinguished writers.
The stories, all based on ones Dawe himself has collected across the province over the years, include tales of visitations both malevolent and benign. There are stories of ghostly galleons, of unsettling graves, of strange omens and fetches; an eerie tale of a notoriously haunted house –...
24) Apartment 1303
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A modern ghost story which turns a love hate relationship between mother and daughter into a tale of horror.
26) The House
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 2
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Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting to engage reluctant readers! The old, abandoned house at the end of Grace's street is a local legend. All the neighbors say it's haunted, but every Halloween someone leaves candy on the front porch. Grace and her friends decide to investigate, hoping to find out once and for all if someone-or something-really is haunting the place. But what if there is more to the...
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IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
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The Lake District, 1899. The Earl is dead and cruel Cousin Clarence has inherited everything. Twelve-year-old Lady Agatha Asquith is cast out of Gosswater Hall to live in a tiny, tumbledown cottage with a stranger who claims to be her father. Aggie is determined to discover her real identity, but she is not alone on her quest for the truth. On the last day of the year, when the clock strikes midnight, a mysterious girl of light creeps through the...
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"Beloved author Ami McKay is back with a magical sequel to her bestseller, The Witches of New York, that tells us what happened next in the lives of her three fascinating witches. During the nights between Christmas and New Year's, the witches of New York--Adelaide Thom, Eleanor St. Clair and the youngest, Beatrice Dunn--gather before the fire to tell ghost stories and perform traditional Yuletide divinations. (Did you know that roasting chestnuts...
30) Haunted Holiday
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Calypso loves the new-old house she lives in with her two mamas. She doesn't even mind that a ghost lives there too - until the ghost ruins their holiday cookie party. Is there something he doesn't like about parties? Or holidays? Or cookies? With help from the two mamas and her new friend Abbey, Calypso searches the internet, the library, and the local cemetery for clues, determined to solve the mystery - before the ghost ruins their next party.
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The dog ate my homework is the oldest excuse in the book, but it might have meaning to Freddie Figg... Freddie Figg tries to be good, but when a dog is actually trying to eat him, it might be his homework that has to be sacrificed. Find out how Freddie copes in the latest instalment of the Freddie Figg series.
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"Angels Demons And Strange Experiences" Part 1, 2, Collects Both Volumes, I Talk About Old Paranormal Investigations And New Ones All They Way Back To My Childhood When Some Of These Very Strange Experiences First Happened To Me And I Never Forgot Them, And also Five of my favorite Poems. "Raven's Call" "Glowing Darkness" "Where Darkness Looms" "A Crow's Heart" And "Black Crow Cries" I Hope You Enjoy These True Stories As Much I Enjoyed Writing Them,...
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A touching story about Daniel, a boy who moves with his parents into a rambling and old country house. Aged ten, Daniel meets and becomes friends with Conrad, the resident thirteenth-century ghost, who lives in the walk-in wardrobe in Daniel's bedroom. As time passes, Daniel grows up but Conrad ages no further... Can their friendship survive the passage of time?
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The school canteen. A perfect place for sloppy joes, the odd food fight and an alien invasion. Now if only Freddie Figg could convince everyone else of the danger they are in. Freddie Figg just wanted a quiet, normal lunch. But his suspicions got the better of him when he noticed something strange about the new lunch ladies. They seem a little off, a little... alien. Now it's up to Freddie to save his class, his school and the world from alien domination....
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The grocery store workers have never looked like they enjoy their jobs. But to Freddie Figg, these ones seem different. They seem distant, slobbering and zombie-like. The grocery store is never a fun place for a kid helping his mom, but when Freddie suspects the workers are zombies, no one believes him. So it's up to Freddie to stop the zombie's and escape before the zombies can eat his brains. Will Freddie make it?
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It is fall in a quiet neighborhood filled with old Victorian houses. All of the houses are clean, neat, and pretty, except for the big one at the end of the block, which everyone thinks is haunted. Now Robert would do anything to impress his big cousin Ethan, who is probably the coolest kid in town. Even though Ethan is only two years older than Robert, he still treats Robert like a baby. Robert is tired of it! So how can he prove that he is just...
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Freddie Figg admits he is no expert on plants. But surely they aren't supposed to try and eat him...A day helping his mom in the garden has turned sour for Freddie Figg. The new plants she brought home have an evil side that his mom just can't seem to see. So it's up to Freddie to stop the snapping, gnashing plants from taking over the garden. Can he do it, or will he get eaten in the process?
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Something is strange about Freddie Figg's babysitter - they don't usually bring a balaclava... It starts out like a normal night for Freddie. His parents are heading out and they've got a babysitter coming in. But Freddie knows there's something a little off about this little old lady - and it's not just her moustache. Can Freddie convince his parents of the threat "she" poses, and can he save his home from being burgled?
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Dorian ist beunruhigt: Sein Vater Vlad Dracula scheint sich ernsthaft von seinem Singledasein verabschieden zu wollen. Warum sonst hat Vlad eine Kreuzfahrt auf der Old Lady gebucht – einem Vergnügungsschiff für Vampire? Vampirjägerin Augusta van Helsing wittert ihre Chance, sich an Dorians Vater heranzumachen – der auch prompt ihrem Charme erliegt. Zu allem Übel verschwindet plötzlich Millionärstochter und Vampinstagram-Star Raphaela del...
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