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1) Happy medium
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Fake spirit medium Gretchen Acorn is happy to help when her best (read: wealthiest) client hires her to look into the unexplained phenomena preventing the sale of her bridge partner's struggling goat farm. Gretchen may be a complete fraud, but she'd like to think she's a beneficent one. So if "cleansing" the historic property will help a nice old man get on with his retirement and put some much-needed cash in her pockets at the same time, who's she...
Author
Language
English
Description
"At the edge of the Russian wilderness, Vasilisa spends the winter nights huddled near the fire with her siblings, listening to her nurse's fairy tales. She loves the chilling story of Frost, the winter demon, who claims unwary souls. Wise Russians fear him and honor the spirits of house, yard, and forest that protect their homes from evil. After Vasilisa's mother dies, her father goes to Moscow and brings home a new wife. Fiercely devout, city-bred,...
5) The jumbies
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Corinne must call on her courage and an ancient magic to stop an evil spirit and save her island home.
Author
Series
Cat lady mystery volume 1
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Lara Caphart has returned to her hometown of Whisker Jog, New Hampshire after sixteen years to reconnect with her estranged Aunt Fran, who's having some difficulty looking after herself-- and her eleven cats. Lara swears one of the cats, a blue-eyed ragdoll, is the reincarnation of her beloved childhood pet, Blue. Fran is being harassed by Theo Barnes, a wealthy builder who has his sights set on Fran's property. When Lara stumbles on his body in Fran's...
Author
Series
Fairy realm volume 8
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
During her most recent visit to the Fairy Realm, Jessie inadvertently allows a baby fairy to be captured by water sprites who want to hold the child captive until their missing moonstone is returned.
9) The tempest
Author
Language
English
Description
Presents the original text of Sahkespeare's play side by side with a modern version, discusses the author and the theater of his time, and provides quizzes and other study activities.
11) Spirit legacy
Author
Series
Gateway trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Lily Faire Publishing
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
College student Jess Ballard's mother has gone-dead under mysterious circumstances; her life uprooted to stay with estranged relatives she's never met; and ... and there's something odd about some of the people she's been meeting at school: They're dead! Aided by Tia, her neurotic roommate, and Dr. David Pierce, a ghost-hunting professor, Jess must unravel the mystery behind her hauntings. But the closer she gets to the truth, the more danger shadows...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Privately questioning her remote community's superstitions about dangerous powerful spirits in their Devil's Alley home, Cecelia Rios experiments with the forbidden art of brujería to rescue her kidnapped sister.
Author
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media LLC
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
"Broke young man + chainsaw dog demon = Chainsaw Man! Denji was a small-time devil hunter just trying to survive in a harsh world. After being killed on a job, he is revived by his pet devil-dog Pochita and becomes something new and dangerous--Chainsaw Man! Denji's a poor young man who'll do anything for money, even hunting down devils with his pet devil-dog Pochita. He's a simple man with simple dreams, drowning under a mountain of debt. But his...
Author
Publisher
Simon Spotlight/Nickelodeon
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
"If you are reading this, you have uncovered one of the four hidden scrolls I have compiled about the world of Avatar. This scroll contains all of the knowledge that I have gathered so far about the Water Tribes -- their history and culture and the great tales of their past and present. Katara recounts her discovery of the Avatar in the iceberg, Sokka remembers his childhood upon seeing their father's old friend, and Aang tells of his lessons with...
16) The dream eater
Author
Publisher
Spellbound, an imprint of Magic Wagon
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"When Moto brings home a dream eater toy to get rid of his nightmares, he must decide if the toy can be trusted or if it will eat him instead. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standard"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Chartwell Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
At one time or another, most people have experienced a creepy, spine-tingling sensation they cańђةt explain. Science may rationalize these fears, blaming a natural fear of the unknown, an open window or a drafty doorway, but millions of people believe there is much more to it than that ́ђأ and who can say they are wrong? Glamis Castle in Scotland, made famous by Shakespearéђةs Macbeth is said to be haunted by a whole host of ghostly residents....
18) Ghost in trouble
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Series
Language
English
Description
In her toughest case yet, Bailey Ruth, the irrepressible ghost sleuth, returns to earth to protect Kay Clark, a former Adelaide, Okla., acquaintance, from danger -- and discover who killed Kay's husband.
Author
Publisher
Dzanc Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A teenage runaway and her mute brother seek salvation in houses, buses, the backseats of cars. Preteen girls dial up the ghosts of fat girls on ancient payphones. A crew of bomber pilots addresses the sparks of villagers below. In ways both otherworldly and routine, the characters of Dead Girls are on the run from their own stories, possessed by the things they cannot say. With lyric artistry and emotional force, these stories dart across landscapes...