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41) The telling
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"A ghost story of the most unusual kind, The Telling is a thrilling--and sometimes chilling--tale about two women, separated by almost two centuries, grappling with change and loss"--
After her mother dies, Rachel sets off alone to pack up and sell off the remnants of her family's isolated country house, The Reading House. Generations earlier, a young housemaid, Lizzy, called the same dwelling home. On course for a life of service, Lizzy's world...
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A once-respected college professor and novelist, Dale Stewart has sabotaged his career and his marriage — and now darkness is closing in on him. In the last hours of Halloween he has returned to the dying town of Elm Haven, his boyhood home, where he hopes to find peace in isolation. But moving into a long-deserted farmhouse on the far outskirts of town — the one-time residence of a strange and brilliant friend who lost his young life in a
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Celebrating the Freedom to Read: Kids
Chapter Books & Graphic Novels About Coming Out 2023
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It's the summer before middle school and eleven-year-old Bug's best friend Moira has decided the two of them need to use the next few months to prepare. For Moira, this means figuring out the right clothes to wear, learning how to put on makeup, and deciding which boys are cuter in their yearbook photos than in real life. But none of this is all that appealing to Bug, who doesn't particularly want to spend more time trying to understand how to be...
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"A chilling and blisteringly relevant literary novel of social horror centered around a brutal killing that takes place in a full-contact haunted escape room-a provocative exploration of capitalism, hate politics, racial fetishism, and our obsession with fear as entertainment. On April 27, 1997, four contestants make it to the final cell of the Quigley House, a full-contact haunted escape room in Lincoln, Nebraska, made famous for its monstrosities,...
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"A social media influencer buys a murder house to renovate, but finds more than she bargained for behind the peeling wallpaper in this deeply psychological gothic debut thriller. Sarah Slade is starting over. She and her husband just bought a beautiful though crumbling Victorian house in a charming and lush community. The fixer-upper is a perfect opportunity to reach a new audience on her highly successful lifestyle blog, and it also serves as a distraction...
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Dragonbreath volume 5
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Not only must Danny and Wendell trick-or-treat with skeptical classmate Christiana, school bully Big Eddy dares them to enter a haunted house on Halloween night, where they may have to sacrifice their candy to a ghost.
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When lights start flickering and temperatures suddenly drop, twelve-year-old Tessa Woodward, sensing her new house may be haunted, recruits some new friends to help her unravel the mystery of who or what is trying to communicate with her and why.--Provided by Publisher.
48) The stonekeeper
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Amulet (Kazu Kibuishi) volume 1
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2023-2024 Crete Public Library's 3rd-4th Battle List
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"After the tragic death of their father, Emily and Navin move with their mother to the home of her deceased great-grandfather, but the strange house proves to be dangerous. Before long, a sinister creature lures the kids' mom through a door in the basement. Em and Navin, desperate not to lose her, follow her into an underground world inhabited by demons, robots, and talking animals. Eventually, they enlist the help of a small mechanical rabbit named...
49) Hell House
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A group of four people enter Belasco House, known as the "Mount Everest of haunted houses."
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Captain Awesome volume 8
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As Halloween nears, Captain Awesome and Nacho Cheese Man set out to protect Sunnyview from monsters, but when they encounter what may be a real haunted house, they suddenly remember they have homework to do.
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"In 1977, four teenagers and a dog - Andy (the tomboy), Nate (the nerd), Kerri (the bookworm), Peter (the jock), and Tim (the Weimaraner) - solved the mystery of Sleepy Lake. The trail of an amphibian monster terrorizing the quiet town of Blyton Hills led the gang to spend a night in Deboën Mansion and apprehend a familiar culprit: a bitter old man in a mask. Now, in 1990, the twentysomething former teen detectives are lost souls. Plagued by night...
52) Winchester
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A widow haunted. A house possessed. A family cursed. Step inside the most haunted house in history in this chilling film inspired by true events.
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Not-So-Scary Halloween Reads (Kids October 2022)
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Not-So-Scary Halloween Reads (Kids October 2022)
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Tired of living in a haunted house, a young witch captures, washes, and turns her pesky ghosts into curtains, table linens, and bedding.
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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of In a Dark, Dark Wood, The Woman in Cabin 10, The Lying Game, and The Death of Mrs. Westaway comes Ruth Ware's highly anticipated fifth novel. When she stumbles across the ad, she's looking for something else completely. But it seems like too good an opportunity to miss--a live-in nannying post, with a staggeringly generous salary. And when Rowan Caine arrives at Heatherbrae House, she is smitten--by...
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"Everyone knows about Ashburn House. They whisper its old owner went mad, and that restless ghosts still roam the halls. But when Adrienne inherits the crumbling old mansion, she only sees it as a lifeline...until night falls. As she uncovers more of the house's secrets, Adrienne begins to believe the whispered rumors may be horrifyingly true. Chasing the threads of a decades-old mystery, Adrienne realizes she's become the prey to something deeply...
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"A woman is determined to stay in her dream home even after it becomes a haunted nightmare in this compulsively readable, twisty, and layered debut novel. When Margaret and her husband Hal bought the large Victorian house on Hawthorn Street-for sale at a surprisingly reasonable price-they couldn't believe they finally had a home of their own. Then they discovered the hauntings. Every September, the walls drip blood. The ghosts of former inhabitants...
59) The ghost
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The romance of Sarah Ferguson, an 18th century countess who flees her abusive husband in England to join her French lover in America. It is presented through the eyes of a modern man who reads her diary, drawing inspiration from it to improve his own love life.
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"This best-selling debut by an award-winning writer is both an eerie contemporary ghost story and a dread-inducing psychological thriller. Maggie is a successful young artist who has had bad luck with men. Her last put her in the hospital and, after she's healed physically, left her needing to get out of London to heal mentally and find a place of quiet that will restore her creative spirit. On the rugged west coast of Ireland, perched on a wild cliff...
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