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Now in Paris with her parents who are filming their TV show about the world's haunted cities, Cassidy Blake (who can see ghosts) and her friend Jacob (who is a ghost) are alert for trouble, especially when the filming takes them into the underground Catacombs, the empire of the dead, where Cassidy accidentally awakens a powerful poltergeist spirit--one whose mystery she must solve before his power in unleashed on the whole city.
3) Elsewhere
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"Richly emotive and darkly captivating, with elements of Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" and the imaginative depth of Margaret Atwood, Elsewhere by Alexis Schaitkin conjures a community in which girls become wives, wives become mothers and some of them, quite simply, disappear. Vera grows up in a small town, removed and isolated, pressed up against the mountains, cloud-covered and damp year-round. This town, fiercely protective, brutal and unforgiving...
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Viking
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2021.
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People have been vanishing from an island called Bitter Rock for decades, Sophie learns after her own mother disasppears in 2003 and she receives a mysterious phonecall. Following the trail, the oddly-familiar place seems to explain her impossible dream -- memory? -- of drowning and being rescued as an infant. There may be other answers here, and Sophie may be the only one who can unlock them...or she may just be the next victim.
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"Soviet Union in 1973, there is perhaps no greater honor for a young girl than to be chosen to be part of the famed USSR gymnastics program. So when eight-year-old Anya is tapped, her family is thrilled. What is left of her family, that is. Years ago her mother disappeared. Anya's only confidant is her neighbor, an older woman who survived unspeakable horrors during her ten years in a Gulag camp--and who, unbeknownst to Anya, was also her mother's...
6) Horizon
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Horizon volume 1
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When Aero Horizon 16 crashes in the Arctic, eight children emerge from the wreckage to find themselves alone and surrounded, not by ice, but by a mysterious and deadly jungle full of carnivorous plants and predatory birds--the other five hundred people from the plane are gone, not necessarily dead, but taken by something that lives in the jungle. Horizon is the debut middle grade novel for Scott Westerfeld.
8) Vanished
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Roc
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2009
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For Seattle investigator Harper Blaine, her own case may prove the most difficult to solve. Why did she--as opposed to others with near-death experiences--become a Greywalker? When she begins digging into her own past, she unearths some unpleasant truths about her father's early death as well as a mysterious puzzle. She sets out to find his ghost, but encounters only a void where he should be, leaving her with more unanswered questions.--From publisher's...
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"Sierra's homecoming: Sierra McKettrick felt like a fraud. She might be moving to her family's ancestral ranch with her son, but being a McKettrick by blood wasn't enough to make her fit in. To make matters worse, from the moment she'd met the Triple M's ranch hand, he'd gotten under Sierra's skin. With his rugged body and tender compassion, Travis Reid was a temptation she didn't need or want. But as Sierra began to form a connection to one of her...
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Alfred A. Knopf
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2021.
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"From the author of the Booker Prize-winning The Narrow Road to the Deep North comes a wrenching novel of family, climate change, and the resilience of the human spirit--an elegy to our disappearing world. In a world of perennial fire and growing extinctions, Anna's aged mother is dying--if her three children would just allow it. Condemned by their pity to living, subjected to increasingly desperate medical interventions, she instead turns her focus...
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Graydon House
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[2020]
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English
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Centuries after Amy Robsart's desperate plan to escape her loveless marriage to Robert Dudley has horrifying consequences, a woman in present-day England bonds with a mysterious ally when a scandal forces her withdrawal from public life.
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High-schooler Willa has just moved to California with her mother and film director stepfather, and she will be attending a private school--but her real problem is that she keeps seeing things that are not really there, like a dead body in the swimming pool, and her visions may be connected to a serial killer that is stalking young girls in Hollywood.
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Delacorte Press
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[2021]
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When a disturbing video of her late ex-best friend surfaces, making it like look like she was murdered, Haley digs into what really happened and must solve this supernatural mystery before history has a chance to repeat itself.
Prestigious, historic Windham-Farnswood Academy is the perfect place for girls to prep for college. But each January, the Winter Girl comes knocking: she's the spirit who haunts the old senior dorm. This month marks the one-year...
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Flame Tree Press
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[2018]
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"Jacye's twenty-year-old daughter, Emory, is missing. She's lost in a dark, dangerous realm called Shadow that exists alongside our own reality. An engimatic woman named Nicola guides Jayce through this bizarre world, and together they search for Emory, facing deadly dog-eaters, crazed killers, and-- worst of all-- a monstrous being known as the Harvest Man. They find a lead on Emory's wherabouts, and Jayce learns that not only has Emory been flirting...
15) Select few
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Select volume 2
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Charlesbridge
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[2018]
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After rejecting the cult-like influence of her father's family, Julia moves into a fancy hotel in downtown Austin. But she finds herself alone except for her boyfriend, John--and her fears. Once again she's suppressing her abilities, afraid her family will come for John when they find out he's been developing abilities of his own in her presence. The FBI is also keeping a close eye on Julia hoping she can lead them to her father, Novak, as he's wanted...
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Islandport Press
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2017.
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English
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In this paranormal thriller, sixteen-year-old Natalie Payson has had nightmares since moving away from Bernier, Maine, her hometown. She goes back to Bernier in summer to face up to the reason she left in the first place. There's also a boy she's trying hard not to trust.
17) Darknesses
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Corean chronicles volume 2
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Tor
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English
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A thousand years after a magical disaster ended the unified rule of the Duarch, Corus is a world of contending nations, struggling humans, strange animals, and elusive supernatural creatures. Much has been lost, but Corus is still a land of magical power, and of a few people who are talented enough to use it, such as Alucius, a nightsheep herder of the Iron Valleys. When the nomads of the central plains attack with the help of sorcerous creatures...
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Dark Horse Books
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2024.
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English
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"A year and a half after the events of Ghostbusters: Afterlife, the Ghostbusters are officially back in business and headed to where it all began: New York City! Callie, Gary, Trevor, and Phoebe are moving into the Firehouse and ready to take on the Spengler family business...or are they? Ghostbusting on top of changing family dynamics has a way of going awry--and that's exactly what one sinister paranormal force is counting on"--
19) Portals: a novel
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Véhicule Press
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[2018]
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English
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"Portals takes the reader down a dark path into a dystopian realm of alternate realities and horror. Newspaper reporter Colin Dalhousie tracks scores of human disappearances dating back to the mid-1800s. What he discovers reveals a chilling pattern of events. This apocalyptic tale portrays an epic battle between good and evil. Is there such a thing as a multiverse, where doorways into alternate realities truly exist? Are prophecies from the Book of...
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Wydawnictwo Literatura
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Polish
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"Tytułową bohaterką książki Joanny Papuzińskiej "Nasza mama czarodziejka" jest pani Maria, mieszkanka miejscowości Makowice. Z pozoru jest zwykłą mamą trójki dzieci, jednak przez swoje pociechy postrzegana jest jako czarodziejka. I nic dziwnego, potrafi bowiem znaleźć rozwiązanie na wiele problemów i całkiem bezinteresownie pomaga innym w trudnych sytuacjach. Na przykład gdy księżyc nadłamuje sobie rożek, uszkadzając nim jedną...
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