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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 year...
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2012
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In Denver, the spirits arent just penned to the city center. No, even the suburbs and outlying cities have the kind of history that could give quite a fright to the unsuspecting. Folks might be surprised to learn that a house in northwest Denver comes fully equipped with a basement theaterand spectral performers as welland former phantom residents still roam their old homestead in what is now an Adams County open space. From Westminsters Bowles House...
4) The everything ghost hunting book: tips, tools, and techniques for exploring the supernatural world
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All you need to track and record paranormal activity! Ectoplasm...cold spots...orbs...everyone loves a real-life ghost story! Ghosthunter Melissa Martin Ellis takes you on an exciting journey into the supernatural world of haunted sites, restless souls, and messages from beyond the grave. You'll learn about the most up-to-date technology, such as motion sensors and highly sensitive digital cameras, as well as the supernatural phenomena themselves....
8) Ghost caves
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[2018]
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IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
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You find a hole at the base of a cliff and enter the mouth of a cave. Your flashlight illuminates several cramped passages. Suddenly, you see something far off in the light beam. Is it a human skull? Get ready to read four horrifying tales about dark ghostly caves. This 24-page book features controlled, narrative nonfiction text with age-appropriate vocabulary and simple sentence construction. The colorful design and spooky art will engage and terrify...
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2011
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Drink in the spooky spiritual history of this charming Rocky Mountain town—from the author of Colorado Legends & Lore.
Manitou Springs has long been known as a spiritual hot spot. From the healing waters of the local springs to the town's patron spirit, the benevolent Emma Crawford, whose life and afterlife is celebrated annually at Halloween, Manitou Springs takes pride in its legends and legendary...
Manitou Springs has long been known as a spiritual hot spot. From the healing waters of the local springs to the town's patron spirit, the benevolent Emma Crawford, whose life and afterlife is celebrated annually at Halloween, Manitou Springs takes pride in its legends and legendary...
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[2019]
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[A] sweeping Victorian epic of lost love, lies, jealousy, and rebellion set in colonial Barbados. Barbados, 1854: Emily Dawson has always been the poor cousin in a prosperous English merchant clan -- merely a vicar's daughter, and a reform-minded vicar's daughter, at that. Everyone knows that the family's lucrative shipping business will go to her cousin, Adam, one day. But when her grandfather dies, Emily receives an unexpected inheritance: Peverills,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 24
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The Pendleton was built in the 1800's and was from the Gilded Age. Now recently remodeled and the home of some fortunate residents, its dark past begins to surface. Phantom voices mutter in strange tongues, not so human images lurk in the basement, elevators plunge. Soon the new dwellers of 77 Shadow Street begin to live a new nightmare.
13) Project 17
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
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High atop Hathorne Hill, near Boston, sits Danvers State Hospital. Built in 1878 and closed in 1992, this abandoned mental institution is rumored to be the birthplace of the lobotomy. On the eve of the hospital's demolition, six teens break in to spend the night and film a movie about their experiences. For Derik, it's an opportunity to win a filmmaking contest and save himself from a future of flipping burgers at his parents' diner. For the others,...
14) Haunted America
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2017
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Haunted America carefully blends historical facts with terrifying tales of true hauntings, strange stories of unexplained events, and bizarre bits of paranormal phenomena that are sure to make a believer out of the staunchest skeptics. Learn how the testimony of a ghost got a man convicted of murder. Read about the Watseka Wonder the true tale of a young girl who became possessed by the spirit of a dead girl. Discover the most haunted amusement parks...
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Haunted library (Dori Hillestad Butler) volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 3
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When ghost boy Kaz's haunt is torn down and he is separated from his ghost family, he meets a real girl named Claire, who lives above the town library with her parents and her grandmother. Claire has a special ability to see ghosts when other humans cannot and she and Kaz quickly form a friendship. The two join forces to solve the mystery of the ghost that's haunting the library. Could it be one of Kaz's lost family members?
16) 77 Shadow Street
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[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 24
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Once the center of madness, suicide, mass murder, and whispers of things far worse, the 1800s Gilded Age palace known as the Pendleton, has been re-christened in the 1970s as a luxury apartment building. But now inexplicable shadows caper across walls, security cameras relay impossible images, phantom voices mutter in strange tongues, not-quite-human figures lurk in the basement, and elevators plunge into unknown depths.
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"When Jess and Clare Martin move from Williamsburg, Brooklyn, to their former college town in the Hudson River valley, they are hoping for rejuvenation-of their marriage, their savings, and Jess's writing career. They take a caretaker's job at Riven House, a crumbling estate and the home of their old college writing professor. While Clare once had dreams of being a writer, those plans fell by the wayside when Jess made a big, splashy literary debut...