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[2021]
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"Take a spirited tour through the supernatural history of America, from its haunted sites to its famous ghosts to its ghost-obsessed pop culture. Ghosts are everywhere—whether you believe in them or not. Every town has its local legends, and countless books, movies, and TV shows are haunted by their presence. But our obsession with ghosts runs deeper than we know—and is embedded in the very fabric of American history. Writer and historian Marc...
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[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
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In the eleven creepy castles in this book, meet the spirit of a queen who carries her head as she wanders, a deadly prince who kills his enemies by piercing them with sharp poles, and other nefarious characters and situations.
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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...
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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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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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[2010]
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Haunted Hotels comprises more than two dozen tales of ghosts, unexplained phenomena, and other spooky happenings at hotels, inns, and rooming houses across America and around the world. Tom Ogden, author of four other books in the Haunted series, also provides information for readers who wish to check in and check out the spirits themselves . . . if they dare.
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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.
11) 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,...
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[1999]
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These haunting tales from the high country include mysteries surrounding many well-known buildings and landmarks, some of which might be inhabited by restless spirits to this day! Features stories from Barkerville, the Banff Springs Hotel, the Little Bighorn, Warren Air Force Base and more
14) Tunnel of bones
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
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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.
15) The dogs
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 8
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Cameron is used to moving at a moment's notice because he and his mother are always running away from his supposedly violent father, but he is disturbed by their latest refuge, a creepy, deserted farmhouse, haunted by bloodthirsty dogs--and when he sees a boy hiding in the barn, and finds an old picture of the same boy, he starts wondering about the possibility of human ghosts.
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"Agatha Christie meets Jane Austen in this atmospheric Regency tale brimming with mystery, intrigue, and romance. When Miss Rebecca Lane returns to her home village after a few years away, her brother begs for a favor: go to nearby Swanford Abbey and deliver his manuscript to an author staying there who could help him get published. Feeling responsible for her brother's desperate state, she reluctantly agrees.The medieval monastery turned grand hotel...
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"Why did Cecil B. DeMille really bury the Pharaoh's Palace set after he filmed The Ten Commandments in 1923? Fugitives Sebastian Vickery and Ingrid Castine find themselves plunged into the supernatural secrets of Los Angeles--from Satanic indie movies of the '60s, to the unqiet La Brea Tar Pits at midnight, to the haunted Sunken City off the coast of San Pedro...pursued by a Silicon Valley guru who is determined to incorporate their souls into the...
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"Holly's Jack Russell, Trixie, and kitten, Twinkletoes, find a young woman drowned in the Wagtail Springs Hotel's bathhouse--the spot of the town's most infamous haunting. The crime scene is eerily similar to the creepy legend, convincing Holly that the death wasn't just accidental"--
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Princess ponies volume 10
Pub. Date
2019.
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The royal ponies of Chevalia call on courageous Pippa to help when Divine and her spooky servants take over Stableside Castle at Halloween.