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How to scare a ghost / by Reagan, Jean,1965-; Wildish, Lee.;
Halloween is the best time to catch, entertain, and make friends with a ghost.LSC
Subjects: Ghost stories.; Halloween; Friendship;
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The Saturday Night Ghost Club / by Davidson, Craig,1976-author.;
"A charismatic cast of misfits, losers, and bruisers animate this winning novel set in Niagara Falls, a.k.a. Cataract City--a slightly seedy, slightly magical, slightly haunted place, where seemingly ordinary lives are steeped in secrets, desires, troubled histories, and the occasional splash of mayhem. Like Ilium, New York, in the novels of Kurt Vonnegut, or Castle Rock, New England, in the fiction of Stephen King--or even Hawkins, Indiana, in the Netflix sensation Stranger Things, Cataract City is an invented world where lost innocence mingles with the darker shades and sharper corners of humanity. Saturday Night Ghost Club is a short, irresistible, and bittersweet coming-of-age story about a small group of kids who, under the leadership of an eccentric uncle, spend one summer investigating the validity of local ghost stories and macabre urban myths--in almost every instance getting in way over their heads. With warmth, skill, and striking, cinematic imagery, and a rare gift for conjuring totally original, unexpected, and unforgettable set pieces and tableaus that strike the reader as immediately iconic--Davidson draws us into his gritty world, reminding us that life's strange intensity and occasional magic is all around us."--
Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Parapsychology; Urban folklore; Children; Uncles; Eccentrics and eccentricities; Memories; Family secrets; Neurosurgeons;
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A life with ghosts : true, terrifying, and insightful tales from my favorite haunts / by Gonsalves, Steve,author.; Aloisi, Michael,author.;
"Steve Gonsalves -- already considered to be one of the top paranormal investigators in the world and a pioneer in the industry -- now presents his debut book, 'A Life with Ghosts'. Widely known as a lead investigator of the TV series 'Ghost Hunters', Gonsalves presents a collection of his most meaningful paranormal experiences from some of his favourite haunted locations."--
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Gonsalves, Steve.; Ghost hunters (Television program); Ghosts; Haunted places;
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The Octonauts & the great ghost reef / by Meomi (Firm);
When the Octonauts, a team of eight animals who explore the ocean, discover a bleached and abandoned coral reef, they learn about the important relationships among animals, plants, and their habitats.
Subjects: Picture books.; Underwater exploration; Coral reefs and islands; Coral reef ecology; Ecology; Animals;
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The ghost and the stolen tears / by Coyle, Cleo.;
When her part-time employee, Norma, a modern-day nomad who's become an uplifting presence in Quindicott, Rhode Island, is accused of stealing priceless jewels, bookshop owner Penelope Thornton-McClure calls upon her paranormal P.I. to find the real culprit.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Cozy mysteries.; Ghost stories.; Thornton-McClure, Penelope (Fictitious character); Women booksellers; Thieves;
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Black ghost of empire : the long death of slavery and the failure of emancipation / by Manjapra, Kris,1978-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."The 1619 Project illuminated the ways in which every aspect of life in the United States was and is shaped by the existence of slavery. Black Ghost of Empire focuses on emancipation and how this opportunity to make right further codified the racial caste system-instead of obliterating it. To understand why the shadow of slavery still haunts society today, we must not only look at what slavery was, but also the unfinished way it ended. One may think of "emancipation" as a finale, leading to a new age of human rights and universal freedoms. But in reality, emancipations everywhere were incomplete. In Black Ghost of Empire, acclaimed historian and professor Kris Manjapra identifies five types of emancipation--explaining them in chronological order--along with the lasting impact these transitions had on formerly enslaved groups around the Atlantic. Beginning in 1770s and concluding in 1880s, different kinds of emancipation processes took place across the Atlantic world. These included the Gradual Emancipations of North America, the Revolutionary Emancipation of Haiti, the Compensated Emancipations of European overseas empires, the War Emancipation of the American South, and the Conquest Emancipations that swept across Sub-Saharan Africa. Tragically, despite a century of abolitions and emancipations, systems of social bondage persisted and reconfigured. We still live with these unfinished endings today. In practice, all the slavery emancipations that have ever taken place reenacted racial violence against Black communities, and reaffirmed commitment to white supremacy. The devil lurked in the details of the five emancipation processes, none of which required atonement for wrongs committed, or restorative justice for the people harmed. Manjapra shows how, amidst this unfinished history, grassroots Black organizers and activists have become custodians of collective recovery and remedy; not only for our present, but also for our relationship with the past. Timely, lucid, and crucial to our understanding of the ongoing "anti-mattering" of Black people, Black Ghost of Empire shines a light into the deep gap between the idea of slavery's end and its actual perpetuation in various forms--exposing the shadows that linger to this day"--
Subjects: Liberty; Race relations; Slavery;
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All the beloved ghosts / by MacLeod, Alison,1964-author.;
A woman emerging from mourning spends her savings on a fur coat, a coat she will wear to a dance that will change her life. A professor of cardiovascular physiology lingers on the cusp of consciousness as he waits for his new heart to be delivered, still beating, from another body--and is carried on a tidal wave of memories to an attic room half a century ago. Visiting Sylvia Plath's grave in Yorkshire, the author imagines a conversation with the poet, a fellow North American who settled in grey England. She reflects on the treasured photograph of Princess Diana she took as a teenager, one of a multitude taken during a life cut short. And at Charleston, Angelica Garnett, child of the Bloomsbury group, is overpowered by echoes of the past; by all the beloved ghosts that spring to life before her eyes. MacLeod's characters hover on the border of life and death, where memory is most vivid and the present most elusive. Moving from the London riots of 2011 to 1920s Nova Scotia, from Oscar Wilde's grave to the Brighton Pier, these exquisitely formed stories capture the small tragedies and profound truths of existence.
Subjects: Short stories.;
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The warm hands of ghosts : a novel / by Arden, Katherine,author.;
"During the Great War, a combat nurse searches for her brother, believed dead in the trenches despite eerie signs that suggest otherwise, in this historical novel with a speculative twist"--
Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Novels.; Missing persons; Siblings; Women nurses; World War, 1914-1918;
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Tuesday Mooney talks to ghosts : an adventure / by Racculia, Kate,author.;
"From the award-winning author of Bellweather Rhapsody, a delightfully clever novel following one woman and a supporting cast of misfits, dreamers and foes as they race to win a treasure hunt inspired by Edgar Allan Poe, left behind by a dying billionaire" --
Subjects: Humorous fiction.; Fortune hunters; Friendship; Treasure hunt (Game); Wealth;
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The Guest Children : A Novel. by Tarr, Patrick.;
In this debut novel, Randall Sturgess is hired to track down two children who were sent to live with their aunt and uncle in Northern Ontario during WWII. Plagued by nightmares and the feeling that he is being watched, he starts to poke into the secrets of the aunt and uncle and a group of permanent guests who all refuse to help, searching the woods and lake for signs of the children. Sturgess grew up in Vancouver, BC, and Edmonton, AB, and now lives in Toronto, ON.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: Horror fiction.; FICTION / General; FICTION / Ghost; FICTION / Horror;
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