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The unseen / by Martin, Kat,author.;
"It begins when two young boys discover the 100-year-old skeleton of a murdered man buried near the grounds of Belle Reve, a Greek revival style mansion built in the 1870s. As police investigate, strange occurrences and eerie sounds overtake the mansion-footsteps in empty hallways, slamming doors in empty rooms. Rachel Belmond, owner of Belle Reve, is petrified. Beautiful, and still young at 47, Rachel is also in failing health, her deteriorating condition baffling doctors. It's her niece, Nicole, who begins to suspect that something deadly has invaded the house. And it is Nicole who meets someone who might be able to find answers. As the incidents grow more intense, Rachel's niece, Nicole Belmond, begins to suspect that something otherworldly may have invaded the house. Lucas Devereaux is the owner of the Baton Rouge Youth Center where Nicole's teenage half-brother is serving a sentence for a juvenile crime. The attraction between Lucas and Nicole is instant. Hearing rumors that Lucas, a former priest, has the ability to deal with supernatural events, Nicole shares her worries about Belle Reve. But Lucas can't begin until he has more information. Fearing for Rachel's fragile health, trying to ignore their growing attraction, Nicole and Lucas work to find the link between the mysterious old bones and the terrifying events in the house that grow more ominous every day. Can Nicole and Lucas protect Rachel and stop the demonic forces that threaten the very existence of Belle Reve? Or is more happening than anyone can imagine?"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Ghost stories.; Novels.; Dead; Demonology; Good and evil; Haunted houses; Mansions; Man-woman relationships; Murder; Nieces; Priests;
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The Djinn waits a hundred years / by Khan, Shubnum,author.;
"An ... atmospheric novel about a ruined mansion by the sea, and a young girl who unearths the true story of the tragedy that happened there a hundred years ago ... Akbar Manzil was once a grand estate off the coast of South Africa. Now, nearly a century since it was built, it stands in ruins-a boardinghouse for misfits, where people come to forget or be forgotten. Seeking a new home after a painful tragedy, Sana and her effusive father are Akbar Manzil's newest residents. There they find a community of eccentrics, each suffering their own losses and likewise searching for something-escape, solace, absolution. As Sana becomes increasingly entwined in their stories, she finds herself irresistibly drawn to the history of the mansion itself: to the overgrown garden and its strange assortment of bones; to the eerie and forgotten East Wing, home to a clutter of broken and abandoned objects; and to a dusty old bedroom, unopened for decades, where she finds faded photographs of Akbar Manzil's first residents and a worn diary with entries she cannot translate. As she explores the mansion's whispering corners, she dredges up its longest resident: a djinn, the only remnant of Akbar Manzil's dark past. With its help, she discovers the story of a young woman named Meena from a hundred years prior, the original owner's second wife, who lived in the East Wing at the height of Akbar Manzil's glory, whose tragic fate is the house's ultimate secret-and whose story is the answer that Sana had been searching for all along."--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Gothic fiction.; Novels.; Boardinghouses; Eccentrics and eccentricities; Family secrets; Fathers and daughters; Haunted houses; Jinn; Mansions; Secrecy; Tragedy;
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The magnolia palace : a novel / by Davis, Fiona,1966-author.;
Includes bibliographical references."A tantalizing novel about the secrets, betrayal, and murder within one of New York City's most impressive Gilded Age mansions. Eight months since losing her mother in the Spanish flu outbreak of 1919, twenty-one-year-old Lillian Carter's life has completely fallen apart. For the past six years, under the moniker Angelica, Lillian was one of the most sought-after artists' models in New York City, with statues based on her figure gracing landmarks from the Plaza Hotel to the Brooklyn Bridge. But with her mother gone, a grieving Lillian is rudderless and desperate--the work has dried up and a looming scandal has left her entirely without a safe haven. So when she stumbles upon an employment opportunity at the Frick mansion--a building that, ironically, bears her own visage--Lillian jumps at the chance. But the longer she works as a private secretary to the imperious and demanding Helen Frick, the daughter and heiress of industrialist and art patron Henry Clay Frick, the more deeply her life gets intertwined with that of the family--pulling her into a tangled web of romantic trysts, stolen jewels, and family drama that runs so deep, the stakes just may be life or death. Nearly fifty years later, mod English model Veronica Weber has her own chance to make her career--and with it, earn the money she needs to support her family back home--within the walls of the former Frick residence, now converted into one of New York City's most impressive museums. But when she--along with a charming intern/budding art curator named Joshua--is dismissed from the Vogue shoot taking place at the Frick Collection, she chances upon a series of hidden messages in the museum: messages that will lead her and Joshua on a hunt that could not only solve Veronica's financial woes, but could finally reveal the truth behind a decades-old murder in the infamous Frick family"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Art museums; Artists' models; Betrayal; Family secrets; Heiresses; Mansions; Models (Persons); Murder; Scandals;
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The spare room : a novel / by Bartz, Andrea,author.;
"Crashing with a friend and her husband is more intimate-and dangerous-than anyone could imagine in this provocative new thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of the Reese's Book Club pick We Were Never Here. When the pandemic first hits, thirty-one-year-old Kelly tries to make the best of quarantine-but it soon becomes clear there are some lemons you just can't make into lemonade. She loses her job and her boyfriend in one fell swoop, and she finds herself looking for any way to get out of the apartment she's still sharing with her now-ex. So when she rekindles a friendship with a bestselling author she knows from childhood, who invites Kelly to stay with her and her husband in their Virginia mansion, she leaps at the chance. And much to Kelly's surprise, she soon realizes she's developed a bit of a crush-on both of her hosts. Even more unexpected is that both of them seem to reciprocate her feelings-and they say it's the first time they've ever brought someone else into their relationship. But that doesn't quite add up with all of the evidence Kelly keeps finding around the house. Another woman clearly has been there before her, and Kelly really can't understand what reason they would have to lie about it ... that is, until she discovers the woman is missing. Cut off from the world, intensely in love, and in way over her head, Kelly is trying desperately to uncover the truth-but the truth might just be that three is a dangerous number"--
Subjects: Erotic fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Queer fiction.; Thrillers (Fiction); Novels.; Women authors; Bisexual women; COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-; Friendship; Mansions; Missing persons; Non-monogamous relationships; Open marriage; Secrecy; Triangles (Interpersonal relations);
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Meet the family / by West, Alexandra.; Marlin, Lissy.;
An introduction to the Addams family, an unusual family who lives in a spooky mansion on the hill.Guided reading level J.LSC
Subjects: Movie novels.; Addams family (Fictitious characters); Families; Eccentrics and eccentricities;
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On Sunset : a memoir / by Harrison, Kathryn,author.;
"A memoir of the author's upbringing by her grandparents in a fading mansion above Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, California"--
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Biographies.; Harrison, Kathryn; Harrison, Kathryn; Novelists, American; Novelists, American;
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Little Orange Pumpkin / by Guendelsberger, Erin.; Zivoin, Jennifer.;
Little Orange Pumpkin explores a haunted mansion by herself on Halloween night, and gets a bigger scare than she bargained for.
Subjects: Picture books.; Pumpkin; Halloween; Haunted houses; Monsters;
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The Fourth Princess : A Gothic Novel of Old Shanghai. by Chang, Janie.;
In this haunting Gothic novel set in 1911 China, two young women living in a crumbling, once-grand Shanghai mansion face danger as secrets of their pasts come to light, even as the mansions own secret threatens the present. Janie Chang lives in Vancouver, BC. From the author of 'The Porcelain Moon'. Book Club.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: FICTION / Ghost; FICTION / Gothic; FICTION / Psychological; FICTION / Women;
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Laid-back luxe : how to create aspirational and attainable living spaces / by Day, Tamara,author.;
From the host of Magnolia Network's Bargain Mansions, discover the secrets to honing your own style and creating beautiful, functional living spaces.
Subjects: Dwellings; Interior decoration.;
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Cat and mouse in a haunted house [yoto card] : Yoto card / by Stilton, Geronimo.; Dami, Elisabetta.;
Read by Edward Herrmann.For use with a Yoto Player, the Yoto Player app on a device or NFC touchpoint to stream.Geronimo explores a haunted mansion populated by ghosts.Ages 7 to 11.System requirements: 1 Yoto Player smart speaker or Yoto Player app on a device or NFC touchpoint to stream.
Subjects: Children's audiobooks.; Sound recordings.; Stilton, Geronimo; Mice; Cats; Haunted houses; Preloaded audiobook.; Yoto audio card.;
© 2021., Yoto Inc.
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