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1) Piranesi
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, an intoxicating, hypnotic new novel set in a dreamlike alternative reality. Piranesi's house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls are lined with thousands upon thousands of statues, each one different from all the others. Within the labyrinth of halls an ocean is imprisoned; waves thunder up staircases, rooms are flooded in an...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Stiff is an oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem. For two thousand years, cadavers—some willingly, some unwittingly—have been involved in science's boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. In this fascinating account, Mary Roach visits the good deeds of cadavers over the centuries and tells the engrossing story of our bodies when we are no longer with them.
3) Everwild
Author
Series
Skinjacker trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
424 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Nick, known as the dreaded "chocolate ogre," is trying to find all the children in Everlost and release them from the limbo they are in, while Mikey and Allie have joined a band of skinjackers and are putting themselves in danger by visiting the world of the living.
4) The way back
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
For the people of Tupik, a tiny village in Eastern Europe, demons are everywhere: dancing on the rooftops in the darkness of midnight, congregating in the trees, even reaching out to try and steal away the living. The demons have a land of their own: a Far Country, governed by demonic lords and ladies. When the Angel of Death comes strolling through the little shtetl of Tupik one night, Yehuda Leib and Blume will be sent spinning off on a journey...
6) Everfound
Author
Series
Skinjacker trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
vi, 500 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the limbo that is Everlost, Mary, Nick, Allie, and others face the decisions that will determine whether that place and the Earth itself will continue to exist, as well as where their own futures lie.
Author
Series
Graveyard book (Graphic novels) volume 1
Publisher
Harpercollins Childrens Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
188 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Nobody Owens is a normal boy, except that he has been raised by ghosts and other denizens of the graveyard.
Author
Series
Publisher
Plume
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
448 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Olivia finds a dead woman in her car, dressed to look like her, but the body vanishes before anyone else sees it. Olivia's convinced it's another omen, a sign of impending danger. But then she learns that a troubled young woman went missing just days ago--the same woman Olivia found dead in her car. Someone has gone to great lengths to kill and leave this young woman as a warning. But why? And what role has her new home played in this disturbing...
Publisher
HarperSanFrancisco
Pub. Date
c1996
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xiv, 513 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A 1996 modern-day English translation of the Dead Sea Scrolls, containing virtually every legible portion of the fragmented scrolls, and including never-before released texts and recently discovered writings by and about key biblical prophets and ancestors.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A Man Called Ove meets The Good Place in Under the Whispering Door, a delightful queer love story from TJ Klune, author of the New York Times and USA Today bestseller The House in the Cerulean Sea. When a reaper comes to collect Wallace from his own funeral, Wallace begins to suspect he might be dead. And when Hugo, the owner of a peculiar tea shop, promises to help him cross over, Wallace decides he's definitely dead. But even in death he's not...
11) Between
Author
Language
English
Description
By weaving through her memories and watching the family and friends she left behind, eighteen-year-old Liz Valchar solves the mystery of how her life ended in the Long Island Sound.
Author
Series
Last kids on Earth volume 1
Language
English
Description
It's been forty-two days since the monster apocalypse hit town and pretty much everyone ran away or got zombified. Average thirteen-year-old Jack Sullivan is holed up in his tree house, which he's armed to the teeth with catapults and a moat, not to mention video games and an endless supply of Oreos and Mountain Dew scavenged from abandoned stores. But Jack alone is no match for the hordes of Dozers and Winged Wretches and Zombies, and especially...
Series
Popular culture and philosophy volume 68
Publisher
Open Court
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
xv, 262 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Language
English
14) Imaginary girls
Author
Publisher
Dutton Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
348 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Two years after sixteen-year-old Chloe discovered classmate London's dead body floating in a Hudson Valley reservoir, she returns home to be with her devoted older sister Ruby, a town favorite, and finds that London is alive and well, and that Ruby may somehow have brought her back to life and persuaded everyone that nothing is amiss.
15) House of Hollow
Author
Language
English
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Description
A dark, twisty modern fairytale where three sisters discover they are not exactly all that they seem and evil things really do go bump in the night. Iris Hollow and her two older sisters are unquestionably strange. Ever since they disappeared on a suburban street in Scotland as children only to return a month a later with no memory of what happened to them, odd, eerie occurrences seem to follow in their wake. And they're changing. First, their dark...
16) Before I fall
Author
Language
English
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Description
For popular high school senior Samantha Kingston, February 12 - "Cupid Day" - should be one big party, a day of valentines and roses and the privileges that come with being at the top of the social pyramid. And it is...until she dies in a terrible accident that night. However, she still wakes up the next morning. In fact, Sam lives the last day of her life seven times, until she realizes that by making even the slightest changes, she may hold more...
Author
Series
Lying game novels volume 2
Publisher
HarperTeen
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Sutton Mercer watches from the afterlife as her long-lost twin sister, Emma Paxton, continues to pretend to be her in order to identify Sutton's killer.
18) The lying game
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperTeen
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Emma Paxton steps into the life of her long-lost twin Sutton to solve her murder, while Sutton looks on from her afterlife.
Author
Series
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
453 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Olivia Taylor Jones's life has exploded. She's discovered she is not only adopted, but her real parents are convicted serial killers. Fleeing the media frenzy, she took refuge in the oddly secluded town of Cainsville. She has since solved the town's mysteries and finds herself not only the target of its secretive elders but also her stalker ex-fiancé. Visions continue to haunt her: particularly a little blond girl in a green sundress who insists...
20) Anil's ghost
Author
Publisher
A.A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
311 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Anil Tissera, a forensic anthropologist born in Sri Lanka and educated in England and America, finds herself in the midst of a complicated mystery when she is sent back to her home country by an international human rights group to discover the source of an organized campaign of murder on the island.
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