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"In the lawless, drought-ridden lands of the Arizona Territory in 1893, two extraordinary lives collide. Nora is an unflinching frontierswoman, alone in a house abandoned by the men in her life--her husband, who has gone in search of water for the parched household, and her two older sons, who have gone in search of their father after his return is delayed. Nora is biding her time with her youngest son, a boy with a bad eye who is convinced that a...
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2017.
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English
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After his mother's death, eleven-year-old Marcus is sent to live on a small South Carolina island with his great aunt, a reclusive painter with a haunted past. Aunt Charlotte, otherwise a woman of few words, points out a ruined cottage, telling Marcus she had visited it regularly after she'd moved there thirty years ago because it matched the ruin of her own life. Eventually she was inspired to take up painting so she could capture its utter desolation.The...
4) Other birds
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"Down a narrow alley in the small coastal town of Mallow Island, South Carolina, lies a stunning cobblestone building comprised of five apartments. It’s called The Dellawisp and it is named after the tiny turquoise birds who, alongside its human tenants, inhabit an air of magical secrecy.
When Zoey Hennessey comes to claim her deceased mother’s apartment at The Dellawisp, she meets her quirky, enigmatic neighbors including a girl on the run,...
5) The baddies
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Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First American edition.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 x 30 cm
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English
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A troll, a witch, and a ghost compete to see who can scare the little girl who is new to the their neighborhood, but her courage and kindness defeats them all.
6) Later
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Hard Case Crime book volume (HCC-147)
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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The son of a struggling single mother, Jamie Conklin just wants an ordinary childhood. But Jamie is no ordinary child. Born with an unnatural ability his mom urges him to keep secret, Jamie can see what no one else can see and learn what no one else can learn. But the cost of using this ability is higher than Jamie can imagine as he discovers when an NYPD detective draws him into the pursuit of a killer, who has threatened to strike from beyond the...
7) Ghosts
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Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
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239 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
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English
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Catrina and her family have moved to the coast of Northern California for the sake of her little sister, Maya, who has cystic fibrosis--and Cat is even less happy about the move when she is told that her new town is inhabited by ghosts, and Maya sets her heart on meeting one.
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Watchmaker of Filigree Street series volume 2
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xxi, 487 pages : maps ; 25 cm
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English
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1888. Five years after they met in The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, Thaniel Steepleton, an unassuming translator, and Keita Mori, the watchmaker who remembers the future, are traveling to Japan. Thaniel has received an unexpected posting to the British legation in Tokyo, and Mori has business that is taking him to Yokohama. Thaniel's brief is odd: the legation staff have been seeing ghosts, and Thaniel's first task is to find out what's really going...
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Worldwide
Pub. Date
2021.
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420 pages ; 17 cm.
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English
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Cassandra Mitchell lives in the majestic Battersea Bluffs, a brooding Queen Anne home originally built by her great-grandparents. Local lore has it that there was a curse placed on the family and the house is haunted. Cassie stands to lose her beloved home due to mounting debt and the machinations of her ex-husband. Her hopes are raised when a young couple wanders onto the property and promise to help Cassie renovate the carriage house into a guest...
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Worldwide
Pub. Date
2021.
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408 pages ; 17 cm.
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English
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A powerful storm descends upon Cape Cod's Whale Rock the weekend Cassandra Mitchell and David Benjamin are set to wed at The Bluffs. In the wake of the storm's destruction, three-year-old Lucas Kleister disappears-- and the body of small-time drug dealer Lee Chambers is found in a restaurant dumpster. Cassie has been receiving cryptic messages from the spirits of her great-grandparents. At first the messages are benign, but soon point to something...
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