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Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"After his estranged father's mysterious death, Charlie Remick returns to Seattle to help with the funeral. There, he discovers his father left him two parting gifts: the keys to the family record store and a strange black case containing four ancient records that, according to legend, can open a gate to the land of the dead. When Charlie, his sister, and their two friends play the records, they unwittingly open a floodgate of unspeakable horror....
122) Embassy of the Dead
Author
Series
Embassy of the dead volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
When Jake Green opens a mysterious box containing a severed finger, he accidentally summons a grim reaper intent on dragging him to the Eternal Void (yes, it's as fatal as it sounds). Now Jake is running for his life. Luckily, he has a knack for talking to ghosts, which just might help him survive long enough to reach the Embassy of the Dead and plead his case. With the help of a prankster poltergeist and a dead undertaker, Jake dodges fearsome undead...
124) Resurrection
Author
Series
Skulduggery Pleasant volume 10
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 16
Description
"Valkyrie Cain has been out of action for years, recovering from the war against her alter-ego Darquesse, which nearly destroyed her and everyone else. Some things never change though: bad people still want to do bad things, and Skulduggery Pleasant is still there to stop them. When Skulduggery learns of a plot to resurrect a terrifying evil, he persuades Valkyrie to join him for just 24 hours. But they need someone else on their team, someone inconspicuous,...
125) Endless
Author
Series
Shadowlands (Kate Brian) volume 3
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Description
When Rory Miller learns that her love, Tristan Parrish, has been seeking a second chance at life on Earth by sending good souls to the Shadowlands, including her friend Aaron, her father, and her sister Darcy, she will do anything to save them, even if that means going to hell and back.
126) Dust
Author
Series
Resurgam trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 15
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Jessie and her gang of zombies have a wonderful life in "Hicksville", Indiana. But now new beings are in the woods; they aren't human nor are they zombies. But a new disease has come that makes the undead more alive and the living to exist on the brink of death.
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"With its tantalizing reminders of Mary Shelley, Wilkie Collins, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Lewis Carroll, this is an up-todate nineteenth-century novel, informed by a thoroughly twentieth-century sensibility." "Set in and around Glasgow and the Mediterranean in the early 1880s, it describes the love lives of two Scottish doctors and a twenty-five-year-old woman who has been created by one of them from human remains. A story of true love and scientific...
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Pub. Date
2019
Description
"'In the first minute following her death, Tequila Leila's consciousness began to ebb, slowly and steadily, like a tide receding from the shore. Her brain cells, having run out of blood, were now completely deprived of oxygen. But they did not shut down. Not right away...' Our brains stay active for ten minutes after our heart stops beating. For Tequila Leila, each minute brings with it a new memory - growing up with her father and his two wives...
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"Visitors are arriving in droves to spend Thanksgiving in the mountains of pet-friendly Wagtail, Virginia. Many of them are bringing dog and cat gingerbread houses to enter in the contest that will be held in the new convention center. Wagtail resident Orly Biffle bequeathed the land to the town in his will, provided that they not cut down the grand old oak tree on the property. Orly’s children are mighty miffed that they didn’t inherit the prime...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Description
"Portis House emerged from the fog as we approached, showing itself slowly as a long, low shadow ..." In 1919, Kitty Weekes, pretty, resourceful, and on the run, falsifies her background to obtain a nursing position at Portis House, a remote hospital for soldiers left shell-shocked by the horrors of the Great War. Hiding the shame of their mental instability in what was once a magnificent private estate, the patients suffer from nervous attacks and...
131) Bless your heart
Author
Series
Evans Funeral Parlor volume 1
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"Rise and shine. The Evans women have some undead to kill. It's 1999 in Southeast Texas and the Evans women, owners of the only funeral parlor in town, are keeping steady with ... normal business. The dead die, you bury them. End of story. That's how Ducey Evans has done it for the last eighty years, and her progeny--Lenore the experimenter and Grace, Lenore's soft-hearted daughter, have run Evans Funeral Parlor for the last fifteen years without...
132) Si no despierto
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Samantha Kingston lo tiene todo a su favor: es guapa, es popular y sale con el chico perfecto. El viernes 12 de febrero deberia ser un dia mas en su facil vida, pero no lo es: es el ultimo dia. O mas bien los ultimos, porque Samantha se despierta una y otra vez en la manana del viernes 12 de febrero y vuelve a vivir la misma jornada siete veces hasta que se da cuenta de que en su mano esta realizar cambios minusculos que supondran diferencias enormes.
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133) Where the Dead Wait
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"William Day should be an acclaimed Arctic explorer. But after a failed expedition, in which his remaining men only survived by eating their dead comrades, he returned in disgrace. Thirteen years later, his second-in-command, Jesse Stevens, has gone missing in the same frozen waters. Perhaps this is Day's chance to restore his tarnished reputation by bringing Stevens -- the man who's haunted his whole life -- back home. But when the rescue mission...
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Pub. Date
p2010
Description
When his wealthy uncle, a champion bridge player who has lost his vision, asks seventeen-year-old Alton to be a cardturner for him, Alton has no idea how much he will ultimately learn from his eccentric relative. Includes appendix by Syd Fox with information about bridge.