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As a science journalist with a regular column in Scientific American, Jeremy Marsh specializes in debunking the supernatural and has a real nose for the strange and unusual. A born skeptic, he travels to the small town of Boone Creek, North Carolina, determined to find the real cause behind the ghostly apparitions that appear in the town cemetery. What he doesn't plan on, however, is meeting and falling hopelessly in love with Lexie Darnell, granddaughter...
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Tundra
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English
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"Winifred has lived in the apartment above the cemetery office with her father, who works in the crematorium all her life, close to her mother's grave. With her sixteenth birthday only days away, Winifred has settled into a lazy summer schedule, lugging her obese Chihuahua around the grounds in a squeaky red wagon to visit the neglected gravesides and nursing a serious crush on her best friend, Jack. Her habit of wandering the graveyard at all hours...
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Wild Willie mysteries volume 5
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Clarion Books
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English
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In the dead middle of summer, the Scarface Detectives investigate their creepiest case yet when a mysterious client sends them to Oak Hill Cemetery, where Loonie Loraine is buried.
5) Pet sematary
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From horror's master storyteller, Stephen King, comes the classic tale--PET SEMETARY. When the Creeds move into a beautiful old house in rural Maine, it all seems too good to be true: physician father, beautiful wife, charming little daughter, adorable infant son--and now an idyllic home. As a family, they've got it all ... right down to the friendly car. But the nearby woods hide a blood-chilling truth--more terrifying than death itself--and hideously...
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Warner Books
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Based on a true story, this debut Civil War novel follows a Southern plantation woman's journey of transforming her home into a hospital for the war.
This debut novel is based on the true story of Carrie McGavock. During the Civil War's Battle of Franklin, a five-hour bloodbath with 9,200 casualties, McGavock's home was turned into a field hospital where four generals died. For 40 years she tended the private cemetery on her property where more...
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Mike Coletti novels volume 2
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Minotaur Books
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First edition.
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English
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Just weeks after tracking down a killer known as the Angel of Death, Detective Mike Coletti stands at Mary Smithson's grave, mourning the woman whose betrayal nearly cost him his life. He's joined there by Mary's beautiful half-sister, Lenore. Moments later, a gunshot splits the air, placing Coletti on a collision course with the Gravedigger, a killer hell-bent on deciphering the secret of life and death. As bodies drop and tensions mount, clues are...
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Graveyard diaries volume 4
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Magic Wagon
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English
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Jared Jensen and his fellow zombie hunters think there is a werewolf loose in the cemeteries of Marshfield, but is it connected with the strange boy called Rudy or not?
9) The cemetery
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Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone
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English
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Adeline would like to join the cool girls at her middle school, though it means abandoning her friends, and even if it involves a trip to the cemetery at midnight on Halloween--but this is Raven's Pass, and visiting a cemetery at night can have dire consequences.
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"It's early May in the small English village of Finch and the air is crackling with excitement: a newcomer is about to move into Pussywillows, a riverside cottage with a romantic reputation. Will the cottage's newest resident prove yet again its enchanting ability to matchmake? But when Crispin Windle arrives, no one knows what to make of him: seemingly a loner, he repels every welcoming gesture and appears altogether uninterested in being a part...
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"When celebrated writer Alma Cruz inherits a small plot of land in the Dominican Republic, she turns it into a place to bury her untold stories--literally. She creates a graveyard for manuscript drafts and revisions and the characters whose lives she tried and failed to bring to life and who still haunt her. Alma wants her characters to rest in peace, but they have other ideas, and the cemetery becomes a mysterious sanctuary for their true narratives."--...
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Gravekeeper novels volume 2
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Poisoned Pen Press
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English
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"When Keira woke in a strange forest, she remembered only two things: she can see ghosts, and frightening, mask-wearing men were hunting her. She thought she would be forever haunted, but now, with the help of unexpected new allies, she's coming into her own. Yet the dead still whisper to Keira at night, and soon she'll be faced with an insatiable darkness-a powerful ghost fueled by rage and a dreadful, dangerous hunger that can never be quenched"--...
13) Ghostly whispers
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Graveyard diaries volume 10
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Calico, an imprint of Magic Wagon
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English
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"Stan knows every inch of Hilltop Cemetery. But when he ventures toward an area of old graves for the first time, he feels pushed back, as if he's being repelled by an unseen force. He writes a blog post about it and is surprised to find two anonymous comments. One warns him to stay away from the graveyard, the other begs for help! After a few visits to the cemetery to check out the strange energy, Stan discovers that a little ghost girl is trapped...
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St. Martin's Minotaur
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First edition.
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English
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As gravestone expert Sweeney St. George tours burial sites of the Civil War, she stops to watch a battlefield reenactment in Massachusetts. There, she meets Pres Whiting, a boy whose family is in the gravestone business. When Pres discovers a dead man in a Revolutionary War-era British soldier's uniform, Sweeney and Cambridge homicide detective Tim Quinn jump on the case.
While they search for clues regarding the dead body, Sweeney and Quinn investigate...
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Graveyard diaries volume 1
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Magic Wagon
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English
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Jared Jensen is being pursued by a pair of ghostly graverobbers, and he and his friends, the Zombie Hunters, need to find a solution before Jared himself is turned into a ghost.
16) Doggone!
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Ghost Detectors volume 20
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Calico, an imprint of Magic Wagon
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English
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Malcolm and Dandy's ghost dog, Spooky, is missing, so, with their ghost detecting gear, they set out to find him as they visit a pet cemetery, an animal shelter, and come face-to-face with the dogcatcher.
17) The hideaway
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Pavilion
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English
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Publisher Annotation: Told in two alternating narratives, The Hideaway tells the story of Billy McKenna, who runs away from home and takes refuge in an overgrown graveyard. The first narrative is told from his perspective, whereas the second thread tells of the situation at home and the police search for Billy. Covering themes of domestic violence, families, childhood, and being separated and reunited, this is an important and beautifully illustrated...
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Graveyard diaries volume 3
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Magic Wagon
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English
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Zombies are killing all the animals in Marshfield Grove Cemetery, and it is up to Barry Bannon and his friends to defeat the zombies and rescue the ghost dogs that they have trapped in a pit.
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Graveyard diaries volume 5
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Magic Wagon
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English
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Mitch Morris really likes Mercy Knight, the new girl in Marshfield, but his friends are convinced that she and her parents are vampires.
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Overlook Press
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English
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Miranda Meadowe lives a relatively solitary life in her rustic country home, but her world dramatically changes when she invites a group of her oldest friends to move in with her. In the beginning, their reunion is joyous. They laugh, dance, drink, behave badly, and being to reclaim the things they thought would be theirs forever. But as the days pass, long-forgotten grudges resurface and new tensions emerge, and they discover that their bond may...
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