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1) Stambali
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
English
Description
Stambali is a religious ritual in Tunisia, a journey with the rhythm of the "gombri" and "chkackek," traces an individual and collective hypnosis, an annual tribute that the disciples of Sidi Saad pay to their master during an initiatory journey and rite of purification that lasts three days. The camera, video and film follow the rhythm of the possession, dances, and goes into a trance.
Author
Series
Vampire chronicles volume 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this spellbinding novel, Lestat, rebel outlaw, addresses the tribe of vampires, directly, intimately, passionately, and tells the mesmerizing story of the formation of the Blood Communion and how he became Prince of the vampire world, the true ruler of this vast realm, and how his vision for all the Children of the Universe to thrive as one, came to be. The tale spills from Lestat's heart, as he speaks first of his new existence as reigning monarch--and...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Formats
Description
He's back! When a mysterious package arrives at the house of Nica, she doesn't give it much thought. However, after her mother's mysterious death, Nica begins to suspect that the talking, red-haired doll her visiting niece has been playing with may be the key to the ensuing bloodshed and chaos.
Author
Series
Just beyond volume 5
Publisher
Spotlight, a division of ABDO
Language
English
Description
Family camping trips are supposed to be fun, but for Parker, Annie, and the Walden family, they're an absolute nightmare! After a creepy, unidentified bird attacks their mom in the forest, Parker and Annie find themselves face to face with two strange creatures that suddenly enter the kids' brains and take control of their bodies. Can Parker and Annie break loose of this horrific mind control and convince their family of what's happening, or will...
Author
Series
Vampire chronicles volume 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
"At [this] novel's center [is] the vampire Lestat de Lioncourt: hero, leader, inspirer, irresistible force, irrepressible spirit, battling (and ultimately reconciling with) a strange otherworldly form that has somehow taken possession of Lestat's undead body and soul. This ancient and mysterious power and unearthly spirit of vampire lore has all the force, history, and insidious reach of the unknowable Universe. It is through this spirit, previously...
10) The host
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
When an unseen enemy threatens mankind by taking over humans' bodies and erasing their minds, a young woman risks everything to protect the people she cares about most.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Edition
1st U.S. Edition
Language
English
Description
A chilling ghost story that is also a tale of exquisite psychological suspense, The Birthing House marks the debut of a writer whose first novel is a terrifying tour de force. Conrad and Joanna Harrison, a young couple from Los Angeles, attempt to save their marriage by leaving the pressures of the city to start anew in a quiet, rural setting. They buy a Victorian mansion that once served as a haven for unwed mothers, called a birthing house. One...
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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Description
Told in alternating timelines, seventeen-year-old Daisy and her mother move into her deceased uncle's mansion, only to find horrors waiting inside, and ten years later, Brittney investigates the mystery behind the Miracle Mansion that turned her mother's life around.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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Description
"On a snowy Christmas morning, Holly Judge awakens, the fragments of a nightmare--something she must write down--floating on the edge of her consciousness. Something followed them from Russia. On another Christmas morning thirteen years ago, she and her husband Eric were in Siberia to meet the sweet, dark-haired Rapunzel they desperately wanted. How they laughed at the nurses of Pokrovka Orphanage #2 with their garlic and their superstitions, and...
Author
Publisher
Hampton Roads
Language
English
Description
Possession by Spirits.
Stories of spirit possession come to us from earliest recorded history. Modern science typically has looked on these reports as the product of ignorance and superstition.
Modern science may be wrong. It may, in fact, be changing its mind.
Author
Series
Diviners volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
After battling a supernatural sleeping sickness that early claimed two of their own, the Diviners have had enough of lies. They're more determined than ever to uncover the mystery behind their extraordinary powers, even as they face off against an all-new terror. Out on Ward's Island, far from the city's bustle, sits a mental hospital haunted by the lost souls of people long forgotten--ghosts who have unusual and dangerous ties to the man in the stovepipe...
16) Dog gone
Publisher
Monarch Home Video
Language
English
Description
Kyle's police partner and best friend - Hunter - is loyal, smart, brave, and, oh yes ... he's a dog! Unfortunately, during a stakeout to capture a shady criminal named "Biggs", Hunter is shot. Kyle tries to save his loyal companion, but there is nothing he can do. Hunter is gone. Or is he?
18) Another day
Author
Series
Every Day volume Book 2
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Every day is the same for Rhiannon. She has accepted her life, convinced herself that she deserves her distant, temperamental boyfriend, Justin, even established guidelines by which to live: Don't be too needy. Avoid upsetting him. Never get your hopes up. Until the morning everything changes. Justin seems to see her, to want to be with her for the first time, and they share a perfect day -- a perfect day Justin doesn't remember the next morning....
Author
Series
Daughters of La Lune volume 1
Publisher
Atria Books
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
Paris, 1894. Sandrine Salome flees New York and her treacherous husband to find shelter in Paris with her grandmother, but as she settles in and pursues new passions, it's unclear whether she or an infamous ancestral witch is driving the changes.
20) Spirit hunters
Author
Series
Spirit hunters volume 1
Language
English
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Description
"Harper doesn't trust her new home from the moment she steps inside, and the rumors are that the Raine family's new house is haunted. Harper isn't sure she believes those rumors, until her younger brother, Michael, starts acting strangely. She knows that the memories she's blocking will help make sense of her brother's behavior and the strange and threatening sensations she feels in this house, but will she be able to put the pieces together in time?"--Provided...
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