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1) White lies
Author
Series
Arcane Society novels volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Relationships are challenging enough for most single over-thirty women. For level-ten parasensitive Clare Lancaster, they're a minefield. The elite few who know her secret call her a human lie detector, and any falsehood, no matter how subtle or well hidden, sets her blood racing. Over the years, Clare has come to accept that someone with her extraordinary talents is unlikely to find a suitable mate. And she's even resigned herself to the fact that...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
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Description
Across America, a tribe of people called the True Knot travel in search of sustenance. They look harmless. But as Dan Torrance knows, and twelve-year-old Abra Stone learns, The True Knot are quasi-immortal, living off the steam that children with the shining produce when they are tortured to death. Haunted by the Overlook Hotel, where he spent one horrific childhood year, Dan has been drifting for decades. In a New Hampshire town, he finds a job at...
Publisher
20th Century Fox
Language
English
Description
Former agent Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) is now a doctor, while Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) is being hunted by his former agency and living in seclusion. He and Scully are summoned back by a case involving a missing agent and a former priest (Billy Connolly) who claims to be able to see clues to the agent's whereabouts psychically, though his initial search turns up only a severed limb. Don't expect the usual cast of characters; the FBI has completely...
4) Coraline
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Coraline's family's new flat are twenty-one windows and fourteen doors. Thirteen of the doors open and close. The fourteenth is locked, and on the other side is only a brick wall, until the day Coraline unlocks the door to find a passage to another flat in a another house just like her own. Only it's different...At first, things seem marvelous in the other flat. The food is better. The toy box is filled with wind up angels that flutter about the...
5) Superstition
Author
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Psychologist Sam Towne, certain that the human mind has the psychic ability to create a ghost, assembles a group of eight people to test his theories and ends up fighting for his life against a powerful and deadly apparition.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Ohioana Book Award finalist Ruth Emmie Lang returns with a new cast of ordinary characters with extraordinary abilities in The Wilderwomen. Five years ago, Nora Wilder disappeared. The older of her two daughters, Zadie, should have seen it coming, because she can literally see things coming. But not even her psychic abilities were able to prevent their mother from vanishing one morning. Zadie's estranged younger sister, Finn, can't see into the future,...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"As they do each June, the Foxes have driven the winding roads of Appalachia to drop off their children for a two-week stay at their grandmother's. Here, twelve-year-old Thea can run free and breathe in the smells of pine and fresh bread and Grammie's handmade candles. But as her parents head back to suburban Virginia, they have no idea they're about to cross paths with a ticking time bomb. Back in Kentucky, Thea and her grandmother Lucy both awaken...
8) Greywaren
Author
Series
Dreamer trilogy (Maggie Stiefvater) volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2022
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Niall and Mór escaped their homeland for a new start, and lost themselves in what they found. Declan has grown up as the responsible son, the responsible brother--only to find there is no way for him to keep his family safe. Ronan has always lived on the edge between dreams and waking... but now that edge is gone, and he is falling. Matthew has been the happy child, the brightest beam. But rebellion beckons, because it all feels like an illusion...
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
"The island of Rainshadow is home to the mysterious, privately-owned woods known only as the Preserve. Now, after fifteen years away, both Charlotte Enright and her teen crush, Slade Attridge, have returned. But will their psi talents and Slade's dust bunny companion be enough to keep them from getting drawn into the darkness at the heart of the Preserve?"--Author's website.
10) Red hill
Author
Series
Publisher
Atria Paperback
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
When the world ends, can love survive? For Scarlet, raising her two daughters alone makes fighting for tomorrow an everyday battle. Nathan has a wife, but can't remember what it's like to be in love; only his young daughter Zoe makes coming home worthwhile. Miranda's biggest concern is whether her new VW Bug is big enough to carry her sister and their boyfriends on a weekend escape from college finals. When reports of a widespread, deadly "outbreak"...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In the Soviet Union in 1973, there is perhaps no greater honor for a young girl than to be chosen to be part of the famed USSR gymnastics program. So when eight-year-old Anya is tapped, her family is thrilled. What is left of her family, that is. Years ago her mother disappeared. Anya's only confidant is her neighbor, an older woman who survived unspeakable horrors during her ten years in a Gulag camp-and who, unbeknownst to Anya, was also her mother's...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Elmwood Springs, Missouri, is a small town like any other, but something strange is happening at the cemetery. Still Meadows, as it's called, is anything but still. Original, profound, The Whole Town's Talking, a novel in the tradition of Thornton Wilder's Our Town and Flagg's own Can't Wait to Get to Heaven, tells the story of Lordor Nordstrom, his Swedish mail-order bride, Katrina, and their neighbors and descendants as they live, love, die, and...
13) Running hot
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ex-cop Luther Malone, member of the secretive paranormal Arcane Society, will be working with Grace Renquist, who has no field experience but has been hired as an aura-reader in the quest for a murder suspect. Grace isn't expecting much from Malone, who walks with a cane and isn't so good with a gun. But before they reach their hotel in Maui, Grace and Luther feel the electric charge between them. But they need to remain vigilant. Rogue sensitives...
14) Elsewhere
Author
Publisher
Celadon Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Richly emotive and darkly captivating, with elements of Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" and the imaginative depth of Margaret Atwood, Elsewhere by Alexis Schaitkin conjures a community in which girls become wives, wives become mothers and some of them, quite simply, disappear. Vera grows up in a small town, removed and isolated, pressed up against the mountains, cloud-covered and damp year-round. This town, fiercely protective, brutal and unforgiving...
Author
Series
Elemental masters volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Sarah Jane Lyon-White is sent The Harton School for Boys and Girls, a facility for training children with a powerful potential for magic, but Sarah's unique talents have made her the target of an Elemental Master who wants her dead.
16) Undead and unwed
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Sensation
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
First Betsy Taylor loses her job, then she's killed in a car accident. But what really bites is that she can't seem to stay dead. And now her new friends have the ridiculous idea that Betsy is the prophesied vampire queen, and they want her help in overthrowing the most obnoxious power-hungry vampire in five centuries.
Author
Series
Greywalker volume 4
Publisher
Roc/New American Library
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
For Seattle investigator Harper Blaine, her own case may prove the most difficult to solve. Why did she--as opposed to others with near-death experiences--become a Greywalker? When she begins digging into her own past, she unearths some unpleasant truths about her father's early death as well as a mysterious puzzle. She sets out to find his ghost, but encounters only a void where he should be, leaving her with more unanswered questions.--From publisher's...
19) Pack of lies
Author
Series
Paranormal scene investigations volume 2
Publisher
Luna
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Bonnie Torres's team of paranormal investigators work to gain acceptance into the Cosa Nostradamus, a magical community who needs their help with cases that threaten to pit humans against special fairies called fatae.