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"Channeling Indiana Jones, New York Times bestselling author Kat Martin pairs a woman in search of her family's truth with a hard-hitting professional treasure hunter for the second Blood Ties romantic thriller. As an unknown assailant stalks then across the treacherous Sierra Madre wilderness, they race to follow their treasure map's directions to a hidden trove of gold... A novel of taut suspense and danger from the New York Times bestselling mistress...
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English
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James George Frazer attempted to define the shared elements of religious belief and scientific thought, discussing fertility rites, human sacrifice, the dying god, the scapegoat, and many other symbols and practices whose influences had extended into 20th-century culture. His thesis is that old religions were fertility cults that revolved around the worship and periodic sacrifice of a sacred king. Frazer proposed that mankind progresses from magic...
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Goosebumps. Original series volume 23
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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It sounds like something's moving in the mummy's tomb. Did the secret chant wake someone?After last year's scary adventure, Gabe's a little nervous about being back in Egypt. Back near the ancient pyramids. Back where he saw all those creepy mummies.Then he learns about an Egyptian superstition. A secret chant that is supposed to bring mummies back to life. Gabe's uncle says it's just a hoax.But now it sounds like something's moving in the mummy's...
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Oxford University Press
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English
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Arranged alphabetically according to their central idea or object and illustrated with a selection of quotations chronologically ordered to show the history and development of each belief, this dictionary presents superstitions from Great Britain and Eire surviving into the 19th and 20th centuries.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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Simon, Henry, and Jack Barker decide to ignore their parents' warning to stay away from Superstition Mountain in order to search for their missing cat Josie, but they begin to see the wisdom of their mom and dad's advice when they find three human skulls.
10) The Good People
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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Three women in nineteenth-century Ireland bond over a shared effort to rescue a child from a superstitious community that believes that his trauma-related inability to speak indicates that he is a changeling responsible for a series of misfortunes.
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Distributed in the United States by Sterling Pub. Co
Pub. Date
1995
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English
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A fascinating overview of an astonishingly diverse range of popularly held fears and beliefs. Many are still familiar and widespread. Others now belong firmly to the past, but are intriguing nonetheless for the insights they offer into human preoccupations and taboos.
12) Superstitions
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Full Tilt Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Explores the origin stories of various superstitions, from black cats to Friday the 13th. Includes glossary and quiz.
19) Forbidden sea
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Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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When a mermaid attempts to lure her into the sea, fourteen-year-old Adrianne, who lives in a superstitious island community, must choose between the promise of an underwater paradise and those she loves.
20) Bad luck Lola
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Picture Window Books, an imprint of Capstone
Pub. Date
2022.
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IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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When Lola cracks a mirror, she is not worried at first, but when one unlucky thing after another happens, Lola slowly becomes convinced she is cursed.
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