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1) Hidden
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2021.
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English
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"At first glance, few would guess that Luna and Cullan Bodman are siblings. Cullan is efficient and serious while his younger sister Luna is a free spirit. When the two launch their furniture restoration shop/café-an offshoot of the family's longtime antique business-in an up-and-coming arts center, little do they know their unique talents may be their only defense in a matter of life and death. When Luna gets a strange sense about a piece Cullan...
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"1873. At an abandoned château on the outskirts of Paris, a dark séance is about to take place, led by acclaimed spiritualist Vaudeline D’Allaire. Known worldwide for her talent in conjuring the spirits of murder victims to ascertain the identities of the people who killed them, she is highly sought after by widows and investigators alike. Lenna Wickes has come to Paris to find answers about her sister’s death, but to do so, she must embrace...
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Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2009]
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English
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In the early twentieth century, five sisters and their widowed mother, a famed spiritualist, travel from New York to London, and as the Titanic conveys them and their acquaintances--journalist W.T. Stead, scientist Nikola Tesla, and industrialist John Jacob Astor--home, Tesla's inventions will either doom or save them all.
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In 1902 New York, Molly agrees to expose a pair of spiritualist sisters, hired by the wife of a senator hoping to contact her dead son, who was kidnapped years before. After a seance, Molly isn't sure the sisters are fakes, but she's certain police bungled the kidnapping case.
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Bryant and May mysteries volume 7
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English
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After years of defying the odds and infuriating their superiors, detectives Arthur Bryant and John May have at last crossed the line -- the Peculiar Crimes Unit has been dissolved. Not even their eccentric genius or phenomenal success rate could save them. While Bryant takes to his bed, his bathrobe, and his esoteric books, the rest of the team take to the streets looking for new careers -- then one of them stumbles upon a gruesome murder. It isn't...
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Suddenly supernatural volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
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Like her mother, a professional medium, Kat has been able to see dead people since turning thirteen, and although they would prefer to be normal, Kat and her best friend come to terms with their own talents while helping free the spirit of a girl trapped at their middle school.
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Publisher
Dark Alley
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
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The Great Depression has bound a nation in despair -- and only a privileged few have risen above it: the exorbitantly wealthy ... and the hucksters who feed upon them. Diego, a seventeen-year-old illegal Mexican immigrant, owes his salvation to master grifter Thomas Schell. Together with Schell's gruff and powerful partner, they sail comfortably through hard times, scamming New York's grieving rich with elaborate, ingeniously staged séances -- until...
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Vespertine volume 1
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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In 1889, when Amelia van den Broek leaves her brother's strict home for the freedom of a social season with cousins in Baltimore, she is surprised by her strong attraction to an unsuitable man, but more so by the dark visions she has each evening which have some believing that she is the cause, not merely the seer, of harm.
12) The séance
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Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
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In 1926, magician Harry Houdini arrives in the city to perform magic and to expose fraudulent mediums but thirteen-year-old Scooter King, who works for his mother making her séances seem real, needs Houdini's help to solve a murder.
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Vintage Español, una división de Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
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La casa de los espíritus narra la saga familiar de los Trueba, desde principios del siglo XX hasta nuestra época. Magistralmente ambientada en algún lugar de América Latina, la novela sigue paso a paso el dramático y extravagante destino de unos personajes atrapados en un entorno sorprendente y exótico. Una novela de impecable pulso estilístico y aguda lucidez histórica y social.
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Lily Dale volume 0.5
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Ten Summer Street is no ordinary house. It wasin the ramshackle Victorian that Kristin saw something fifteen years agfo on Halloween night. Something that would haunt her for the rest of her days.
15) Beyond black
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Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
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"A terrible and swirling horror-comedy about a very fat medium on the perimeter of the M25, haunted by mean and nasty spirits, veering between damnation and the trivial."--Cover.
16) The Occupied
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Trevor Black novels volume 1
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2016
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English
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"From New York Times bestselling author Craig Parshall comes a riveting story of supernatural suspense. As a youth, Trevor Black unleashed spiritual forces he couldn't comprehend. Years later, Trevor is a high-flying criminal defense lawyer in New York City, with a six-figure Aston Martin and a trophy wife. But in an extraordinary turn of events, he receives a burdensome gift: the ability to perceive the invisible. And the dark forces he now sees...
17) Inside job
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Subterranean Press
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
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...a tale of spiritualists, séances, skeptics, and a love that just might be able to rise about it all. -- Publisher's description.
18) Velvet
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Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
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In Victorian London, orphaned Velvet leaves her backbreaking job in a steam laundry for the mysterious and exciting world of famed spiritualist Madame Savoya, who harbors dangerous secrets.
19) Stone mad
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Series
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Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Readers met the irrepressible Karen Memory in Elizabeth Bear's 2015 novel Karen Memory, and fell in love with her steampunk Victorian Pacific Northwest city, and her down-to-earth story-telling voice. Now Karen is back with a new story about spiritualists, magicians, con-men, and an angry lost tommy-knocker--a magical creature who generally lives in the deep gold mines of Alaska, but has been kidnapped and brought to Rapid City. Karen and Priya are...
20) The Seance
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Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2008
Language
English
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Best-selling author Iain Lawrence's adventures and mysteries for children and young adults are enormously popular selections. In the midst of the roaring '20s, Scooter, the son of a psychic, admires Harry Houdini. He can't wait to see Houdini perform his amazing new illusion. But backstage at the show, Scooter finds something that he wishes were merely an illusion: a dead body floating in Houdini's tank.