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Home sweet haunting

2022
"Dominic's family is house hunting, but as Dominic explores the large Victorian house they are considering he encounters a ghost child; when his parents refuse to believe him Dominic decides to get video evidence--but will he get proof of the paranormal activity before it is too late?"--OCLC.

Ghosts come rising

2022
After their parents' deaths, siblings Liza and John Carroll are placed in the care of their uncle, a traveling con artist who scams the grieving with fradulent spirit photographs, until they arrive at a Spiritualist commune where the barrier between the living and the dead is very thin.
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A starlet's shadow

2020
"When sisters Isabella and Marta Rodriguez visit Aunt Violeta in California, it is up to Isabella to figure out what the ghost of Hollywood Hills wants"--Provided by publisher.

The dark-thirty

Southern tales of the supernatural
A collection of ghost stories with African American themes, designed to be told during the Dark Thirty--the half hour before sunset--when ghosts seem all too believable.

She is a haunting

2023
Seventeen-year-old bisexual Jade Nguyrn is spending the summer in Vietnam at the French colonial house her estranged father is fixing up as a vacation rental, but unbeknownst to her family, the house and its ghosts have other plans.
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Gespensterj?egern auf eisiger Spur

2020
Tom Tomsky, a timid nine-year-old, reluctantly agrees to help professional ghostbuster Hetty Hyssop find the Incredibly Revolting Ghost that is haunting the Averagely Spooky Ghost hiding out in Tom's attic.

Captain America

2023
"In this . . . adventure set during World War II, Steve Rogers (AKA Captain America) and his young sidekick, Bucky Barnes, encounter threat like none they've ever seen--a Ghost Army. The dead of this war and wars past are coming back to life, impervious to bullets, flames, or anything else the Allies can throw at them. The armies rise from the ground in the night and seem to disappear without a trace. How can Cap and Buck fight something that's already dead? And just what does the mysterious Baron Mordo--sitting in his castle atop nearby Wundagore Mountain--have to do with this?"--Provided by publisher.
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Wait till Helen comes

a ghost story graphic novel
2022
"When their mom remarries, Molly and her brother, Michael, try to make friends with their new stepsister, Heather. But Heather only wants to make trouble for them. She lies and tattles and misbehaves, and somehow they always get the blame. They know she's trying to drive a wedge between her father and their mother so she can have her father all to herself--and it seems to be working. Then, Heather starts playing in the graveyard behind their new house. She claims she can talk to a ghost named Helen, and her behavior gets even stranger. Michael doesn't believe in ghosts and thinks their new little sister is just looking for more attention. But Molly isn't so certain, especially when Heather threatens that Helen is going to come for them and make them sorry. It seems as though things can't get any worse--but they do. When Helen comes"--OCLC.
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Speculation

In 1962, ten-year-old Winna Cole discovers a pair of magical spectacles that reveal both the friendly ghosts of her African American ancestors and a dangerous family curse.

Wake the bones

After dropping out of college, nineteen-year-old Laurel Early returns to her uncle's tobacco farm, where she encounters a monster as well as her mother's ghost, and soon Laurel realizes that she must tap into her own innate magic to save everyone she loves.
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