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A dragonbird in the fern

After the assassination of her older sister Scilla, seventeen-year-old Jiara chooses to take her sister's place as the bride to the young king of a distant country, hoping to identify her sister's killer before Scilla's vengeful ghost murders their family.

We can be heroes

2021
"After a girl is killed by her ex-boyfriend in a school shooting, her two best friends attempt to memorialize her in a town economically dependent on the shooter's family"--Provided by publisher.

There's a ghost in this house

2021
"A young girl lives in a haunted house, but she has never seen a ghost. Are they white with holes for eyes? Are they hard to see? Step inside and help the girl as she searches under the stairs, behind the sofa, and in the attic for the ghost." -- Amazon.

Violet ghosts

2021
Loner Dani and his best friend Sarah, the ghost of a teen murdered decades earlier, team up to help other murdered women who are still tethered to this life.

Texas gothic

(Fantasy)
2012
Seventeen-year-old Amy Goodnight has long been the one who makes her family of witches seem somewhat normal to others, but while spending a summer with her sister caring for their aunt's farm, Amy becomes the center of weirdness when she becomes tied to a powerful ghost.

The mysterious messenger

2020
"Eleven-year-old Maria de la Cruz is trapped under the thumb of Madame Destine, her pseudo-psychic mother. Destine is a bona fide con artist who will stop at nothing to swindle her customers into believing she can communicate with the dead. But Maria, unlike her mother, has a big secret--she really can communicate with the dead, most frequently with a ghost named Edward who has been her only friend since she was a child. It's not long before this clairvoyant young sleuth gets wrapped up in an epic journey that combines bookish mystery with the literary movement of the Beat poets and art and jazz history. Maria may have the power to unlock extraordinary secrets, but can she find the treasure Edward sends her clues about? More importantly, can she find true friendship?"--Provided by publisher.

Canci?n de Navidad

2000
A miser learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future.

The ghost riddle

2021
Can the Librarian rescue Sam's aunt when the events from a ghost story begin to transpire one dark and stormy night?.

Nothing but blackened teeth

2021
"A Heian-era mansion stands abandoned, its foundations resting on the bones of a bride and its walls packed with the remains of the girls sacrificed to keep her company. It's the perfect venue for a group of thrill-seeking friends, brought back together to celebrate a wedding. A night of food, drinks, and games quickly spirals into a nightmare as secrets get dragged out and relationships are tested. But the house has secrets too. Lurking in the shadows is the ghost bride with a black smile and a hungry heart. And she gets lonely down there in the dirt"--Provided by publihser.

The legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle

Presents a black and white illustrated edition of the classic Washington Irving Gothic tales "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"--in which the foolish school teacher Ichabod Crane becomes infatuated with the lovely Katrina Van Tassel and schemes to steal her fortune, only to run into the terrifying Headless Horseman--and also the short story "Rip Van Winkle." Includes a short biographical sketch of Washington Irving, as well as a glossary of early American terms.

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