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"Once upon a time Orla was: a woman, a painter, a lover. Now she is a mother and a wife, and when her husband Nick suggests that their city apartment has grown too small for their lives, she agrees, in part because she does agree, and in part because she is too tired to think about what she really does want. She agrees again when Nick announces with pride that he has found an antiquated Georgian house on the Dorset cliffs--a good house for children,...
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Captain Awesome volume 8
Publisher
Little Simon
Language
English
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As Halloween nears, Captain Awesome and Nacho Cheese Man set out to protect Sunnyview from monsters but when they encounter what may be a real haunted house, they suddenly remember they have homework to do.
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English
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When she stumbles across the ad, it seems like too good an opportunity to miss --a live-in nannying post, with a staggeringly generous salary. And when Rowan Caine arrives at Heatherbrae House, she is smitten -- by the luxurious smart-home, by the beautiful Scottish Highlands, and by this picture-perfect family. What she doesn't know is that she's stepping into a nightmare -- one that will end with a child dead and herself in prison awaiting trial...
65) Boo! Hiss!
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Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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When a boisterous family moves into their old, old house, Ghost and Snake devise a scary and slithery plan to make the family leave until they realize having a noisy, barking, laughing family around isn't so bad.
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English
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"A mother questions everything she knows about her son when a local woman is found dead. Valerie has been forgetting things. Her daughter worries about her being on her own in her big Victorian house--one rumored to be haunted after a tragedy decades earlier--and truth be told, she is a little lonely. With few options, she asks her adult son to move home, but it's not quite the reunion she hoped for. Hudson is taciturn, moody and frequently gone....
68) Close to home
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Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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"Vowing to make a fresh start, Sarah McAdams has come home to renovate the old Victorian mansion where she grew up. Her daughters, Jade and Gracie, aren't impressed by the rundown property on the shores of Oregon's wild Columbia River. As soon as they pull up the isolated drive, Sarah too is beset by uneasy memories--of her cold, distant mother, of the half-sister who vanished without a trace, and of a long-ago night when Sarah was found on the widow's...
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Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (75 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Vincent Price is the owner of a haunted house who offers five strangers $10,000 to spend the night in his house. When they accept his offer, they soon regret it. A great old fashioned ghost story with a wild finish and a new twist.
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Starfall Point volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"From the moment Riley Everett set foot in Starfall Point, magic bubbled inside of her. But with only her late aunt's journals and a cantankerous live-in ghost butler to instruct her on all things witchy--including her newly inherited Victorian haunted house--Riley seeks out a coven for sisterhood and support. The last person she expects to be drawn to is the town's frustrating, yet ridiculously attractive head librarian"--
74) The lonely ghost
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Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"For fans of creepy stories like The Girl in the Locked Room, and the spine-tingling novels of K.R. Alexander, The Lonely Ghost is the chilling story of twin sisters haunted by a ghostly presence in their new house."--Publisher description.
75) Haunted houses
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Publisher
Greenhaven Press
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
173 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Scientific research, eyewitness accounts and government reports are used to examine the theory that haunted houses exist.
76) Dark mansions
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Series
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Bearport Pub. Co
Pub. Date
[2012]
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32 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
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English
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Describes eleven mansions that are believed to be haunted, from a plantation where a ghostly hound howls on stormy nights to Manhattan's oldest home where a spirit shushes schoolchildren.
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Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2011]
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111 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm.
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English
Description
Creepella von Cacklefur and her niece, Shivereen, visit scary Squeakspeare Mansion. There they meet Bobby Squeakspeare, a descendent of the famouse writer, William Squeakspeare. Will the spooky rooms and ghosts they find inside the mansion be friendly--or frightening?
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"The story begins: young lovers, anxious to connect, agree to a first date, thinking outside of the box. At seventeen years old, James and Amelia can feel the rest of their lives beginning. They have got this summer and this summer alone to experience the extraordinary. But they didn't expect to find it in a house at the bottom of a lake. The house is cold and dark, but it's also their own. Caution be damned, until being carefree becomes dangerous....
80) The haunted
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Pub. Date
2012.
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English
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When the Perry family moves to a bigger, nicer home in their city's historic district, they soon discover that something isn't right, and that "something" is ready to come out of the shadows of their basement and into their lives.
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