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English
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As a science journalist with a regular column in Scientific American, Jeremy Marsh specializes in debunking the supernatural and has a real nose for the strange and unusual. A born skeptic, he travels to the small town of Boone Creek, North Carolina, determined to find the real cause behind the ghostly apparitions that appear in the town cemetery. What he doesn't plan on, however, is meeting and falling hopelessly in love with Lexie Darnell, granddaughter...
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English
Description
Crippled in his right arm and leg, Aaron has spent his childhood fending off a sister who wants to manage him. So when he meets Dorothy, a plain, outspoken, independent young woman, she is like a breath of fresh air. Unhesitatingly, he marries her, and they have a relatively happy, unremarkable marriage. But when a tree crashes into their house and Dorothy is killed, Aaron feels as though he has been erased forever. Only Dorothy's unexpected appearances...
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Language
English
Description
What's so perfect about the past for Sybil and Blake Gregory, a successful Manhattan couple with three children who land in San Francisco when Blake impulsively accepts the job of a lifetime as CEO of a start-up? The family moves into a grand, surprisingly affordable Pacific Heights mansion and soon meets the affable Butterfield family, who lived there a century ago. Of course the Butterfields are ghosts, and only the Gregorys can see them, but that...
Author
Publisher
Quirk Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
255 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Ghosts are everywhere--whether you believe in them or not. Every town has its local legends, and countless books, movies, and TV shows are haunted by their presence. But our obsession with ghosts runs deeper than we know--and is embedded in the very fabric of American history. Writer and historian Marc Hartzman dons the mantle of tour guide, taking readers on a fascinating journey through supernatural history, including: Famous haunted sites like...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
1997
Physical Desc
viii, 279 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Christic apparitions in Christian history -- Contemporary Christic visions and apparitions -- Evaluation of the evidence -- Christic appearances and visions in the New Testament -- Supernaturalistic explanations -- Mentalistic and psychological explanations -- Neurophysiological explanations -- Interpreting Christic visions and apparitions.
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English
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Fresh off a bad breakup with a longtime boyfriend, Nantucket sweetheart Lizbet Keaton is desperately seeking a second act. When she's named the new general manager of the Hotel Nantucket, a once Gilded Age gem turned abandoned eyesore, she hopes that her local expertise and charismatic staff can win the favor of their new London billionaire owner, Xavier Darling, as well as that of Shelly Carpenter, the wildly popular Instagram tastemaker who can...
8) Vatican prophecies: investigating supernatural signs, apparitions, and miracles in the modern age
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Apocalyptic prophecies and miraculous apparitions are headline-grabbing events that often put the Catholic Church's concept of "rational faith" at odds with the passion of its more zealous followers. To some, these claims teeter on the edge of absurdity. Others see them as evidence of a private connection with God. For the Vatican, the issue is much more nuanced as each supposed miraculous event could have serious theological and political consequences....
9) Fellside
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English
Description
Confronting the possibility that she might be forced to spend the rest of her life in a maximum security prison on the edge of the Yorkshire Moors, Jess Moulson discovers that the prison is haunted by the ghost of a little boy who imparts a chilling message.
On a heroin bender, Jess Moulson set fire to her apartment complex. A ten-year-old boy died in the fire. Sentenced to spend the rest of her life in Fellside, a maximum security prison on the...
10) Ghosts
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Series
Publisher
World Book
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
11) Grandghost
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Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First world edition.
Physical Desc
203 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Artist Beverly Vernon gets the shock of her life when she discovers the skeletal human remains of a child while digging in her backyard. Then, while painting her imaginary grandchild, a series of strange events hit her studio. Does Beverly have a ghost, and could the odd events be linked to the discovery in her yard?"--Publisher's description.
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (144 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Jacques, a journalist with a reputation as an impartial investigator, is recruited by the Vatican to determine the legitimacy of a saintly apparition in a small French village. Upon his arrival, he meets the young and sensitive Anna, who claims to have witnessed an apparition of the Virgin Mary. Confronted with opposing views from all sides, Jacques gradually uncovers the truth and finds his belief system profoundly shaken.
14) The secret room
Author
Series
Haunted library volume 5
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
128 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Now that Kaz can finally pass through walls without feeling all "skizzy," he can go explore Beckett's secret room at the back of the library. What he finds there is a mystery he never expected!
15) The apparition
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (82 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When frightening events start to occur in their home, a young couple Kelly and Ben discover they are being haunted by a presence that was accidentally conjured during a university parapsychology experiment. The horrifying apparition feeds on their fear and torments them no matter where they try to run. Their last hope is an expert in the supernatural, Patrick, but even with his help they may already be too late to save themselves from this terrifying...
16) Ghost ships
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Series
Publisher
KidHaven Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
48 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Eyewitness accounts of ghosts on ships or ghost ships themselves as reported over the years.
Author
Series
Holland family saga volume 4
Language
English
Description
"Novelist Aaron Holland Broussard is shattered when his daughter Fannie Mae dies suddenly. As he tries to honor her memory by saving two young men from a life of crime amid their opioid-ravaged community, he is drawn into a network of villainy that includes a violent former Klansman, a far-from-holy minister, a biker club posing as evangelicals, and a murderer who has been hiding in plain sight. Aaron's only ally is state police officer Ruby Spotted...
Author
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
355 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In 1920's England, a young woman searches for the truth behind her uncle's mysterious death in a town haunted by a restless ghost. Oxford student Jillian Leigh works day and night to keep up with her studies--so to leave at the beginning of the term is next to impossible. But after her uncle Toby, a renowned ghost hunter, is killed in a fall off a cliff, she must drive to the seaside village of Rothewell to pack up his belongings. Almost immediately,...
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