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Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A captivating collection of ghost stories from "one of the most gifted writers working today" (New York Times), Night Side of the River is as ingeniously provocative as it is downright spooky. In this delightfully chilling collection, the iconic Jeanette Winterson turns her fearless gaze to the realm of ghosts, interspersing her own encounters with the supernatural alongside hair-raising fictions. Lifting the veil between the living and the dead,...
Publisher
TBN Films
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Carving through the heart of the Promised Land is the Biblical spine of Israel, sometimes referred to as the 3Path of the Patriarchs4 and officially designated as 3Route 60.4 This trek is far more than a two-lane highway; it is a historic, sacred link to the roots of Judaism and Christianity and the stories of the Old and New Testaments. Follow world-changing diplomats David Friedman and Mike Pompeo as they venture down this sacred road, treading...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Eighteen-year-old Jane Reye is a psychic artist. She draws what she sees, and what she sees are spirits and the supernatural. Growing up orphaned, she's now of legal age and can no longer return to the girls' school she's called home for most of her life. Lost and alone after the death of her lifelong friend, she receives an invitation to partake in a study at the English manor Fairfax Hall: an investigation of the property that requires her specific...
6) Ebony Gate
Author
Series
Phoenix hoard volume 1
Publisher
Tor, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Julia Vee and Ken Bebelle's Ebony Gate is a female John Wick story with dragon magic set in contemporary San Francisco's Chinatown. Emiko Soong belongs to one of the eight premier magical families of the world. But Emiko never needed any magic. Because she is the Blade of the Soong Clan. Or was. Until she's drenched in blood in the middle of a market in China, surrounded by bodies and the scent of blood and human waste as a lethal perfume. The Butcher...
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
With the ability to see when a person's spirit leaves their body, Wilhelmina Price takes a job at her lifelong friend Edison's family estate to investigate a maid's death.
Wilhelmina Price has a dubious reputation in the village of Thrush's Green. Ever since her mother's untimely death, she has been able to see a person's spirit leaving their body days or hours before they die. Wil has never been able to prevent these deaths, so her unusual skill...
Author
Series
Mythics volume 2
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
When Hailey and her four fellow Mythics set out to find her mythical beast familiar and fight a powerful villain along the way, she realizes what it means to be part of a team.
10) Projections
Author
Publisher
Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
After murdering the young woman he couldn't have, a sorcerer sends projections of himself out into the world to seek out and seduce women who will return the love she denied--or suffer a fate worse than death.
Author
Publisher
Yonder, an imprint of Restless Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
"In the wake of a devastating earthquake and tsunami, Yui, fleeing her violent husband, and Hiyori, a young orphan, are taken in by a strange but kind old lady named Kiwa in the small town of Kitsunezaki. The newly formed family finds refuge in a mayoiga, a lost house, perched atop a beautiful cape overlooking the sea. While helping to rebuild Kitsunezaki, the three adapt to their new lives and supernatural new home, slowly healing from their troubled...
12) Let us descend
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Let Us Descend is a reimagining of American slavery, as beautifully rendered as it is heart-wrenching. Searching, harrowing, replete with transcendent love, the novel is a journey from the rice fields of the Carolinas to the slave markets of New Orleans and into the fearsome heart of a Louisiana sugar plantation. Annis, sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her, is the reader's guide through this hellscape. As she struggles through the miles-long...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"The Crescent City, with its long and tangled history, its glorious architecture and subtropical allure, along with its inarguably dark past and requisite restless spirits, is a forgiving place. A city with accepting arms for society's lost and hungry souls, and a haven for people like me who'd stumbled and fallen yet managed to pull themselves back up. People who were brave enough to try again in a place known for its extremes, or simply too hardheaded...
14) Not dead enough
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Charlotte survived the car crash that killed her boyfriend Jerry, but that night, everything changed. Charlotte wants desperately to get back to "normal"--whatever that means now--and start reconnecting with friends she hasn't spoken to in months. And she's trying to work through her PTSD with the help of her therapist, only she can't tell the truth about Jerry or what really happened the night he died. Just when Charlotte thinks she might be moving...
15) Dazzling
Author
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Treasure and her mother lost everything when Treasure's father died. Haggling for scraps in the market, Treasure meets a man who promises to change their fortunes, but his feet are hovering just a few inches above the ground. He's a spirit, and he promises to bring Treasure's beloved father back to life if she'll do one terrible thing for him first. Ozoemena has an itch in the middle of her back. It's an itch that speaks to her patrilineal destiny,...
16) Eden's Everdark
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
"Still grieving the loss of her mother, Eden visits Safina Island, her ancestral home, as a healing balm. But when she discovers an old sketchbook that belonged to her mother, she?s haunted by the images she sees drawn there. A creepy mansion covered with roots and leaves. A monstrous dog with dagger-sharp teeth. And a tall woman with wind-blown hair and long, sharp nails who is as beautiful as she is terrifying. Days later, exploring the island...
17) Rabbit chase
Author
Publisher
Annick Press Ltd
Pub. Date
[2022]
Lexile measure
550L
Language
English
Description
"Anishinaabe culture and storytelling meet Alice in Wonderland in this coming-of-age graphic novel that explores Indigenous and gender issues through a fresh yet familiar looking glass. Aim̌e, a non-binary Anishinaabe middle-schooler, is on a class trip to offer gifts to Paayehnsag, the water spirits known to protect the land. While stories are told about the water spirits and the threat of the land being taken over for development, Aim̌e zones...
18) Talk to me
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a group of friends discover how to conjure spirits using an embalmed hand, they become hooked on the new thrill, until one of them goes too far and opens the door to the spirit world forcing them to choose who to trust: the dead or the living.
19) The fox wife
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Manchuria, 1908. A young woman is found frozen in the snow. Her death is clouded by rumors of foxes involved, which are believed to lure people by transforming themselves into beautiful women and men. Bao, a detective with a reputation for sniffing out the truth, is hired to uncover the dead woman's identity. Since childhood, Bao has been intrigued by the fox gods, yet they've remained tantalizingly out of reach. Until, perhaps, now. Meanwhile, a...
Publisher
Shout! Kids
Pub. Date
[2023].
Language
English
Description
Mavka--the soul of the forest--has been chosen by the supreme spirits to become the forest's new guardian. But when she meets a talented human musician named Lucas--a man on the hunt for a mysterious tree with the power to give life--she is faced with an impossible choice between her newfound love and her duty to the spirits. Can humans and the forest live in harmony, or will greed and vice destroy them both?" --Container