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84) Requiem
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
An American school teacher in Israel discovers scrolls which portray Mary Magdalene as the wife of Jesus, and the apostle, Paul, as a power-hungry schemer who collaborates with Judas to bring Jesus down. A first novel.
85) Jennifer Strange
Author
Series
Publisher
YAP Books, an imprint of Haverhill House Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Jennifer Strange is the Sparrow, cursed with the ability to give ghosts and demonic spirits a body-a flesh and blood anchor in the mortal world-with the touch of her hand. When a ghost attacks her high school and awakens her powers, her father dumps her unceremoniously in the care of her estranged older sister Liz, leaving only his journal as an explanation.
Drawn to the power of the Sparrow, the supernatural creatures preying on...
86) Happy medium
Author
Publisher
Berkley Romance
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Fake spirit medium Gretchen Acorn is happy to help when her best (read: wealthiest) client hires her to look into the unexplained phenomena preventing the sale of her bridge partner's struggling goat farm. Gretchen may be a complete fraud, but she'd like to think she's a beneficent one. So if "cleansing" the historic property will help a nice old man get on with his retirement and put some much-needed cash in her pockets at the same time, who's she...
87) Piñata: a novel
Author
Publisher
Nightfire, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"A Head Full of Ghosts meets Mexican Gothic in Piñata, a terrifying possession tale by author and artist Leopoldo Gout. They were worshiped by our ancestors. Now they are forgotten. Soon, they will make us remember. It was supposed to be the perfect summer. Carmen Sanchez is back in Mexico, supervising the renovation of an ancient abbey. Her daughters Izel and Luna, too young to be left alone in New York, join her in what Carmen hopes is a chance...
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Young Henry Phipps is on a quest to realize his dying mother's last wish: to be buried at sea, surrounded by her family. Not an easy task considering Henry's ne'er-do-well father is in debtor's prison and his comically earnest older brother is busy fighting the red coats on the battlefields of Maryland. But Henry's stubborn determination knows no bounds. As he dodges the cannon fire of clashing armies and picks among the ruins of a burning capital...
Author
Publisher
Palibrio
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"Candida es la ultima heredera en la linea de las nganga, las curanderas, las herboristas y adivinas ancestrales mas antiguas del Africa occidental. La revelacion de su destino como tal llegara tras su llegada a la Isla de la Gran Tortuga, donde sus antepasadas nganga, ahora estrellas en el universo, se comunican con ella como espiritus para iniciarla en el oficio y perpetuar el poder."
91) Amrita
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
A Japanese woman's struggle to regain her memory. She is Saku-chan, a barmaid who suffered a head injury in a fall. She meets her dead sister's lover and the two have an affair which helps her recover. By the author of Lizard.
Author
Series
Publisher
Talos
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Callie Delgado always puts family first, and unfortunately her brother knows it. She's emptied her savings, lost work, and spilled countless tears trying to keep him out of trouble, but now he's in deeper than ever, and his debt is on Callie's head. She's given a choice: do some dirty work for the mob, or have her brother returned to her in tiny pieces. Renting souls is big business for the religious population of Gem City. Those looking to take...
Author
Publisher
Harper Voyager
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Life is precious and precarious on the islands of Belene. Besieged by a capricious ocean full of malicious spirits, the people of the islands seek joy where they can. Mayara, one of the island's fearless oyster divers, has found happiness in love. But on the day of her wedding to the artist Kelo, a spirit-driven storm hits the island with deadly force. To save her loved ones, Mayara reveals a dangerous secret: she has the power to control the spirits....
94) Ghosts bite back
Author
Series
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A vampire and a ghost being friends is unheard of. It makes no sense. The two factions have despised one another for all eternity. But Leo the vampire and Minna the ghost have battled side-by-side: they're sisters-in-arms, they're best friends, and they'll have to work together to vanquish a new, deadly threat. Summoned to the Ghostly Realm for the murder of the Orphanmaster, Leo must complete three tasks to prove herself worthy of her unlife, each...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sarah Harper is driven to achieve success no matter what the cost. She wants to do good and not hurt the people she loves--especially children and her husband, Joe--but her desire to succeed in her career too often leaves little time for family. One cold autumn afternoon, all of that changes when Sarah's car plunges off a bridge and into a river. She is presumed dead by those on the "outside," but Sarah's spirit is still very much alive. What she...
Author
Publisher
Eiledon Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"When bombardier Micah Lund dies on a mission over Hiroshima, his spirit remains trapped in the land of his enemies. Dazed, he follows Kiyomi Oshiro, a war widow struggling to care for her young daughter, Ai. Food is scarce, work at the factory is brutal, and her in-laws treat her like a servant. Watching Kiyomi and Ai together, Micah reconsiders his intolerance for the people he'd called the enemy. As his concern for the mother and daughter grows,...
97) Dead and kicking
Author
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"Sadie Novak cleans up crime scenes for a living, and often finds herself face-to-face with the earthbound spirits. Her dad passes away and is reluctant to leave, and while she's cleaning up the house of a hoarder, she finds the 17-year-old mummified remains of an infant, as well as a very angry ghost who wants to keep Sadie away from the house." --
98) Sixteen souls
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Sixteen-year-old Charlie Frith has problems. His crush is dating someone else, his sisters have glitter-bombed his prosthesis (again), and he's a seer-of-spirits in York, the most haunted city in England, and all his friends are ghosts. To make matters worse, it seems that famous spirits are mysteriously vanishing from York's haunted streets and alleys. Charlie is determined to stay out of it, but Sam, the irritating new seer in town, expects him...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"A dark, poetic mystery about the women of the remote village of Kulumani and the lionesses that hunt them Told through two haunting, interwoven diaries, Mia Couto's "Confession of the Lioness" reveals the mysterious world of Kulumani, an isolated village in Mozambique whose traditions and beliefs are threatened when ghostlike lionesses begin hunting the women who live there." --
100) Ghost wanted
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
1943.
Language
English
Description
Bailey Ruth's supervisor, Wiggins, is worried about a dear old friend. The ghost of elegant Lorraine Marlow haunts a college library. Known as the Lady of the Roses, she plays matchmaker, using the fragrant flowers to pair up students. But someone's making mischief after hours, leaving roses strewn about the library, destroying a gargoyle, and stealing a valuable book. Concerned with Lorraine's reputation among the living, Wiggins dispatches the irrepressible...
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