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Echo Moon by Laura Spinella
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA past life, a past war, and a past love. Peter St John can’t foresee a future until he confronts his past sins.When photojournalist Peter St John returns home after a two-year absence, the life he’s been running from catches up. For years his mother’s presence, coupled with Pete’s own psychic gift, has triggered visits to 1917...Categorized as:
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Better Witch Next Time by Stephanie Damore
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWould you travel to the past to right a wrong?Solve a cold case?Catch a killer? Meet one of the five witches who will. Vee Harper is the job. She lives for jumping back in time and solving cold cases for the Agency of Paranormal Peculiarities. It's the present day that trips her up. So when a missing persons case comes in, throwing her back to 1958 New York City, Vee sets off to solve it... -
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Dragonfly Creek by T.L. Haddix
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBook Three in the Firefly Hollow series.When Ben Campbell returns home to Hazard, Kentucky after a five-year absence, the last person he's expecting to run into is the girl who broke his heart - the girl who left town and married someone else. He's done his best to move on, but he knows he's only been pretending... -
![The Wood Wife by Terri Windling]()
The Wood Wife by Terri Windling
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsLeaving behind her fashionable West Coast life, Maggie Black comes to the Southwestern desert to pursue her passion and her dream. Her mentor, the acclaimed poet Davis Cooper, has mysteriously died in the canyons east of Tucson, bequeathing her his estate and the mystery of his life--and death... -
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![One Boy's Shadow by Ross A. McCoubrey]()
One Boy's Shadow by Ross A. McCoubrey
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"Fifteen-year-old Caleb Mackenzie doesn’t put up a fight when his father announces the family is moving to Stapeton, Nova Scotia. In fact, Caleb looks forward to a fresh start in the scenic little area. Their new home, Wakefield House, sports large rooms, a big barn where Caleb can work on cars, and acres of forested land for privacy. But it also has a troubling past...Categorized as:
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![The Changeover by Margaret Mahy]()
The Changeover by Margaret Mahy
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsCarnegie medal-winning supernatural romance from Margaret Mahy.The face in the mirror. From the moment she saw it, Laura Chant knew that something dreadful was going to happen. It wasn’t the first time she’d been forewarned. But never before had anything so terrible happened...Categorized as:
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The China Garden by Liz Berry
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWhen Clare moves with her mother from London to Ravensmere, an historic English estate, she can't shake the feeling that the residents already know her, especially Mark, a maddeningly attractive biker. Clare also feels compelled to take midnight walks in Ravensmere's abandoned China Garden. Then her mother reveals that their own past is tragically linked to the estate... -
![Drawing Blood by Poppy Z. Brite]()
Drawing Blood by Poppy Z. Brite
Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsEscaping from his North Carolina home after his father murders their family and commits suicide, Trevor McGee returns to confront the past, and finds himself haunted by the same demons that drove his father to insanity... -
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Shattered Souls by Mary Lindsey
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA thrilling debut story of death, love, destiny, and dangerLenzi hears voices and has visions - gravestones, floods, a boy with steel gray eyes. Her boyfriend, Zak, can't help, and everything keeps getting louder and more intense... -
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Tea with the Black Dragon by R.A. MacAvoy
Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsMartha Macnamara knows that her daughter Elizabeth is in trouble, she just doesn't know what kind. Mysterious phone calls from San Francisco at odd hours of the night are the only contact she has had with Elizabeth for years. Now, Elizabeth has sent her a plane ticket and reserved a room for her at San Francisco's most luxurious hotel...Categorized as:
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Bloodsucking Fiends by Christopher Moore
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 54 ratingsThere is an alternate cover edition here.Jody never asked to become a vampire. But when she wakes up under an alley dumpster with a badly burned arm, an aching neck, superhuman strength, and a distinctly Nosferatuan thirst, she realizes the decision has been made for her...Categorized as:
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Fire and Hemlock by Diana Wynne Jones
Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsPolly has two sets of memories...One is normal: school, home, friends. The other, stranger memories begin nine years ago, when she was ten and gate-crashed an odd funeral in the mansion near her grandmother's house. Polly's just beginning to recall the sometimes marvelous, sometimes frightening adventures she embarked on with Tom Lynn after that...Categorized as:
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Aunt Dimity's Death by Nancy Atherton
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsLori Shepherd thought Aunt Dimity was just a character in a bedtime story...Until the Dickensian law firm of Willis & Willis summons her to a reading of the woman's will. Down-on-her-luck Lori learns she's about to inherit a sizable estate-if she can discover the secret hidden in a treasure trove of letters in Dimity's English country cottage... -
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Firefly Hollow by T.L. Haddix
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsBook One in the Firefly Hollow Series, Women's Fiction Romances set in Appalachia. In 1960, a tragic death in the family calls young Sarah Browning back from college to her Appalachian homestead. Unable to return to school and finish her degree, she finds herself facing a future that isn't what she'd planned... -
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![Finding Laura by Kay Hooper, Kate Fleming]()
Finding Laura by Kay Hooper, Kate Fleming
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsCharming, seductive Peter Kilbourne has been found stabbed to death in a seedy motel room, and Laura Sutherland, the struggling artist who was one of the last people to see Peter alive, is one of the first to be suspected of his murder... -
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Lost Souls by Poppy Z. Brite
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsAt a club in Missing Mile, N.C., the children of the night gather, dressed in black, looking for acceptance. Among them are Ghost, who sees what others do not. Ann, longing for love, and Jason, whose real name is Nothing, newly awakened to an ancient, deathless truth about his father, and himself.Others are coming to Missing Mile tonight... -
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The Captive by L.J. Smith
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsCan The Secret Circle Survive...Lured into the most popular in-crowd imaginable, Cassie is intoxicated by her newfound strength, a power as addictive as it is perilous.Caught between two members' consuming desires to use the coven's mysterious force, Cassie turns to one of their boyfriends, Adam--and falls captive to her own dangerous love...Categorized as:
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![Companions of the Night by Vivian Vande Velde]()
Companions of the Night by Vivian Vande Velde
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsWhen Kerry's little brother forgets his stuffed bear at the laundry, Kerry ventures out at 11th p.m. to retrieve it for him. The laundry is deserted and kind of spooky, and while she's there three men burst in, dragging a bound and bloodied young man they insist is a vampire. Kerry helps him escape, only to be caught up in a desperate game between vampire hunters and their prey... -
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Turtle Moon by Alice Hoffman
Rated: 3.84 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsWhen Keith Rosen runs away from his Florida home—inexplicably taking along a motherless baby—his mother is perplexed, terrified, and ultimately takes off on her own journey to find him...Categorized as:
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Heartlight by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHeartlight is the story of Bradley’s greatest champion of good, Colin MacLaren, as he carries the banner of Light through the second half of the twentieth century. Ghostbuster, exorcist, student and teacher of the mystic arts, Colin meets Claire Moffat, who becomes his dearest friend, when he rescues her from a cult bent on human sacrifice... -
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Blood Pact by Tanya Huff
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsIt began with the call no daughter ever wants to get, the call that told private investigator Vicki Nelson her mother had died. Mrs. Nelson's coworker at the Queen's University Life Science Department told Vicki that the cause of death was a heart attack, and that they'd be waiting for her to arrive in Kingston to make the funeral arrangements... -
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Goddess of the Night by Lynne Ewing
Rated: 3.82 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsVanessa is being followed. She doesn't know by whom, and she doesn't know what they want. But she knows why.Vanessa has a secret. She can become invisible, but the problem is, she can't control it. And her worst fear is being discovered. Only her best friend, Catty, knows, and Catty is different as well. She can travel back in time -- and take Vanessa with her...Categorized as:
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The Initiation by L.J. Smith
Rated: 3.77 of 5 stars · 37 ratingsCassie is initiated into her hometown's coven of witches but her love for the coven leader's boyfriend could prove deadly... -
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Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 48 ratingsVivian Gandillon relishes the change, the sweet, fierce ache that carries her from girl to wolf. At sixteen, she is beautiful and strong, and all the young wolves are on her tail. But Vivian still grieves for her dead father; her pack remains leaderless and in disarray, and she feels lost in the suburbs of Maryland. She longs for a normal life...Categorized as:
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![The Silver Kiss by Annette Curtis Klause]()
The Silver Kiss by Annette Curtis Klause
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 37 ratingsZoe is wary when, in the dead of night, the beautiful yet frightening Simon comes to her house. Simon seems to understand the pain of loneliness and death and Zoe's brooding thoughts of her dying mother.Simon is one of the undead, a vampire, seeking revenge for the gruesome death of his mother three hundred years before... -
![The Girl in a Swing by Richard Adams]()
The Girl in a Swing by Richard Adams
Rated: 3.52 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsA shy young man meets a beautiful woman in the company of a young girl. He finds himself swept off of his feet and married to her, bringing her with him to live in his family home. She is his erotic dream come true; she does everything she can to bind him to her and join him in his comfortable life.Soon, however, odd things begin to happen...Categorized as:
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Dark Reunion by L.J. Smith
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 39 ratingsElena rises from the dead to recreate the powerful vampire trio. Summoned by Elena, Stefan keeps a promise to her and fights the most terrifying evil he's ever faced. Joining the brother he once called enemy, Damon battles this new horror with strength, cunning, and deadly charm...Categorized as:
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The Fury by L.J. Smith
Rated: 3.51 of 5 stars · 42 ratingsA Love Triangle of Unspeakable Horror... Stefan Tormented after losing Elena, he's determined to end the feud with his brother, Damon--whatever the cost.Damon Mocking Stefan and Elena, he laughs in the face of doom.Elena Wild with her craving for blood, she confronts the ultimate evil.The terrifying story of two vampire brothers and the beautiful girl torn between them... -
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The Struggle by L.J. Smith
Rated: 3.47 of 5 stars · 42 ratingsThis is the terrifying story of two vampire brothers and the beautiful girl torn between them: Damon: determined to make Elena his queen of darkness, he'd kill his own brother to possess her.Stefan: desperate for the power to destroy Damon, he succumbs to his thirst for human blood.Elena: irresistibly drawn to both brothers, her choice will decide their fate... -
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Brida by Paulo Coelho
Rated: 3.49 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsThis is the story of Brida, a young Irish girl, and her quest for knowledge. She has long been interested in various aspects of magic but is searching for something more. Her search leads her to people of great wisdom, who begin to teach Brida about the spiritual world...Categorized as:
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The Awakening by L.J. Smith
Rated: 3.37 of 5 stars · 58 ratingsA Love Triangle of Unspeakable Horror...ElenaSearching for the ultimate thrill, she vowed to have Stefan.StefanHaunted by his tragic past, he struggled to resist her passion.DamonDriven by revenge, he hunted the brother who betrayed him.The terrifying story of two vampire brothers and the beautiful girl torn between them... -
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The Valkyries by Paulo Coelho
Rated: 3.26 of 5 stars · 40 ratingsA classic masterwork of spiritual tension and realization from Paulo Coelho, this powerful story of one man’s battle with self-doubt and fear is now available in a beautiful new package from HarperOne...
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