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Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Unabridged ed.
Description
Winnie the Witch lives in a black house. She has black chairs and black stairs, black floors and black doors. Winnie?s cat Wilbur is black, too. And that is how the trouble begins! This ultimate collection by the creators of Winnie and Wilbur, Valerie Thomas and Korky Paul, features the following picture-book stories: Winnie and Wilbur: Winnie the Witch Winnie and Wilbur: The Naughty Knight Winnie and Wilbur Meet Santa Winnie and Wilbur: Happy Birthday,...
2) Haunted York
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Series
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
2009
Description
Drawing on historical and contemporary sources, Haunted York contains a chilling range of ghostly phenomena. From the medieval stonemason who haunts York Minster to a re-incarnation mystery at St Mary's Church, the spectres of King's Manor, Micklegate Bar and Exhibition Square and the many spirits to be found in the city's public houses, this phenomenal gathering of ghostly goings-on is bound to captivate anyone interested in the supernatural history...
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Series
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
2009
Description
Drawing on historical and contemporary sources and containing many tales which have never before been published, it unearths a chilling range of supernatural phenomena, including the vampire rabbit of Collingwood House, the Pink Lady of Jesmond and the tale of the mysterious witches' bones. Illustrated with over 60 photographs, this book will delight anyone with an interest in the supernatural history of the area.
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Publisher
William Morrow Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2017
Description
When Jess and Clare Martin move from Williamsburg, Brooklyn, to their former college town in the Hudson River valley, they are hoping for rejuvenation-of their marriage, their savings, and Jess's writing career. They take a caretaker's job at Riven House, a crumbling estate and the home of their old college writing professor. While Clare once had dreams of being a writer, those plans fell by the wayside when Jess made a big, splashy literary debut...
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Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2024
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The latest unforgettable, unputdownable novel from the Richard and Judy Number 1 bestseller. A mysterious bequest and the legacy of a tragic love - only one person can unravel the hidden secrets of the past before it?s too late? When Elisabeth Quemener dies she leaves a small parcel with the instructions that it must only be opened by Astrid Oake. The trouble is, no one knows who Astrid Oake is? Elisabeth?s family turn to Touissants detective agency...
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Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
Unabridged ed.
Description
In 1720s Scotland, a priest and his son get lost in the forest, transporting a witch to the coast to stop her from being killed by the village. In the sad, slow years after the Second World War, Ruth finds herself the replacement wife to a recent widower and stepmother to his two young boys, installed in a huge house by the sea and haunted by those who have come before. Fifty years later, Viv is cataloguing the valuables left in her dead grandmother?s...
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Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2013
Description
During one long, hot summer, five-year-old Pea and her little sister Margot play alone in the meadow behind their house, on the edge of a small village in Southern France. Her mother is too sad to take care of them; she left her happiness in the hospital, along with the baby. Pea's father has died in an accident and Maman, burdened by her double grief and isolated from the village by her Englishness, has retreated to a place where Pea cannot reach...
8) Yellow Room
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Publisher
Canelo
Pub. Date
2020
Description
Secrets are like scars... Haunted by a tragic childhood accident, Chala?s whole life has been moulded by guilt and secrets. After the death of the stepfather she adored, Chala is thrown into turmoil once again. Volunteering in Kenya seems to offer an escape, and a way of re-evaluating her adult relationships, although violence and hardship simmer alongside its richness and beauty. The secrets of the Yellow Room are still with her and she can?t run...
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Series
Crescent City volume 1
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2020
Description
Perfect for fans of Jessica Jones and True Blood, this is a blockbuster modern fantasy set in a divided world where one woman must uncover the truth to seek her revenge. Half-Fae, half-human Bryce Quinlan loves her life. Every night is a party and Bryce is going to savour all the pleasures Lunathion - also known as Crescent City - has to offer. But then a brutal murder shakes the very foundations of the city, and brings Bryce's world crashing down....
10) Trust no one
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Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2023
Description
A woman haunted by her past and a killer who won't let her forget. ?A long, long time ago, you did a bad, bad thing, Now it?s time to pay...? When I first found the note, I assumed it was a prank. But then I am lured to a house where I witness a gruesome murder, and I realise the threat is real. But who is tormenting me though, and why? Noah Keen, my boyfriend, is determined to get to the bottom of things, and soon other familiar faces appear from...
11) The nesting
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2020
Description
Atmospheric, gothic, spine-chilling... The new thriller from C.J Cooke will haunt you long after you turn the last page... ?Vivid and compelling? Sunday Times bestselling author Rosamund Lupton ?A gorgeous, atmospheric book that chilled me to the bone? Sunday Times bestselling author Samantha Downing ?A taut, scary thriller that winds the suspense so tightly you can barely breathe? New York Times bestselling author Simone St. James ?Best read with...
12) The dying game
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Publisher
Cornerstone Digital
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
Unabridged ed.
Description
?Oh, it?s really quite simple. I want you to play dead.? On the remote island of Isola, seven people have been selected to compete in a 48-hour test for a top-secret intelligence position. One of them is Anna Francis, a workaholic with a nine-year-old daughter she rarely sees, and a secret that haunts her. Her assignment is to stage her own death and then observe, from her hiding place inside the walls of the house, how the other candidates react...
13) Brooklyn
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Series
Eilis Lacey volume 1
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2009
Description
It is Ireland in the early 1950s and for Eilis Lacey, as for so many young Irish girls, opportunities are scarce. So when her sister arranges for her to emigrate to New York, Eilis knows she must go, leaving behind her family and her home for the first time. Arriving in a crowded lodging house in Brooklyn, Eilis can only be reminded of what she has sacrificed. She is far from home - and homesick. And just as she takes tentative steps towards friendship,...
14) Unspoken
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Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
2013
Description
The task force of FBI and local cops found her two abductors, killed them, rescued her, but it took four very long years. The fact she was found less than three miles from her home, had been there the entire time, haunts them. She's changed her identity, found a profession she loves, and rebuilt her life. She's never said a word--to the cops, to her doctors, to family--about those four years. A family legacy has brought her back to Chicago where a...
15) The household
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Pub. Date
2024
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PRE-ORDER THE CAPTIVATING, HIGHLY ANTICIPATED NEW NOVEL, INSPIRED BY REAL HISTORICAL FIGURES AND EVENTS NOT ALL WHO ARE FALLEN WANT TO BE SAVED London, 1847. In a quiet house in the countryside outside London, the finishing touches are being made to welcome a group of young women. The house and its location are top secret, its residents unknown to one another, but the girls have one thing in common: they are fallen. Offering refuge for prostitutes,...
16) The folly
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Publisher
Polis Books
Pub. Date
2023
Description
Morgan always knew her father, Owen, never murdered her mother, and has spent the last six years campaigning for his release from prison. After a retrial, a fresh jury acquits him, and he is set free into an uncertain world. A pandemic is sweeping across the nation, Morgan is broke, and both of them have the heavy stench of a highly publicized trial. Both need a change of scene, as Morgan can no longer live in the house that was last decorated by...
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Publisher
Citadel
Pub. Date
2012
Description
No one looked like her. No one walked like her. No one talked like her. Sexy yet vulnerable, and unexpectedly talented, she was no ordinary screen goddess. Few really knew her. What others wrote, she called "Lies! Lies! Lies!" Here, at last, is Marilyn Monroe's account, in her own singular voice. It was June 1, 1962, her thirty-sixth birthday. Famed photographer and reporter George Barris had come to see Marilyn on the set of what would be her final,...
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