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101) The good sister
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When teenaged Sarah dies in a sudden and puzzling accident, sending her two sisters into a tailspin of grief and confusion, Sarah wakes up in the afterlife and must piece together how she got there.
102) The Devil's banshee
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Team DEVIL is back--this time, led by the indomitable Viking prince Alfarin to wrest a banshee from her hiding place in the Nine Circles of Hell.
104) Layoverland: a novel
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On her last day on Earth, Beatrice Fox ruined the life of the person she loves most-- her little sister, Emmy. Then a fatal car accident sends her to purgatory-- where she is chosen to join the Memory Experience team. If she wants a shot at heaven, she'll have to help 5,000 souls suss out what's keeping them from moving on. Bea's first assigned soul is Caleb, the boy who caused her accident, and the last person Bea would ever want to send to the pearly...
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"Six years ago, Melody Pieterson was attacked and left for dead. Only a chance encounter with a dog walker saved her life. Melody's neighbor and close friend David Alden was found guilty of the crime and imprisoned, and the attack and David's betrayal of her friendship left Melody a different person. She no longer trusts her own judgment, she no longer trusts her friends ... Soon after David is released from prison, Eve Elliot is murdered in an attack...
106) Decimate
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Fourteen years after a mysterious blinding light bowled over her and her brother in a Montana forest and possible explanations caused a family rift, Claire agrees to join her estranged father in his ongoing investigations of a paranormal force.
108) All that is sacred
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When Lynn and her husband set out for a weekend retreat to repair their rocky marriage, icy roads lead to a fatal collision that ends Lynn's life. Stranded between the physical world and the afterlife, Lynn experiences the grief of her loved ones as they process her death.
109) Bone Hollow
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Gabe was on top of his guardian's roof, trying to rescue her prize chicken and worrying about his dog, Ollie, when the tornado struck, and after that he was dead, though it takes some time for him to realize it; but somehow he is still tied to this world and generally only those who are close to death can actually see him (although there is a bit of a panic when he shows up at his own funeral)--and in that he discovers his new mission in "life:" helping...
110) One moment
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"The day Scarlett dies should have been one of the most important of her life. It doesn't feel fair that she'll never have the chance to fulfil her dreams. And now, she's still here -- wherever here is -- watching the ripple effect of her death on the lives of those she loved the most. Evie cannot contemplate her life without Scarlett, and she certainly cannot forgive Nate, the man she blames for her best friend's death. But Nate keeps popping up...
111) Almost an Angel
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Can Katie lead Charles to God in time before the mobsters "take him out"?
Katie is killed in a car wreck with her family. Shallow and self-centered, she is sent back to earth on a spiritual mission.
Charles is about to take a flying leap off his apartment building roof because two mobsters are trailing him. Katie crashes into him and knocks him down. Charles meets Katie and forgets he ever wanted to die. Together, they embark on a series of...
112) Smoke and key
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"She has no idea who or where she is. Or why she's dead. The only clue to her identity hangs around her neck: a single rusted key. This is how she and the others receive their names--from whatever belongings they had when they fell out of their graves. Under is a place of dirt and secrets, and Key is determined to discover the truth of her past in order to escape it."--Back cover.
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When Samuel Johnson dies, he finds himself in the body of the man who killed him, unable to depart this world but determined, at least, to return to the son he left behind. Moving from body to body as each one expires, Samuel’s soul journeys on a comic quest through an American half-century, inhabiting lives as stymied, in their ways, as his own. A ghost story of the most unexpected sort, Martin Riker’s extraordinary debut is about the ways experience...
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"Eddie es un viejo veterano de guerra que se siente atrapado en una vida sin sentido, dedicada a reparar las máquinas de un parque de atracciones al borde del mar. Con el pasar de los años, el parque ha cambiado -- del Rizar el Rizo al Tobogán Acuático -- y Eddie también: ha pasado de ser un joven optimista a convertirse en un viejo amargado. Sus días son una aburrida rutina de trabajo, soledad, y arrepentimiento. Pero el día que cumple ochenta...
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"Un relato poético acerca de la pérdida de los seres queridos, del amor y de la convicción inspiradora de una niña"--Page [4] of cover.
Yolanda's mother has died suddenly. In her shock and utter dismay, Yolanda decides to search for her and finds her everywhere, in everything.
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"In a small logging town in northern California, young Emma Rose Finnis was born and died. Now, no one remembers her hardworking life and her grand dreams--but she remembers. She remembers everything. Emma Rose is still here, one hundred years after her death . . . and she doesn't plan on leaving. But when a determined hunter arrives with instructions to "clean" Emma Rose out of her haunt, the stately Lambry mansion, death suddenly isn't the worst...
117) Summerland
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"How do you catch a spy who's already dead?"
Loss is a thing of the past. Murder is obsolete. Death is just the beginning. In 1938, death is no longer feared but exploited. Since the discovery of the afterlife, the British Empire has extended its reach into Summerland, a metropolis for the recently deceased. Yet Britain isn't the only contender for power in this life and the next. The Soviets have spies in Summerland, and the technology to build...
118) The world of the end
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As an epilogist, Ben Mendelssohn appreciates an unexpected ending. But when that denouement is the untimely demise of his beloved wife, Ben is incapable of coping. Marian was more than his life partner; she was the fiber that held together all that he is. And Ben is willing to do anything, even enter the unknown beyond, if it means a chance to be with her again. One bullet to the brain later, Ben is in the Other World, where he discovers a vast and...