The Ghost of Mirror Lake


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Do you believe in ghosts? We invite you to find out as we welcome readers to the latest release of the Summer Days Series, The Ghost of Mirror Lake! Josh Mundy and Vern Ernesto are back at it again in this third volume, but this time they encounter something that will shake them to their very core as they embark on their much-anticipated pack trip into Mirror Lake! When they encounter unexpected visitors that test their courage, friendship, and very sanity, can they pull together and help each other discover what they truly believe about ghosts and friendship? Will their instincts, survival and mountaineering skills be enough to get them out alive?




The Big Book of Ohio Ghost Stories


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Hauntings lurk and spirits linger in the heart of America Reader, beware! Turn these pages and enter the world of the paranormal, where ghosts and ghouls alike creep just out of sight. Author James A. Willis shines a light in the dark corners of Ohio and scares those spirits out of hiding in this thrilling collection. From ghostly soldiers that still haunt Fort Meigs to the eerie Franklin Castle, there’s no shortage of bone-chilling tales to keep you up at night. There’s even a carved tombstone of an infant at Cedar Hill cemetery, whose ghostly eyes keep watch over those wander too close. Around the campfire or tucked away on a dark and stormy night, this big book of ghost stories is a hauntingly good read.




Florida's Ghostly Legends and Haunted Folklore: The Gulf Coast and Pensacola


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From ancient graveyards and monuments to modern restaurants and hotels, this book offers a delightful collection of uncanny legends and eerie folklore about Florida's beautiful west coast. Walk through the picturesque city of Pensacola in Florida's Panhandle, where the spirits of the dead are beckoned by an eerie lighthouse shining through the night, or stroll through Pensacola's Seville Quarter, where you may spot the specter of a long-dead bartender. Visit the Island Hotel and Restaurant in Cedar Key, where thirteen spirits are said to roam the building. Venture again into the unknown with Greg Jenkins, who will guide you through some of Florida's most frightening haunted locations. Prepare yourself for the spine-chilling and uncanny tales of specters and ghosts that inhabit Haunted Florida. See all of the books in this series




Shady Hollow


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The first book in the Shady Hollow series, in which we are introduced to the village of Shady Hollow, a place where woodland creatures live together in harmony—until a curmudgeonly toad turns up dead and the local reporter has to solve the case. Reporter Vera Vixen is a relative newcomer to Shady Hollow. The fox has a nose for news, so when she catches wind that the death might be a murder, she resolves to get to the bottom of the case, no matter where it leads. As she stirs up still waters, the fox exposes more than one mystery, and discovers that additional lives are in jeopardy. Vera finds more to this town than she ever suspected. It seems someone in the Hollow will do anything to keep her from solving the murder, and soon it will take all of Vera’s cunning and quickness to crack the case. A VINTAGE CRIME/BLACK LIZARD ORIGINAL




Haunted Salt Lake City


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“Haunted mansions, phantom nuns and a poltergeist wedding crasher . . . The book’s pages are filled with accounts of ghostly sightings.” —Deseret News Uncovering ghost stories in Salt Lake City leads to a spooky mixture of legend, lore and local history. A young female apparition likes to surprise guests of the McCune Mansion by leaping from a mirror. Believed to be stationed at Fort Douglas, a Civil War vet named Clem still teases female visitors. Staff at the historic Devereaux Mansion, once a major social center, relented in their vain nightly attempts to keep the lights off and let the spirits continue their eternal party. And nuns of the Sisters of the Holy Cross still visit patients in the hospital they established. The guides of Story Tours’ Salt Lake City Ghost Tour reveal characters who just can’t seem to leave the valley.




The Game


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The famous Grace College, located in a remote valley in the Canadian Rocky Mountains, is an elite school for the highly gifted. To Julia and her brother, it's the perfect place to hide. But when Robert finds a dead body in their first week they'll learn they can only run so far from their past. And that the valley has secrets of its own. . .




Mystery at Mirror Lake


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Mystery at Mirror Lake is about issues after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. It takes place in a small mountain town in North Carolina. Denton Gage is the new Sheriff of Mirror Lake; he comes from New York City and was with the NYPD and one of the first responders when 9/11 attacks took place. He lost his wife in the attacks so after the dust settled he decides to take the position of Sheriff for Mirror Lake. Helen Colman grew up in Mirror Lake but lived most of her adult life in a small South Georgia town until her husband died and she moved back home to take care of her mother. As this story unfolds the mystery begins and shows just how vulnerable any town in America can be and how its citizens can pull together to protect their homes and our nation. It also allows the powers that be in our nation's capital to realize where our vulnerabilities lie and what needs to be done to ensure that we as a whole nation and its people are protected from such attacks in the future.




The Crash


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Mount Ghost looms high above Grace College, and holds as many secrets as The Valley itself. Secrets of missing students, lies and betrayal. Julia has barely scratched the surface of The Valley's secrets and she's determined to discover what connects her father to the mysterious Grace College. The answer, she's sure, lies on Mount Ghost, so when Katie suggests that they investigate the students who went missing there forty years ago, Julia jumps at the chance. But Julia can no longer hide from her past in The Valley. And she's not the only one. . .




The Big Book of West Virginia Ghost Stories


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Hauntings lurk and spirits linger in the Mountain State Reader, beware! Turn these pages and enter the world of the paranormal, where ghosts and ghouls alike creep just out of sight. Author Rosemary Ellen Guiley shines a light in the dark corners of Virginia and scares those spirits out of hiding in this thrilling collection. From the headless ghosts wandering Droop Mountain to the tortured spirits of the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, there’s no shortage of bone-chilling tales to keep you up at night. Around the campfire or tucked away on a dark and stormy night, this big book of ghost stories is a hauntingly good read.




Mirror Lake


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The third novel in the Shady Hollow mystery series, in which Vera Vixen takes on her most challenging case yet: solving the murder of a rat who appears to still be alive. Change is afoot in Shady Hollow, with an unusually tense election shaping up between long-serving Chief of Police Theodore Meade and Vera's beau, Deputy Orville Braun. But the political tension takes a back seat when resident eccentric Dorothy Springfield becomes convinced her beloved husband, Edward, is dead, and that the rat claiming to be him is actually a fraud. While most of the town dismisses Dorothy's rants as nothing more than a delusion, Vera has her doubts. More than a few things don't add up in the Springfield household, but Vera will have to tread carefully, since, with Orville's attention on the election, she may be more exposed than ever. A VINTAGE CRIME/BLACK LIZARD ORIGINAL.