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"Violette Toussaint is the caretaker at a cemetery in a small town in Bourgogne. Casual mourners, regular visitors, and sundry colleagues--gravediggers, groundskeepers, and a priest--visit her to warm themselves in her lodge, where laughter, companionship, and occasional tears mix with the coffee she offers them. Her life is lived to the rhythms of their funny, moving confidences. Violette's routine is disrupted one day by the arrival of Julien Sole--local...
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2016
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English
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"Elmwood Springs, Missouri, is a small town like any other, but something strange is happening out at the cemetery. 'Still Meadows, ' as it's called, is anything but still. Tells a surprising story of life, afterlife, and the mysterious goings-on of ordinary people"--Amazon.com.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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Part love story and part ghost story, this is an unforgettable New York Times bestseller about a science journalist and a North Carolina librarian who dare to believe in the impossible.
As a science journalist with a regular column in Scientific American, Jeremy Marsh specializes in debunking the supernatural-until he falls in love with the granddaughter of the town psychic.
When Jeremy receives a letter from Boone Creek,...
As a science journalist with a regular column in Scientific American, Jeremy Marsh specializes in debunking the supernatural-until he falls in love with the granddaughter of the town psychic.
When Jeremy receives a letter from Boone Creek,...
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ABRAMS
Pub. Date
2022
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English
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"A lively tour through the history of US cemeteries that explores how, where, and why we bury our dead. The summer before his senior year in college, Greg Melville worked at the cemetery in his hometown, and thanks to hour upon hour of pushing a mower over the grassy acres, he came to realize what a rich story the place told of his town and its history. Thus was born Melville's lifelong curiosity with how, where, and why we bury and commemorate our...
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2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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In a lonely Illinois cemetery one cold October night, teen ghosts recount the stories of their deaths in different time periods, from 1870 to the present, to sixteen-year-old Mike, who unknowingly picked up a phantom hitchhiker.
10) Dead connection
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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A loner who communes with the dead in the town cemetery hears the voice of a murdered cheerleader and tries to convince the adults that he knows what happened to her.
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Scholastic Inc
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[2014]
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IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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The house at Cinder Creek hides many secrets. Shelby and Brian Tate have heard heated voices crying out in the night. They've noticed the unsettling way things move around on their own. But the most chilling thing about their new home is the cemetery someone's built out back. The graves are tiny, only big enough for dolls. And the dolls won't stay buried.
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After joining the police force of her small Irish village, a local woman must investigate the murder of a stranger in this cozy mystery novel.
After solving two murders in the County Cork village of Kilbane, Siobhán O'Sullivan has accepted her calling and decided to join the Garda Síochána. The O'Sullivan clan couldn't be prouder, but there's no time to celebrate as she's already on another case, summoned by...
After solving two murders in the County Cork village of Kilbane, Siobhán O'Sullivan has accepted her calling and decided to join the Garda Síochána. The O'Sullivan clan couldn't be prouder, but there's no time to celebrate as she's already on another case, summoned by...
16) The sinner
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A living ghost in search of a purpose and place, who is a cemetery restorer by trade, must solve the murder of a young woman discovered in a caged grave and teams up with the detective assigned to the case, who is also a ghost seer, as supernatural forces manipulate their every move. --Publisher.
17) The bone garden
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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Made from bone dust and imagination, Irreélle accidentally destroys another of Miss Vesper's creations and flees to the underside of the graveyard, seeking the magic that brings bones to life.
19) Six feet over it
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Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2014
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IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Home is where the bodies are buried. Darkly humorous and heart-wrenchingly beautiful, Jennifer Longos YA debut about a girl stuck living in a cemetery will change the way you look at life, death, and love. Leigh sells graves for her family-owned cemetery because her father is too lazy to look farther than the dinner table when searching for employees. Working the literal graveyard shift, she meets two kinds of customers: Pre-Need: They know whats...
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