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3) Bone tree
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"Elsie battles a terrifying ghost to keep her best friend around forever. But does forever have too much of a cost? Elsie's best friend, Roman, is dying. But Roman has a plan to escape death. He wants to be resurrected through the powers of the Bone Tree and the curse of the Woman in White, Mary Simon, whose body lies beneath the tree. Terrified, yet determined not to lose him, Elsie promises Roman to summon Mary's ghost and the powers of the Bone...
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"Having survived the Silent Ladies' Tea Party with the help of Scarlett and Abigail, Constance must now prepare for her meeting with Cecilia--the sly, deceitful princess. She hopes it'll be a chance to learn more about the incident ten years ago… but when Connie arrives at the palace, the mystery only deepens as a member of the royal family goes missing. All clues point to one suspicious Solditan merchant, but if Connie wishes to track him...
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"After discovering that the series of mysterious happenings around her all point to the criminal organization Daeg Gallus, it dawns on Connie just how much danger she's in. She tries to keep her best friend at a distance . . . but it's all for naught when Kate is kidnapped! Connie must leap into action to save her, though she's not the only one on the move--the reporter Amelia Hobbes has dug up some nasty details about Crown Princess Cecilia's birth,...
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"The Grail family has a single guiding principle in their lives--Thou Shalt Be Sincere. However, sincerity alone can only get a lady so far in the twisted world of high society. . .as meek Constance Grail soon learns after she is framed for petty theft and loses her fiancé and reputation in a matter of minutes. But one gaze on her isn't quite as chilling as the others, though the woman's uncanny resemblance to Scarlett Castiel must be a coincidence....
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"Thanks to aid from the ghost of Scarlett Castiel, Constance escaped the incident at the Grand Merillian as the triumphant victim. Good deeds don't come for free however, and the price for Scarlett's help is vengeance! Although she was unabashedly wicked, the villainess is adamant that she was framed for poisoning the crown princess--but with no evidence, Constance has her work cut out for her. Perhaps the strange circumstances behind the apparent...
9) Woodworm
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"A granddaughter and grandmother, alienated from their community, live among various sombras, shadows of the dead with whom they alone can pray and commune. When the mysterious disappearance of a young boy draws the unwanted attention of locals, the women combine forces with the spirits that haunt them in pursuit of something that resembles justice"--
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"If the dead can wake and walk among us, how can we know what is truly real? Roos Beckman has a spirit companion only she can see. Ruth-strange, corpse-like, and dead for centuries-is the light of Roos' life. That is, until the wealthy young widow Agnes Knoop visits one of Roos' backroom seances, and the two strike up a connection. Soon, Roos is whisked away to the crumbling estate Agnes inherited upon the death of her husband, where an ill woman...
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In this heartfelt story about how the places we run from hold the answers to our deepest challenges, the death of her grandmother brings a young woman home, where she must face the past in order to become the heir of not just the family restaurant, but her own destiny. Violeta Sanoguera had always done what she was told. She left the man she loved in Colombia in pursuit of a better life for herself and because her mother and grandmother didn't approve...
12) Batcat: 1
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Batcat loves being all alone in their home on Spooky Island, spending time playing videogames and watching TV. But, when they find themself being haunted by an annoying, ice cream-stealing ghost, they visit the local Island Witch for a spell to remove their ghostly guest permanently.