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AUTHOR TALK |
A Navajo Investigator’s Search for the Unexplained: In Conversation with Stanley Milford, Jr.
Date: Thursday, November 7th
Time: 4:00 PM PDT
Online: This event will take place remotely via Zoom.
Event URL: Register Here
You are welcome to join us in conversation with Navajo Ranger, Stanley Milford, Jr. as he chats about the chilling and clear-eyed memoir of his investigations into bizarre cases of the paranormal and the unexplained in Navajoland. In The Paranormal Ranger, Milford recounts stories of his cases from the clinical and deductive perspective of a law enforcement officer. Milford’s Native American worldview and investigative training collide to provide an eerie account of what logic dictates should not be possible. Register now to expand your worldview and be ready for a chill to run down your spine!
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1) Ghost squad
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English
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2022-2023 OBOB 6th to 8th Grade
Cozy Fantasies and Mysteries for Middle and High School Grades
Spooky Children/Middle Grade Books for October
Cozy Fantasies and Mysteries for Middle and High School Grades
Spooky Children/Middle Grade Books for October
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Publisher Annotation: Shortly before Halloween, Lucely and her best friend, Syd, cast a spell that accidentally awakens malicious spirits, wreaking havoc throughout St. Augustine. Together, they must join forces with Syd's witch grandmother, Babette, and her tubby tabby, Chunk, to fight the haunting head-on and reverse the curse to save the town and Lucely's firefly spirits before it's too late.
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Emblem Island volume 1
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English
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After changing the fate he has known since birth, twelve-year-old Tor Luna, accompanied by his friends Engle and Melda, must visit the notorious Night Witch to break the curse he now faces.
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English
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From renowned Japanese children's author Sachiko Kashiwaba, Temple Alley Summer is a fantastical and mysterious adventure filled with the living dead, a magical pearl, and a suspiciously nosy black cat named Kiriko featuring beautiful illustrations from Miho Satake. Kazu knows something odd is going on when he sees a girl in a white kimono sneak out of his house in the middle of the night-was he dreaming? Did he see a ghost? Things get even stranger...
5) Scarewaves
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English
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You don’t stay out after dark in Beacon Point… The small town of Beacon Point has always been plagued by eerie local phenomena. It’s a town where disappearances are common, strange creatures have been sighted with unnerving frequency, and a ghastly secret lurks in the woods. The adults in town are oblivious to these strange occurrences. Others prefer not to talk or even think about them. But over the course of several terrifying nights, a group...
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Everyone says Peter is the baddest boy in school. He likes strange food, wears strange clothes and does strange things. In fact, Peter is a vampire. So when the class gerbil goes missing, Lucy lets Peter take the blame, even though she knows Peter had nothing to do with it. That's what happens when you're the only vampire in the school.
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Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"They say if you see him, it's already too late." Claire doesn't believe in ghosts, even though her dad is a ghost hunter on TV. But then her dad disappears. And a strange boy in her class, Lucas, knows something about ghosts. One of them has a message for her: Her dad has been taken, and he's in grave danger. Together, Claire and Lucas set out for the town of Hush Falls, where her dad was last seen. Legend says that a tall man in a dark tattered...
8) Abeni's song
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Series
Abeni's song volume 1
Publisher
Starscape, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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Abeni, a reluctant magical apprentice, and a team of spirit kids set out to save their village from the evil Witch Priest who captured and marched off everyone toward ghost ships bound for distant lands.
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Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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Gilbert's visit to his injured brother takes a haunting turn when he discovers a mysterious satchel of cassette tapes containing chilling stories that seem to hold the key to saving his brother, but he may be opening a door to something much, much worse.
10) Tunnel of bones
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Now in Paris with her parents who are filming their TV show about the world's haunted cities, Cassidy Blake (who can see ghosts) and her friend Jacob (who is a ghost) are alert for trouble, especially when the filming takes them into the underground Catacombs, the empire of the dead, where Cassidy accidentally awakens a powerful poltergeist spirit--one whose mystery she must solve before his power in unleashed on the whole city.
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English
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Zoey loves spending the summer with her Aunt Alice, and her aunt's new house is the perfect place to cozy up with a good book. But she's unnerved by the overgrown forest next door, which is creepy even in the daytime and full of eerie sounds at night. Worse, there are rumors in town of a dark force in those woods. And Zoey can't deny that the wild black cats who live there seem to be watching her. When she encounters a mean old woman who claims to...
13) Ghosts bite back
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Rules for vampires volume 2
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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Publisher Annotation: Roald Dahl meets The Beast and the Bethany in this second exciting middle grade adventure following young vampire Leo as she strives to prove herself.
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Pub. Date
2021
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English
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"Six months after Paola Santiago confronted the legendary La Llorona, life is nothing like she'd expected it to be. She is barely speaking to her best friends, Dante and Emma, and what's worse, her mom has a totally annoying boyfriend. Even with her chupacabra puppy, Bruto, around, Pao can't escape the feeling that she's all alone in the world. Pao has no one to tell that she's having nightmares again, this time set in a terrifying forest. Even more...
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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Find sundry novelties, flaps, facsimiles, and more in a haunting-or is it haunted?-volume that gives new meaning to the term ghost writer. Have you been hearing strange footsteps and knocks, whispers and rattling chains? Perhaps the early-twentieth-century author of this newly discovered tome has some secrets to share. Within the book's weathered pages you'll hear of a headless French pirate in search of his missing noggin, a vanishing pair of young...
17) Finders creepers
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Half past peculiar volume 1
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English
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Publisher Annotation: Meet the Fetch Twins and their menagerie of pets as they unlock a mysterious portal to limitless worlds in this one of a kind series from the New York Times bestselling graphic novel team of Dustin Nguyen and Derek Fridolfs.
18) Empty smiles
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Series
Small spaces quartet volume 4
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"When the carnival arrives in town Coco, Brian, and Phil must work together to save Ollie from the smiling man"--
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English
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The first book in a fast-paced, witty, and big-hearted debut Afrofantasy trilogy about a twelve-year-old apprenticing in the kitchens at the prestigious Academy of Shamans, who must ally with a snarky goddess and a knife-wielding warrior to save her kingdom. Perfect for fans of Amari and the Night Brothers and The School for Good and Evil.
20) Dark waters
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Small spaces quartet volume 3
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English
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"Stuck on a mysterious island, Ollie, Coco, and Brian must band to together if they hope to escape the creature that haunts them on both land and sea"--
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