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Gilda Joyce: the dead drop (Gilda Joyce, psychic investigator #04)
By Jennifer Allison. 2010
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Mysteries and crime stories, Ghost and horror stories, Multi-cultural fiction, General fictionArts and entertainment
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When Gilda lands a summer internship at the International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C., she finds herself caught up in…
both a museum haunting and a real case of espionage. While investigating a cemetery where Abraham Lincoln's son was once buried, Gilda stumbles upon a spy's "dead drop" of classified information. As she tries to decode the cryptic message, Gilda realizes her case is not only a matter of investigating the supernatural; she's involved in an urgent matter of national security and faces her most serious challenge yet. For junior and senior high readersEscape to Witch Mountain
By Alexander Key. 2009
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Science fiction, Ghost and horror stories, Adventure stories, Family storiesArts and entertainment
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"Two children with supernatural powers come to earth from another world and find themselves on the run from men who…
want to use their special powers for evil purposes." -- Provided by NLSFrankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus (Collected Works Of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
By Elizabeth Carbe, Nino Carbe, Mary Shelley. 2016
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Classic fiction, Ghost and horror storiesArts and entertainment
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Generations have thrilled to Mary Shelley's 1818 novel, the suspenseful tale of a well-intentioned doctorwho dares to play God and…
the misbegotten monster who wreaks a savage revenge on his creator. Combining elements of Gothic novels and Romantic sensibilities, Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus poses enduring questions about ambition, responsibility, the quest for scientific discovery and immortality, and the fate of social outcasts. Acclaimed as both the first modern horror novel and the first science-fiction novel, the story has inspired countless writers and artists as well as numerous film, theatrical, and television interpretations. Newly designed and reset, this handsome hardbound edition reprints all of Nino Carbé's starkly beautiful pen-and-ink drawings and endpieces from one of the earliest illustrated editions of Frankenstein. Bonus images include five full-color paintings created by Carbé, a noted Walt Disney artist, in the 1980s. The artist's daughter, Elizabeth Carbé, provides a new Foreword