Breathe

Breathe
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Publisher : Carolrhoda Books ®
Total Pages : 204
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781467732055
ISBN-13 : 1467732052
Rating : 4/5 (55 Downloads)

Synopsis Breathe by : Cliff McNish

Jack is not a normal boy. He can talk to ghosts. In his new home, an aging farmhouse, he meets the Ghost Mother, a grief-stricken spirit who becomes very attached to him...too attached. He learns that the Ghost Mother is preying in the cruelest imaginable way on four child ghosts who are trapped in the house, stealing their energy to sustain her own. Before Jack can figure out how to help them, the Ghost Mother takes possession of his real mother’s body. Jack wants to fight back, but he has severe asthma and risks fatal attacks with any physical exertion. It will take all his resources, and his mother’s as well, to fight off the Ghost Mother and save the ghost children from a horrible fate.

Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story

Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 370
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ISBN-10 : 9781101601112
ISBN-13 : 1101601116
Rating : 4/5 (12 Downloads)

Synopsis Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story by : D. T. Max

The acclaimed New York Times–bestselling biography and “emotionally detailed portrait of the artist as a young man” (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times) In the first biography of the iconic David Foster Wallace, D.T. Max paints the portrait of a man, self-conscious, obsessive and struggling to find meaning. If Wallace was right when he declared he was “frightfully and thoroughly conventional,” it is only because over the course of his short life and stunning career, he wrestled intimately and relentlessly with the fundamental anxiety of being human. In his characteristic lucid and quick-witted style, Max untangles Wallace’s anxious sense of self, his volatile and sometimes abusive connection with women, and above all, his fraught relationship with fiction as he emerges with his masterpiece Infinite Jest. Written with the cooperation of Wallace’s family and friends and with access to hundreds of unpublished letters, manuscripts and journals, this captivating biography unveils the life of the profoundly complicated man who gave voice to what we thought we could not say.

This Is Not a Ghost Story

This Is Not a Ghost Story
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Publisher : HarperCollins
Total Pages : 304
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780062422460
ISBN-13 : 0062422464
Rating : 4/5 (60 Downloads)

Synopsis This Is Not a Ghost Story by : Andrea Portes

Nothing is as it seems in this chilling, twisting tale by bestselling author Andrea Portes, perfect for fans of Madeleine Roux and Danielle Vega. Rife with dark humor and chilling twists, This Is Not a Ghost Story is American Horror Story meets There’s Someone Inside Your House. It will have readers flipping back to the very first page after the shocking finale. I am not welcome. Somehow I know that. Something doesn’t want me here. Daffodil Franklin has plans for a quiet summer before her freshman year at college, and luckily, she’s found the job that can give her just that: housesitting a mansion for a wealthy couple. But as the summer progresses and shadows lengthen, Daffodil comes to realize the house is more than it appears. The spacious home seems to close in on her, and as she takes the long road into town, she feels eyes on her the entire way, and something tugging her back. What Daffodil doesn’t yet realize is that her job comes with a steep price. The house has a long-ago grudge it needs to settle . . . and Daffodil is the key to settling it.

Stonewords

Stonewords
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 130
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0140363785
ISBN-13 : 9780140363784
Rating : 4/5 (85 Downloads)

Synopsis Stonewords by : Pam Conrad

Zoe discovers that her house is occupied by the ghost of an eleven-year-old girl, who carries her back to the day of her death in 1870 to try to alter that tragic event.

The Dollhouse: A Ghost Story

The Dollhouse: A Ghost Story
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Publisher : Tundra Books
Total Pages : 360
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780735269071
ISBN-13 : 0735269076
Rating : 4/5 (71 Downloads)

Synopsis The Dollhouse: A Ghost Story by : Charis Cotter

A creepy, mysterious dollhouse takes center stage in this atmospheric middle-grade mystery for fans of Doll Bones and Small Spaces. Alice's world is falling apart. Her parents are getting a divorce, and they've cancelled their yearly cottage trip -- the one thing that gets Alice through the school year. Instead, Alice and her mom are heading to some small town where Alice's mom will be a live-in nurse to a rich elderly lady. The house is huge, imposing and spooky, and everything inside is meticulously kept and perfect -- not a fun place to spend the summer. Things start to get weird when Alice finds a dollhouse in the attic that's an exact replica of the house she's living in. Then she wakes up to find a girl asleep next to her in her bed -- a girl who looks a lot like one of the dolls from the dollhouse . . . When the dollhouse starts to change when Alice isn't looking, she knows she has to solve the mystery. Who are the girls in the dollhouse? What happened to them? And what is their connection to the mean and mysterious woman who owns the house?

A Ghost Story

A Ghost Story
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 136
Release :
ISBN-10 : 1953681026
ISBN-13 : 9781953681027
Rating : 4/5 (26 Downloads)

Synopsis A Ghost Story by : Bret Curry

In collaboration with A24 Films, Bret Curry presents a journey into the production of A Ghost Story. Curry's behind-the-scenes imagery captures the film's exploration of legacy, loss, and the essential human longing for meaning and connection. From filmmakers in their environment, to the quiet moments amongst the cast and crew, these singular moments prove surreal and enduring all the same. Features a foreword by director David Lowery and cover artwork by actor Casey Affleck.

Capitalism

Capitalism
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Publisher : Haymarket Books
Total Pages : 121
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ISBN-10 : 9781608464296
ISBN-13 : 1608464296
Rating : 4/5 (96 Downloads)

Synopsis Capitalism by : Arundhati Roy

The “courageous and clarion” Booker Prize–winner “continues her analysis and documentation of the disastrous consequences of unchecked global capitalism” (Booklist). From the poisoned rivers, barren wells, and clear-cut forests, to the hundreds of thousands of farmers who have committed suicide to escape punishing debt, to the hundreds of millions of people who live on less than two dollars a day, there are ghosts nearly everywhere you look in India. India is a nation of 1.2 billion, but the country’s one hundred richest people own assets equivalent to one-fourth of India’s gross domestic product. Capitalism: A Ghost Story examines the dark side of democracy in contemporary India and shows how the demands of globalized capitalism have subjugated billions of people to the highest and most intense forms of racism and exploitation. “A highly readable and characteristically trenchant mapping of early-twenty-first-century India’s impassioned love affair with money, technology, weaponry and the ‘privatization of everything,’ and—because these must not be impeded no matter what—generous doses of state violence.” —The Nation “A vehement broadside against capitalism in general and American cultural imperialism in particular . . . an impassioned manifesto.” —Kirkus Reviews “Roy’s central concern is the effect on her own country, and she shows how Indian politics have taken on the same model, leading to the ghosts of her book’s title: 250,000 farmers have committed suicide, 800 million impoverished and dispossessed Indians, environmental destruction, colonial-like rule in Kashmir, and brutal treatment of activists and journalists. In this dark tale, Roy gives rays of hope that illuminate cracks in the nightmare she evokes.” —Publishers Weekly

Let's Become a Ghost Story

Let's Become a Ghost Story
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Publisher : BOA Editions
Total Pages :
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ISBN-10 : 1950774007
ISBN-13 : 9781950774005
Rating : 4/5 (07 Downloads)

Synopsis Let's Become a Ghost Story by : Rick Bursky

Playful, sexy, and occasionally absurd, Bursky sifts through the detritus of American culture to reveal the sharp edges and breathtaking facets of life.

Vintage

Vintage
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Publisher : Lethe Press
Total Pages : 204
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781590210536
ISBN-13 : 1590210530
Rating : 4/5 (36 Downloads)

Synopsis Vintage by : Steve Berman

A lonely seventeen-year-old who has dreamed of meeting a different and special boy desperately seeks help from his friend Trace, a Goth girl, to free him from the clutches of a handsome ghost he has met on a rural New Jersey highway.

Nurse Lugton's Curtain

Nurse Lugton's Curtain
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Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages : 44
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0152050485
ISBN-13 : 9780152050481
Rating : 4/5 (85 Downloads)

Synopsis Nurse Lugton's Curtain by : Virginia Woolf

As Nurse Lugton dozes, the animals on the patterned curtain she is sewing come alive.