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  Magic Tree House: Book 10

  Ghost Town at Sundown

  by Mary Pope Osborne, Salvatore Murdocca

  The saga and success of The Magic Tree House continues! The tenth adventure, Ghost Town at Sundown, is filled with the excitement, action, and fun facts always found in Magic Tree House books. Morgan le Fay has promised to make Jack and Annie masters of the tree house if they can solve four riddles. In Ghost Town at Sundown, the Magic Tree House whisks Jack and Annie back to a ghost town in the Wild West of... (more)
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  The Threshold

  by Marlys Millhiser

  Aletha is sketching a century old abandoned miner's shack when a little girl appears through a tiny rip in time and space. They only see each other for a second, and then the rip closes back. With Aletha's sketchbook still in 1900. The little girl Callie and the woman Aletha are tied together, rifts opening at random, enabling passing between the two times in the same town, a bloody troubled mining town in... (more)
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  Ghost Town

  by Richard W. Jennings

  Spencer Adams Honesty may be the last best hope for Paisley, Kansas—and for lonely kids everywhere. Spencer Honesty and his mom are the last people left in Paisley, except for Chief Leopard Frog, Spence’s imaginary friend. One lonely day, Chief Leopard Frog’s carved rabbit talisman tells Spence to take his photo, so Spence digs up his late father’s camera and starts shooting photographs all around his ghost town.... (more)
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  Some Dreams Die: Utah's Ghost Towns and Lost Treasures

  by George A. Thompson

  New edition of George Thompson's classic work on Utah ghost towns and lost treasure. Over 400 Utah ghost towns are covered and hundreds more lost treasure tales are told. Illustrated with 120 historical photographs and a dozen maps. Each chapter is arranged geographically for each section of the state and includes a general locator map. Some Dreams Die has been regularly selling online for $100 a copy and up! This... (more)
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  Ghost Towns: Yesterday and Today

  by Gary B. Speck

  "Ghost Towns: Yesterday & Today" is a stunning photographic tour through North America s historic ghost towns. It s a magnificent tribute to the once bustling businesses and thriving villages across the continent, from the Wild West to the upper reaches of the Klondike to the East Coast s colonial settlements. In 192 pages of striking imagery and captivating stories, Ghost Towns: Yesterday & Today touches... (more)
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  Ghost Town Album 2nd in the Western Ghost Town Series

  by Lambert Florin

  This book was digitized and reprinted from the collections of the University of California Libraries. Together, the more than one hundred UC Libraries comprise the largest university research library in the world, with over thirty-five million volumes in their holdings. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found online in the HathiTrust Digital Library.HP's patented BookPrep technology was used... (more)
• Elk County (Pa.); A journey through time.John D. Imhof

  

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  Elk County (Pa.); A journey through time.

  by John D. Imhof

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  Amazing Stories (Altitude Publishing Canada)

  Ghost Town Stories II: From Renegade to Ruin Along the Red Coat Trail (Amazing Stories)

  by Johnnie Bachusky

  Ghost Town Stories II - From Renegade to Ruin Along the Red Coat Trail "An automatic revolver of seemingly gigantic proportions was playing on me. One man said, 'Be quiet, we won't hurt you. We're just going to hold up the bank.'" This book will be especially fascinating for all readers interested in: history western Canada When the train came west through southern Saskatchewan and Alberta,... (more)
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  Ghost Hunting in Mother Lode Country

  by Hilber H. Graf

  Join this adventure to discover Gold Rush ghost towns, chase the elusive phantom of stagecoach bandit Black Bart, then explore Sacramento’s haunted underground city and commune with spirits in San Francisco’s historic hotels. GHOST HUNTING IN MOTHER LODE COUNTRY is an eerie and informative travel guide to creepy tourist destinations and foreboding Central California locales. You get hauntingly helpful tips on how... (more)
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  Chernobyl: The Hidden Legacy

  by Pierpaolo Mittica

  On April 26, 1986, at 1:24 a.m, the world's worst ever man-made disaster took place. Reactor 4 at Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station, three kilometres from Pripyat in the then Soviet Republic of Ukraine, was beset by a series of explosions that rose deep from its radioactive depths and blasted itself high into the atmosphere, eventually seeping its way into the far corners of the globe. Chernobyl - The Hidden... (more)
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  Captain Underpants

  The New Captain Underpants Collection (Books 1-5)

  by Dav Pilkey

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  Some Other Place. The Right Place

  by Donald Harington

  It is June. Diana Stoving's new Porsche has just broken down on the Garden State Parkway, and Diana, twenty-one, freshly graduated from Sarah Lawrence, sits in a dealer's showroom, waiting for repairs. Bored and impatient, Diana leafs through the local newspaper - and by pure chance reads the news item that will change the course of her life, that will launch her on a year's journey, a year of the strangest... (more)
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  Great Ghost Towns of the West

  by Tom Till, Teresa Jordan

  What is it about ghost towns that so intrigues us? Award-winning photographer Tom Till and author Teresa Jordan have collaborated in creating a book that captures the mysterious essence that draws all of us to ghost towns. The evocative photos capture the town in both its remnants and its aura, and Jordan's words convey the stories of the people who passed through these towns. Where did the people come from... (more)