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  The Graveyard Book

  by Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean, Chris Riddell

  Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn't live in a sprawling graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor of the dead. There are dangers and adventures in the graveyard for a boy-an ancient Indigo Man beneath the hill, a gateway to a desert leading to an abandoned city of... (more)
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  Her Fearful Symmetry

  by Audrey Niffenegger

  Six years after the phenomenal success of The Time Traveler's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger has returned with a spectacularly compelling and haunting second novel set in and around Highgate Cemetery in London. When Elspeth Noblin dies of cancer, she leaves her London apartment to her twin nieces, Julia and Valentina. These two American girls never met their English aunt, only knew that their mother, too, was a twin,... (more)
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  The Monstrumologist: Book 1

  The Monstrumologist

  by Richard Yancey

  A monster-hunting doctor and his apprentice face off against a plague of monsters in the first book of Rick Yancey's new series, The Monstrumologist.With a roaring sense of adventure and enough viscera to gag the hardiest of gore hounds, Yancey’s series starter might just be the best horror novel of the year. Will Henry is the 12-year-old apprentice to Pellinore Warthrop, a brilliant and self-absorbed... (more)
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  Harper Connelly: Book 2

  Grave Surprise

  by Charlaine Harris

  Charlaine Harris is already a star and a New York Times bestseller with her vampire mysteries starring Sookie Stackhouse and her Lily Bard mysteries. This second installment to her new supernatural mystery series might just be her biggest hit yet. Grave Sight's Harper Connelly is back, and her ability to find the dead and see their last moments is in higher demand than ever... A college class gets more... (more)
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  Ghoul

  by Brian Keene

  No one believes Timmy when he tells them he and his friends discovered a ghoul eating the dead in a local cemetery; but when the ghoul starts attacking the living as well as the dead, Timmy realizes it's up to him and his friends to stop it.
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  Graveminder

  by Melissa Marr

  Three sips to mind the dead . . . Rebekkah Barrow never forgot the tender attention her grandmother, Maylene, bestowed upon the dead of Claysville, the town where Bek spent her adolescence. There wasn’t a funeral that Maylene didn’t attend, and at each Rebekkah watched as Maylene performed the same unusual ritual: three sips from a small silver flask followed by the words “Sleep well, and stay where I... (more)
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  Harry Potter: Book 4

  Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

  by J. K. Rowling

  The fourth book in the Harry Potter series finds Harry Potter midway through his training as a wizard and his coming of age. Harry wants to get away from the pernicious Dursleys and go to the International Quidditch Cup. He wants to find out about the mysterious event that Hogwarts is hosting this year, an event involving two other rival schools of magic, and a competition that hasn't happened for a hundred years,... (more)
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  Great Expectations

  by Charles Dickens

  Great Expectations, described by G. K. Chesterton as a “study in human weakness and the slow human surrender,” may be called Charles Dickens' finest moment in a remarkably illustrious literary career. Written in the last decade of his life, Great Expectations reveals Dickens’ dark attitudes toward Victorian society, its inherent class structure and its materialism. Yet this novel persists as one of Dickens’ most... (more)
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  The Blood Journals: Book 1

  Blood Magic

  by Tessa Gratton

  The murder of her parents has left Silla damaged and lost, and Silla's insistence that her father is not to blame only alienates her further from her friends and family. When a mysterious spell book arrives, Silla hopes it will lead to some answers about her parents' killer. In her first attempt at magic, in an old graveyard near her home, Nick, the new boy in town spies on her; he recognizes the magic that Silla... (more)
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  Mortlock

  by Jon Mayhew

  The sister is a knife-thrower in a magician's stage act, the brother an undertaker's assistant. Neither orphan knows of the other's existence. Until, that is, three terrible Aunts descend on the girl's house and imprison her guardian, the Great Cardamom. His dying act is to pass the girl a note with clues to the secret he has carried to his grave.
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  Hunting the Haunting

  by Joann Reneé Muszynski

  For Sarah, life has become quite complicated. And after a photograph is taken in an old cemetery things only get worse. For Emily, life is already over, stolen from her decades ago. All she wants is to find peace. With a sudden disruption of the spirit world, Sarah and Emily, lifetimes apart, are faced with a desperate challenge - to reveal the truth of Emily's murder. Feeling the weight of the world on her... (more)
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  Pyrophobia

  by Jack Lance

  Life had been nothing but smooth sailing for Jason Evans. He has a loving wife, Kayla, a good job and plenty of friends. There's nothing standing in the way of his happiness, until an unknown enemy starts sending him strange photographs - of a cemetary - with ominous and perplexing messages on the back of each. 'you are dead. You think you're alive, but you don't exist...' Jason soon finds out that his life is not... (more)
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  The Moonlit Wings Series: Book 1

  Cemetery Moon

  by Beth Gualda

  A paranormal, modern-day, type of Gothic romance with a little mystery, humor, sex, love, and darkness. Told in first person narrative, this book is the story of a woman's struggle to find happiness and true love after her whole world seems to have been turned upside down. Someone in her life is preying on her fears and insecurities, but then someone else is watching over her and protecting her.
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  Ruhe sanft: Kulturgeschichte des Friedhofs (ger)

  by Reiner Sörries

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  The Graveyard Queen: Book 2

  The Kingdom

  by Amanda Stevens

  Deep in the shadowy foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains lies a dying town...Book 2 in the Graveyard Queen series. Description to come.
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  Veronica and the Vampire

  by Linda Thomas-Sundstrom

  Veronica Davis is a woman with a desperate need. If she doesn't bring a date to her big sister's wedding, the L for loser that's imprinted on her forehead will become permanent, as far as her family is concerned. And heck, she's started to believe it, herself. Why else would a girl end up at a Los Angeles escort agency with the strange acronym V.A.M.P. Inc? Where you pick your date from a row of coffins in the... (more)
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  Dawn Rising

  by Sheri Webber

  Moving to sunny Florida and accepting his dream job wasn't what Samuel Swift expected. Sure, it gave him the chance to get away from some old girlfriends who were driving him crazy, but was it worth the mess he was in now? Was it worth where he ended up--- wandering cemeteries, whispering?
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  The Necromancer's Apprentice (Celatus Guild Series)

  by Naomi Clark

  Zombies. Black magic. Romance. Nobody said necromancy was easy. All Evanthe wants is to hone her necromancy skills and gain the affections of her reclusive mentor, Morrow. Just when she thinks he might reciprocate her feelings, a face from his past threatens the life Evanthe is working so hard for. Now she's up against rogue necromancers, smarmy demonologists, and blood-thirsty zombies as she and Morrow fight to... (more)
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  Devil's Race

  by Avi

  ‘Sixteen-year-old John Proud discovers his family's dark secret'in 1854 an ancestral namesake confessed to being a demon. Now John finds himself battling his ancestor who is trying to use John for an evil purpose. Mounting suspense plus the sure draw of occult horror will keep readers turning the pages.' 'BL. 1985 Recommended Books for Reluctant Young Adult Readers (ALA) 2001 ALA Popular Paperback for YAs
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  Harper Connelly: Book 3

  An Ice Cold Grave

  by Charlaine Harris

  Hired to find a boy gene missing in Doraville, North Carolina, Harper Connelly and her brother Tolliver head there-only to discover that the boy was only one of several who had disappeared over the previous five years. All of them teenagers. All unlikely runaways. All calling for Harper. Harper soon finds them-eight victims, buried in the half-frozen ground, all come to an unspeakable end. Afterwards, what... (more)