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Recorded Books classics libraryWright, Jaime Jo
Summary: "In 1865, orphaned Daisy Francois takes a housemaid position and finds that the eccentric Gothic authoress inside hides a story more harrowing than those in her novels. Centuries later, Cleo Clemmons uncovers an age-old mystery, and the dust of the old castle's curse threatens to rise again, this time leaving no one alive to tell its sordid tale"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House Publishers, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WRIWhite, Andrew Joseph
Summary: "London, 1883. The Veil between the living and dead has thinned. Violet-eyed mediums commune with spirits under the watchful eye of the Royal Speaker Society, and sixteen-year-old Silas Bell would rather rip out his violet eyes than become an obedient Speaker wife. According to Mother, he'll be married by the end of the year. It doesn't matter that he's needed a decade of tutors to hide his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Peachtree Teen 2023
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2 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WHIWilson, Abigail
Summary: "Her friend is missing. After five years abroad, Charity Halliwell finally returns to Loxby Manor, the home of dear friends -- and her lost love. No longer a young girl, she is now haunted by a painful secret and the demise of her dreams. Instead of the healing and happiness she hopes to find, she encounters a darkness lurking in the shadows of the once-familiar house. When her friend, Seline,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILHalls, Stacey
Summary: "Two women, bound by a child, and a secret that will change everything. London, 1754. Six years after leaving her illegitimate newborn at the Foundling Hospital, Bess Bright returns to reclaim the daughter she has never known. Dreading the worst, that she has died in care, she is astonished to discover someone pretending to be Bess has already claimed her. Her life is turned upside down as she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira/Harlequin Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HALMas, Victoria
Summary: Under the cover of the Madwomen's Ball--when the great and good come to gawk at the patients of the Salpetriere Asylum in Paris--nineteen-year-old Eugenie, who can see spirits, is determined to escape and seek those who will believe in her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Overlook Press 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MASCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MASCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Mas 2021Collins, Sara
Summary: 1826, and all of London is in a frenzy. Crowds gather at the gates of the Old Bailey to watch as Frannie Langton, maid to Mr and Mrs Benham, goes on trial for their murder. The testimonies against her are damning - slave, whore, seductress. And they may be the truth. But they are not the whole truth. For the first time Frannie must tell her story. It begins with a girl learning to read on a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COLCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC COLMcGill, C. E.
Summary: "Mary is the great-niece of Victor Frankenstein. She knows her great uncle disappeared under mysterious circumstances in the Arctic, but she doesn't know why or how... The 1850s are a time of discovery, and London is ablaze with the latest scientific theories and debates, especially when a spectacular new exhibition of dinosaur sculptures opens at the Crystal Palace. Mary is keen to make her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCGMcDermid, Val.
Summary: A modern retelling of Jane Austen's classic novel finds bookish minister's daughter Cat Morland joining her well-to-do friends in Edinburgh and falling for an up-and-coming lawyer who may harbor unsettling secrets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014
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Summary: In 19th century Bath, a girl bursting with freshness and a passion for macabre Gothic novels experiences intrigue, adventure, and romance, espeically when the romantic Henry Tilney invites her to his ancestral home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1982
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC AUSGibbs, Amiee
Summary: "In Victorian London, where traveling sideshows are the very pinnacle of entertainment, there is no more coveted ticket than Ashe and Pretorius' Carnivale of Curiosities. Each performance is a limited engagement, and London's elite boldly dare the dangerous streets of Southwark to witness the Carnivale's astounding assemblage of marvels. For a select few, however, the real show begins behind...
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Publisher / Publication Date: GCP 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GIBWard, Catriona
Summary: "Winner of the Shirley Jackson Award for best novel and the August Derleth Prize for best horror novel, Catriona Ward's Little Eve is a heart-pounding literary gothic with a devastating twist. Eve and Dinah are everything to one another, together day and night. They are raised among the Children, a clan ruled by a mysterious figure they call Uncle. All they know is the gray Isle of Altnaharra,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nightfire 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC WARCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WARLepore, Jacqueline.
Summary: Twenty-five-year old Victorian widow Emma Andrews discovers that she is destined to hunt vampires.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEPMcDermid, Val
Summary: A modern retelling of Jane Austen's classic novel finds bookish minister's daughter Cat Morland joining her well-to-do friends in Edinburgh and falling for an up-and-coming lawyer who may harbor unsettling secrets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pgw 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCDLukasik, Gail
Summary: Nurse Nellie Lester can't escape death. Fleeing Chicago at the height of the 1918 Spanish flu, she takes a nursing job at a decrepit mansion on a desolate Michigan island, convinced the island holds the secret to her mother's murky past. The only problem? Her dead mother seems to have followed her there. Nightly she's haunted by a ghostly presence that appears in her bedroom. But is it her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: CamCat Publishing, LLC 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LUKSetterfield, Diane
Summary: Killing a bird with his slingshot as a boy, William Bellman grows up a wealthy family man unaware of how his act of childhood cruelty will have terrible consequences until a wrenching tragedy compels him to enter into a macabre bargain with a stranger in black.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SETCullinan, Thomas
Summary: "The basis for the major motion picture starring Nicole Kidman, Colin Farrell, Kirsten Dunst, and Elle Fanning, and directed by Sofia Coppola "[A] mad gothic tale. The reader is mesmerized with horror by what goes on in that forgotten school for young ladies." --Stephen King, in Danse Macabre Wounded and near death, a young Union Army corporal is found in the woods of Virginia during the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2017
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Summary: "As the daughter of a rancher in 1840s Mexico, Nena knows a thing or two about monsters--her home has long been threatened by tensions with Anglo settlers from the north. But something more sinister lurks near the ranch at night, something that drains men of their blood and leaves them for dead. Something that once attacked Nena nine years ago. Believing Nena dead, Néstor has been on the run...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2023