Specter, Baron
Summary: Jared Jensen is being pursued by a pair of ghostly graverobbers, and he and his friends, the Zombie Hunters, need to find a solution before Jared himself is turned into a ghost.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magic Wagon 2013
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC SPEPryor, Mark
Summary: It's summer in Paris and two tourists have been murdered in Père Lachaise cemetery in front of Jim Morrison's grave. The cemetery is locked down and put under surveillance, but the killer returns, flitting in and out like a ghost, and breaks into the crypt of a long-dead Moulin Rouge dancer. In a bizarre twist, he disappears under the cover of night with part of her skeleton. One of the dead...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seventh Street Books 2013
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Corridors of blood: Set in the primitive hospitals of 19th century London, this recounts the story of the unfortunate Dr. Bolton, an early pioneer in anesthesiology, showing his gradual addiction to drugs and his dealings with grave robbers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2006
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2 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER HAUHahn, Dee
Summary: "Twelve-year-old Spade is ... headed for a lifetime of theft when his father comes up with the audacious plan to rob a grave in the Wyndhail castle cemetery. Spade and his brother get caught in a royal trap, and Spade must find the master of the Woegon: a deadly creature that is stalking the castle by night. Along the way, he meets Ember, the queen's niece, and together they race to solve the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Canada 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HAHHiaasen, Carl
Summary: "Valdez Jones VIII calls himself Wrecker because his great-great-great-great-great-grandfather salvaged shipwrecks for a living. So is it destiny, irony, or just bad luck when Wrecker comes across a speedboat that has run hard aground on a sand flat? The men in the boat don't want Wrecker to call for help--in fact, they'll pay him to forget he ever saw them. Wrecker would be happy to forget,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HIASummary: Henry Heath, a grieving lawman whose daughter has recently died, is assigned custody of the ghoulish Jean Baptiste, a notorious robber of 300 graves. Against the perilous Utah desert terrain, the contempt of an entire community, and his own prejudice, Heath must somehow keep a marked man alive.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Monterey Media 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Redemption 2011Pennypacker, Sara
Summary: Asked to travel to Egypt to help with an urgent archaeological expedition, Flat Stanley suspects that he might be helping grave robbers and must rely on his quick thinking, unique flatness, and new friends to make things right.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2009
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE PENHambly, Barbara.
Summary: Benjamin January's search for a missing man takes him into a dark world filled with grave robbers and slave stealers in 1838 New Orleans.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAMSummary: It solves a modern mystery born in the dark fringes of the Age of Enlightenment, showing how illegal grave robbing practices, taking place right beneath Benjamin Franklin's feet, proved invaluable to the advancement of medical science.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Boulley, Angeline
Summary: Perry Firekeeper-Birch was ready for her Summer of Slack but instead, after a fender bender that was entirely not her fault, she's stuck working to pay back her Auntie Daunis for repairs to the Jeep. Thankfully she has the other outcasts of the summer program, Team Misfit Toys, and even her twin sister Pauline. Together they ace obstacle courses, plan vigils for missing women in the community,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: "The dead won't bother you if you don't give them permission. Boston, 1844. Tabby has a peculiar gift: she can communicate with the recently departed. It makes her special, but it also makes her dangerous. As an orphaned child, she fled with her sister, Alice, from their charlatan aunt Bellefonte, who wanted only to exploit Tabby's gift so she could profit from the recent craze for seances. Now...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graydon House 2020
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Summary: Long ago, shapeshifting monsters ruled the Commonwealth using blasphemous magic that fed on the souls of their subjects. Hundreds of years later a new tomb has been uncovered, and despite the legends that disturbing a shapeshifter's final resting place will wake them once again, the Warlord is determined to dig it up. There are others who mean to brave the traps and pitfalls guarding the crypt:...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SANSheinkin, Steve.
Summary: Tells the tale of the attempt to steal Abraham Lincoln's body out of the grave.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2012
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION SHESummary: Industrialization not only changed the face of Western society-it also made people sick. Overcrowded cities, harsh working conditions, and newfound mobility all conspired to imperil public health. In this program, host Dan Cruickshank traces the developments in medicine that took place during-and were often inspired by-the Industrial Revolution. Pioneering Englishmen such as William Withering,...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Kean, Sam
Summary: "Science is a force for good in the world--at least usually. But sometimes, when obsession gets the better of scientists, they twist a noble pursuit into something sinister. Under this spell, knowledge isn't everything, it's the only thing--no matter the cost. Bestselling author Sam Kean tells the true story of what happens when unfettered ambition pushes otherwise rational men and women to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021