Warner, Gertrude Chandler
Summary: "When the Alden siblings visit their grandfather's friend in an apartment building, they begin to wonder about the many mysterious events that keep happening on the thirteenth floor of that building."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC WARNovales, Keka
Summary: When Lola cracks a mirror, she is not worried at first, but when one unlucky thing after another happens, Lola slowly becomes convinced she is cursed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, an imprint of Capstone 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE NOVVrettos, Adrienne Maria
Summary: Twelve-year-old Hattie grew up in Brooklyn, so her family's move to a small town in Massachusetts required a lot of adjustments, but by the time sixth-grade starts she has several new friends--but when she somehow invokes the harvest festival jinx, suddenly none of her new friends even recognize her, and she must find a way to break the spell.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC VREEllis, Kat
Summary: "When someone close to Ava Thorn is brutally murdered and Ava becomes the primary suspect, she starts to wonder if ghostly legends surrounding her town might be more fact than fiction"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ELLSummary: The focus of this film is the hazardous relationship between twenty-something sisters: button-down, superstitious Kay and the rampaging 'Sweetie.'
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY SWEVillanueva, Gail D.
Summary: In one week Sabrina will be eleven-years-old and she would really like to get her estranged parents and her older sister Ate Nadine together for the celebration, especially since the black butterfly landing on her locket has convinced her that she is going to die; Sabrina and her friend Pepper come up with a bucket list, and enlist Ate Nadine's help--but aspiring reporter Ate Nadine is working...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC VILWinsham, Willow
Summary: Why are Celtic fairies behind our compulsion to knock on wood? How is a Norse myth responsible for our fear of the number 13? And why might an ancient Byzantine war strategy make us wary of spilling salt? A fascinating and mystical tumble through thousands of years of curious traditions, Very Superstitious gets to the root of just why we practice these rituals. From keeping new shoes off the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Welbeck 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 001.9 WINChoo, Yangsze
Summary: "From New York Times bestselling author Yangsze Choo, a novel set in 1930s colonial Malaysia that pulls the reader into a world of servants and masters, age-old superstition and modern idealism, sibling rivalry and forbidden love, and a child and a young woman searching for their place in a society that would rather they stay invisible"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A young fifteenth-century goatherd slowly begins to discover an ancient presence deep in the dark woods years after her mother's horrifying demise. In a time when pagan beliefs or witches spread fear into the minds of rural folk, the film aims to explore the thin line between ancient beliefs, magic, and delusional psychosis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN HAGKent, Hannah
Summary: Nóra, bereft after the death of her husband, finds herself alone and caring for her grandson Micheál, who can neither speak nor walk. A handmaid, Mary, arrives to help Nóra just as rumors begin to spread that Micheál is a changeling child who is bringing bad luck to the valley. Nóra and Mary enlist the help of Nance, an elderly wanderer who understands the magic of the old ways.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KENParish, Herman.
Summary: A whimsical tale about friendship and luck finds the literal-minded young Amelia Bedelia and her friends testing superstitions related to such symbols as black cats, four-leaf clovers, and broken mirrors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 2013
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JBR PURPLE PARCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE PARPerry, Sarah
Summary: "It has been years since Helen Franklin left England. In Prague, working as a translator, she has found a home of sorts--or, at least, refuge. That changes when her friend Karel discovers a mysterious letter in the library, a strange confession and a curious warning that speaks of Melmoth the Witness, a dark legend found in obscure fairy tales and antique village lore. As such superstition has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PERRumford, James
Summary: A sheriff in the Old West fights crime with the help of his lucky ten-gallon hat.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC RUMPerry, Sarah
Summary: "It has been years since Helen Franklin left England. In Prague, working as a translator, she has found a home of sorts--or, at least, refuge. That changes when her friend Karel discovers a mysterious letter in the library, a strange confession and a curious warning that speaks of Melmoth the Witness, a dark legend found in obscure fairy tales and antique village lore. As such superstition has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Custom House 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PERCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Perry 2018Vyse, Stuart A.
Summary: "While we live in a technologically and scientifically advanced age, superstition is as widespread as ever. Not limited to just athletes and actors, superstitious beliefs are common among people of all occupations, educational backgrounds, and income levels. In this fully updated edition of Believing in Magic, renowned superstition expert Stuart Vyse investigates our tendency towards these...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 133.43 VYSBunting, Eve
Summary: When Terry wakes up in the middle of the night to horrible screeching, he thinks the Banshee has come to pay his family a visit.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Bunting 2009Pruitt, Shane
Summary: "...Shane Pruitt tackles popular one-liners that have wormed their way into our Christian vernacular... As Shane reminds us, when we move past religious jargon and the catchphrases of cultural Christianity, we can focus our minds on the Word of God. Because Scripture offers more than one-liners intended to comfort; it offers an invitation to know God himself."--Page 4 of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Multnomah 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 230 PRUSundstøl, Vidar
Summary: "On Midsummer Eve in 1985, a young folklore researcher disappears from the village of Eidsborg in the Telemark region of Norway. Exactly thirty years later, the student Cecilie Wiborg goes missing. She too had been researching the old, pagan rituals associated with the 13th-century Eidsborg stave church. And then Knut Abrahamsen, a former police officer from the area, is found drowned in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Minnesota Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SUNAitken, Molly
Summary: "A spellbinding, deeply felt debut novel--haunting and poignant, soaring and gorgeously wrought--about motherhood, freedom, and our own power to shape our destinies. Oona grew up on the island of Inis: a wind-blasted rock off the coast of Ireland where the men went out on fishing boats and the women tended sheep; where the only book was the Bible; and where girls stayed at home until they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AITBrown, Marc
Summary: The Brain does not believe in superstition, but when he tries to prove that superstitions are nonsense he starts finding bad luck everywhere he turns.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2003
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Place a hold to request this item.Chan, Crystal.
Summary: Twelve-year-old Jewel was born on the day her brother Bird died and lives in a house of silence and secrets, but a new boy in her Iowa town may help find the answers Jewel wants despite her Jamaican grandfather's warning that he is a "duppy," a malevolent spirit.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CHAChoo, Yangsze
Summary: "Quick-witted, ambitious Ji Lin is stuck as an apprentice dressmaker, moonlighting as a dancehall girl to help pay off her mother's Mahjong debts. But when one of her dance partners accidentally leaves behind a gruesome souvenir, Ji Lin may finally get the adventure she has been longing for. Eleven-year-old houseboy Ren is also on a mission, racing to fulfill his former master's dying wish:...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Choo 2019Crane, Caprice.
Summary: Facing her romantic prospects with skepticism after two disappointing relationships, successful DJ Berry Lambert, who believes bad things occur in threes, expects a rapid dissolution to her next love affair and is surprised by her attraction to an outspoken, commitment-minded rival.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books Trade Paperbacks 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CRAClary, James.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Maritime History in Art 1994