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The Restless Dead: Ten Original Stories of the Supernatural

10 best books like The Restless Dead: Ten Original Stories of the Supernatural (Deborah Noyes): Heartwood Box, Sounder, The Arabian Nights, Beauty Queens, Merci Suárez Changes Gears, The Wright 3, Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm: A New English Version, Heart of the Moors: An Original Maleficent: Mistress of Evil Novel, So Far So Good: Final Poems: 2014-2018, How to Be a Good Creature: A Memoir in Thirteen Animals

Heartwood Box
AuthorAnn Aguirre
ISBN0765397641
A dark, romantic YA suspense novel with an SF edge and plenty of drama, layering the secrets we keep and how appearances can deceive, from the New York Times bestselling author.

In this tiny, terrifying town, the lost are never found. When Araceli Flores Harper is sent to live with her great-aunt...
Sounder
AuthorWilliam H. Armstrong
ISBN0064400204
Set in the Deep South, this Newbery Medal-winning novel tells the story of the great coon dog, Sounder, and the poor sharecroppers who own him.

During the difficult years of the nineteenth century South, an African-American boy and his poor family rarely have enough to eat. Each night, the...
The Arabian Nights
AuthorAnonymous
ISBN0812972147
The tales of told by Shahrazad over a thousand and one nights to delay her execution by the vengeful King Shahriyar have become among the most popular in both Eastern and Western literature, as recounted by Sir Francis Burton. From the epic adventures of "Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp" to the farcical...
Beauty Queens
AuthorLibba Bray
ISBN0439895979
The 50 contestants in the Miss Teen Dream pageant thought this was going to be a fun trip to the beach, where they could parade in their state-appropriate costumes and compete in front of the cameras.

But sadly, their airplane had another idea, crashing on a desert island and leaving the survivors...
Merci Suárez Changes Gears
AuthorMeg Medina
Thoughtful, strong-willed sixth-grader Merci Suarez navigates difficult changes with friends, family, and everyone in between in a resonant new novel from Meg Medina.

Merci Suarez knew that sixth grade would be different, but she had no idea just how different. For starters, Merci has...
The Wright 3
AuthorBlue Balliett
ISBN0439693675
From the New York Times bestselling team behind Chasing Vermeer comes another thought-provoking art mystery--featuring Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie house!

Spring semester at the Lab School in Hyde Park finds Petra and Calder drawn into another mystery when unexplainable accidents and...
Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm: A New English Version
AuthorPhilip Pullman
Two hundred years ago, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published the first volume of Children’s and Household Tales. Now, at a veritable fairy-tale moment—witness the popular television shows Grimm and Once Upon a Time and this year’s two movie adaptations of “Snow White”—Philip Pullman,...
Heart of the Moors: An Original Maleficent: Mistress of Evil Novel
AuthorHolly Black
From New York Times bestselling author Holly Black comes a captivating original novel set between Disney's Maleficent and Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, in which newly-queened Aurora struggles to be the best leader to both the humans and Fair Folk under her reign; her beau, Prince Phillip, longs to...
So Far So Good: Final Poems: 2014-2018
AuthorUrsula K. Le Guin
ISBN1556595387
"It's hard to think of another living author who has written so well for so long in so many styles as Ursula K. Le Guin." --Salon

"She never loses touch with her reverence for the immense what is." --Margaret Atwood

"There is no writer with an imagination as forceful and delicate as Le...
How to Be a Good Creature: A Memoir in Thirteen Animals
AuthorSy Montgomery
ISBN0544938321
National Book Award finalist Sy Montgomery reflects on the personalities and quirks of 13 animals--her friends--who have profoundly affected her in this stunning, poetic, and life-affirming memoir featuring illustrations by Rebecca Green.

Understanding someone who belongs to another...
Amphigorey Too
AuthorEdward Gorey
ISBN0399504206
contains The Beastly Baby, The Nursery Frieze, The Pious Infant, The Evil Garden, The Inanimate Tragedy, The Gilded Bat, The Iron Tonic, The Osbick Bird, The Chinese Obelisks (bis), The Deranged Cousins, The Eleventh Episode, [The Untitled Book], The Lavender Leotard, The Disrespectful Summons,...
The Reluctant Mr. Darwin: An Intimate Portrait of Charles Darwin and the Making of His Theory of Evolution
AuthorDavid Quammen
ISBN0393059812
The Reluctant Mr. Darwin presents Charles Darwin the man in relief against the simplicity and near perfection of his most lasting ideas. Using Darwin’s own journals and correspondence David Quammen, brings the father of evolution to life. He illustrates beautifully the birth and development...
Hello Lighthouse
AuthorSophie Blackall
ISBN0316362387
On the highest rock of a tiny island
at the edge of the world stands a lighthouse.
It is built to last forever. Sending its light out to sea.
The fog rolls in, and the fog rolls out.
The waves rise and crash. The wind blows and blows...
This beautiful picture book caught my eye on the Goodreads...
The O. Henry Prize Stories 2007
AuthorLaura Furman
ISBN0307276880
An arresting collection of contemporary fiction at its best, these stories explore a vast range of subjects, from love and deception to war and the insidious power of class distinctions. However clearly spoken, in voices sophisticated, cunning, or na-ve, here is fiction that consistently defies...
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