McBride, Lish.
Summary: Sam LaCroix, a Seattle fast-food worker and college dropout, discovers that he is a necromancer, part of a world of harbingers, werewolves, satyrs, and one particular necromancer who sees Sam as a threat to his lucrative business of raising the dead.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2010
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MCBMurashige, Kelly
Summary: Rendered mute following a traumatic friendship breakup, seventeen-year-old Machi prays to a Japanese goddess to become a vacuum cleaner robot, but accidentally conjures the deity, who is determined to show Machi that life is worth living.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Teen 2024
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Summary: "When a talented mechanic in 1818 Geneva brings his brother back from the dead using clockwork parts, the citizens of Geneva think they may have inspired the recently published novel Frankenstein"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
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Summary: After being assigned to her university's prestigious and controversial neo-anthropological studies program, eighteen-year-old deaf student Delaney Meyers-Petrov must learn to channel her ability to slip between worlds--and, along with her capricious TA Colton Price, who seems determined to despise her, must uncover buried institutional secrets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ANDPalahniuk, Chuck.
Summary: "The continued adventures of Madison, the heroine of DAMNED, who escapes Hell and comes back to Earth"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PALHutchinson, Shaun David
Summary: A good friend will bury your body, a best friend will dig you back up. Dino doesn't mind spending time with the dead. His parents own a funeral home, and death is literally the family business. He's just not used to them talking back. Until Dino's ex-best friend July dies suddenly--and then comes back to life. Except not exactly. Somehow July is not quite alive, and not quite dead. As Dino and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HUTMcBride, Lish.
Summary: Six weeks after escaping from the necromancer Douglas, Sam LaCroix is under the protection of the Blackthorn pack of werewolves and fey hounds and unsure if his necromancer rival is dead.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2012
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MCBWesterfeld, Scott.
Summary: In alternating chapters, eighteen-year-old Darcy Patel navigates the New York City publishing world and Lizzie, the heroine of Darcy's novel, slips into the "Afterworld" to survive a terrorist attack and becomes a spirit guide, as both face many challenges and both fall in love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Pulse 2014
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WESDeStefano, Lauren.
Summary: Neglected by her father who spends all of his time building the ghost machine to bring her mother back from the dead, twelve-year-old Emmaline decides that the only way to bring her father back will be to make the ghost machine work, or destroy it forever.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2017
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Summary: Laylee, thirteen, is nearly worn out from washing and packaging corpses for the Otherwhere and being shunned by villagers when two strangers, Alice and Oliver, arrive determined to help.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books Young Readers/Penguin Random House LLC 2017
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Summary: When his wealthy uncle, a champion bridge player who has lost his vision, asks seventeen-year-old Alton to be a cardturner for him, Alton has no idea how much he will ultimately learn from his eccentric relative.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library 2010
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Summary: Told in alternating timelines, seventeen-year-old Daisy and her mother move into her deceased uncle's mansion, only to find horrors waiting inside, and ten years later, Brittney investigates the mystery behind the Miracle Mansion that turned her mother's life around.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2023
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Summary: Seventeen-year-old Emma Paxton steps into the life of her long-lost twin Sutton to solve her murder, while Sutton looks on from her afterlife.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen 2010
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION SHEGaiman, Neil.
Summary: After the grisly murder of his entire family, a toddler wanders into a graveyard where the ghosts and other supernatural residents agree to raise him as one of their own.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Pub. 2008
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Summary: A historical fantasy that follows Eastern European teens Yehuda and Bluma on a journey through the Far Country, the Jewish land of the dead.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020
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Summary: Skeleanor loves music, but no matter what type of instrument she plays, she always seems to scare people away, so with the help of her best friend, Batima, Skeleanor will try to show everyone her musical skills at the upcoming festival.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 ETTShepard, Sara
Summary: Seventeen-year-old Sutton Mercer watches from the afterlife as her long-lost twin sister, Emma Paxton, continues to pretend to be her in order to identify Sutton's killer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen 2011
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC SHEShusterman, Neal.
Summary: In the limbo that is Everlost, Mary, Nick, Allie, and others face the decisions that will determine whether that place and the Earth itself will continue to exist, as well as where their own futures lie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2011
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SHUShusterman, Neal.
Summary: Nick, known as the dreaded "Chocolate Ogre," is trying to find all the children in Everlost and release them from the limbo they are in, while Mikey and Allie have joined a band of skinjackers and are putting themselves in danger by visiting the world of the living.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2009
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SHUParker, K. J.
Summary: In the battlefield salvage business, when the blood flows, so does the cash. But Saevus Corax has had enough and wants to retire. First he must get away with one last score. What could go wrong?
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: "What happens when you mix 1 (accidental) murder with 2 thousand wedding guests, and then, toss in a possible curse on 3 generations of an immigrant Chinese-Indonesian family? You get 4 meddling Asian aunties coming to the rescue! When Meddelin Chan ends up accidentally killing her blind date, her meddlesome mother calls for her even more meddlesome aunties to help get rid of the body....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2021
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Summary: "Odessa is one of Karthia's master necromancers, catering to the kingdom's ruling Dead. Whenever a noble dies, it's Odessa's job to raise them by retrieving their souls from a dreamy and dangerous shadow world called the Deadlands. But there is a cost to being raised: the Dead must remain shrouded. If even a hint of flesh is exposed, the grotesque transformation begins, turning the Dead into...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Razorbill 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC MARHutchinson, Shaun David
Summary: Dino doesn't mind spending time with the dead. His parents own a funeral home, and death is literally the family business. He's just not used to them talking back. Until Dino's ex-best friend July dies suddenly and then comes back to life. Except not exactly. Somehow July is not quite alive, and not quite dead. As Dino and July attempt to figure out what's happening, they must also confront why...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Summary: Still feeling broken after her family's battle in Los Lagos, Lula invokes a dark spell to bring her boyfriend and others back after a fatal bus crash, but unwittingly raises an army of hungry, half-dead casimuertos, instead.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018