Christopher Golden
1) All hallows
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"New York Times bestselling, Bram Stoker Award-winning author Christopher Golden is best known for his supernatural thrillers set in deadly, distant locales...but in this suburban Halloween drama, Golden brings the horror home. It's Halloween night, 1984, in Coventry, Massachusetts, and two families are unraveling. Up and down the street, secrets are being revealed, and all the while, mixed in with the trick-or-treaters of all ages, four children...
Author
Publisher
Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A princess' desire for power in a realm where everyone is a slave upsets the delicate balance of peace between the royal and working classes, triggering a series of events that will end in her either becoming a goddess or destroying the kingdom.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Across Italy there are many half-empty towns, nearly abandoned by those who migrate to the coast or to cities. The beautiful, crumbling hilltop town of Becchina is among them, but its mayor has taken drastic measures to rebuild--selling abandoned homes to anyone in the world for a single Euro, as long as the buyer promises to live there for at least five years. It's a no-brainer for American couple Tommy and Kate Puglisi. Both work remotely, and...
5) Snowblind
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"The small New England town of Coventry is haunted by its memories of a deadly winter... in which loved ones were lost, families torn apart, and a town buried in a terrible blizzard. Now, twelve years later, the people plagued by their memories of that storm are haunted once again as a new storm approaches, promising to wreak new havoc. Old ghosts trickle back, and this storm will prove even more terrifying and deadly than the last. With richly textured...
6) The wild
Author
Series
Secret journeys of Jack London volume 1
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Jack London makes the arduous journey to the Yukon's gold fields in 1893, becoming increasingly uneasy about supernatural forces in the wilderness that seem to have taken a special interest in him.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Christopher Golden's Road of Bones is a stunning supernatural thriller set in Siberia, where a film crew is covering an elusive ghost story about a highway built on top of the bones of prisoners of Stalin's gulag. Kolyma Highway, otherwise known as the Road of Bones, is a 1200 mile stretch of Siberian road where winter temperatures can drop as low as sixty degrees below zero. Under Stalin, at least eighty Soviet gulags were built along the route...
8) Prophecies
Author
Series
Publisher
Pocket Pulse
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
As Buffy attempts to adjust to life at U.C. Sunnydale, continues to battle demons, and tries to deal with her jealousy that Willow is fitting in so well, she is propelled into an alternate future dimension where vampires rule.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pocket Pulse
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Five years into the future. A bleak, post- apocalyptic future for which the Slayer herself is responsible. Her mother has been killed. Angel is missing and presumed dead. Her friends are different, harder. But that's not the worst of it. Buffy's enemies are different, too ... In this alternate reality, old foes are wreaking havoc in vampire-dominated Southern California. This in and of itself is no surprise. But when Buffy learns that even the vicious...
10) Sons of entropy
Author
Series
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Led by the fanatical Il Maestro, the Sons of Entropy are assaulting the supernatural Boston mansion that holds back the realm of monsters, and stealing the life force from the besieged Gatekeeper. In limbo, the Ghost Roads are crumbling, becoming weak and unstable where Hell and the Otherworld have begun seeping in, blurring the passages that lead to the human world. And Xander lies mortally wounded from a failed attempt to free Joyce Summers from...
11) The un-magician
Author
Series
OutCast volume 1
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
The most dangerous boy in the world? Timothy is a freak, a weakling, an impossibility. He's the only person in existence without magical powers and has spent his entire life hidden on a remote island. When Timothy is finally taken back to the city of this birth, he is fascinated by the current of magic that fuels the world, and mesmerized by the buildings and orbs that hang weightlessly in the sky. But he is also marked for death. Assassins are watching...
12) The sea wolves
Author
Series
Secret journeys of Jack London volume 2
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Jack London is captured returning from the Yukon and taken aboard a pirate ship where the captain, the crew, and their navigator all have dark secrets.
13) Burning bones
Author
Series
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Two people burst into flame, burned alive in front of plenty of eyewitnesses with no obvious cause. Spontaneous human combustion is a bizarre phenomenon, but according to published accounts, it happens. Could that be what occurred here? Or is it murder?
14) Ararat
Author
Series
Ben Walker novels volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Fans of Dan Simmons' THE TERROR will love ARARAT, the thrilling tale of an adventure that goes awry. When a newly engaged couple climbs Mount Ararat in Turkey, an avalanche forces them to seek shelter inside a massive cave uncovered by the snow fall. The cave is actually an ancient, buried ship that many quickly come to believe is really Noah's Ark. But when a team of scholars, archaeologists, and filmmakers make it inside the ark for the first time,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Bitten by his werewolf cousin, Oz has struggled with his transformation three nights a month. Those who care about him have learned to deal with his alter ego and accept him. But Oz himself wonders who he really is. Leaving Sunnydale, Oz sets off on a course of enlightenment that takes him all over the world--making him realize he must gain control of his inner wolf sooner than later. (May).
16) Blooded
Author
Series
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Buffy is hot on the trail of Chirayoju, a Chinese vampire, and it is very dangerous for her and her friends.
17) Halloween rain
Author
Series
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
Around Sunnydale, they say a scarecrow saturated with Holloween rain will come alive and slaughter anyone in sight. (Lovely place, Sunnydale.) Buffy's best friends, Xander and Willow, used to think the tale was nonsense---but after a few adventures with Buffy, they're not so sure.
18) Poison ink
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Best friends Sammi, Caryn, T.Q., Letty, and Katsuko decide to get tattoos as a sign of the special bond among them, but when Sammi nervously backs out, she begins to realize that the group's friendship is thrown into jeopardy.
19) Red hands
Author
Series
Ben Walker novels volume 3
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"When a mysterious and devastating bioweapon causes its victims to develop Red Hands, the touch of death, weird science expert Ben Walker is called to investigate. A car plows through the crowd at a July 4th parade. The driver climbs out, sick and stumbling, reaching out... and everyone he touches drops dead within seconds. Mae Sinclair watches in horror as people she loves begin to die and she knows she must take action. But in the aftermath of this...