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Dead serious volume 1
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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"As if living in a creepy house on cemetery grounds weren't horrible enough, Annabelle accidentally becomes a guide that bridges the gap between the living and the dead with her cell phone. Which means she is pestered by the deceased 24/7. And until she helps them with their absurd unresolved issues and ridiculous requests, no one will be able to rest in peace"--
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Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
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The story of a small town on Lake Michigan that gets worldwide attention when its citizens start receiving phone calls from the afterlife. Is it the greatest miracle ever or a massive hoax? Sully Harding, a grief-stricken single father, is determined to find out.
44) The dark design
Author
Series
Riverworld volume 3
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Much has transpired since Earth's denizens found themselves resurrected along the shores of a river 22 million miles long. With the truth of this strange river's creators, the Ethicals, still shrouded in mystery, Sir Richard Francis Burton, Samuel Clemens, King John, and Cyrano de Bergerac face a fantastical voyage of discovery.
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Seventeen-year-old Julie fell in love with Sam the day she met him, and planned to attend college with him; but Sam died, and getting rid of his things, trying to erase him from her life is not working, so desperate to hear his voice one more time, Julie calls his cellphone expecting to hear his voicemail--but then Sam answers, and suddenly their cellphones become the living connection between them, a connection Julie finds impossible to let go.
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Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Silicon Valley scion Captain Don Donogue is dead under mysterious circumstances. Signs point to murder. Just ask Captain Don himself. He's been sending messages about his suspicious death from beyond the grave. Yep, he's been tweeting from the afterlife. Could life after death be Silicon Valley's latest innovation?
49) Still here
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"A profound and dazzlingly entertaining novel from the writer Louis Menand calls "Jane Austen with a Russian soul." In her warm, absorbing and keenly observed new novel, Lara Vapnyar follows the intertwined lives of four Russian immigrants in New York City as they grapple with love and tumult, the challenges of a new home, and the absurdities of the digital age."--
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Series
Five people you meet in Heaven volume 1
Language
English
Description
Eddie awakes in the afterlife, where he learns that heaven is not a destination. It's a place where your life is explained to you by five people, some of whom you knew, others who may have been strangers. One by one, from childhood to soldier to old age, Eddie's five people revisit their connections to him on earth, illuminating the mysteries of his "meaningless" life, and revealing the haunting secret behind the eternal question: "Why was I here?"...
51) Resurrección
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Series
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
Español
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Following a near-death experience, Emma, who has diabetes, visits mediums and cemeteries and tries everything else she can think of, with the help of her friends, to find Ethan, the young man with whom she fell in love on the other side.
Author
Series
Last ghost novels volume 1
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In a small logging town in northern California, young Emma Rose Finnis was born and died. Now, no one remembers her hardworking life and her grand dreams--but she remembers. She remembers everything. Emma Rose is still here, one hundred years after her death and she doesn't plan on leaving. But when a determined hunter arrives with instructions to "clean" Emma Rose out of her haunt, the stately Lambry mansion, death suddenly isn't the worst fate imaginable....
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Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Daisy Cooper's life is just getting started, when suddenly it ends. Surprised to find herself in an Afterlife processing center, she is even more stunned to learn that she wasn't meant to die for another fifty years. One terrible, embarrassing clerical error is behind it--and an administrator named Death is to blame. But death, as they say, is final, and Daisy must now navigate this impossible new world. With the help of an unlikely ally, Daisy begins...
54) Violet ghosts
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Loner Dani and her best friend Sarah, the ghost of a teen murdered decades earlier, team up to help other murdered women who are still tethered to this life. Dani's best friend, Sarah, is a ghost. Maybe that's normal when you've spent your childhood running from an abusive parent. Dani is afraid that if he tells Sarah he's trans, she won't bother haunting him anymore. Sarah's got good reason to distrust boys, having been strangled by one. When they...
55) Bi an zhi jia
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Series
to volume 116
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
不甘命運被支配的女子 闖入幽冥,拯救她被侵犯的靈魂 《彼岸之嫁》女主角黃姵嘉、黑咖啡聊美劇站長Castle推薦 ◎Netflix 2020年1月強檔影集【彼岸之嫁】原著小說,金鐘獎最佳男女主角吳慷仁、黃姵嘉領銜主演 ◎《紐約時報》排行榜、蘋果電子書排行榜暢銷書 一天傍晚,父親問我願不願意當鬼新娘…… 十九世紀,英國的殖民地馬六甲,有許多華人移民家族世居在此。他們接受西方文化洗禮的同時,也遵循其華人祖先的習俗過生活。潘麗蘭是經商致富的華人移民後代,但多年前爆發天花疫情,使她摯愛的母親病逝;而潘父則因病毀容,從此深居簡出,荒廢家業。...
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Two brothers escape the Black Death by skipping forward in time, experiencing six centuries of change in six days. December 1348. The country is in the grip of the Black Death. Brothers John and William are given an unexpected choice: either to go home and spend their last six days in their familiar world, or to search for salvation across the forthcoming centuries- living each one of their remaining days ninety-nine years after the last. They choose...
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Series
Mark volume 102
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Traditional Chinese edition of Mitch Albom's The First Phone Call from Heaven. #1 NY Times Best-Seller. The story of a small town on Lake Michigan that gets worldwide attention when its citizens start receiving phone calls from the afterlife. Is it the greatest miracle ever or a massive hoax? Sully Harding, a grief-stricken single father, is determined to find out.
58) Apex
Author
Series
Nexus novels (Ramez Naam) volume 3
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Global unrest spreads through the US, China, and beyond. Secrets and lies set off shockwaves of anger, rippling from mind to mind. Riot police battle neurally-linked protestors. Armies are mobilized. Political orders fall. Nexus-driven revolution is here. Against this backdrop, a new breed of post-human children are growing into their powers. And a once-dead scientist, driven mad by her torture, is closing in on her ultimate aim--to seize the planet's...
59) Summerland
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Loss is a thing of the past. Murder is obsolete. Death is just the beginning. In 1938, death is no longer feared but exploited. Since the discovery of the afterlife, the British Empire has extended its reach into Summerland, a metropolis for the recently deceased. Yet Britain isn't the only contender for power in this life and the next. The Soviets have spies in Summerland, and the technology to build their own god. When SIS agent Rachel White gets...
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Beatrice Fox deserves to go straight to hell. At least, that's what she believes. Her last day on Earth, she ruined the life of the person she loves most--her little sister Emmy. So when Bea awakens from a fatal car accident to find herself on an airplane headed who knows where, she's confused, to say the least. Once on the ground, Bea receives some truly harrowing news: she's in purgatory. If she ever wants to catch a flight to heaven, she'll have...
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