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"When Abigail Holland awakes to the sound of a nighttime intruder in her rambling Denver Victorian, she knows exactly what the black shrouded figure is after—the map she recently inherited from her grandfather. Whoever he is, the man who grapples with her, then escapes, is willing to kill for the location of a treasure King Farrell hunted for more than ten years. The Devil’s Gold has claimed hundreds of lives, and it was her grandfather’s obsession....
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Midnight Ink
Pub. Date
[2016]
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275 pages
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Rory Chasen, manager of the Lucky Dog Boutique in Destiny, California, hopes her new line of good-luck doggy toys will be a hit, especially the stuffed rabbits with extra-large feet. The timing of the line?s debut proves ill-fated, though, as several local shopsincluding Rory?sare ransacked and vandalized with spilled salt and other unlucky charms. The most likely culprit is disgruntled real estate agent Flora Curtival, whose issues with the town...
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Bantam Books Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
c2011
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308 p. ; 21 cm.
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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.
10) The good people
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Little, Brown and Company
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Three women in nineteenth-century Ireland bond over a shared effort to rescue a child from a superstitious community that believes that his trauma-related inability to speak indicates that he is a changeling responsible for a series of misfortunes.
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Doppelganger Releasing
Pub. Date
[2019]
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1 DVD (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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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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Harper
Pub. Date
©2014.
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32 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
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Seeing a four-leaf clover at a show-and-share, Fancy Nancy becomes superstitious and goes overboard trying to keep track of everything that is lucky and unlucky before deciding to settle on what she truly believes.
14) Melmoth: a novel
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Custom House
Pub. Date
2018.
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271 pages ; 22 cm
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"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 it, Melmoth travels through the ages, dooming those she...
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Farrar Straus Giroux Books
Pub. Date
2024.
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236 pages ; 22 cm
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Seventh-grader Freya June Sun is obsessed with Chinese superstition and signs she believes are from her late father, but an unexpected partnership with a classmate leads her on a path of self-discovery as she learns to rely on herself for luck.
17) Fortune Falls
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In Fortune Falls, where superstitions are real, and all children must pass regular "luck tests" to see if they are worthy, ill-fortuned Sadie has always been deemed as unlucky, and shunted aside for her luckier younger brother--but when she finds an unusually intelligent black cat named Jinx, her fortunes begin to change for the better.
18) Unwelcome
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Well Go USA Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
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London couple Maya and Jamie escape their urban nightmare for the tranquility of the Ireland countryside only to hear stories of mysterious beings who live in the gnarled, ancient wood at the foot of their new garden. As warned by their new neighbors, in Irish lore the Redcaps will come when called to help souls in dire need of rescue, but it's crucial to remember that there is always a dear price to pay for their aid.
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Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2010
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308 p. ; 22 cm.
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While staying with distant relatives in England, Americans Rowan, Meg, Silly, and James Morgan, with their neighbors Dickie Rhys and Finn Fachan, learn that one of them must fight to the death in the Midsummer War required by the local fairies.
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