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1) Casper
Language
English
Description
Determined to get her hands on her father's hidden fortune, Carrigan is forced to hire an afterlife therapist to exercise the ghosts that keep frightening her away. Dr. Harvey and his daughter, Kat, move in and soon Kat meets Casper, the friendliest ghost. But Casper's uncles are still determined to drive all the "fleshies" away.
Author
Series
City of ghosts volume 1
Publisher
Puck
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
Description
Desde que Cass estuvo a punto de ahogarse (está bien, sí, se ahogó, pero no le gusta pensar en eso), puede correr el Velo que separa a los vivos de los muertos... y entrar al mundo de los espíritus. De hecho, Jacob, su mejor amigo, es un fantasma. Así que las cosas ya son bastante extrañas en su vida, pero se van a volver más extrañas aún. Cuando a los padres de Cass les ofrecen realizar un programa de TV sobre los lugares más embrujados...
Author
Series
City of ghosts volume 3
Publisher
Ediciones Urano
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
"Allí donde hay fantasmas está Cassidy Blake. ¿o es al revés? Cass cree que ya lo sabe todo sobre cazar fantasmas. Al fin y al cabo, ella y su mejor amigo fantasma, Jacob, han sobrevivido a dos ciudades encantadas mientras viajaban para el programa de televisión de sus padres. Pero nada puede preparar a Cass para Nueva Orleans, donde fantasmas y espíritus campan a sus anchas. En una ciudad llena de rutas encantadas y tumbas, música estrepitosa...
4) Evil dead
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
In the much-anticipated remake of the 1981 cult-hit horror film, five twenty-something friends become holed up in a remote cabin. When they discover a Book of the Dead, they unwittingly summon up dormant demons living in the nearby woods, which possess the youngsters in succession until only one is left intact to fight for survival.
5) Ghostbusters
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
When three college professors lose their jobs, they decide to go into the freelance "paranormal investigation and elimination" business. When their first client discovers her refrigerator has become a portal into the spiritual dimension, our heroes come face to face with an ancient evil force with plans to raise hell in Manhattan. When ghosts go on a rampage, only these men can save the world. Soon every spook in the city is loose and our heroes face...
Author
Publisher
Montena
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
¿Habrá alguien lo suficientemente listo, valiente y honesto que supere las pruebas? Águeda Chacón Churruca hizo una gran fortuna con sus libros de terror, sus lectores la adoraban, aunque ella los odiaba: "Escribo para que sufran", decía. En realidad, Águeda detestaba a todo el mundo, en especial a su familia, a quienes siempre tachó de chapuceros, flojos, interesados, y con pelo feo. Un trágico día, Águeda muere electrocutada en su sillón...
Author
Publisher
Sélector
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
Description
"Quizá para ti también sea una lástima que la Navidad sea sólo una vez al año, porque, como dijo Charles Dickens, autor de esta popularísima Canción de Navidad, "cuando empiece a permanecer con nosotros durante todo el año, haremos de la Tierra un lugar distinto".Y es justo en este cuento donde Dickens hace realidad el deseo de "Paz en la tierra, buena voluntad hacia los hombres", en la historia de Scrooge, un hombre de gran fortuna, peleando...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A novel tracing the path of a nameless wanderer as he walks the length of Manhattan and beyond-from South Ferry to the Grand Concourse in the Bronx-taking note of all the literary and historical ghosts haunting him, and the city, along the way"--
De Quincey, Baudelaire, Poe, Joyce, Benjamin, Melville, Lorca, Whitman... each was a walker and a city dweller, a collagist and a chronicler. They spent their lives picking the detritus of their eras off...
Publisher
NCircle Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A spin-off of the beloved Strawberry Shortcake series, "Berry in the Big City" takes place in the fanciful, colorful community of Big Apple City. Like communities everywhere, the citizens of Big Apple City live and work together.
Author
Publisher
Coffee House Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A multi-layered story told by two narrators: a 21st-century Emily Dickinson living in Mexico City who relates to the world vicariously through her children and a past that both overwhelms and liberates her, and a dying poet living in a run-down apartment in Philadelphia in the 1950s. While she tells the story of her past as a young editor in New York City desperately trying to convince a publisher to translate and publish the works of Gilberto Owen-an...
13) City of ghosts
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Working in San Francisco as a PI years [after her work in the Spanish Civil War, World War II seems] a world away, but it might as well be on [Miranda Corbie's] doorstep now that she's learned that her mother--whom she hasn't seen in years--is trapped in England. There isn't much she can do until the State Department asks her to keep an eye on a chemistry professor who they suspect is a Nazi spy trafficking in information on allied forces armaments....
14) Ghostbusters
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Following a ghost invasion of Manhattan, paranormal enthusiasts Erin Gilbert and Abby Yates, nuclear engineer Jillian Holtzmann, and subway worker Patty Tolan band together to stop the otherworldly threat.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Even as a hardened cop, things have never been tougher for Detective Vic Mackey. In this season, he must deal with a vicious, gang-related slaughter with no leads, the desperate attempts of an Internal Affairs detective to discredit him, and the looming threat of forced retirement. To top it all, he's obsessed with finding the killer of a valued Strike Team member and friend. Meanwhile, Shane hooks up with the Armenian mob and becomes a dangerous...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company Independent Publishing since 1923
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A captivating exploration of the little-known story of Rembrandt's formative years by a prize-winning biographer. Rembrandt van Rijn's early years are as famously shrouded in mystery as Shakespeare's, and his life has always been an enigma. How did a miller's son from a provincial Dutch town become the greatest artist of his age? How in short, did Rembrandt become Rembrandt? Seeking the roots of Rembrandt's genius, the celebrated Dutch writer Onno...
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
After the death of his wife, Carson Drew decides to leave Chicago behind and make a fresh start with his daughter in River Heights. But for sixteen-year-old Nancy Drew, life in a small town is mighty dull. She longs for excitement, adventure, and the chance to make a difference. Nancy gets that opportunity when she is asked to help solve the ghostly activity at the Twin Elms mansion. Can she help explain the creaking footsteps, exploding lightbulbs,...
19) Miles ahead
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the midst of a dazzling and prolific career at the forefront of modern jazz innovation, Miles Davis disappears from public view for a period of five years in the late 1970s. Alone and holed up in his home, he is beset by chronic pain from a deteriorating hip, his musical voice stifled and numbed by drugs and medications, and his mind haunted my unsettling ghosts from the past.
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