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Michigan has more lighthouses than any other state, with more than 120 dotting its expansive Great Lakes shoreline. Many of these lighthouses lay claim to haunted happenings. Former keepers like Captain Townshend at Seul Choix Point and prankster John Herman at Waugoshance Shoal maintain their watch long after death. At White River Light Station in Whitehall, Sarah Robinson still keeps a clean and tidy house, and a mysterious young girl at the Marquette Harbor Lighthouse seeks out other companions.

Mara ist die Tochter eines betrügerischen Spiritualisten. Ihre Kindheit war geprägt von Séancen und vorgetäuschten Geistererscheinungen. Als Mara ihre Familie verließ, schwor sie sich, dass solche dummer Aberglaube nie wieder Platz in ihrem Leben finden wird. Nun lebt sie mit ihrem Freund Neil in einer Welt, die auf Rationalität beruht.

On a visit to a coastal harbor town, the world is Noah’s oyster as long as the stormy weather doesn’t ruin the fun. Summer break has just begun, and with seven days of freedom, how much trouble can 13-year-old Noah, his best friend, and his sister really find? Plenty, as it turns out. Because when the kids go snooping around an old decommissioned lighthouse, its troublesome secrets begin to reveal themselves, and the kids are about to stumble upon a hundred-year-old mystery that still haunts the nearby fishing village.

When Jamie’s mother inherits a small island and moves her little family from Harlem to Ireland, her troubled son sees a chance to start over, far away from the bullies and the pitying stares. Cancer has left Jamie without an arm or the will to speak. But Muck Island is no sanctuary, and it offers more than solitude and sea views. Jamie learns that he is heir to an ancient title—Laird of Muck, Guardian of the Passage—and certain otherworldly responsibilities.

In einem kleinen Dorf in Schottland, mitten auf dem Festland, steht ein Leuchtturm. Im Inneren der alten Gemäuer, die dick genug sind, um Sturmfluten zu trotzen, befindet sich ein kleines Antiquariat. Hier, umgeben von alten Büchern, hat Rachel vor vielen Jahren einen Neuanfang gewagt – und Freunde gefunden. Luisa hat sich aus dem Leben zurückgezogen – sie leidet unter ihrer unerträglichen Chefin, hat ihren Traumjob als Landschaftsarchitektin abgeschrieben und trauert immer noch um ihren Mann, den sie vor vielen Jahren verloren hat.

To the Lighthouse is Virginia Woolf’s arresting analysis of domestic family life, centering on the Ramseys and their visits to the Isle of Skye in Scotland in the early 1900s. Nicole Kidman ( Moulin Rouge, Eyes Wide Shut), who won an Oscar for her portrayal of Woolf in the film adaptation of Michael Cunningham’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Hours, brings the impressionistic prose of this classic to vibrant life.

Morgan Ashton-Drake hasn’t given his ancestral home in Yorkshire a second thought in decades. He has a great life in the States, running his stepfathers hotel empire with his brother. So what if he’s all work and no play? He’s not missing out on anything important. But when a suspicious death and rather public scandal at his childhood home forces Morgan to return to England for the first time in years, he’s not keen to confront his past. What he didn’t count on was the seriously cute little blonde disaster who seems to be single-handedly running his eccentric grandfather’s hotel.

Rhett's inheritance of the gorgeous Victorian house was expected. What was not expected was: Two familiars; A house full of ghosts; Magic powers?!; A new boyfriend, maybe, possibly, please, and thank you. Now, if he could just figure out how to handle everything, life would be peachy.

The Perry family's new house is perfect - except for the weird behavior of the neighbors, and that odd smell coming from a dark corner in the basement. Pity no one warned the family about the house. Now it's too late. Because the darkness at the bottom of the basement stairs is rising.

Sisters Alice and Jenny are in their early 20s when the Germans occupy their home of Jersey. Alice, a nurse, is called to work in the German hospital, unaware that she will find a great love but that she will make an even greater sacrifice and be sent to a place across the seas where she will witness unbearable suffering. Meanwhile her sister, Jenny, is drawn into a circle of islanders who decide to rise up and resist the occupiers. For both sisters, the war will cause them to make extraordinary choices, experience unimaginable heartbreak and emerge forever changed....

To the Lighthouse is a landmark work of English fiction. Virginia Woolf explores perception and meaning in some of the most beautiful prose ever written, minutely detailing the characters thoughts and impressions. This unabridged version is read by Juliet Stevenson.

In einem kleinen Dorf in Schottland, mitten auf dem Festland, steht ein Leuchtturm. Im Inneren der alten Gemäuer, die dick genug sind, um Sturmfluten zu trotzen, befindet sich ein kleines Antiquariat. Hier, umgeben von alten Büchern, hat Rachel vor vielen Jahren einen Neuanfang gewagt – und Freunde gefunden. Sie verbringt ihre Tage mit Literatur, Kaffee und Shortbread, beobachtet ihren Chef Cullen und seinen Freund Ron beim Schachspiel oder schlichtet die Streitigkeiten ihrer ewig zankenden Stammgäste Edie und Ezra.

Upon the cliffs of a remote Scottish island, Lòn Haven, stands a lighthouse. A lighthouse that weathered more than storms. Mysterious and terrible events have happened on this island. It started with a witch hunt. Now, centuries later, islanders are vanishing without explanation. Coincidence? Or curse? Liv Stay flees to the island with her three daughters, in search of a home. She doesn’t believe in witches, or dark omens, or hauntings. But within months, her daughter Luna will be the only one of them left.

For years now the Ramsays have spent every summer in their holiday home in Scotland, and they expect these summers will go on forever; but as the First World War looms, the integrity of family and society will be fatally challenged. The novel's use of stream of consciousness, reminiscence and shifting perspectives gives it an intimate, poetic essence, and at the time of publication in 1927 it represented an utter rejection of Victorian and Edwardian literary values.

Brynn of Haversey has some ghostly problems, but luckily she has six potential lovers to make it all a bit easier....

I signed away my freedom for seventy-two hours, agreeing to be hunted through a maze by fifteen masked men. The Hallow's Hunt—the Blackwood brothers' most closely guarded secret. As an investigative journalist, I thought this was my chance to expose their criminal empire. I never expected Xavier Blackwood to know exactly who I was from the start.

The audiobook version of the thrilling and innovative narrative podcast, including an exclusive storyline. Gold Medal Winner at the New York Festivals Radio Awards for Best Ensemble Audiobook. On a dark and stormy night … Two ghost-hunting journalists arrive at the most haunted house in...

Meine Welt zersplitterte, als ich die Wahrheit erkannte. Ich dachte immer, ich hätte alles unter Kontrolle. Als Cop nehme ich es mit dem Gesetz nicht ganz so genau. Dann verschwindet mein Bruder und alles deutet auf die brasilianische Mafia hin. Ich gehe über Leichen, um das Rätsel zu lösen. Dann treffe ich sie. Uns verbindet pure Leidenschaft, und doch trennt uns grenzenloser Hass. Lügen und Tod pflastern unsere Wege. Wem kann ich jetzt noch trauen? Am Ende stellt sich mir nur eine elementare Frage: Werde ich heil aus der ganzen Sache herauskommen, oder wird sie diejenige sein, die mein Todesurteil unterzeichnet?

My name is Susannah Simon, and I am a mediator--a liaison between the living and the dead. If you think this gets in the way of my attempt at a normal sixteen-year-old, you'd be right. You try going to the mall while constantly being accosted by the undead. Not that this is a bad thing all the...

Random House presents the audiobook edition of Haunted by James Patterson, read by Danny Mastrogiorgio. After surviving a series of family crises--including seeing his son on the other side of the law--Detective Michael Bennett is ready for a vacation. He settles on a small, idyllic town in the...