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1) Devil bones
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Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 11
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Following her most successful book to date, Kathy Reichs -- international number one bestselling author, forensic anthropologist, and producer of the Fox television hit Bones -- returns to Charlotte, North Carolina, where Temperance Brennan encounters a deadly mix of voodoo, Santera, and devil worship in her quest to identify two young victims. In a house under renovation, a plumber uncovers a cellar no one knew about, and makes a rather grisly discovery...
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"Generations of Montrose women--Augusta, Victoria, Willow--have lived together in their quaint two-story bungalow in California for years. They keep to themselves, never venture far from home, and their collection of tinctures and spells is an unspoken bond between them. But when seventeen-year-old Nickie Montrose brings home a boy for the first time, their quiet lives are thrown into disarray. For the other women have been withholding a secret from...
3) Bayou moon
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Old secrets are rising up to haunt the inhabitants of Louisiana's small, rustic St. Germaine Parish, where no one is quite who they seem, and restless spirits are rumored to roam the woods and the antebellum mansion of the town's richest family, the St. Michels.
Successful New York City artist Mignon Thibeaux doesn't believe in ghosts, but even she can't resist the rumors that the St. Michel mansion may be haunted, especially since its owner, Luc...
4) Hurricane
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Working in the ER, Dr. Marie Lavant sees the darkest side of New Orleans. But the bloody wounds of patients are not the only things that haunt her. As the descendent of a legendary voodoo queen, Marie is cursed with the ability to communicate with spirits of the dead.
5) Leslie
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To some she's intelligent and beautiful. To others she's proud and dangerous. At the historically black college of Dillard University in the lush mystical city of New Orleans, the beautiful and serious Leslie Beaudet is struggling with a dark secret of power in a world that is pulling her in many different directions. In the eyes of her Haitian immigrant father, Leslie is a queen who deserves more than the broken dreams and carnage of poverty. To...
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A magical debut novel from Rita Leganski, The Silence of Bonaventure Arrow is the tale of a mute boy whose gift of wondrous hearing reveals family secrets and forgotten voodoo lore, and exposes a murder that threatens the souls of those who love him.
Bonaventure Arrow didn't make a peep when he was born, and the doctor nearly took him for dead. But he was listening, placing sound inside quiet and gaining his bearings. By the time he turns five,...
7) Yellow moon
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The second novel in Jewell Parker Rhodes' acclaimed Voodoo series, Yellow Moon finds New Orleans' preeminent voodoo practitioner hunting an African vampire -a wazimamoto. Marie Levant is tired of seeing corpses drained of blood arrive at the hospital each night, and tired of being haunted by their ghosts. It'll take all her skills to expel the deadly spirit.
8) Royal street
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Sentinels of New Orleans volume 1
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Working for a powerful New Orleans wizard who protects the city from preternatural forces, junior wizard sentinel Drusilla Jaco struggles to outmaneuver sinister beings and find her missing mentor when Hurricane Katrina crumbles the borders between the city and the Otherworld.
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Three Milan editors, who have spent much time rewriting crackpot manuscripts on the occult, decide to have a little fun. Their plan encompasses the secrets of the solar system, Satanic initiation rites, and Brazilian voodoo. A terrific joke--until people begin to disappear.
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IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
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Fifteen-year-old Haitian American Cicely is excited to celebrate the West Indian Day Parade with her aunt, and voodoo dabbler, Mimose, but when Mimose's dabbling goes awry and she becomes possessed by a spirit, Cicely, Renee, and Kwame, her crush, must find a way to set things right.
11) Almost there
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Twisted tales (Liz Braswell) volume 13
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IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
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A year after Tiana makes a deal with Dr. Facilier, she has her restaurant, her friends are safe, and her father is still alive, but soon shadows begin to gather and Tiana must work with Naveen and Charlotte to set things right or risk losing her soul.
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"One of Quentin Archer's fellow officers has been shot dead in broad daylight, in his own squad car. A random cop killing...or something more sinister? With no leads to go on, Archer turns to voodoo queen Solange Cordray for help. But is he prepared to follow her advice? As Archer uncovers some surprising facts about the dead man's past, there is another murder. With the simmering racial tensions in the city threatening to escalate into outright violence,...
13) Haitian graves
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"RCMP Sergeant Ray Robertson is serving with the United Nations in Haiti when an American businessman comes home to find his young Haitian wife floating face down in the swimming pool. At the insistence of the American embassy, the Haitian police immediately arrest the gardener, and the case is closed. But Ray isn't so sure. One night he finds himself in a Vodou-saturated cemetery, surrounded by above-ground tombs and confronting a killer with...
14) Bound
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Magnus Blackwell volume 2
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"An evil force has seized New Orleans. Pestilence, suffering, and darkness cloak the city. The citizens are scared and need their mambo to guide them, but Lexie Arden can’t help anyone. A diabolical presence has taken Lexie’s power and severed her ties with the other side. Magnus Blackwell is fighting demons of his own. Torn between his devotion to Lexie and a spirit from his past, Magnus’s loyalty is put to the test. He must revisit his sins...
15) The bone curse
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Benjamin Oris volume 1
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"Ben Oris, a pragmatic med student from Philadelphia, gets cut by an old bone while touring the Paris catacombs. His companion Laurette, a public health student from Haiti, senses danger and worries an evil curse now runs through him. Ben scoffs at the idea--he simply has a wound that won't heal--and back home he returns to his stressful clerkship at the hospital. But when people close to him succumb to a grisly illness and a dark priest pursues him,...
16) Casting bones
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Introducing New Orleans homicide detective Quentin Archer in the first of a brand-new mystery series. When a prominent New Orleans judge is brutally murdered, former Detroit cop Quentin Archer is handed the case. His enquiries will lead him into a world of darkness and mysticism which underpins the carefree atmosphere of the Big Easy. Interrogating crooked police officers, a pickpocket, a bartender with underground contacts and a swamp dweller, Archer...
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The House of Erzulie tells the eerily intertwined stories of an ill-fated young couple in the 1850s and the troubled historian who discovers their writings in the present day.
Emilie St. Ange, daughter of a Creole slave owning family in Louisiana, rebels against her parents by embracing spiritualism and advocating the abolition of slavery. Isidore, her biracial, French-born husband, is horrified by the brutalities of plantation life and becomes unhinged...
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Random House
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2015.
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IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
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Eleven-year-old Cleo is having trouble fitting in at her private school in Los Angeles, but when she and her friend Sam try to improve things using the voodoo doll her Uncle Arnie sent, there are unexpected results.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 13
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In the second installment of Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake series, a series of grisly murders and subsequent zombie incarnations has Anita Blake assisting police with their investigation. However, as Anita attempts to find the culprit, she begins to discover her own power over the undead.