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Halloween 2022

Diary of a Spider

This hilarious picture book tells the adventures of a spider through his daily diary entries. This is the diary . . . of a spider.

The Secret Lives of Bats

A lifetime of adventures with bats around the world reveals why these special and imperiled creatures should be protected rather than feared.

While out searching for food, fruit bat Stellaluna and her mother are attacked by a vicious owl. Stellaluna is separated from Mother Bat and taken in by a family of birds where she must put aside her bat habits to fit in with her new family. But one fateful flight when she is separated from her adoptive siblings, Stellaluna is reunited with her bat family and learns that even though we're different, we're very much the same.

Ghost in the Library

Melanie is convinced that Morganville is a dull place until ghostly happenings in the library reveal the town's interesting past.

The Little Yellow Leaf

A yellow leaf is not ready to fall from the tree when autumn comes, but finally, after finding another leaf still on the tree, the two let go together.

Victorian Ghost Stories

There's nothing like a good ghost story. This is a collection of 34 stories written during the Victorian era.

The Very Busy Spider

The farm animals try to divert a busy little spider from spinning her web, but she persists and produces a thing of both beauty and usefulness.

Do Bats Drink Blood?

Highly beneficial animals, bats are critical to global ecological, economic and public health. This book illuminates the role bats play in the ecosystem, their complex social behavior, and how they glide through the night sky using their acute hearing echolocation skills that have helped in the development of navigational aids for the blind.

Ghosts and Grinning Shadows

The only published prose by the incomparable balladeer. Choice calls these two long witch stories "a welcome and timely treat."

Candy

A lively cultural history that explains how candy became more like food and food more like candy.

Paranormal America

This book provides a portrait of Americans who believe in or have experienced such phenomena as ghosts, Bigfoot, UFOs, psychic phenomena, astrology and the power of mediums.

Witches of America

When most people hear the word "witches," they think of horror films and Halloween, but to the nearly one million Americans who practice Paganism today, witchcraft is a nature-worshipping, polytheistic, and very real religion.

Ghosts

Is there anybody out there?" No matter how rationally we order our lives, few of us are completely immune to the suggestion of the uncanny and the fear of the dark. What explains sightings of ghosts? Why do they fascinate us? What exactly do those who have been haunted see? What did they believe? And what proof is there?

Tales from the Haunted South

In this book Tiya Miles explores the popular yet troubling phenomenon of "ghost tours," frequently promoted and experienced at plantations, urban manor homes, and cemeteries throughout the South.

Trick or Treat

The popularity of Halloween has spread around the globe to places as diverse as Russia, China, and Japan, but its association with death and the supernatural and its inevitable commercialization has made it one of our most misunderstood holidays. How did it become what it is today?