Books with title Ghost Towns

Get ready for "non-stop vampire action" (Darque Reviews) in the latest Morganville Vampire novel from New York Times bestselling author Rachel Caine. While developing a new system to maintain Morganville's defenses, student Claire Danvers discovers a way to amplify vampire mental powers. Through this, she's able to re-establish the field around this vampire-infested Texas college town that protects it from outsiders. But the new upgrades have an unexpected consequence: people inside the town begin to slowly forget who they are-even the vampires. Soon, the town's little memory problem has turned into a full-on epidemic. Now Claire needs to figure out a way to pull the plug on her experiment- before she forgets how to save Morganville...Watch a Video

Thanks to Charlotte's travel-writer dad, the Beacon Street Girls are headed to a luxe resort in Montana. But when their dream vacation turns into a snowy nightmare, the BFFs are split up. While Katani and Isabel enjoy room service and hanging out with country music superstar twins Nik and Sam, Charlotte, Maeve, and Avery are stranded with Mr. Ramsey in a haunted old ghost town. Whether snowboarding and chilling with celebrities or solving an old-fashioned mystery with ghosts, wolves, and romance, the BSG find fun and adventure in the Wild West.

"The indefatigable T. Lindsay Baker has now turned his enormous mental and physical energies to the subject and has brought to view - if not to life -eighty-six Texas ghost towns for the reader's pleasure. Baker lists three criteria for inclusion: tangible remains, public access, and statewide coverage. In each case Baker comments about the town's founding, its former significance, and the reasons for its decline. There are maps and instructions for reaching each site and numerous photographs showing the past and present status of each. The contemporary photos were taken, in most instances, by Baker himself, who proves as adept a photographer as he is researcher and writer....Baker has done his work thoroughly and well, within limits imposed by necessity. He obviously had fun in the process and it shows in his prose."---New Mexico Historical Review

While developing a new system to maintain the town's defenses, genius student Claire Danvers discovers a way to use the vampires' powers to keep outsiders from spreading news of Morganville's "unique" situation. But when people in town start forgetting who they are-including the vampires-Claire has to figure out how to pull the plug on her experiment before she forgets how to save herself...and Morganville.

Point Bluff is the perfect place for hiking, rock climbing and cave exploring. But hidden inside one of the Montana caves is a deadly virus of unknown origins. When this virus attacks, it wipes out nearly all of Point Bluff's 10,000 townspeople, leaving almost no trace and no clues as to their disappearance. The survivors find each other and try to flee, but they soon discover they are trapped. No one is safe, and no one immune, when even they start dying mysterious deaths.

Josie is suntanning herself at Long Beach in Washington state when her straw hat flies off her head. A seagull catches it and Josie chases him through the sand dunes back away from the beach. By the time she catches up with her hat she has stumbled upon a ghost town from one hundred years ago. The church is deserted. So is the bar and each house that she sees. This place takes on an eerie quality all its own as night comes on and people from long ago come to life and go about their nightly tasks. Josie is lost trapped in a time warp. How does she get back to the beach? She’d better figure it out soon or she, too, could become one of the lost.

The other side is closer than you think.Willow was like any other teenage girl, until a fatal car accident left her an orphan and with the ability to see earthbound spirits. Forced to relocate to a small town in Kansas, she moves in with her grandparents.Talking to things others can’t see doesn’t help her make friends, except for those that are no longer living. Even they don’t stick around long though, because she does whatever is necessary to help those spirits stuck with unfinished business to move on. But when she hears about a haunted school, she can’t help but investigate. What she finds might end up being more than she bargained for.The locations in this book are real, but the story itself is pure fiction.

Spencer Adams Honesty may be the last best hope for Paisley, Kansasand for lonely kids everywhere.Spencer Honesty and his mom are the last people left in Paisley, except for Chief Leopard Frog, Spence’s imaginary friend. One lonely day, Chief Leopard Frog’s carved rabbit talisman tells Spence to take his photo, so Spence digs up his late father’s camera and starts shooting photographs all around his ghost town. When the photos come back developed, he does not expect to see his old neighbor Maureen Balderson in her bedroom. Or Ma Puttering clearing weeds in her yard. They aren’t in Paisley anymore. Yet there they are.What happens to Spence next is unexpected. It involves a catalog called Uncle Milton’s Thousand Things You Thought You’d Never Find, a poetry deal gone awry, and a ghost camera that promises to take pictures of the past (just be sure not to photograph yourself).

Sam and Clara are two fouteen year olds living in a ghost town. Of course if the local residents knew their quaint community was thought of as a ghost town, they might sit back and have a chuckle. But for young people, there's not a lot to do in such a small town steeped in history and little else. For most teenagers, it makes Night's Port a pretty boring place. But not for Sam and Clara. They know better. Night's Port isn't just another soon to be forgotten small town. It's a very real ghost town. It has its share of buried secrets. And now something is going on that has the old ghosts rattled. Ghosts. Zombies. Pirate treasure. Ages 9-12.

In this start to a paranormal series, Sara’s new town has a lot of history—and a lot of ghosts who want to tell her all about it.Sara Collins is a normal twelve-year-old girl with an abnormal secret: She is psychic. She’s had her abilities for as long as she can remember, but she doesn’t like to talk about them. She hopes that if she ignores them, they might go away. Sara wants nothing more than to have a normal life, and to her, “normal” doesn’t include anything paranormal. But Sara’s life is about to be turned upside down, because she’s moving across the country with her dad to an old shore town in New Jersey. A shore town with a lot of history…and more than its fair share of ghosts roaming around. As Sara tries to settle into her new home, she discovers that for the first time, the ghosts around her can communicate with her. One ghost in particular desperately needs something from her and won’t leave her alone. Sara wants to help, but she’s scared. Can Sara put her fear aside and help the spirit? Will doing so put her in jeopardy? Meanwhile, Sara meets a great local girl named Lily Randazzo, and against all odds, really bonds with her. Sara has made a true friend for the first time in her life. Maybe New Jersey isn’t so bad after all….

Stagecoach robberies. Shoot-outs. Striking it rich. Throughout the Wild West small towns were formed, thriving with men and women from the East and gold from the mines. Notorious outlaws, desperadoes, and gunslingers rustled up trouble in town after town. When the gold disappeared, the outlaws, as well as the local folks, abandoned their towns. Or did they? There are still sounds, not just the paint peeling from the deserted storefronts, or the tumbleweeds whispering as they somersault down the empty streets. There are voices, whispering stories--are they real or imagined? Stories like the one about the Lost Mine in Maiden, Texas, or the Bad Man from Bodie, California, who's still searching for his lost finger. . . .From the Hardcover edition.