Books with title The House on Mango Street

The old tea house on Mulberry Street in Belfast hasn't changed much over the years. But it's about to bear witness to some significant transformations Daniel Stanley might make the most glorious deserts in the whole of Ireland, but he won't support his wife Penny's desire to have at least one bun in the oven. And the owners of Muldoon's Tea Rooms are just two of the people inside hoping for change. Struggling artist Brenda sits penning letters to Nicholas Cage and dreaming of a better life. Sadie finds refuge from her diet and her husband's infidelity in Daniel's famous cherry cheesecake. Clare returns home from twenty years in New York, still cherishing the memory of the one night she truly loved and lost. And Penny herself discovers a secret from the past and a sexy estate agent very much in her present. They all want their lives to change but are they willing to face the consequences? And the possibility that you might not always be able to have your cake and eat it.

Twelve-year-old Joey Tonelli is a Halloween fanatic, so when his best friends Kevin and Barry tell him a few days before the spooky holiday that they are “too old” for trick-or-treating, he is devastated. Desperate to get his two killjoy friends into the Halloween spirit, he dares them to go inside that scary abandoned house on Creep Street—the house all the kids in town think is haunted. Well, the kids in town are right: the house really is haunted—by the malevolent ghost of Bob Smah, a young boy who died many years before under mysterious circumstances. Reborn as an angry spirit, Bob is determined to destroy anyone who sets foot in his home. Despite the horror that Bob unleashes upon The Fright Friends, they become determined to help free the dead boy’s trapped spirit. Will The Fright Friends successfully free Bob Smah from the House on Creep Street, or will they end up as ghosts themselves? Find out for yourself when it all goes down on Halloween night.

Joanie Moore has seen spirits since she was a child. Most of them move on, but the tall, friendly spirit with gray eyes seems persistent in communicating with her. Why did he follow her from Illinois to Wyoming? What is his connection to the house on Cherry Street? What is his connection to her? Who are the woman and baby in the old photograph that keeps showing up in random places of the house? To add to the mysteries, her next door neighbor, Pat, sees a female spirit looking out of the upstairs window. Determined to learn the identities of her resident spirits, Joanie and Pat team up to find clues. This story is based on the author’s own spiritual encounters and personal quest for the grandfather she never knew.

Elise Patterson has been writing a variety of books for many years that include suspense, children’s books, poems and screenplays. In her latest series, The Zoan Sagas, she allows her reader’s to follow a wealthy family that has a rich history and close connection to the mansion that many generations of Zoan family members have lived in. Every Zoan family generation will hide and protect their own secrets that they share about the mansion. Each book in the series will take the reader into another realm of their brain and into a world of mystic and unimaginable circumstances! The House on Zoan Street takes readers on an adventure with Bobby Zoan Jr. as he explores his way through the City of the Sun. Bobby will have to figure out how he got to the City of the Sun, and how he will make it back home to his family. On his journey he will gain a few friends a few enemies, but most of all he would learn more about his family history that is crucial to his future. The second book in the Zoan Sagas is called the City of the Sun – The War. The story is told by a dear friend of Bobby Zoan Jr. However, this friend hasn’t met Bobby yet and has no idea that they will be friends in the future. City of the Sun – The War tells the history of how the Zoan Mansion came into existence and what catastrophic events that will lead to the connection that will hold the City of the Sun, The Zoan Mansion and family members together forever. The third book from the Zoan Sagas is called Family Reunion – Generation Curse. There are always family members that are left disgruntled for one reason or another. One member of the Zoan family will give a whole new meaning to the word revenge. A secret will be revealed that no member of the Zoan family will ever see coming! Many years later when the Zoan’s reunite for a family reunion during the 4th of July, there will be a very different type of fireworks show to say the least!