spiritualists

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Picture the dead

2012
A young woman communicates with her brother who died in 1864 in order to find out what happened to her fianc?, Will, whom the army said died in battle, and with the help of a spiritualist photographer and the spirit of Will, she attempts to piece together the mystery of what happened.

The heretic in Darwin's court

the life of Alfred Russel Wallace
2004
Explores the life of Victorian scientist and spiritualist, Alfred Russel Wallace, who co-discovered the theory of natural selection with Charles Darwin and examines his interests in spiritualism, phrenology, mesmerism, environmentalism, and life on Mars.

Blindfaith

2007
While coping with her grandmother's sudden death and her mother's resulting depression and fascination with a spiritualist church, whose ministers claim to communicate with the dead, fifteen-year-old Liz finds herself falling for a new neighbor whose mother is dying of cancer.

Scaredy Kat

2010
Thirteen-year-old Kat, still not comfortable in her role as a medium, and her friend Jac, undergoing a serious crisis about the role of music in her life, try to find a way to help the unhappy spirit of a young boy in the abandoned house next door.

Yeats's ghosts

the secret life of W.B. Yeats
2000
A biography of twentieth-century poet W. B. Yeats, discussing the early influence of his Irish mother who, with her ghost stories, steered him onto his occultist path; looking at his experiments with his much younger wife George in Automatic Script; and analyzing his public career in Ireland, his late poetry, and other aspects of his life.

The girls who talked to ghosts

the story of Katie and Margaretta Fox
1979
A biography, with emphasis on the early years, of the Fox sisters who claimed to communicate with ghosts. Their experiences led to the founding of the Spiritualist movement.

D. D. Home, the man who talked with ghosts

1978
Biography of a nineteenth-century medium who had his first psychic experience at thirteen.

Distant waves

a novel of the Titanic
2011
In the early twentieth century, five sisters travel from New York to London, and as the Titanic conveys them and their acquaintances, journalist W.T. Stead, scientist Nikola Tesla, and industrialist John Jacob Astor, home, Tesla's inventions will either doom or save them all.

Crossing over

2011
Feeling more comfortable with her developing skills as a medium, eighth-grader Kat looks forward to the class trip to Montreal but once there she finds herself confronted by a cast of all new ghosts and a host of other problems.

Unhappy medium

2011
Kat accompanies her best friend Jac to a musicians' conference at the Whispering Pines Mountain House, where she works to free the spirit of a dead medium and helps Jac resolve a serious conflict.

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