Books like The ghost in the glass house by Carey Wallace

The beloved classic of American literature, Little Women, narrates the adventures of four March sisters as they grow up during the Civil War era.

A middle‑aged man returns to his childhood home, where memories of a magical girl and a mysterious farm haunt him, revealing a dark, supernatural mystery from his youth.

A Christmas Carol is Charles Dickens’ allegorical novella about Ebenezer Scrooge, whose miserly ways are transformed through visits from Jacob Marley and the spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Future.

In the unforgettable Le Cirque des Rêves, two young magicians, Celia and Marco, are locked in a nocturnal duel of wonder and will—an impossible game where love and magic collide on a stage of breathtaking spectacle.

A young bride, the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter, arrives at Manderley on the Cornish coast and finds her new home haunted by the memory and housekeeper’s obsession with her mysterious, stylish predecessor—Rebecca.

A young governess in a remote estate discovers that the souls of two children are threatened by the malevolent ghosts of a former governess and her lover.

In Washington Irving’s classic, a superstitious schoolmaster falls ill after a chilling encounter with a headless horseman while courting a wealthy farmer’s daughter.

An engaging exploration of the 1854 London cholera outbreak and how Dr. John Snow’s mapping of the epidemic transformed public health, urban planning, and the science of disease transmission.

A teenage girl from a New Orleans brothel embarks on a murder investigation to get into a prestigious college.

Set in a crumbling Georgian manor in rural Warwickshire, *The Little Stranger* follows a doctor arriving at a long‑standing family home where a death‑bed patient and chilling supernatural forces intertwine against the backdrop of post‑war Britain.

A father and his young daughter explore a spooky house that turns out to be the legendary Halloween House, discovering the thrills of Halloween in a playful rhyme.

328 pages : map ; 22 cm940L Lexile

Eleven-year-old Shelby travels to her mother's remote Louisiana bayou home after a decade of separation, where she confronts lingering pain, guilt, and haunting memories of the past.

A ghostly tale of friendship and historical fiction about a young man moving to a farm near Valley Forge in the 1770s and the ghost of an ancestor who guides him through the Revolution.

"I very much need to be dead." These are the chilling last words left by a man who had everything to live for but took his own life. In the void that remains stands his widow, FBI agent Jane Hawk, surrounded by questions destined to go unanswered unless she does what all the grief and fury inside her demand: Find the truth, no matter what. People of talent and accomplishment, people seemingly happy and sound of mind, have recently been committing suicide in surprising numbers. A disturbing pattern is beginning to emerge. Jane is determined to give up everything to find out why. And if that means going rogue and becoming America's Most Wanted, then so be it. Those arrayed against her are legion, and devoted to protecting something profoundly important-or terrifying-enough to exterminate any and all in their way. But Jane is as clever as these enemies are cold-blooded, as relentless as they are ruthless. And she is driven by a righteous rage they can never comprehend. Because it is born of love.

A spirited twelve‑year‑old in Dublin confronts her grandmother’s impending death and is drawn into a mysterious adventure when a stranger brings a message for Gran.

Sherry Holmes Baldwin faces a spooky mystery as strangers threaten her stepmom Paula in Phoenix, while a ghostly mother competes in the Ghostlympics.

When reclusive novelist Vida Winter’s health wanes, she tasks biographer Margaret Lea with revealing the truth of her life, though Margaret must sift through Winter’s penchant for exaggeration to arrive at facts.

A candid, research‑based memoir that unpacks maternal depression, offering insight, hope, and practical guidance for mothers navigating this challenging illness.

203 p. ; 19 cm

A juvenile mystery set around Halloween, featuring Sabrina and a fundraiser called The Halloween Machine.

A suspenseful mystery set in contemporary New Orleans, following Thea Tamborella as she returns to claim a family estate amid racial tensions, crime, and a tangled web of secrets involving old friends and a new lover.

Follow the four March sisters as they navigate family life, friendship, and the trials of growing up and getting married in nineteenth‑century New England.

Eighteen‑year‑old Sara takes a summer job as caretaker at a Victorian restoration site, hoping to uncover why her mother abandoned her. Alongside a foundling she encounters two ghosts that pull her deeper into her family’s past.