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1 author picked Gap Year in Ghost Town as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

If you know anything about me, you’ll know I love ghost stories, though not the really scary ones.

The one takes place in Melbourne (where I and the author live), and includes many of our eccentricities – laugh out loud for locals! I love reading books set places I know, especially when I get to feel smug because I know some obscure fact mentioned in the book.

This story is Young Adult, and features an interesting premise. Anton Marin is taking a gap year to test out the family business of dispatching ghosts to their eternal rest. He falls in…

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A spy school for girls amidst Jane Austen’s high society.

Daughters of the Beau Monde who don’t fit London society’s strict mold are banished to Stranje House, where the headmistress trains these unusually gifted girls to enter the dangerous world of spies in the Napoleonic wars. #1 NYT bestselling author…

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