Boomerville
Musings on a Generation that Refuses to Go Quietly
Rosa Harris
Foreword by Douglas Coupland
“Rosa Harris has assembled a series of very thought-provoking apercus of her times and generation. They are all from different angles and none is ponderous or over-long. The result is a very pleasing, very easy, and often poignant, read.” – Conrad Black |
Title: Boomerville / Rosa Harris / 240 pages |
“I’ve known Rosa Harris for 25 years, starting when she worked at a city magazine in Montreal. It was in the final few months before Generation X was published and there was no awareness in the culture that something, anything, might want to cleave away from the baby boomer’s stranglehold on all things generational… She’s one of the few boomers who is fully aware of just how annoying and self-absorbed her generation really is… fully aware of the historical forces that had to align to create the most… narcissistic birth cohort in the history of our planet, yet she can really tap into this awareness to create something sensitive and smile-inducing. I think you’ll enjoy this book.” (from the Foreword by Douglas Coupland, author, Generation X, and several other top international bestsellers)
“Rosa Harris, renowned national award-winning journalist, editor, talk show host and journalism professor, has crafted a collection of insightful, humorous and touching essays on the baby boomer generation that will leave you smiling, laughing and reminiscing on the times of your life. Baby boomers will see themselves in many of Rosa’s musings on the most amazing generation ever!” – Michael B Davie, author Poetry for the Insane
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No Sleep Tonight
Scary Short Stories
Jordan Grupe
“Despite being a relatively new addition to the horror writing scene, Jordan Grupe has made a name for himself as an excellent storyteller. His ability to build characters and terrify readers is consistently impressive as he continues to produce high quality horror content. I have featured a few of his tales on my YouTube channel “Mr. Creeps” and the response has always been amazing!" - Mr. Creeps (683,000-subscribers on YouTube)
“From Jordan Grupe, author of the gripping Beneath the Asylum, comes the appropriately named No Sleep Tonight collection of scary short stories – the latest offering of terror for those yearning for a bout of wild-eyed insomnia.” - Michael B. Davie, author, The Late Man
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Title: No Sleep Tonight / Jordan Grupe |
“Jordan has a knack for making the mundane menacing (I'll never look at garden gnomes the same way again). His stories are immersive, dragging the reader in kicking and screaming, with just enough humor to help wash down the absolute dread you experience when visiting his wicked worlds.” - Travis Brown (Grand_Theft_Motto on Rededit No Sleep), author, House with One Hundred Doors
About the Author: Jordan Grupe is a Hamilton, Ontario-based author and artist, who has created more than 40 short stories, novelettes, and novellas.
His writings are often shared with a vast audience in the hundreds of thousands via the websites Reddit.com (under profile Jgrupe) and YouTube as well as author website: JordanGrupe.com.
The author and his works are also featured on an array of other websites, including amazon.com and other Amazon sites; the websites of other major books retailers and the publisher’s website: www.manor-house-publishing.com.
Beneath the Asylum was his first novel and it drew its inspiration from the author’s own experience as a security guard at a psychiatric hospital with a dilapidated, and reportedly haunted, old mansion on its grounds.
No Sleep Tonight continues the author’s tales of horror with his first collection of truly scary short stories.
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First Person Singular Vol.3
More Very Short Stories of Wit & Wisdom
Ross Ulysses Munroe
There is a diamond — so clear, so transparent, unsullied by earthly matters and what matters not, which can only be apprehended by that which it reflects, a mirror without form. One that is cut so precisely, its edges are capable of rending mundane experience into ribbons, yielding the fleshy fruit that resides inside, yet remains unblemished. To look into any facet is to see unfolding phases of the moon, a kaleidoscope of change, of fabricated identifications. And the source of it all can be hunted by following the traces back to where they converge. So it is with the stories in my life, and in this book. – Ross Ulysses Munroe |
Title: First Person Singular Vol. 3 Author: Ross Ulysses Munroe
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Ross Ulysses Munroe is an award-winning creative talent, having served as Executive Editor and writer for a number of magazines and newspapers with his wife Virginia, a children's book, various screenplays, collections of short stories and more.
Currently serving on the Judging Panel with the Film for Peace Festival, Ross has produced and directed a number of story-driven jazz videos, hundreds of off the-wall TV commercials and a 35mm feature film.
He has received many dozens of awards around the world including Best of Show at the Bessies, Canada’s premier commercial award event of the year, as well as special recognition at the acclaimed NXNE Film Festival and The Hollywood Film Festival. Ross is known for his humor and incisive perspective on the human condition.
Ross' latest work is showcased in Volume 3 of his series, First Person Singular — a collection of short stories, essays, poems and insights certain to provoke and entertain.
From the sordid to the sublime, Ross' writing is primarily drawn from his personal experience, in a delightful and unconventional mix of irony and pathos.
For more information or to contact the Author, visit http://ShortStoryHeaven.com.
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Past, Present, Future
Stories that Haunt
Dr. Ian Prattis
Past, Present, Future is a testament to the sacred interconnectedness and interdependence of humans, our community, nature, the elements and the animal kingdom. It is these relationships that enable us to survive, thrive, heal and grow. Yet there is an underlying message that these very relationships can become fragile and worn, if we become complacent and fail to nourish and tend to them. - Germaine De Peralta, Journalist / Reiki Master Teacher
Note from the Author: “I wrote PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE because I had to… I had a sense of reciprocity about what I feel is necessary to heal the world from climate emergency and pandemic. The chapters play their part throughout as a sort of call and response meter that leans on kinship and community rather than corporate greed. The chapters become as seeds in the mind of the reader, so my work cannot be buried or lost. There is a strong emphasis on Indigenous Wisdom that pulls chapters together while displaying how easy it is to fall into destruction.” – Dr. Ian Prattis |
Title: Past, Present, Future / Dr. Ian Prattis |
About the Author: Poet, Global Traveler, Founder of Friends for Peace, Guru in India, Zen teacher and Spiritual Warrior for planetary care, peace and social justice, Dr. Ian Prattis presently lives in Ottawa, Canada and encourages people to find their true nature, so that humanity and the planet may be renewed by local and global acts of good will happening spontaneously.
Dr. Prattis is Professor Emeritus at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, and is an award-winning author of 18 books. Recent awards include the Gold Medal from the eLit Excellence Awards in 2019 and again in 2020 (for Shattered Earth); Gold for Redemption at the 2015 Florida Book Festival, 2015 Quill Award from Focus on Women Magazine for Trailing Sky Six Feathers and Silver for Environment from the 2014 Living Now Literary Awards for Failsafe; Saving the Earth From Ourselves
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Songline of the Heart
A Navigator’s Guide to Resurrecting
Your Heart, Home and Habitat
Shelley Darling
“Traveling internationally for the past 12 years as a professional Dowsing master and speaker, Shelley synthesizes her knowledge of Emotional Integration, Heart Resonance and Feng Shui with Dowsing, which evokes an energetic “quickening” in the field, uplifting the home, land, and business environment.
Shelley’s dedication to Love as a practical pathway, combined with her understanding of Ancient Wisdom and Conscious Evolution, delivers a dynamic whole-systems model which speaks to Evolutionary Dowsing as a transformational journey whose vision is to restore personal power, prosperity aligned with purpose and planetary peace. |
Title: Songline of the Heart / Author: Shelley Darling / 300 pages |
“It takes great courage to step into the unknown and unseen, to follow the pull of dowsing rods that say things are not as they seem. And to follow through to see where forces that defy the known and accepted may lead… Shelley has opened fascinating pathways into that ancient realm of mystery. Now it is open to you to explore too.” - Barry Brailsford, author of Song of the Old Tides
From the Author: Dowsing came into my life serendipitously, seemingly out of left field. As I dowsed my clients’ homes, I found myself in complete awe of how quickly my clients themselves evolved. They became enthusiastic and developed profound confidence and trust in their personal internal guidance systems, often in ways that had previously seemed unimaginable to them.
Through dowsing, I began to experience a more powerful connection with the voice of the land. Each dowsing seemed to support an empowered awareness of the land with a conscious recognition of one's personal power and appropriated guardianship of the land by the Ancestors.
The personal transmissions that occur through each dowsing deliver messages to the individual and their families, awakening and renewing their relationships with each other, while simultaneously restoring and harmonizing the energy of the land. My experience has continued to support these findings, with the strength and conviction of a power and unfolding wisdom…”
- Shelley Darling
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The Open Gate
R.J. Keeler
“R. J. Keeler takes you through the open gates into a chaotic but splendid garden that leads into private and public spaces, outdoors, indoors and in your mind. Along the way, he captures the hidden magic of everyday life, the joys of small moments, the mysteries of life and death – a captivating journey filled with touches of humor and introspection – an absolutely terrific book.” - Michael B. Davie, author, Poetry for the Insane: The Full Mental |
Title: The Open Gate / R.J. Keeler / 132 pages Softcover ISBN: 978-1-988058-70-0 $19.95 U.S. Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-988058-75-7 $39.95 U.S. ($24.95 CDN softcover / $39.95 CDN hardcover) Fiction: Poetry and Poetic Short Stories (132 pages) Available from Ingram / Gazelle / other distributors
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R. J. (Robert) Keeler started writing poetry in the early 1970’s under the direction of Guy Owen. His poetry is a rich collage of disjunctive metaphors that travel through the structure of science and technology, the nonsense of politics, and the mystery of love, life, and death.
Intelligence, humor, and vulnerability are showcased in a powerful mélange of subject matter and integrated details, an engaging collage that elaborates and extends the wind-ruffed surface of everyday thoughts, takes a deep dive beyond the ordinary, and then returns to a distant shore.
Robert has published in over ninety literary journals and been honored in many poetry competitions. This, his third book, includes poems from thirty years of unpublished poems interlaced with several recent works. His style considers a wide range of traditional forms that deliver a clever, unfettered, modern framework. Robert lives on Vashon Island, WA, at the midpoint of southern Puget Sound between Seattle and Tacoma, reachable only by ferry. He can be contacted at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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Briar Rose
And other Fairy Tales Darkly Revisited
Alyxandra Harvey
“Think you know the classic fairy tales of yore? You’re about to encounter some unexpectedly dark, intriguing passages revealed by Alyxandra Harvey, the bestselling author of Haunting Violet, Stolen Away and hugely popular The Drake Chronicles vampire novels. Briar Rose, a collection of superbly crafted epic poem-short stories, revisits familiar tales from antiquity to open up new mystical realms of strange, unsettling possibilities and surprises. One thing is for certain – you’ll never, ever look at classic fairy tales the same way again…” - Michael B Davie, author, Poetry for the Insane: The Full Mental |
Title: Briar Rose / Author: Alyxandra Harvey |
“Fairy tales didn’t begin as children’s stories. They were originally oral folktales thought to belong to the ‘peasant’ class, until the literary salons of the 17th Century adopted them as their own. They have been retold countless times and hundreds of years later they still resonate. They are a guide through the dark woods of life and a conversation with our mythic selves… Take another look: The witch, the wolf and the wonder await.” – Alyxandra Harvey bestselling author of Haunting Violet, Stolen Away and The Drake Chronicles vampire novels
About the Author Alyxandra Harvey lives in an old Victorian stone house with her husband, dogs, and a few friendly ghosts. She loves medieval dresses, used to be able to recite all of The Lady of Shalott by Tennyson, and has been accused, more than once, of being born in the wrong century. She believes this to be mostly true, except for the fact that she really likes running water, women’s rights, and ice cream. She also likes cinnamon lattes, tattoos and books.
Audience: The bestselling author’s legions of fans that eagerly embrace her bestselling novels and outstanding titles, now including, Briar Rose and Other Fairy Tales Darkly Revisited!
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Connect With The Divine You
Tanya Penny
“Tanya Penny has written a powerful book about connecting with who we are and who we are truly on the planet to be. Her writing is clear, concise and focused on providing the insights and practical tools that help clear away the clutter of the past and allow us to move forward into a more promising future. With compassion and care, she lays out a path that anyone can follow and everyone can leverage.” - Susan Crossman, Best-selling author, Passages to Epiphany
‘Tanya Penny is a relentless seeker of deeper truth, and I am blessed to witness some of her vulnerable journey. Her book touched my heart and I know they will give so many hope when things may seem hopeless. Thanks for having the courage to share your journey in such a heartfelt yet practical way, Tanya.’ - Jennifer Hough, Best-selling Author/Speaker/Seer |
Title: Connect With The Divine You / Tanya Penny Softcover ISBN: 978-1-988058-34-4 List: $19.95 Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-988058-35-1 List: $39.95 Non-Fiction: Self-Help, self-healing, health, happiness Release: Feb. 7/2018 Publisher/Imprint: Manor House Publishing Inc. Page Count: 288 Trim: 6x9” Contact: 905-648-2193 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. US / World Distribution: Ingram
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“I’ve watched Tanya's physical, spiritual connection unveil in her life over the years. There is no better teacher than someone who has walked the healing path and is now on the other side. Her journey has taken her from disease to health and happiness. If you have disease or dysfunction this book is a tool to bring you to a state of connection with your inner ability to heal, be healthy and prosper in all areas of your life.” - Dr. Jennifer Anacker, Anacker Chiropractic
“… Tanya Penny can absolutely guide you on your personal journey to self love and connecting to the Divine You. She lays out step by step how to face yourself and open your heart to you, the Divine You, the most important thing you will ever do in this life. Without self love and acceptance, suffering will be a way of life. Tanya has provided the process and tools to end your suffering. This is not just another feel good book, it’s a self-healing guide that anyone can follow.” - Bonnie Serratore, Author, The Way Back Home
About the Author
Tanya Penny is an Occupational Therapist and Vibrant Body & Abundant Life Coach. For 25 years of her life, she experienced anxiety, depression and pain. In 2004, she was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, a wake-up call indicating deeper issues in need of love, attention, and release — issues that medications lifestyle changes, and medical interventions couldn’t touch. It wasn’t easy (she had to peel back layers to look into her Self) and it wasn’t quick (it took years), but she healed. Now, Tanya teaches the Therapeutic Meditation Process and the 10 Vibrant Body and Abundant Life Keys to those who are ready to take their own journey of discovery.
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Mid Rift
A Novel
Rebecca Rosenblat
Join Jillian Briggs and her offbeat friends as they try to reinvent themselves! You’ll love getting to know (L-R below): Jillian’s husband Jeremy, who treats sex like a medical procedure; Darla the mysterious lesbian lawyer; Alison the gorgeous accountant who’s sworn off sex; Darla’s ex Dan, who helps the girls decipher man-speak; Cyn, the free-spirited sex therapist; Randy the gay fashionista; and, Jillian herself, who enjoys stretching out with her friends’ support. This group will have you laughing at life, while drawing you deep into their secrets, insecurities and triumphs. For anyone who’s feared hitting an age milestone, this hilarious story will walk you through any situation, with more understanding than you’d get from your best friend or therapist! Up for some insightful fun? Here’s your invitation to join the party! |
Author: Rebecca Rosenblat Softcover ISBN 9781988058528 List: $14.95 US Hardcover ISBN: 9781988058535 List: $34.95 US Fiction: Novel Publisher/Imprint: Manor House Pages: 272 / 5x8” / Standard trade terms US/Canada/UK/World: Ingram (Other distributors also source/supply/sell this title)
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About the Author:
Rebecca Rosenblat, Registered Psychotherapist, Certified Sex Addiction Therapist, and Couple’s Counselor, has hosted various TV and Radio shows, where she’s given over a thousand hours of guidance to millions of people worldwide. Rebecca is also the best-selling author of eight books – An Eastern Seduction; Smooth as Silk; Broken Promises; How to Drive Your Lover Wild with Pleasure; Seducing your Man – the honeymoon was just the beginning; Sexual Power, Overcoming betrayal; and now, Mid Rift. Rebecca lives in Toronto with her family, where she runs her private practice, is an associate at a clinic, and does various forms of teaching, transforming thousands of lives. Her passion is to help people become the best they can be; and have the best relationships possible!
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Mystery of Hedgehog Hill
Adventures in Shroomville
Ron Dennis
The Mystery of Hedgehog Hill, a Children-Young Adults novel, has earned many accolades and is honoured to be chosen by educators as an important featured part of the national Newspapers in Education program. (it was serialized by The Hamilton Spectator, other newspapers, throughout the fall).
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Title: Adventures in Shroomville Softcover ISBN 978-1-897453-32-2 $12.95 US/ $14.95 CDN
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About the Author/ Mystery of Hedgehog Hill Shroomville had been a happy little village, tucked away deep in a vast boreal forest whose bristling green canopy stretched beyond forever… Oh, one little detail makes this village stand out. You see, these villagers are tiny… about as tall as a typical adult’s size-nine shoe. And they live peacefully and happily in mushroom houses. Large, living mushroom houses… For Marshall Shroom, growing up here had been happiness itself - until his 13th year that is! Responding to a telepathic cry for help, Mars sets out on a quest to rescue his father and his best friend Portia from the clutches of the evil Maliset. With emerging new powers and the help of strange new friends, will Marshall succeed in his mission in time?
Ron Dennis was once young himself and has never fully recovered from that experience. Writing remarkably enjoyable books for children and young adults is his own form of therapy. The Hamilton Spectator serialized chapters from the book twice-weekly throughout the fall as one of the major newspapers participating in the highly praised national Newspapers in Education program fostering strong reading habits in young folk – a wonderful, gentle, fun adventure story.
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Break Up, Make Up or Shake Up
Redefining Relationships in Retirement, Isolation & Crisis
Cathalynn Labonté-Smith
Are you in a difficult, unfulfilling relationship and you don’t know where to go from here? If so, you have three basic choices, outlined in detail in Cathalynn Labonté-Smith’s helpful, insightful new book Break Up, Make Up or Shake Up.
If your best choice is to break up, this book contains a wealth of information on all of the legalities, options and approaches available – in Canada, the US, the UK, Australia and New Zealand– along with planning advice, examination of needed documents and insightful case histories, tips on dealing with violence, and much more.
Or, are you ready to reconcile and make up? If so, you’ll also find some great advice on how to best go about making up and restoring your relationship, including better communication and the steps needed for successful results.
Perhaps, what you really need is a good shake up - a redefining of your relationship under new terms and conditions that are a departure from the past – terms that are fair and considerate to you both via mutual agreement. |
Title: Break Up, Make Up or Shake Up |
“You’ll find terrific advice, illustrative true-life stories, key information, clear-cut approaches – and a good deal more - including tips on coping with all of this during a pandemic! It’s timely advice at any time and it’s all here in the pages of this well-written, remarkably informative book. This is your road map to whichever journey you choose – a highly recommended, informative must-read!” - Michael B. Davie, author, Great Advice
Cathalynn Labonté-Smith grew up in Alberta and moved to Vancouver, BC, to complete her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia (UBC). After graduation, she worked as a freelance journalist until present. She then became a technical writer in wireless communication and other high-tech industries. She went to UBC to complete a Bachelor of Education (Secondary) and taught English, Journalism, and other subjects at Vancouver high. As well, she has a Level I National Coach Certificate in Dragon Boating and Life Coach training. She currently lives in Gibsons and North Vancouver, BC. Blogs: www.wrtecup.wordpress.com and www.breakupmakeupshakeup.wordpress.com, both feature links to resources and other bonus companion materials.
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Creating Your Career
Mastering the Changing Nature of Work, Your Key to a More Successful Life!
Denise O'Brien
Creating Your Career is an easy-to-read summary of the best advice you’ll ever receive about work. Since we spend almost 1/3 of our adult life at work, learning how to navigate it more easily and with greater levels of satisfaction is time well-spent. This book is packed with stories and advice that the author has gathered over many years and from thousands of conversations with others, at different stages in their work-life journey. Regardless of where you are in your work-life journey, this insightful book has something to offer you. |
Title: Creating Your Career / Denise O’Brien |
“Creating Your Career will open your eyes to the opportunities and horizons that lie before you.” - Erin Davis, Inspirational Keynote Speaker, Best-selling Author, Professional MC, Writer, Broadcaster, Blogger
“... essential reading for professionals in these turbulent times. Dr. O’Brien shows you how to turbocharge your career by asking... the questions that will make the most difference wherever you are in your own world of work.” - Marilee Adams, Ph.D. bestselling author of Change Your Questions, Change Your Life
“I loved the book! ...personal stories, real life stats... a realistic and practical view of careers and life... a must-read for everyone, regardless of where they are on their work-life journey.” Carmel Perry, Coach Denise O’Brien, PhD, has completed post graduate studies in Adult Education, M.A. (Ed), and Industrial- Organizational Psychology, PhD. She holds the designation of Qualified Mediator (Q.Med), is an Adler Trained Coach (ACC) and was among the first to attain a Queen’s University Masters Certificate in Organization Effectiveness. With a career that has spanned more than 30 years, O’Brien has investigated, assessed, diagnosed, designed and facilitated workplace interventions generating win-win results.
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Beneath the Asylum
Jordan Grupe
This asylum is full of secrets. Some worse than others...
A security guard in an infamous old mental hospital finds something unusual during his routine patrol of the basement tunnels: The sounds of a small girl crying.
The crying sounds are coming from behind a padlocked door in an abandoned section of the hospital, and he moves in to investigate. Unfortunately for him, this is no ordinary girl. What ensues is a story of mystery, intrigue, and suspense. At times horrifying and hilarious, this is a tale of one man’s journey to discover the truth in an asylum where not everything is as it seems, and not everyone is who they say they are...
Inspired by the author's own intriguing experiences as a security guard at a psychiatric hospital, the novel Beneath the Asylum follows a guard’s journey of horrific discoveries on probing a hidden maze of tunnels beneath a decaying old mansion on the site of a mental hospital. |
Title: Beneath the Asylum / Jordan Grupe |
“Some of the best horror I’ve read since Stephen King’s “Shining”... will have you checking under your bed. Just in case.” - Lucas Whorley, r/nosleep author of After Alice
“Hey there folks it's me Mrcreepypasta. The best part of any good horror story for me is the mystery... delivers on that amazingly well. Every chapter adds more and more to the growing tension and results in a terrifying and incredible read.” - Mrcreepypasta, host of Youtube show with 1.5 million followers
“A terrifying, gripping tale full of unexpected twists and turns from Jordan Grupe, a master story-teller with first-hand experience working at a psychiatric hospital and exploring its known-to-be-haunted decaying old mansion” - Michael B. Davie, author, The Late Man
Jordan Grupe is a Hamilton, Ontario-based author and artist, whose writings are often shared with a vast audience in the hundreds of thousands via the websites Reddit.com (under profile Jgrupe) and YouTube as well as author website: JordanGrupe.com. The author and his works are also featured on an array of other websites, including amazon.com; various books retailers and publisher website, manor-house-publishing.com.
Beneath the Asylum is his first novel. Although it’s a work of fiction, it draws its inspiration from the author’s own experience as a security guard at a psychiatric hospital with a dilapidated, and reportedly haunted, old mansion on its grounds. |
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