Fact of Life #31 by Denise Vega: Winner of the Colorado Book Award for Young Adult fiction, Cybil nominee. Fact of Life #129: Some people put you where they want you to be, not where you actually are.16-year-old Kat Flynn believes in going with the flow. She practices yoga, works with her mom at Abra’s Midwifery, and watches the Perfect Couple in the hall at school. But when she finds herself in the middle of the Perfect Couple’s drama and some drama of her own (including an unexpected romance), Kat has to decide whether going with the flow is really the best way to come back to herself.
Bag of Bones by Stephen King: Bag of Bones is a novel by Stephen King that was written and took place in 1998. It focuses on an author named Mike Noonan who suffers severe writer's block after the death of his wife. Four years later, he has a strong pull to his summer home, Sara Laughs, and is surprised to find that he can write again. Throughout strange dreams and ghostly apparitions, he uncovers a plot that goes 100 years back, along with a newfound love. It won the Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel in 1998, and the British Fantasy Award for Best Novel in 1999.
Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill Aging rock sbtar Judas Coyne spends his retirement collecting morbid memorabilia such as a witch's confession, a real snuff film and, after being sent an e-mail directly about the item online, a dead man's suit. He is told by the daughter that the old man's spirit is attached to this funeral suit. The ghost will go wherever it does and so buying this suit would effectively be buying a poltergeist; Judas cannot pass up this opportunity. The suit arrives in a heart-shaped box. Various odd occurrences cause Judas to realize that the ghost is dangerous and is out to kill him and those around him. His assistant, Danny Wooten, leaves Jude's service, but not before contacting the woman who sent the suit. Jude finds out that the ghost was the father of a groupie, Florida, whom he dated for a few months and who had later committed suicide. The ghost wants revenge on Jude for causing Florida's death, as he sees it. Jude flees his house with his current girlfriend, Georgia, with the ghost chasing them.