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Chance, Megan.
The spiritualist : a novel / Megan Chance.—1st ed.
1. Rich people—Fiction. 2. Murder—Fiction. 3. Spiritualists—Fiction. 4. United States—History—1815–1861—Fiction. 5. New York (N.Y.)—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3553.H2663S65 2008
813’.54—dc22 2007040826
eISBN: 978-0-307-40923-2
v1.0
Table of Contents
Title Page
Dedication
Acknowledgments
1. Open to the Possibilities
2. An Invitation to Melodrama
3. Morbid Thoughts
4. A Pretty Theory
5. Tragedy Enough
6. Missing Some Essential Thing
7. A Generous Man
8. The Whole World Gone Mad
9. Things Aren't Always What They Seem
10. Everyone Has Secrets
11. The Dream
12. The Voices of the Dead
13. Lost
15. Through a Cloudy Glass
16. The Ways We Delude Ourselves
17. The Wolf or the Rabbit
18. A Stranger to Myself
19. Ambition and Faculty
20. A Master Stroke
21. An Angelfish among the Eels
22. One Who Knows You
23. A Guiding Spirit
24. A Very Old Scarf
25. I've Come to Save You
26. What She Left Behind
27. Liars Will Lead You Astray
29. Who Would Believe Me?
30. Through Fresh Eyes
31. The Circle
32. To Live Within the World
33. How Lovely it is When Families Get Along
34. Affinity
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