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When Jasmine moves to Gold River after her mother's death, she finds herself powerfully drawn to the Carlisle, an abandoned hotel on the edge of town. It appears in her nightmares and calls to her during the day. It's a local tradition in Gold River for kids to try to stay a night in the Carlisle without being scared away. When Jasmine hears about this, she convinces her friends to join her. How hard can it be to stay up all night in an abandoned...

Seth is a kitchen boy at the remote Last Chance Hotel. One night, a band of magicians begin to arrive to participate in a secret meeting. But when the doors to the private meeting open, and Dr. Thallonius lay dead on the floor, the group blames the dessert, which means that it's Seth who will pay the price.

The Baudelaire orphans begin their journey in a cab with a distraught pregnant woman named Kit Snicket while on route to the Hotel Denouement and must pose as concierges while trying to ferret out the secrets of the elusive sugar bowl.

Charlie and Annie find Tyler and the magician Brack on the thirteenth floor of the Abracadabra Hotel, but Charlie and his friends still have to solve the mystery of who is trying to steal the twelve priceless statues of Enrico Endriago which have been locked in room 1308 for fifty years.

When Charlie Hitchcock, the smartest kid at school, gets a note from the school bully, Tyler Yu, demanding a meeting he fears the worst--but it turns out that Tyler wants him to solve the mystery of the missing magician at the Abracadabra Hotel.

When the magician Theopolis makes a boy from school disappear during the magic show at the Abracadabra Hotel, Charlie Hitchcock and Tyler Yu are determined to find out what really happened.

At Greenglass House, a smuggler's inn, twelve-year-old Milo, the innkeepers' adopted son, plans to spend his winter holidays relaxing but soon guests are arriving with strange stories about the house sending Milo and Meddy, the cook's daughter, on an adventure.

When the great magician Abracadabra is challenged by the illusionist Theopolis, Charlie and Tyler must solve the mystery of how the illusions were done, or Abracadabra will forfeit the hotel.

There's a storm brewing over Eerie-on-Sea, and the fisherfolk say a monster is the cause. Someone has woken the ancient Gargantis, who sleeps in the watery caves beneath this spooky seaside town where legends have a habit of coming to life. It seems the Gargantis is looking for something: a treasure stolen from her underwater lair. And it just might be in the Lost-and-Foundery at the Grand Nautilus Hotel, in the care of one Herbert Lemon, Lost-and-Founder....

"Mia Tang thinks she's going to have the best year ever. She and her parents are the proud owners of the Calivista Motel, Mia gets to run the front desk with her best friend, Lupe, and she's finally getting somewhere with her writing! But as it turns out, sixth grade is no picnic."--Publisher