American Ghost: A Family's Haunted Past in the Desert Southwest (Audiobook)

from arielfl

I was so excited to read this book because the premise was so intriguing. The author has an ancestor that was supposedly haunting a hotel room in Santa Fe, New Mexico and she set out to learn as much as she could about her relative, Julia Schuster Staab. The haunting was so famous that it was eve...

from gpangel

American Ghost: A Family's Haunted Past in the Desert Southwest by Hannah Nordhaus is a 2015 Harper publication. I was provided a copy of this book by the publisher and Edelweiss in exchange for an honest review. With a title like this one, I was sure this book would make an excellent Halloween r...

from melydia

The author's great-great-grandmother, Julia Staab, is said to haunt her old house, now a hotel in Santa Fe. The ghost stories talk of abuse and insanity, contrary to family lore, so she decides to see if she can track down the truth about her supposedly restless ancestor. All her substantial info...

from Beamis12

3.5 Although I expected this to be more of a ghost story, which many different, psychics, dowsers, and other paranormal professionals die five their opinions, I found so much more. The story of a Jewish family, settling Santa Fe, in its earliest days. So much history, politics, the railroad and t...

from cebellol

First, to comply with the "Terms & Conditions", I hereby disclose in this, my review, that I received this book for free through Goodreads First Reads. This was my first work of non-fiction received in this manner.I must say that, unfortunately, I was less than thrilled. I found it put together q...