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62) NEVER LIE
Author
Language
English
Description
"Newlyweds Tricia and Ethan are searching for the house of their dreams. But when they visit the remote manor that once belonged to Dr. Adrienne Hale, a renowned psychiatrist who vanished without a trace four years earlier, a violent winter storm traps them at the estate... with no chance of escape until the blizzard comes to an end. In search of a book to keep her entertained until the snow abates, Tricia happens upon a secret room. One that contains...
63) Her: a novel
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Description
On the face of it, Emma and Nina have very little in common. Isolated and exhausted by early motherhood, Emma finds her confidence is fading fast. Nina, sophisticated, generous, effortlessly in control, seems to have all the answers. It's easy to see why Emma is drawn to Nina. But what does Nina see in her? A seemingly innocent friendship slowly develops into a dangerous game of cat and mouse as Nina eases her way into Emma's life. Soon, it becomes...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Paul O'Rourke is a man made of contradictions: he loves the world, but doesn't know how to live in it. He's a Luddite addicted to his iPhone, a dentist with a nicotine habit, a rabid Red Sox fan devastated by their victories, and an atheist not quite willing to let go of God. Then someone begins to impersonate Paul online, and he watches in horror as a website, a Facebook page, and a Twitter account are created in his name. What begins as an outrageous...
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2022
Language
Español
Description
Hay algo inquietante en las historias de este libro, algo casi peligroso, a la vez que encantador. Los personajes son todos inestables sobre sus pies de una forma u otra; todos anhelan la conexión y la mejora, aunque cada uno de manera muy diferente, pero a menudo se dejan engañar por sus propios impulsos básicos e inseguridades existenciales. En este libro, lo grotesco y lo escandaloso se abordan con ternura y compasión. La carne es débil; la...
68) The juror
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
A struggling single mother impulsively agrees to serve on a jury hoping for a little excitement in her humdrum life. She gets far more than she bargained for when she's forced to sacrifice the truth to save her son from the mob's seductive, psychotic enforcer.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Meg Carpenter is broke. Her novel is years overdue. Her cell phone is out of minutes. So she jumps at the chance to review a pseudoscientific book that promises life everlasting in a tale about how relationships are created and destroyed, how futures and histories can be rewritten, and the life-saving power of stories.
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Language
English
Description
Between 2005 and 2009, in a remote religious Mennonite colony, over a hundred girls and women were knocked unconscious and raped, often repeatedly, by what many thought were ghosts or demons, as a punishment for their sins. As the women tentatively began to share the details of the attacks -- waking up sore and bleeding and not understanding why -- their stories were chalked up to 'wild female imagination'. Women Talking is an imagined response to...
71) Undone
Author
Series
Will Trent series volume 1
Language
English
Description
As Georgia Bureau of Investigation agents Faith Mitchell and Will Trent try to connect two murders to a hit-and-run victim, Atlanta physician Sara Linton becomes more involved in the investigation--an investigation which soon culminates in the hunt for a sadistic serial killer.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Greg and Tess MacAvoy are one of four prominent Nantucket couples who count each other as best friends. As pillars of their close-knit community, the MacAvoys, Kapenashes, Drakes, and Wheelers are important to their friends and neighbors, and especially to each other. But just before the beginning of another idyllic summer, Greg and Tess are killed when their boat capsizes during an anniversary sail. As the warm weather approaches and the island mourns...
Author
Series
Visit from the Goon Squad volume 1
Language
English
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Jennifer Egan's spellbinding interlocking narratives circle the lives of Bennie Salazar, an aging former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Although Bennie and Sasha never discover each other's pasts, the reader does, in intimate detail, along with the secret lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect with theirs.
Author
Series
Frieda Klein novels volume 4
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"The electrifying fourth book in the internationally bestselling Frieda Klein Mystery series Drawn to brilliant and solitary London psychotherapist Frieda Klein, a growing readership is discovering Nicci French's acclaimed series with each chilling installment. In Thursday's Children, Frieda faces her most personal case yet when a former classmate appears at Frieda's door, begging for her help. Maddie Capel's teenage daughter, Becky, claims that she...
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