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1161) The fervor: a novel
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the acclaimed and award-winning author of The Hunger and The Deep comes a new psychological and supernatural twist on the horrors of the Japanese American internment camps in World War II"--
1162) Thursday's children
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books (USA)
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
336, 14 pages : map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In [this book], 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 was raped in her own bed one night while her mother was downstairs. Her assailant warned, "Don't think of telling anyone, sweetheart. Nobody will believe you." Becky's story awakens dark memories of an eerily similar incident in Frieda's own past. When Becky is found...
1163) Machines like me
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
10 audio discs (11 hr., 15 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Machines Like Me occurs in an alternative 1980s London. Britain has lost the Falklands War, Margaret Thatcher battles Tony Benn for power, and Alan Turing achieves a breakthrough in artificial intelligence. In a world not quite like this one, two lovers will be tested beyond their understanding. Charlie, drifting through life and dodging full-time employment, is in love with Miranda, a bright student who lives with a terrible secret. When Charlie...
1164) Strange Sally Diamond
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
Garnering media attention when she tries to incinerate her dead father, reclusive Sally Diamond, beginning to discover the horrors of her early childhood, steps into the world for the first time and soon finds her trust issues severely challenged by a sinister voice from her past she does not remember.
1165) Search the dark
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
310 pages. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Inspector Ian Rutledge travels to a small Dorset town to investigate the murder of a young mother and the disappearance of her two daughters.
1166) See what I have done
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"On the morning of August 4, 1892, Lizzie Borden calls out to her maid: Someone's killed Father. The brutal ax-murder of Andrew and Abby Borden in their home in Fall River, Massachusetts, leaves little evidence and many unanswered questions. While neighbors struggle to understand why anyone would want to harm the respected Bordens, those close to the family have a different tale to tell--of a father with an explosive temper; a spiteful stepmother;...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
354 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"One weekend, while Andrew Mason was on a fishing trip, his wife, Brie, vanished without a trace. Most everyone assumed Andy had got away with murder--it's always the husband, isn't it?--but the police could never build a strong case against him. For a while, Andy hit rock bottom--he drank too much to numb the pain, was abandoned by all his friends save one, nearly lost his business, and became a pariah in the place he once called home. Now, six years...
1168) Someone we know
Author
Publisher
Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
7 audio discs (8 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"The new domestic suspense novel from New York Times bestselling author, Shari Lapena Maybe you don't know your neighbors as well as you thought you did . . . "This is a very difficult letter to write. I hope you will not hate us too much. . . My son broke into your home recently while you were out." In a quiet, leafy suburb in upstate New York, a teenager has been sneaking into houses--and into the owners' computers as well--learning their secrets,...
1169) The untelling
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Aria is no stranger to tragedy. Fifteen years ago, a family outing took the lives of her father and baby sister, leaving remaining members of this fractured family struggling with their own guilt — real and imagined. At twenty-five, Aria believes she can reinvent herself through her planned marriage with all its promise of a family of her own. Her infertility changes her life as swiftly and irrevocably as the urban landscape around her. With
...1170) The smoke jumper
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
432 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Julia Bishop faces a wrenching dilemma when she finds herself in love with two men, best friends Ed Tully and Connor Ford, and the three of them are forced to live with the consequences when she chooses to marry Ed after he is injured trying to save her life.
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
185 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Pushing intimacy to its limits in prose of unearthly beauty, Vauhini Vara explores the nature of being a child, parent, friend, sibling, neighbor, or lover, and the relationships between self and others. A young girl reads the encyclopedia to her elderly neighbor, who is descending into dementia. A pair of teenagers seek intimacy as phone-sex operators. A competitive sibling tries to rise above the drunken mess of her own life to become a loving...
1172) The sorority murder
Author
Series
Regan Merritt novels volume 1
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
392 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Lucas Vega is obsessed with the death of Candace Swain, who left a sorority party one night and never came back. Her body was found a week after she disappeared, but the case has grown cold. Three years later while interning at the medical examiner's, Lucas discovers new information, but the police are not interested. Lucas knows he has several credible pieces of the puzzle. He just isn't sure how they fit together. So he creates a podcast to revisit...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
258 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Leah has been living with akinetopsia, or motion blindness, since she was a child. For the last twenty years, she hasn't been able to see movement. As she walks around her upper Manhattan neighborhood with her white stick tapping in front, most people assume she's blind. But the truth is Leah sees a good deal, and with her acute senses of smell and hearing, very little escapes her notice. She has a quiet, orderly life, with little human contact beyond...
1174) They never learn
Author
Publisher
Scout Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Scout Press hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Scarlett Clark is an exceptional English professor. But she's even better at getting away with murder. Every year, she searches for the worst man at Gorman University and plots his well-deserved demise. Thanks to her meticulous planning, she's avoided drawing attention to herself - but as she's preparing for her biggest kill yet, the school starts probing into the growing body count on campus. Determined to keep her enemies close, Scarlett insinuates...
Author
Series
Remixed classics volume 5
Publisher
Feiwel & Friends
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
304 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Three teens chase their own version of the American Dream during the Roaring 20s in this YA remix of The Great Gatsby"--
New York City, 1922. Nicòls Caraveo, a 17-year-old transgender boy from Minnesota, has no interest in the city's glamor. Going to New York is all about establishing himself as a young professional, which could set up his future--and his life as a man--and benefit his family. Nick rents a small house in West Egg from his 18-year-old...
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2024
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"What if everything you know about the worst night of your life turns out not to be true? Nine years ago, with the world's eyes on her, Charlie Colbert fled. The press and the police called Charlie a "witness" to the nightmarish events at her elite graduate school on Christmas Eve-events known to the public as "Scarlet Christmas"-though Charlie knows she was much more than that. Now, Charlie has meticulously rebuilt her life: She's the editor-in-chief...
1178) A traitor to memory
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Dell
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
Bantam trade pbk. ed.
Physical Desc
722 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Detective Inspector Lynley investigates when a woman is killed by a driver on a quiet London street. Who among the many acquaintances in her complicated and tragic life could have wanted her dead?
1179) The end of her
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"Stephanie and Patrick are adjusting to life with their colicky twin babies. The girls are a handful, but Stephanie doesn't mind being a stay-at-home mom, taking care of them while Patrick does the nine to five to pay the bills. When a woman from Patrick's past drops in on them unexpectedly, raising questions about his late first wife, Stephanie supports her husband wholeheartedly. She knows the car accident all those many years ago was just that--an...
1180) Dead to her: a novel
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
388 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Once a cheat, always a cheat," they say. Marcie Maddox has worked hard to get where she is after the illicit affair that started her new life a few years ago. But her world of country clubs, yachts, and sumptuous houses in Savannah, Georgia, isn't easy to maintain, no matter how hard she tries. Nor is keeping her husband, Jason, truly interested.
So, when Jason's boss brings home a hot new wife from his trip to London, the young Mrs William Radford...
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