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1841) Getaway
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"Imogen and Beck, two sisters who couldn't be more different, have been friends with Tilda since high school. Once inseparable, over two decades the women have grown apart. But after Imogen survives a traumatic attack, Beck suggests they all reunite to hike deep into the Grand Canyon's backcountry. A week away, secluded in nature ... surely it's just what they need. But as the terrain grows tougher, tensions from their shared past bubble up. And when...
1842) The blackhouse: a novel
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
320 pages
Description
In 2019 Maggie visits a remote island in Scotland's Outer Hebrides to prove that a man was murdered there twenty-five years before. Maggie's motives are as dark as they are surprising. But she isn't prepared for the dangerous secrets and lies that are hiding at the heart of Kilmeray's isolated community. Or within herself. Robert Reid moved his family to Kilmeray in the early 1990s, driven both by hope and a terrible secret that he kept hidden for...
1843) Main Street & Babbitt
Author
Series
Library of America volume 59
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c1992.
Physical Desc
898 p. ; 21 cm.
1844) Jazz
Author
Pub. Date
[1992]
Description
In Harlem, 1926, Joe Trace, a door-to-door salemsan in his fifties, kills his teenage lover. At the funeral, his wife Violet slashes the dead girl's face and then desperately searches to find why Joe was unfaithful. The profound love story is immersed in the sights and sounds of Black urban life during the Jazz Age.
1845) The date
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
333 pages ; 21 cm
Description
Saturday night: Recently separated from her husband, Ali has been persuaded by her friends to go on a date with a new man. Sunday morning: Ali wakes up at home: she is alone, she is hurt, and she has no memory of what happened to her. Worse still, when she looks in the mirror, Ali doesn't recognize the face staring back at her. She can't recognize her friends and family. And she can't recognize the person who is trying to destroy her. -- adapted from...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
792 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"In 1986, twenty-year-old Syvert Lyning returns from the military to his mother's home in southern Norway. One evening, his dead father comes to him in a dream. Realizing that he doesn't really know who his father was, Syvert begins to investigate his life and finds clues pointing to the Soviet Union. What he learns changes his past and undermines the entire notion of who he is. But when his mother becomes ill, and he must care for his little brother,...
Author
Publisher
Gillian Flynn Books, a Zando imprint
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"Two young women vanish in a seaside town. At the cliff's edge, nobody is who they seem. Desperate to escape the ghosts of his failed marriage, Cole upends his life. He leaves London behind for a remote stretch of coast, relishing the respite from the noise, drama, and relentless careerism that curdled his relationship and mental health. Leonora has made the same move for similar reasons. She's living a short walk from Cole's seaside cottage, preparing...
1848) Harmony
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
431 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Description
How far will a mother go to save her family? The Hammonds are living in suburban DC, where everything seems to be going just fine, until it becomes clear that the oldest daughter, Tilly, is developing abnormally -- a mix of off-the-charts genius and social incompetence. Once Tilly -- whose condition is deemed undiagnosable -- is kicked out of the last school in the area, her mother Alexandra is out of ideas. The family turns to Camp Harmony and the...
1849) Sea escape: a novel
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media
Pub. Date
p2010
Physical Desc
7 sound discs (8.5 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Laura Martinez is wedged in the middle place, grappling with her busy life as a nurse, wife, and devoted mom to her two young children when her estranged mother, Helen, suffers a devastating stroke. In a desperate attempt to lure her mother into choosing life, Laura goes to the beach home that Helen took refuge in after the death of her beloved husband, Joseph. There, Laura hunts for the legendary love letters her father wrote to her mother when he...
1850) The murder stone
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
xi, 352 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"The Great War is still raging in the autumn of 1916, when Francesca Hatton's beloved grandfather dies on the family estate in England's isolated Exe Valley. Grieving for the man who raised her, Francesca is stunned to find an unsigned letter among his effects, cursing the Hattons and their descendants. Now a stranger has shown up on her doorstep, accusing her grandfather of being a murderer." "Ex-soldier Richard Leighton blames Francis Hatton for...
1851) Beautyland
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Formats
Description
At the moment when Voyager 1 is launched into space carrying its famous golden record, a baby of unusual perception is born to a single mother in Philadelphia. Adina Giorno is tiny and jaundiced, but she reaches for warmth and light. As a child, she recognizes she is different: She possesses knowledge of a faraway planet. The arrival of a fax machine enables her to contact her extraterrestrial relatives, beings who have sent her to report on the oddities...
1852) Watch her
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
359 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
Investigating a suspicious burglary and the disappearances of Prescott University alumni, Harvard librarian Hester Thursby and Detective Angela White uncover financial transgressions, rumors of infidelity, and a decades-old tragedy.
1853) The fetishist: a novel
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
xiii, 283 pages ; 24 cm
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Description
"On a cold, gloomy night, twenty-three-year-old Kyoko stands in the rain with a knife in her hoodie’s pocket. Her target is Daniel, who seduced Kyoko’s mother then callously dropped her, leading to her death. But tonight, there will be repercussions. Following the unsuspecting Daniel home, Kyoko manages to get a rash kidnapping plot off the ground . . . and then nothing goes as planned. The Fetishist is the story of three people—Kyoko,...
1854) El final de la historia
Author
Publisher
Grijalbo
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
541 pages ; 23 cm
Description
"'En tres meses estaré muerto. Ven a contar mi historia.”Escribe Sebastián Trapp, novelista de misterio recluso, a Nicky Hunter, su amiga por correspondencia y experta en novela policiaca. Con pocos meses de vida, Trapp invita a Nicky a su espectacular mansión en San Francisco para ayudarlo a poner en papel la historia de su vida… conviviendo con su hermosa segunda esposa, Diana; su rebelde sobrino, Freddy, y su protectora hija, Madeleine....
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