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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"When Jessica Farris signs up for a psychology study conducted by the mysterious Dr. Shields, she thinks all she'll have to do is answer a few questions, collect her money, and leave. But as the questions grow more and more intense and invasive and the sessions become outings where Jess is told what to wear and how to act, she begins to feel as though Dr. Shields may know what she's thinking ... and what she's hiding."--
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English
Description
"Naomi Westfield has an Instagram-perfect life, including the perfect fiance. Nicholas Rose holds doors open for her, remembers her restaurant orders, and comes from the kind of upstanding society family every bride dreams of being a part of. They never fight, complain, or disagree. They're preparing for their lavish wedding that's three months away. And they are miserably and utterly sick of each other. Tired of contorting herself to fit the ridiculous...
Author
Series
Last Mrs. Parrish novels volume 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Some women get everything. Some women get everything they deserve. Amber Patterson is fed up. She's tired of being a nobody: a plain, invisible woman who blends into the background. She deserves more--a life of money and power like the one blond-haired, blue-eyed goddess Daphne Parrish takes for granted. To everyone in the exclusive town of Bishops Harbor, Connecticut, Daphne--a socialite and philanthropist--and her real-estate mogul husband, Jackson,...
4) Baby teeth
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Language
English
Description
Afflicted with a chronic debilitating condition, Suzette Jensen knew having children would wreak havoc on her already fragile body. Nevertheless, she brought Hanna into the world, pleased and proud to start a family with her husband Alex. Estranged from her own mother, Suzette is determined to raise her beautiful daughter with the love, care, and support she was denied. But Hanna proves to be a difficult child. Now seven-years-old, she has yet to...
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Language
English
Description
In 1935, six-year-old Emily Evans vanishes from her family's vacation home on a remote Minnesota lake. Her disappearance destroys the family--her father commits suicide, and her mother and two older sisters spend the rest of their lives at the lake house, keeping a decades-long vigil for the lost child. Sixty years later, Lucy, the quiet and watchful middle sister, lives in the lake house alone. Before her death, she writes the story of that devastating...
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English
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"Eleven-year-old Nico Krispis never told a lie. When the Nazi's invade his home in Salonika, Greece, the trustworthy boy is discovered by a German officer, who offers him a chance to save his family. All Nico has to do is convince his fellow Jewish residents to board trains heading to "new homes" where they are promised jobs and safety. Unaware that this is all a cruel ruse, the innocent boy goes to the station platform every day and reassures the...
Author
Series
Lulu (Judith Viorst) volume 1
Language
English
Description
Lulu's parents refuse to give in when she demands a brontosaurus for her birthday and so she sets out to find her own, but while the brontosaurus she finally meets approves of pets, he does not intend to be Lulu's.
9) The tenant
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
356 pages : maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When a young woman is discovered brutally murdered in her own apartment, with an intricate pattern of lines carved into her face, Copenhagen police detectives Jeppe Korner and Anette Werner are assigned to the case. In short order, they establish a link between the victim, Julie Stender, and her landlady, Esther de Laurenti, who's a bit too fond of drink and the host of raucous dinner parties with her artist friends. Esther also turns out to be a...
10) Vita nostra
Author
Series
Vita Nostra novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
406 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Description
"While vacationing at the beach with her mother, Sasha Samokhina meets the mysterious Farit Kozhennikov under the most peculiar circumstances. The teenage girl is powerless to refuse when this strange and unusual man with an air of the sinister directs her to perform a task with potentially scandalous consequences. He rewards her effort with a strange golden coin.As the days progress, Sasha carries out other acts for which she receives more coins...
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Language
English
Description
Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this piercing work distills three thousand years of the history of power into 48 well-explicated laws. It outlines the laws of power in their unvarnished essence, synthesizing the philosophies of Machiavelli, Sun-tzu, Carl von Clausewitz, and other great thinkers. Some laws teach the need for prudence, the virtue of stealth, and many demand the total absence of mercy, but like it or not, all have applications...
12) Winter's Return
Author
Series
Winter Black volume 10
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
250 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Everything's bigger--and deadlier--in Texas ... Finally free from the claustrophobic worry caused by her psychotic baby brother's bloodthirsty reign, former Special Agent Winter Black--newly Mrs. Winter Black-Dalton--is ready for a fresh start in Austin, Texas. With her husband and former partner, Noah Dalton, at her side, she's hoping to shed the skin of her past and return to hunting down criminals, but in a very different way ... Black Investigations...
Author
Series
Vita Nostra novels volume 2
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
241 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The sequel to the highly acclaimed Vita Nostra takes readers to the next stage in Sasha Samokhina's journey in a richly imagined world of dark academia in which grammar is magic--and not all magic is good.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"An English teacher is gaslit by his charismatic high school bully in this tense story of deception, manipulation, and murder. Single father Todd is relaxing at the beach with his son, Anthony, when he catches sight of a man approaching from the water's edge. As the man draws closer, Todd recognizes him as Jack, who bullied Todd relentlessly in their teenage years, but now seems overjoyed to have "run into" his old friend. Jack suggests a meal to...
15) Councilor
Author
Series
The grand illusion volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
514 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"L. E. Modesitt, Jr., bestselling author of Saga of Recluce and the Imager Portfolio, continues his brand new, gaslamp, political fantasy series with Councilor the thrilling sequel to Isolate. Continued poor harvests and steam-powered industrialization displace and impoverish thousands. Protests grow and gather followers. Against this rising tide of social unrest, Steffan Dekkard, newly appointed to the Council of Sixty-Six, is the first Councilor...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
378 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
This sophisticated psychological thriller skillfully blurs the line between fact and fiction, reality and artifice. Delphine de Vigan has crafted a terrifying, insidious, meta-fictional thriller; a haunting vision of seduction and betrayal; a book which in its hungering for truth implicates the reader, too--even as it holds us in its thrall.
Overwhelmed by the huge success of her latest novel, exhausted and suffering from a crippling inability to...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
285 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Filled with real political insight and intrigue, this thrilling novel explores the nature of power through the inner workings of Putin's regime. Known as the "Wizard of the Kremlin," the enigmatic Vadim Baranov was a TV producer before becoming a political advisor to Putin, aka "The Czar." After his resignation from this position, legends about him multiply, with no one able to distinguish truth from fiction. Until one night, when he tells his story...
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After a roving motorcycle gang attacks him on the street, timid bookkeeper Casey joins a neighborhood karate studio to learn how to protect himself. Under the watchful eye of a charismatic instructor, Sensei, and hardcore brown belt Anna, Casey gains a newfound sense of confidence. But when he attends Sensei's mysterious night classes, he discovers a sinister world of brutality and hyper-masculinity, presenting a journey that places him squarely in...
19) Cruel intentions
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two unscrupulous stepsiblings engage in a series of manipulative schemes revolving around love, sex & seduction, wreaking havoc on the lives (and reputations) of everyone unfortunate enough to pique their anger. An update of the French epistolary novel "Les liaisons dangereuses", set amongst the upper classes in New York City in the late 1990s.
20) The good boss
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Julio Blanco, el carismático propietario de una empresa que fabrica balanzas industriales en una ciudad española de provincias, espera la inminente visita de una comisión que decidirá la obtención de un premio local a la excelencia empresarial. Todo tiene que estar perfecto para la visita. Sin embargo, todo parece conspirar contra él. Trabajando a contrarreloj, Blanco intenta resolver los problemas de sus empleados, cruzando para ello todas...
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