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261) Dying for Christmas
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
Dominic Lacey kidnaps Jessica Gould during December Christmas shopping and plans to hold her captive for the Twelve Days of Christmas, but what follows may not go according to Dominic's plan.
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Thirty-something midwesterner Mark Fife believes he has successfully moved past the accidental death of his young son Brendan, as well as his subsequent divorce from his college sweetheart Chloe. He's successful, he's in love again, and he believes he's mastered his own memories.
But then he is contacted by a strange woman who tells him not only that she owns his old house, but that she believes it to be haunted by Brendan's ghost. Will Mark--who...
264) The long answer
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A young woman gathers intimate stories about pregnancy, motherhood, and the nature of female relationships, in this profound and provocative novel"--
Twelve weeks pregnant for the first time, Anna speaks to her sister on the other side of the country and learns she has just miscarried her second child. As this loss strains their bond and complications with Anna's own pregnancy emerge, her tenuous steps towards motherhood are shadowed and illuminated...
Author
Pub. Date
©2021.
Language
English
Description
Investigating the murder of Madison May, reporter Felicity Staples unwittingly follows the killer into a different dimension where Madison May is murdered again and, while hunting this elusive man, uncovers the opportunity and danger of living more than one life.
266) Edenville: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"After publishing his debut novel, The Shattered Man, to disappointing sales and reviews, Campbell P. Marion is struggling to find inspiration for a follow-up. When Edenville College invites him to join as a writer-in-residence, he’s convinced that his bad luck has finally taken a turn. His girlfriend Quinn isn’t so sure—she grew up near Edenville and has good reasons for not wanting to move back. Cam disregards her skepticism and accepts the...
267) The writing circle
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In a tale of love, betrayal, and literature, six members of an elite writing circle share much more than their works-in-progress.
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First Free Press hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
It is well known that American culture is a dominant force at home and abroad; our exportation of everything from movies to junk food is a well-documented phenomenon. But is it possible that America's most troubling impact on the globalizing world has yet to be accounted for? In Crazy Like Us, Ethan Watters reveals that the most devastating consequence of the spread of American culture has not been our golden arches or our bomb craters but our bulldozing...
269) The hellbound heart
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Frank Cotton's insatiable appetite for the dark pleasures of pain led him to the puzzle of Lemarchand's box, and from there, to a death only a sick-minded soul could invent. But his brother's love-crazed wife, Julia, has discovered a way to bring Frank back-though the price will be bloody and terrible . . . and there will certainly be hell to pay.
270) Acceptance: a memoir
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"A brilliant, funny, generation-defining memoir about the double bind of crafting perfect adversity narratives for highly selective institutions, while fumbling through the far murkier reality of actual life in foster care and inpatient mental health treatment As a child, Emi Nietfeld was caught between a hoarder mother who got her put on antipsychotic medication, but was also the only person to believe she was exceptional, and a state system exemplified...
271) The butcher
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
"From the author of the acclaimed suspense novels Creep and Freak and whom Jeffery Deaver has praised as a "top of the line thriller writer," The Butcher is a high-octane novel about lethal secrets that refuse to die--until they kill again. A rash of grisly serial murders plagued Seattle until the infamous "Beacon Hill Butcher" was finally hunted down and killed by police chief Edward Shank in 1985. Now, some thirty years later, Shank, retired and...
272) Stillhouse Lake
Author
Series
Stillhouse Lake novels volume 1
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
273) Friend request
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
A paranoid single mom is forced to confront the unthinkable act she committed as a desperate teenager in this addictive thriller with a social media twist.
Maria Weston wants to be friends. But Maria Weston is dead. Isn't she?
1989. When Louise first notices the new girl who has mysteriously transferred late into their senior year, Maria seems to be everything the girls Louise hangs out with aren't. Authentic. Funny. Brash. Within just a few days,...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"From the internationally bestselling author Karl Ove Knausgaard, a sprawling and deeply human novel that questions the responsibilities we have toward one another and ourselves-- and the limits of what we can understand about life itself. In 1986, twenty-year-old Syvert Løyning 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...
275) Eating bull
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Jeremy, a lonely and obese teenager, shoots into the limelight when a headstrong public health nurse persuades him to sue the food industry. Tossed into a storm of media buzz and bullying, the teen draws the attention of a serial killer who's targeting the obese. Soon the boy, the nurse, and their loved ones take center stage in a delusional man's drama. In this novel of suspense, Eating Bull explores the real-life issues of bullying, fat-shaming,...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Sophie and her mother, Amelia-Rose, move to London from Massachusetts where they meet the charismatic Matty Melgren, who quickly becomes an intrinsic part of their lives. But as the relationship between the two adults fractures, a serial killer begins targeting young women with a striking resemblance to Amelia-Rose.
278) The best of friends
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Best friends Lindsey, Kendra, and Dani endure every parent's nightmare when a tragic accident befalls their teenage boys, leaving one dead, another in a coma, and a third too traumatized to speak. Reeling from the worst night of their lives, the three mothers plunge into a desperate investigation of the bizarre incident. How could something so horrible happen in their wealthy Southern California suburb? They soon discover that the accident was just...
279) The lies I told
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
When a recent car crash erases 10 days of her memories, photographer Marisa, whose twin sister was murdered 14 years ago, struggles to remember everything, soon discovering that putting the pieces together of her accident-and her sister's death-could be fatal.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Virginia Woolf's groundbreaking novel, in a lushly illustrated hardcover edition with illuminating commentary from a brilliant young Oxford scholar and critic. "Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself." So begins Virginia Woolf's much-beloved fourth novel. First published in 1925, Mrs. Dalloway has long been considered Woolf's masterpiece. A pivotal work of literary modernism, its simple plot-centered on an upper-class Londoner preparing...
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