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Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Reading a mysterious novel that recounts in haunting detail the day she became the victim of a dark secret, documentary filmmaker Catherine Ravenscroft is forced to confront the past to prevent her world from falling apart.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Daphne Bell believes the universe has a plan in store for her. Ever since she was young, whenever she met a new guy, Daphne would find a slip of paper with exactly how long they'd spend together--4 months, two weeks, one night. That's how she met her ex-boyfriend and current best friend, Hugo, the only person in Daphne's life who knows of her secret. Followed by a string of men and countless dates, Daphne resigned herself to the fact that she was...
Author
Publisher
Fordham University Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Finalist, French-American Foundation Translation Prize In an age that prizes political and personal transparency, In Defense of Secrets champions the secret as what permits relation and ensures our humanity. Psychoanalyst and philosopher Anne Dufourmantelle drowned in 2017 in an attempt to rescue two children caught in the ocean. Her work lives on, though, in this provocative and necessary book. Through etymologies and case studies, personal history...
6) Astonish me
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
"From the author of the widely acclaimed debut novel Seating Arrangements, winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize: a gorgeously written, fiercely compelling glimpse into the passionate, political world of professional ballet and its magnetic hold over two generations. Astonish Me is the irresistible story of Joan, a ballerina whose life has been shaped by her relationship with the world-famous dancer Arslan Ruskov, whom she helps defect from the Soviet...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Best-selling and award-winning author Lisa Scottoline reaches new heights with this riveting novel about how a single decision can undo a family, how our past can derail our present, and how not guilty doesn't always mean innocent.Allie Garvey is heading home to the funeral of a childhood friend. Allie is not only grief-stricken, she's full of dread. Because going home means seeing the other two people with whom she shares an unbearable secret.Twenty...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Thirty-one-year-old Celia, having blocked out circumstances involving the disappearance of her best friend and rival Djuna twenty years earlier, realizes that in order to move forward in her relationship with her longtime boyfriend, Huck, she must return home and confess the truth, but when her family and friends do not believe her she must find another way to prove what happened.
10) Midnight
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The death of Manhattan judge Alvin Canter on New Year's Eve in his chambers presents a serious problem to his law clerk, Tom Carroway, and his secretary, Carol Scilingo. When a judge dies, the members of his staff keep their jobs until the end of the year, so the two are suddenly faced with unemployment at the end of the day unless they can make it appear as if the judge died after midnight. Carol is a single parent and the only support for her son,...
11) Faithless III #1
Author
Publisher
BOOM! Studios
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Nine months after her mysterious disappearance, Faith suddenly drops back onto the map. While the art world debates whether her disappearance was a piece of performance art or all just a publicity stunt, Faith retreats to Louis's studio to recover from her journey into the unknown. But Ginny begins to realize that something is very much amiss with Faith. Where was she for nine months? And why does Faith suddenly seem so obsessed with Ginny's son Jacob?...
12) No safe secret
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Molly's life looks perfect at least on the surface. But no one in her neighborhood knows what living with her demanding husband Tanner is really like. They know even less about the life she left behind in Florida. Back then, Molly was Maddy Carmichael and after the events of her high school prom - and the act of vengeance that followed - she fled north and reinvented herself. But the veneer of Molly's polished existence is finally cracking.
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Kate Bennett vanished from a parking lot eleven years ago, leaving behind her husband and young daughter. When she shows up at a Montana gas station, clutching an infant and screaming for help, investigators believe she may have been abducted by a cult. Kate's return flips her family's world upside down--her husband is remarried, and her daughter barely remembers her. Kate herself doesn't look or act like she did before. While the family tries to...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
I have something for you. When Quinn Cruz receives that cryptic text message from her older sister Nora, she doesn't think much of it. They haven't seen each other in nearly a year and thanks to Nora's fierce aloofness, their relationship consists mostly of infrequent phone calls and an occasional email or text. But when a haunted Nora shows up at the lake near Quinn's house just hours later, a chain reaction is set into motion that will change both...
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A newly-pregnant trained assassin wonders why her husband broke the rules and took a hit job at a college without telling her and also questions why a particular woman in the crowd responded differently than everyone else.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Agatha is pregnant and works part-time stocking shelves at a grocery store in a ritzy London suburb, counting down the days until her baby is due. As the hours of her shifts creep by in increasing discomfort, the one thing she looks forward to at work is catching a glimpse of Meghan, the effortlessly chic customer whose elegant lifestyle dazzles her. Meghan has it all: two perfect children, a handsome husband, a happy marriage, a stylish group of...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Set in the beach community of a tony Connecticut town, our heroine is a single mom who works for a famous--and famously reclusive--novelist. When she stumbles on a secret that the great man has kept hidden for years, she knows that there are plenty of women in town who would love to get their hands on it--including some who fancy the writer for themselves.
18) The good liar
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When an explosion rips apart a Chicago building, the lives of three women are forever altered.
19) The Eden Test
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Adam Sternbergh brings his wit, humor, and a Hitchcockian sense of dread to What Have We Done, a chilling, surprising, and wholly entertaining portrait of a marriage on the brink. Seven Days. Seven Questions. Forever Changed. That's how The Eden Test, a week-long getaway, advertises itself for couples in trouble. And that's what Daisy, a talented actress, has signed up for, in the hopes of saving her marriage. It's a tall order, seeing as her husband...
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
Français
Description
Jesuit priest, Dr. Joachim Ferrer, is harboring a secret from his violent past. He soon finds himself caught in a web of intrigue when a young Carmelite nun, Sarah, is rushed to his hospital. Suffering from inexplicable pain and delusions, Joachim recognizes in Sarah the familiar symptoms of repression and denial. She shares a terrifying secret with her twin sister, Gaelle. Caught between his obsession to uncover the truth and his growing attraction...
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