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An intense debut novel explores what happens when lies cause more damage than the secrets they hide, tracing the story of Lucy, who reflects on the shattering loss of her two young children and on the youthful attractiveness that led her into relationships with two complicated men.
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Katherine Givens, following the wishes of her friend Annie who has died of ovarian cancer at the age of fifty-six, calls together four other women who have been important in Annie's life, and together they travel across the country sprinking Annie's ashes in designated places, and reevaluating their own lives and choices.
63) Come and find me
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English
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Reformed computer hacker Diana Highsmith has refused to leave her house in the year since her boyfriend Daniel's death, but when her sister goes missing, she is forced to face the outside world and her inner demons and sets out to find her sister, even if it means risking her own life in the process.
64) The wrong mother
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Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2009
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English
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Sally Thorning is shocked when she hears that a man she had an affair with while on a secret vacation the previous year has been found dead, she is shocked and frightened, especially when the picture on the news is not the man she had fallen in love with.
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Viking
Pub. Date
2008
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English
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Past indiscretions and long-hidden secrets start to rise to the surface when Nate, a former drug addict who gave his daughter Willa up for adoption seventeen years earlier, is hired to teach at the elite Pioneer School in the Berkshires where Willa is a student and her wealthy adoptive father a board member.
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Viking
Pub. Date
2010
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English
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Hugh Water, who works for an insurance company, sells his screenplay to Gladiator Films, but when the executive who bought his story suddenly dies and his replacement, Hedda Chase, tries to talk the studio out of their purchase, Hugh decides to travel to Hollywood and defend his work.
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Union Square & Co
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Matty Melgren is a convicted serial killer serving life without parole for the murders of several women in London in the 1980s. He has consistently protested his innocence, and the evidence against him was largely circumstantial. At the time of his arrest, Matty's girlfriend was Amelia-Rose, a single mother to 12-year-old Sophie. Sophie adores Matty. He's handsome, funny, respectable-she could never suspect him of the brutal killings in the headlines....
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A victim of crime may actually be a criminal in this twisting tale of psychological suspense by the author of Devil's Play. When Sophie Macreavey wakes up in the hospital, suffering from stab wounds, detectives are quick to question her -- hoping to make sense of the horrific scene where she was found. Sophie's adoptive parents and sister are dead. Her brothers are missing. Sophie can't remember anything -- but reveals the abusive nightmare she's...
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Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2011
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English
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Consulting firm vice president and mother of three Sarah Nickerson is forced to give up some control over her life when she is in a car accident and suffers a traumatic brain injury, and, as she tries to regain her independence, she also realizes that happiness and success may not be about having the perfect career and a lot of money.
70) The river king
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2000
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IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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An inexplicable death in Haddan, Massachusetts leads to the unraveling of the lives of some of the residents of the small river town.
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English
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Samantha's delight in her baby daughter does not keep her from feeling she has lost something of herself in giving up her artistic dreams to become a mother, but she is able to come to terms with her doubts, as well as secrets of the past, when a box of her late mother Iris's belongings arrives on her doorstep, containing revelations about Iris, and Sam's grandmother Violet.
72) Kindred
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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A young African-American woman is mysteriously transfered back in time leading to an irresistable curiosity about her family's past.
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Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2008
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English
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Tom and his wife Ann, having just moved into a large house in Hackney, anticipate the arrival of a baby while Ann persistently cleans and reorganizes the house while complaining about a man that has been following her--someone who many not even exist.
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Shaye Areheart Books
Pub. Date
c2007
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English
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Freelance writer Ridley Jones, trying to rebuild her life after a year of chaos in which she learned everything about her past is a lie, instead becomes further trapped in a web of mystery and violence when she discovers she is being watched by everyone from the federal government to the underworld, all of whom are seeking Max Smiley, an uncle figure and friend of her dad who she has since learned is her biological father and an unscrupulous criminal...
75) Deviant ways
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English
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Private detective Jack Casey is drawn back into his former life as an FBI profiler when a mass murderer, known as the Sandman, begins killing whole families and neighborhoods with devastating explosions, and makes it known he wants Casey to suffer.
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Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2010
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English
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Marcella Atkinson, having had an affair with Cecil McClatchey which ended on the night Cecil's wife was murdered, is confronted by her lover's son, Jed, who, after the death of his father, is determined to find out what really happened to his mother, and, despite her guilt and problems with her daughter and husband, Marcella begins having a relationship with the young man, which further complicates things but results in them getting closer to the...
78) The blunderer
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English
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For two years, Walter Stackhouse has been a faithful and supportive husband to his wife, Clara. But she is distant and neurotic, and Walter finds himself harboring gruesome fantasies about her demise. When Clara's dead body turns up at the bottom of a cliff in a manner uncannily resembling the recent death of a woman who was murdered by her husband, Walter finds himself under intense scrutiny. He commits several blunders that claim his career and...
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New York Times Bestseller
The profound and compelling story of a personal quest for meaning and faith from Wally Lamb, #1 New York Times bestselling author of She’s Come Undone and I Know This Much Is True
“The beauty of The Hour I First Believed, a soaring novel as amazingly graceful as the classic hymn that provides the title, is that Lamb never
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