Search Results for Psyhological fiction.

The sense of an ending

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Barnes, Julian.
c2011.
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The sense of an ending

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Barnes, Julian.
2011.
This intense new novel follows a middle-aged man as he contends with a past he has never much thought about until his oldest friends return with a vengeance, one of them from the grave another maddeningly present. Tony Webster thought he'd left all of this behind as he built a life for himself, and by now his marriage and family and career have fallen into an amicable divorce and retirement. But he is then presented with a mysterious legacy that obliges him to reconsider various things, and to revise his estimation of his own nature and his place in the world.
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The sense of an ending

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Barnes, Julian.
2012.
Center Point large print ed.
Tony Webster has always made the very reasonable assumption that he could trust his memories, but when he's forced to revisit his past, everything he believes about himself and his life is challenged. The fact is that Tony Webster, a middle-aged man, never gave much thought to his past at all until his closest childhood friends' return with a vengeance -- one of them from the grave and another maddeningly present. Tony thought he'd left all this uncertainly behind as he built a life for himself. Tony has created a very ordinary life for himself that includes the usual trappings of marriage, family, and career. But his marriage has become an amicable divorce, and his career has turned into a comfortable retirement. Presented with a mysterious legacy that obliges him to reconsider a variety of things he thought he'd understood all along, Tony may have to revise his estimation of his own nature and his place in the world. The Sense of an Ending is so compelling that it begs to be read in a single sitting. With stunning psychological and emotional depth and sophistication, it is a brilliant work and winner of the Man Booker Prize, one of the world's most prestigious literary honors. BESTSELLER.
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Breakthrough

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Grimwood, Ken.
1976.
1st ed.
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Monday, Monday

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Crook, Elizabeth.
2014.
First edition.
On a Monday in August of 1966, a student and former marine named Charles Whitman hauled a footlocker of guns to the top of the University of Texas tower and began firing on pedestrians below. Before his rampage was over, sixteen people would be killed and thirty-two wouned. It was the first mass shooting of civilians on a campus in American history. This novel follows three students caught up in the massacre: Shelly, who left her math class and walked directly into the path of the bullets, and two cousins, Wyatt and Jack, who rushed from their classrooms to help the victims. On this day, a relationship began that wouldl eventually entangle these three young people in a forbidden love affair, an illicit pregnancy, and a vow of secrecy that would span forty years. In this story of a woman determined to make peace with herself, and with a history that will not let her go, the author explores the ways in which we sustain ourselves and each other when the unthinkable happens. -- From book jacket.
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Unkempt

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Eldridge, Courtney.
©2004.
1st ed.
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Psychological fiction.

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Beja, Morris.
[1971]
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NOTED [electronic resource].

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Cullinan, Merlin.
2019.
Electronic resource
JLC Title 245h [electronic resource].

Charisma

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Hall, Barbara,
[2013?]
"In the aftermath of a violent incident and near death experience, Sarah Lange is plagued by heavenly voices and dogged by a desire to return 'home.' Frightened by her desire to terminate her existence on earth, she checks into a trauma center in Malibu, California, and meets Dr. David Sutton, an intellectual, a scientist, a reductionist, and someone who believes in nothing beyond his immediate experience"--Page 4 of cover.
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The humbling

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Roth, Philip.
2009.
What happens when all the ways that we convince ourselves of our solidity, all our life's performances--talent, love, sex, hope, energy, reputation--are stripped off? Simon Axler, one of the leading American stage actors of his generation, is about to find out. Now in his sixties, he has lost his magic, his talent, and his assurance. His wife has gone, his audience has left him, his agent can't persuade him to make a comeback. Consumed by an erotic desire, he plunges into a darker and more shocking end.
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Afterwards

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Seiffert, Rachel.
c2007.
1st U.S. ed.
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The verificationist

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Antrim, Donald.
2000.
1st ed.
A gathering of psychoanalysts and a narrator with a dissociated personality whose vantage point is the ceiling of a pancake house--these are the basic elements of this deadly serious, desperately playful, off-the-wall and perfectly on-target new novel.
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Rose Madder : a novel

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King, Stephen,
2018.
First Gallery Books trade paperback edition.
"After surviving fourteen years of hell in a violently abusive marriage, Rosie Daniels has finally summoned the courage to flee for her life. But leaving her husband Norman for a new city and a new start is a very daunting prospect. It's hard for Rosie not to keep looking over her shoulder, and with good reason--Norman's a police officer with the instincts of a predator, a force of relentless terror and savagery...a man almost mythic in his monstrosity. He's very good at finding people, even if he is losing his mind. Rosie's only hope for salvation may lie in a far more dangerous place, where she must become her own myth and the woman she never knew she could be"--Back cover.
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Sophie

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Burt, Guy,
2003.
1st American ed.
Twenty years after dark secrets had ended their idyllic childhood, Mattie and Sophie reunite in their old house to play a game designed to force to the surface the memories and traumatic events that destroyed their happiness. Sophie combines the creepy narrative power of a young William Golding with the disturbingly accurate memory of what it is like to be a child, so good that one can only wonder what Burt will do next. In a dark room of a dilapidated house, as a storm rages outside, Matthew lights a candle and places it in the center of the floor. Its light spreads across the wall and illuminates Sophie, tied up in a chair facing him. She is frightened, fearful of what he might do next. But for now, it seems, all Matthew wants to do is talk. Talk about the events of nearly twenty years ago, about their strange childhood, and about the summer when Sophie grew up and everything changed forever. Young Mattie and Sophie lived in a world seemingly without constraints. Their cold mother barely paid attention to her children. Their father, a mere shadow in their lives, was never home. So Mattie and Sophie had the run of the gardens and the woods beyond. They played youthful games, but Sophie was extraordinarily intelligent, a fact she took great pains to hide from her teachers, so as not to stand out. Sophie was everything to Mattie, and he worshiped her. He wanted to know her secrets, the things that went on inside her brilliant mind. But Sophie was changing. And the summer before she went away to boarding school, the things she had worked so hard to conceal would come spilling out, and Mattie would have to live with the shocking consequences. Now he's all grown up, too, and Matthew wants answers to the questions that still darken his mind, no matter what the it cost.
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Yellow dog

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Amis, Martin.
©2003.
1st ed.
Explores the lives of five different men, including Xan Meo, who suffers a personality change following a brutal assault, and King Henry IX of England, whose life is complicated by his incapacitated wife and his Chinese mistress.
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Arena

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Hancock, Karen.
c2002.
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Cold silence

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Girard, Danielle.
c2002.
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The poet

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Harris, Stephanie,
[2017]
The only way out is through the blood. When Rebecca Paige decides to vacation alone at an isolated resort in the woods, it's a welcome break from her position as the administrator of a psychiatric hospital. Little does she know, the poet is also visiting this peaceful hideaway, and his motivation is far more sinister in nature. On the last day of her trip, Rebecca has an unusual encounter with Jack Shelley, the man in the cabin next door. After he leaves, men with guns suddenly descend on the resort and take Rebecca and the other guests hostage. Rebecca is accustomed to dangerous situations at work, but can that help her escape multiple-armed assailants? Who are these men? What do they want? How are they connected to the man next door? Who is the poet? Slightly twisted with a literary flair, The Poet is the first installment in the new and captivating The Poet Series that will have readers thinking about the dark and wondering if love, redemption, and forgiveness really do apply to everyone.
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Disclaimer

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Knight, Renee.
[2015]
First edition.
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.
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The lighthouse

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Moore, Alison,
2012.
On the outer deck of a North Sea ferry stands Futh, a middle-aged and newly separated man, on his way to Germany for a restorative walking holiday. After an inexplicably hostile encounter with a hotel landlord, Futh sets out along the Rhine. As he contemplates an earlier trip to Germany and the things he has done in his life, he does not foresee the potentially devastating consequences of things not done. This novel tells the tense, gripping story of a man trying to find himself, but becoming lost.
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Lowboy

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Wray, John,
2009.
1st ed.
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Winged creatures

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Freirich, Roy.
2008.
1st ed.
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Ghost

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Lightman, Alan P.,
c2007.
1st ed.
When a divorced and childless forty-two-year-old man takes a job at a local mortuary, his encounter with a supernatural event brings unwanted consequences.
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Surveillance

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Raban, Jonathan.
c2006.
1st American ed.
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Porno

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Welsh, Irvine.
2002.
1st American ed.
Ten years after the events detailed in "Trainspotting", Simon Williamson, a.k.a. Sick Boy, is back in Edinburgh to direct and produce a porn film along with university student Nikki Fuller-Smith and old friend Mark Renton.
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Scar culture

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Davidson, Toni.
2000.
1st American ed.
... follows the lives of Click, Fright, and their dysfunctional therapist Sad. Using experimental techniques, Sad tries to bring Click and Fright out of the stupor to which they have succumbed from childhood abuse. Tempering the story with the darkest humor, the author makes us confront the meaning of being human in this challenge to psychotherapy ... P.4 of cover.
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Water hazard

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Borg, Scott.
1995.
A man awakens to find a lookalike trying to kill him. He drowns him instead and takes his identity as the lookalike is a rich man. Unfortunately, he also takes on many of the rich man's problems, not the least of which is that police suspect he drowned a man.
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The center of winter

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Hornbacher, Marya,
c2005.
1st ed.
When Arnold Schiller gives into the depression of winter and commits suicide, his wife Claire must find a way to overcome her own grief and help her two young children recover.
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Thy neighbor

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Vincent, Norah.
2012.
Nick Walsh is a broken, deeply cynical man. Since the violent deaths of his parents thirteen years earlier, he has been living alone in his childhood home in the suburban Midwest, drinking, drugging, and debauching himself into oblivion. He begins a campaign of spying on his neighbors via hidden cameras and microphones he has covertly installed in their houses. As he observes with amusement and disbelief all the strange, sad, and terrifying things that his neighbors do to themselves and to one another, and as he, in turn, learns that he is being stalked, he begins to slowly unravel the shocking truth about how and why his parents died.
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Inside

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Ohlin, Alix.
c2012.
1st ed.
Assisting a stranger who had just failed to commit suicide, therapist Grace realizes that she has developed feelings for the man, and her ex-husband leaves the woman he loves to attend to an Arctic community.
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Great house

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Krauss, Nicole.
c2010.
1st ed.
Connected solely by a desk of enormous dimension and many drawers that exerts a power over those who possess it or give it away, three people--a lonely American novelist clinging to the memory of a poet who has mysteriously vanished in Chile, an old man in Israel facing the imminent death of his wife of 51 years, and an esteemed antiques dealer tracking down the things stolen from his father by the Nazis--struggle to create a meaningful permanence in the face of inevitable loss.
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Cockroach

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Hage, Rawi.
2009.
1st American ed.
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Everyman

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Roth, Philip.
2006.
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Stone garden

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Moynahan, Molly.
©2003.
1st ed.
Coming of age in the privileged sects of New Jersey prep schools, artistic Alice finds her world crashing around her when her best friend goes missing while on vacation in Mexico.
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Illumination night

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Hoffman, Alice.
2002.
Berkley trade paperback ed.
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Women

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Bukowski, Charles.
2002, ©1978.
1st Ecco ed.
Tells the story of an ugly old man who has gone unloved for too long, but a change comes over him as he begins more and more relationships with women.
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Nightfall

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Marlowe, Katharine.
1993.
1st ed.
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Illumination night

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Hoffman, Alice.
©1987.
Beginning on the night of the Grand Illumination, an unearthly festival of lanterns held on Martha's Vineyard, the novel chronicles a marriage and a bittersweet exploration of an extraordinary passion.
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Outrun the dark

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Bartholomew, Cecilia.
©1977.
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In a shallow grave

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Purdy, James.
c1975.
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Asymmetry

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Halliday, Lisa,
2018.
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
"Told in three distinct and uniquely compelling sections, Asymmetry explores the imbalances that spark and sustain many of our most dramatic human relations: inequities in age, power, talent, wealth, fame, geography, and justice. The first section, "Folly," tells the story of Alice, a young American editor, and her relationship with the famous and much older writer Ezra Blazer. A tender and exquisite account of an unexpected romance that takes place in New York during the early years of the Iraq War, "Folly" also suggests an aspiring novelist's coming-of-age. By contrast, "Madness" is narrated by Amar, an Iraqi-American man who, on his way to visit his brother in Kurdistan, is detained by immigration officers and spends the last weekend of 2008 in a holding room in Heathrow. These two seemingly disparate stories gain resonance as their perspectives interact and overlap, with yet new implications for their relationship revealed in an unexpected coda. A stunning debut from a rising literary star, Asymmetry is an urgent, important, and truly original work that will captivate any reader while also posing arresting questions about the very nature of fiction itself. A debut novel about love, luck, and the inextricability of life and art, from 2017 Whiting Award winner Lisa Halliday" --
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Obscura

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Hart, Joe (Novelist),
[2018]
"In the near future, an aggressive and terrifying new form of dementia is affecting victims of all ages. The cause is unknown, and the symptoms are disturbing. Dr. Gillian Ryan is on the cutting edge of research and desperately determined to find a cure. She's already lost her husband to the disease, and now her young daughter is slowly succumbing as well. After losing her funding, she is given the unique opportunity to expand her research. She will travel with a NASA team to a space station where the crew has been stricken with symptoms of a similar inexplicable psychosismemory loss, trances, and violent, uncontrollable impulses. Crippled by a secret addiction and suffering from creeping paranoia, Gillian finds her journey becoming a nightmare as unexplainable and violent events plague the mission"--Amazon.com.
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Mrs. Caliban

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Ingalls, Rachel,
2017.
First New Directions paperback edition.
In the quiet suburbs, while Dorothy is doing chores and waiting for her husband to come home from work, not in the least anticipating romance, she hears a strange radio announcement about a monster who has just escaped from the Institute for Oceanographic Research... Reviewers have compared Rachel Ingalls's Mrs. Caliban to King Kong, Edgar Allan Poe's stories, the films of David Lynch, Beauty and the Beast, The Wizard of Oz, E.T., Richard Yates's domestic realism, B-horror movies, and the fairy tales of Angela Carter--how such a short novel could contain all of these disparate elements is a testament to its startling and singular charm.
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Six stories

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Wesolowski, Matt,
2017.
1997. Scarclaw Fell. The body of teenager Tom Jeffries is found at an Outward Bound center. Verdict? Misadventure. But not everyone is convinced. And the truth of what happened in the beautiful but eerie fell is locked in the memories of the tight-knit group of friends who embarked on that fateful trip, and the flimsy testimony of those living nearby. 2017. Enter elusive investigative journalist Scott King, whose podcast examinations of complicated cases have rivaled the success of Serial, with his concealed identity making him a cult internet figure. In a series of six interviews, King attempts to work out how the dynamics of a group of idle teenagers conspired with the sinister legends surrounding the fell to result in Jeffries' mysterious death. As every interview unveils a new revelation, you'll be forced to work out for yourself how Tom Jeffries died, and who is telling the truth.
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Eileen

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Moshfegh, Ottessa,
2015.
Dreaming of life in the city while caring for her alcoholic father and working in a 1960s boys' prison, a disturbed young woman is manipulated into committing a psychologically charged crime during the holiday season.
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Centralia

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Dellosso, Mike.
[2015]
Peter Ryan wakes up on a typical morning only to find his house empty, his wife and daughter nowhere to be found. His world is shattered after a phone call to a friend confirms the impossible: his wife and daughter died in a car accident he does not remember. Haunted by faint memories and flashes of details, Peter becomes convinced that something isn't right and begins to question reality. When he discovers a note in his daughter's handwriting, strange memories begin to surface that cause him to second-guess nearly everything he once believed. Suddenly armed men show up at Peter's home, turning the mysterious puzzle of his past into a dangerous game of cat and mouse. On the run and unsure whom to trust, Peter has to discover what's real and what isn't . . . before he loses everything.
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The leftovers

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Perrotta, Tom,
2014, c2011.
1st St. Martin's Griffin TV tie-in edition.
When a bizarre phenomenon causes the disappearances of people all over the world, Kevin Garvey struggles to help his neighbors heal while enduring the fanatical religious conversions of his wife and son.
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The dominant

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Me, Tara Sue.
[2013]
"Nathaniel West doesn't lose control. As the playboy CEO of West Industries, he governs the boardroom during the day. As a strict dominant with exacting rules, he commands the bedroom at night. He never takes on inexperienced submissives, but when Abigail King's application comes across his desk, he breaks his own restrictions and decides to test her limits. Abby's combination of innocence and willingness is intoxicating, and Nathaniel is soon determined to collar her as his own. As long as she follows his orders and surrenders herself fully to him, no one will get hurt. But when Nathaniel begins falling for Abby on a deeper level, he realizes that the trust must go both ways -- and he has secrets which could bring the foundation of their entire relationship crashing down...." --P. [4] of cover.
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Cottage at glass beach

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Barbieri, Heather
2013
Married to the youngest attorney general in Massachusetts history, Nora Cunmningham is a picture-perfect political wife when she learns of her husband's infidelity. She packs up her daughters and takes refuge at Burke's Island, Maine, where she spent her childhood.
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Benediction

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Haruf, Kent.
[2013]
Large print edition.
When Dad Lewis is diagnosed with terminal cancer, he and his wife work together to make his final days comfortable. Their daughter, Lorraine, comes home from Denver to help look after Dad, which helps to soften the bitter absence of the Lewis's estranged son, Frank. Next door, young Alice lives with her grandmother, and Dad's condition stirs painful memories of her own mother's death. Meanwhile, the town's newly arrived preacher attempts to mend his strained relationships with his wife and teenaged son, a task that proves all the more challenging when he faces the disdain of his congregation after offering more than they are accustomed to getting on a Sunday morning. And throughout, an elderly widow and her middle-aged daughter do everything they can to ease the pain their friends and neighbors are suffering. Bracing, sad and deeply illuminating, Benediction captures the fullness of life by representing every stage of it -- including its extinction -- as well as the hopes and dreams that sustain us along the way.
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What she wants

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Kelly, Cathy.
2009.
[Downtown Press trade pbk ed.].
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Blame

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Huneven, Michelle,
2009.
1st ed.
Patsy MacLemoore, a history professor in her late twenties with a brand-new Ph. D. from Berkeley and a wild streak, wakes up in jail--yet again--after another epic alcoholic blackout. However, this time two people are dead, and Patsy had been driving with a revoked license. She will spend the rest of her life in prison, getting sober, finding a new community and husband, and trying to atone for this unpardonable act. Then decades later, another unimaginable piece of information turns up.--From publisher's description.
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I love Dick

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Kraus, Chris.
[2006]
In I Love Dick, published in 1997, Chris Kraus, author of Aliens & Anorexia, Torpor, and Video Green, boldly tore away the veil that separates fiction from reality and privacy from self-expression. It's no wonder that I Love Dick instantly elicited violent controversies and attracted a host of passionate admirers. The story is gripping enough: in 1994 a married, failed independent filmmaker, turning forty, falls in love with a well-known theorist and endeavors to seduce him with the help of her husband. But when the theorist refuses to answer her letters, the husband and wife continue the correspondence for each other instead, imagining the fling the wife wishes to have with Dick. What follows is a breathless pursuit that takes the woman across America and away from her husband; and far beyond her original infatuation into a discovery of the transformative power of first person narrative. I Love Dick is a manifesto for a new kind of feminist who isn't afraid to burn through her own narcissism in order to assume responsibility for herself and for all the injustice in world; and it's a book you won't put down until the author's final, heroic acts of self-revelation and transformation.
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Gemma

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Tilly, Meg.
c2006.
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Breakable you

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Morton, Brian,
c2006.
1st ed.
A fame-hungry novelist, his cast-aside former wife, and their sexually experimenting daughter find themselves further tested by an unexpected shared encounter with the past.
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Yellow

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Visman, Janni,
2005.
1st American ed.
Having thoroughly ensconced herself within a London flat where everything she needs is delivered, Stella agrees to allow her lover, Ivan, to move in under the condition that he never asks about her past, but when personal secrets begin to emerge anyway, Stella's carefully ordered life begins to unravel.
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Vanishing point : a novel

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Markson, David.
©2004.
In the literary world, there is little that can match the excitement of opening a new book by David Markson. From Wittgenstein's Mistress to Reader's Block to Springer's Progress to This Is Not a Novel, he has delighted and amazed readers for decades. And now comes his latest masterwork, Vanishing Point, wherein an elderly writer (identified only as "Author") sets out to transform shoeboxes crammed with notecards into a novel - and in so doing will dazzle us with an astonishing parade of revelations about the trials and calamities and absurdities and often even tragedies of the creative life - all the while trying his best (he says) to keep himself out of the tale. Naturally he will fail to do the latter, frequently managing to stand aside and yet remaining undeniably central throughout - until he is swept inevitably into the narrative's startling and shattering climax. A novel of death and laughter both - and of extraordinary intellectual richness.
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The memory room

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Rakow, Mary.
©2002.
Stuck in an elevator, Barbara Harris suddenly remembers years of psychological and physical abuse at the hands of her bipolar Catholic parents and suffers a breakdown, her slow recovery from which, aided by a skilled psychologist, the Psalms, and the poetry of Paul Celan, brings about a strengthening of her faith.
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Rapture

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Minot, Susan.
c2002.
1st ed.
Minot captures a moment in time, two former lovers briefly reuniting.
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The weight of water

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Shreve, Anita.
2001, c1997.
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The courtship gift : a novel

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Parsons, Julie.
c1999.
Julie Parsons exploded onto the literary scene with her debut novel, "Mary Mary, " which according to "The New York Times" "takes the psychological suspense thriller to place it rarely dares to go." In "The Courtship Gift, " a gentle, scholarly young woman is pitted against a murderous maniac after she discovers her husband dead in their Dublin home.
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Another world

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Barker, Pat.
1998.
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Human croquet

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Atkinson, Kate.
1997.
1st Picador USA ed.
The narrator, Isobel, 16, is a time traveller, while her brother is afraid of abduction by aliens. They are abandoned by their parents, then seven years later the father returns with a new wife. Where is mother? The grandmother who looks after them won't answer. An English tragicomedy by the author of Behind the Scenes at the Museum.
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Good Benito

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Lightman, Alan P.,
[1996]
Warner Books ed.
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The riders

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Winton, Tim.
1995.
Scribner ed.
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A fatal inversion

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Vine, Barbara,
1987.
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The breaks

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Price, Richard,
©1983.
College graduate Peter is rejected by the law school of his choice, and during his year of working to enhance his credentials he utterly fouls every hope of law school, but heads back for Collegetown anyway.
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Blind date

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Kosinski, Jerzy,
1977.
George Levanter, victim, avenger and voyeur, has a series of "blind dates" with violence and debasement.
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The face of trespass.

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Rendell, Ruth,
1974.
[1st ed. in the U.S.]
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The promise.

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Potok, Chaim.
1969.
[1st ed.]
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Peach

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Glass, Emma,
2018.
First US edition.
Something has happened to Peach. Staggering around the town streets in the aftermath of an assault, Peach feels a trickle of blood down her legs, a lingering smell of her anonymous attacker on her skin. It hurts to walk, but she manages to make her way to her home, where she stumbles into another oddly nightmarish reality: Her parents can't seem to comprehend that anything has happened to their daughter.
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Good as gone

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Gentry, Amy,
2016.
"Thirteen-year-old Julie Whitaker was kidnapped from her bedroom in the middle of the night, witnessed only by her younger sister. Her family was shattered, but managed to stick together, hoping against hope that Julie is still alive. And then one night: the doorbell rings. A young woman who appears to be Julie is finally, miraculously, home safe. The family is ecstatic--but Anna, Julie's mother, has whispers of doubts. She hates to face them. She cannot avoid them. When she is contacted by a former detective turned private eye, she begins a torturous search for the truth about the woman she desperately hopes is her daughter. Propulsive and suspenseful, Good as Gone will appeal to fans of Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train, and keep readers guessing until the final pages"--
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Chapman's odyssey

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Bailey, Paul,
2012.
1st U.S. ed.
Enduring a hallucinatory, heavily medicated existence while recovering in the hospital, Harry Chapman imagines he sees famous real and fictional characters intermingling with people from his own life while his story gradually unfolds.
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Trespass

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Tremain, Rose.
2010.
1st American ed.
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The language of secrets

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Dixon, Dianne.
c2010.
1st ed.
Book

Fall

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

McAdam, Colin.
2009.
Story of two roommates and what happens when the girlfriend of one of them goes missing.
Book

House and home

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

McCleary, Kathleen.
c2008.
1st pbk. ed.
The story of a woman who loves her house so much that she'll do just about anything to keep it.
Book

Little face

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Hannah, Sophie,
2008.
When Alice leaves her infant daughter at home with her husband David for the first time since becoming a new mother, she returns to a horrifying sight: her daughter, Florence, has been swapped with another baby. No one... not even David... believes her.
Book

House and home

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

McCleary, Kathleen.
2008.
1st ed.
The story of a woman who loves her house so much that she'll do just about anything to keep it.
Book

Losing you

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

French, Nicci.
2008.
1st U.S. ed.
Preparing to leave for a vacation, Nina Landry awaits the return of her fifteen-year-old daughter, Charlie, who had spent the night at a friend's house, but Nina begins to worry when Charlie does not come home and no one takes the disappearance seriously.
Book

Bad monkeys

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Ruff, Matt.
c2007.
1st ed.
Book

My revolutions

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Kunzru, Hari,
2007.
Book

Little face

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Hannah, Sophie,
[2007]
A new mother becomes convinced that her baby has been switched with another.
Book

The secret heiress

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Gould, Judith.
c2006.
Raised separately from her identical twin Nikoletta, Ariadne, unaware of her family's vast wealth, agrees to take the place of the twin she has never met as part of a scheme concocted by her late father's board of directors.
Regular print

Missing mom

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Oates, Joyce Carol,
c2005.
1st ed.
Book

Cosmopolis : a novel

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

DeLillo, Don.
2004, c2003.
1st Scribner trade pbk. ed.
"Eric Packer, a billionaire asset manager at age twenty-eight, emerges from his penthouse triplex and settles into his lavishly customized white stretch limousine. On this day he is a man with two missions: to pursue a cataclysmic bet against the yen and to get a haircut across town." "His journey to the barbershop is a contemporary odyssey, funny and fast-moving. Stalled in traffic by a presidential motorcade, a music idol's funeral and a violent political demonstration, Eric receives a string of visitors - his experts on security, technology, currency, finance and theory. Sometimes he leaves the car for sexual encounters and sometimes he doesn't have to." --Book Jacket.
Book

Symptomatic : a novel

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Senna, Danzy.
©2004.
A young biracial woman's postcollege year in New York proves psychologically challenging. The unnamed narrator has landed a prestigious fellowship and a job as a reporter at a big New York magazine, not to mention a "strange lovely" new boyfriend who moves her into his apartment faster than she can say "nice place." But when Andrew-who thinks she's white-introduces her to his Andover pals, racist comments send her on a hunt for independence and a place of her own.
Book

Nervous : a novel

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Zane.
2003.
1st Atria Books hardcover ed.
Book

High maintenance

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Belle, Jennifer,
c2001.
Book

Yesterday

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Michaels, Fern.
2001, ©1995.
A tragic accident on the eve of her wedding to a wealthy businessman leaves Callie Parker in a coma and three childhood friends trying to sort out the clusters of secrets and lies the event has uncovered.
Book

Riven rock

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Boyle, T. Coraghessan.
1999, c1998.
Book

Darkness peering

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Blanchard, Alice.
c1999.
Book

The prodigy

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Hynd, Noel.
c1998.
Book

Glimpses : a novel

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Shiner, Lewis.
c1993.
1st ed.
Book

Brighton rock

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Greene, Graham,
1993.
Book

Sin : a novel

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Hart, Josephine.
1992.
1st American ed.
Book

An academic question

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Pym, Barbara.
c1986.
1st American ed.
Book

Quartet in autumn

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Pym, Barbara.
1978, c1977.
American ed.
Book

Magic : a novel

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Goldman, William,
©1976.
Corky, a famous and brilliantly skilled magician has something to hide. It is in his attempt to keep his secret from the public that leads into "psycho country."
Book

A life.

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Morris, Wright,
[1973]
[1st ed.]
Book

Wonderland; a novel.

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Oates, Joyce Carol,
[1971]
Book

A fairly honourable defeat.

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Murdoch, Iris.
[1970]
Book

A possible life : a novel in five parts

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Faulks, Sebastian.
c2012.
1st ed.
"Throughout this novel of love and war, lore and music, missed opportunities and timeless bonds ... characters risk their bodies, hearts, and minds in pursuit of the manna of human connection"--Dust jacket flap.
Book

Notes from a coma

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

McCormack, Mike,
2013.
"Rescued from the squalor of a Romanian orphanage, and adopted by the rural community of west Mayo, J. J. O'Malley should have grown up happy. The boy has no gift for it, though, and his new life has a brutal way of giving him plenty to be unhappy about. After a sudden tragedy, J. J. suffers a catastrophic mental breakdown. Unable to live with himself, he volunteers for an improbable government project which has been set up to explore the possibility of using deep coma as a future option within the EU penal system. When his coma goes online the nation turns to watch, and J. J. is quickly elevated to the status of cultural icon. Sex symbol, existential hero, T-shirt philosopher--his public profile now threatens to obscure the man himself behind a swirl of media profiles, online polls, and EEG tracings. Five narrators; his father, neighbour, teacher, public representative, and sweetheart; tell us the true story of his life and try to give some clue as to why he is the way he is now: floating in a maintained coma on a prison ship off the west coast of Ireland. Brilliantly imagined and artfully constructed; merging science fiction with an affectionate portrait of small town Ireland; Notes from a Coma is both the story of a man cursed with guilt and genius and a compassionate examination of how our identities are safeguarded and held in trust by those who love us"--
Book

Everything after

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Santopolo, Jill,
[2021]
"Emily has come a long way since she lost her two passions fifteen years ago: music, and Rob. She's a psychologist at NYU who helps troubled college students like the one she once was. Together with her caring doctor husband, Ezra, she has a beautiful life. They're happy. They hope to start a family. But when a tragic event in Emily's present too closely echoes her past, and parts of her story that she'd hoped never to share come to light, her perfect life is suddenly upturned. Then Emily hears a song on the radio about the woman who got away. The melody and voice are hauntingly familiar. Could it be? As Emily's past passions come roaring back into her life, she'll find herself asking: Who is she meant to be? Who is she meant to love?"--
Book

Every last fear

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Finlay, Alex,
2021.
First edition.
"In one of the year's most anticipated debut psychological thrillers, a family made infamous by a true crime documentary is found dead, leaving their surviving son to uncover the truth about their final days. "They found the bodies on a Tuesday." So begins this twisty and breathtaking novel that traces the fate of the Pine family, a thriller that will both leave you on the edge of your seat and move you to tears. After a late night of partying, NYU student Matt Pine returns to his dorm room to devastating news: nearly his entire family--his mom, his dad, his little brother and sister--have been found dead from an apparent gas leak while vacationing in Mexico. The local police claim it was an accident, but the FBI and State Department seem far less certain--and they won't tell Matt why. The tragedy makes headlines everywhere because this isn't the first time the Pine family has been thrust into the media spotlight. Matt's older brother, Danny--currently serving a life sentence for the murder of his teenage girlfriend Charlotte--was the subject of a viral true crime documentary suggesting that Danny was wrongfully convicted. Though the country has rallied behind Danny, Matt holds a secret about his brother that he's never told anyone: the night Charlotte was killed Matt saw something that makes him believe his brother is guilty of the crime. When Matt returns to his small hometown to bury his parents and siblings, he's faced with a hostile community that was villainized by the documentary, a frenzied media, and memories he'd hoped to leave behind forever. Now, as the deaths in Mexico appear increasingly suspicious and connected to Danny's case, Matt must unearth the truth behind the crime that sent his brother to prison--putting his own life in peril--and forcing him to confront his every last fear. Told through multiple points-of-view and alternating between past and present, Every Last Fear is not only a page-turning thriller, it's also a poignant story about a family managing heartbreak and tragedy, and living through a fame they never wanted"--
Book

Drifts

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Zambreno, Kate,
2020.
"At work on a novel that is overdue to her publisher, spending long days alone with her restless terrier, corresponding ardently with fellow writers, the novel's narrator grows obsessed with the challenge of writing the present tense, of capturing time itself. Entranced by the work of Rilke, Durer, Chantal Akerman, and others, she photographs the residents and strays of her neighborhood, haunts bookstores and galleries, and records her thoughts in a yellow notebook that soon subsumes her work on the novel. As winter closes in, a series of disturbances--the appearances and disappearances of enigmatic figures, the burglary of her apartment--leaves her distracted and uncertain . . . until an intense and tender disruption changes everything."--
Book

The made-up man

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Scapellato, Joseph,
2019.
First edition.
"A debut novel wherein darkly comedic noir meets psychological suspense when a young man finds himself being used as source material in his uncle's disturbingly personal art project"--
Book

Ponti

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Teo, Sharlene,
2018.
First Simon and Schuster hardcover edition.
"A refreshing and riveting story of female friendship set in Singapore--a surprising and powerful portrait of modern Asia" --
Book

Anthem

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Rand, Ayn.
2014.
Dover thrift editions.
Book

Always watching

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Stevens, Chevy.
2013.
First edition.
Psychiatrist Nadine Lavoie has a true desire to help people put their demons at rest. But she has demons of her own, some she can barely think about and some she can't even remember. In the lockdown ward of a psychiatric hospital, she is in her element. She has the tools to help people, and she has the desire--healing broken families is what she lives for. But Nadine doesn't want to look too closely at her own past, because there are whole chunks of her life that are black holes. It takes all her willpower to tamp down her recurrent claustrophobia, and her daughter, Lisa, is a runaway who has been on the streets for seven years. When a distraught woman, Heather Simeon, is brought into the Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit after a suicide attempt, Nadine gently coaxes her story out of her--and learns of some troubling parallels with her own life. Digging deeper, Nadine is forced to confront her traumatic childhood, and the damage that began when she and her brother were brought by their mother to a remote commune on Vancouver Island. What happened to Nadine? Why was their family destroyed? And why does the name Aaron Quinn, the group's leader, bring complex feelings of terror to Nadine even today? And then, the unthinkable happens, and Nadine realizes that danger is closer to home than she ever imagined. She has no choice but to face what terrifies her the most ... and fight back. Sometimes you can leave the past, but you can never escape.
Book

The writing circle

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Demas, Corinne.
c2010.
1st ed.
In a tale of love, betrayal, and literature, six members of an elite writing circle share much more than their works-in-progress.
Book

The prodigal wife

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Willett, Marcia.
2010.
1st U.S. ed.
Having achieved success as a television presenter of gardening programs, Jolyon is visited by the recently widowed mother who abandoned him, Maria, but he finds it difficult to trust her and forgive the hurt she inflicted.
Book

Horns

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Hill, Joe.
2010.
1st ed.
After his childhood sweetheart is brutally killed and suspicion falls on him, Ig Parrish goes on a drinking binge and wakes up with horns on his head, hate in his heart, and an incredible new power which he uses in the name of vengeance.
Book

Revenge

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Osbourne, Sharon.
2010.
Amber and Chelsea Stone are sisters who share the same dream--huge, global fame, but while both have the looks, the talent, and the star quality, only one has the ruthless ambition to make it to the very top.
Book

Spooner

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Dexter, Pete,
c2010.
Losing his father shortly after birth, Warren Spooner endures a troubled childhood and even more troubled young adulthood that is marked by his dishonorably discharged stepfather, whose inexhaustible patience is tested by the difficult Warren. By the National Book Award-winning author of Paris Trout.
Book

Exiles in the garden

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Just, Ward S.
2009.
Book

The spire

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Patterson, Richard North.
c2009.
Center Point large print ed.
Book

The precious life

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Parker, Che.
c 2008.
1st Strebor Books trade pbk. ed.
Book

Fledgling

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Butler, Octavia E.
2007.
1st Warner Books ed.
Shori is a young amnesiac girl whose needs and abilities lead her to a shocking discovery: she is in fact a 53-year-old vampire, genetically modified to survive daylight. The sole survivor of a horrific slaughter, Shori must now struggle to rebuild her family and learn who would want--and still wants--to destroy her.
Book

If today be sweet

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Umrigar, Thrity N.
c2007.
1st ed.
Book

Vse popravimo : khroniki chastno? zhizni

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Kabakov, Aleksandr.
2007.
Book

The Harmony Silk Factory

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Aw, Tash.
2006.
1st Riverhead trade pbk. ed.
Book

Ha! : a self-murder mystery

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Sheppard, Gordon.
2006.
Book

Triptych

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Slaughter, Karin,
2006.
From Atlanta's wealthiest suburbs to its stark inner-city housing projects, a killer has crossed the boundaries of wealth and race. And the people who are chasing him must cross those boundaries, too. Among them is Michael Ormewood, a veteran detective whose marriage is hanging by a thread--and whose arrogance and explosive temper are threatening his career. And Angie Polaski, a beautiful vice cop who was once Michael's lover before she became his enemy. But unbeknownst to both of them, another player has entered the game: a loser ex-con who has stumbled upon the killer's trail in the most coincidental of ways--and who may be the key to breaking the case wide open.
Book

Wifey

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Blume, Judy.
2005.
Book

The Harmony Silk Factory

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Aw, Tash.
2005.
Book

The three incestuous sisters

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Niffenegger, Audrey.
2005.
In this Gothic-style, adult fairy tale, Bettine, Ophile, and Clothilde live together in isolation near the sea, until the arrival of Paris, the lighthouse keeper's son, who profoundly affects each sister emotionally.
Book

Sympathy

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Crane, Dede.
c2005.
When a car accident claims the lives of her husband and son, Kerry Taylor, a former ballet dancer, slips into a catatonic state. Her family's last option is the Rosewood Clinic, where Dr. Michael Myatt has launched a controversial new therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder victims in the wake of 9/11.
Book

Mother country

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Leon, Peggy.
©2003.
Book

Finding Alice

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Carlson, Melody.
2003.
1st ed.
For years, Alice's "little idiosyncrasies" were excused for her high intelligence, but during her senior year at college it becomes apparent that she is suffering from schizophrenia and must now cope with new demons and "treatments."
Book

Well

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

McIntosh, Matthew.
©2003.
A cast of characters primarily from the working class of a Seattle suburb grapples with dark compulsions and painful emotions in their search for sex, drugs, violence, symbols of their faith, and local sports championships.
Book

Summertime

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Rigbey, Liz.
©2003.
1st American ed.
Her carefully constructed life falling to pieces upon the murder of her father, Lucy Schaffer is forced to delve into her painful past, which has been overshadowed by her mother's insanity, her brother's drowning, and the loss of her own son.
Book

Why did I ever

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Robison, Mary.
c2001.
Book

Summer of storms

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Kelman, Judith.
c2001.
Book

Winter solstice

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Pilcher, Rosamunde.
2000.
"Rosamunde Pilcher brings her readers into the lives of five very different, but equally intriguing people. Plagued by loneliness, regret, abandonment and loss, fate will unite them in a dilapidated estate house in Northern Scotland. It is in this house, on the shortest day of the year, that these five people will find each other and, ultimately, find themselves."--Page 4 of cover.
Book

Wide open

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Barker, Nicola,
1998.
1st ed.
A motorist saves a homeless man about to commit suicide by jumping off a bridge. He takes him to his cottage by the sea and the novel chronicles the relationship which forms between them. By the author of Love Your Enemies.
Book

Lady Oracle

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Atwood, Margaret,
1998.
1st Anchor Books ed.
Book

Caveat

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Kalpakian, Laura.
c1998.
A town suffering from drought in 1910s California hires a rainmaker, agreeing to pay $50,000 if he fills the local reservoir. The rainmaker does such a good job there is a flood and the town refuses to pay. The novel describes the rainmaker's revenge. By the author of Graced Land.
Book

Sabbath's theater

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Roth, Philip.
1996.
1st Vintage International ed.
Book

The cement garden

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

McEwan, Ian.
1994.
1st Vintage International ed.
In this tour de force of psychological unease, now a major motion picture starring Charlotte Gainsbourg and Sinead Cusack, McEwan excavates the ruins of childhood and uncovers things that most adults have spent a lifetime forgetting or denying. "Possesses the suspense and chilling impact of Lord of the Flies."--Washington Post Book World.
Book

A private view

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Brookner, Anita.
c1994.
1st U.S. ed.
Book

Mortal memory

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Cook, Thomas H.
©1993.
A woman writing a book on men who kill their families brings the past and the horror of his childhood to life for a forty-four year old man.
Book

The suspect

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Simenon, Georges,
c1991.
2nd ed.
Book

My secret history

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Theroux, Paul.
c1989.
Book

A prodigal child

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Storey, David,
c1982.
Book

Lady oracle

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Atwood, Margaret,
c1976.
Book

The stoic

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Dreiser, Theodore,
1947.
The story of the construction of the London subway system, the "tube."
Book

The starter wife

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Laurin, Nina,
2019.
First edition.
Local police have announced that they're closing the investigation of the suspected drowning of 37-year-old painter Colleen Westcott. She disappeared on April 11, 2010, and her car was found parked near the waterfront in Cleveland two days later, but her body has never been found. The chief of police has stated that no concrete evidence of foul play has been discovered in the probe. I close the online search window, annoyed. These articles never have enough detail. They think my husband's first wife disappeared or they think she is dead. There's a big difference. My phone rings, jarring me away from my thoughts, and when I pick it up, it's an unknown number. The only answer to my slightly breathless hello is empty static. When the voice does finally come, it's female, low, muffled somehow. "Where is it, Claire? What did you do with it? Tell me where it is." A woman. A real flesh-and-blood woman on the other end of the phone. She's not just in my head. A wave of panic spreads under my skin like ice water. It's Colleen.
Book

Devotion : a novel

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Stevens, Madeline,
2019.
First edition.
A captivating debut novel about a woman who falls into an overwhelming mutual obsession with the Upper East Side mother who hires her as a nanny. Ella is flat broke: wasting away on bodega coffee, barely making rent, seducing the occasional strange man who might buy her dinner. Unexpectedly, an Upper East Side couple named Lonnie and James rescue her from her empty bank account, offering her a job as a nanny and ushering her into their moneyed world. Ella's days are now spent tending to the baby in their elegant brownstone or on extravagant excursions with the family. Both women are just 26--but unlike Ella, Lonnie has a doting husband and son, unmistakable artistic talent, and old family money. Ella is mesmerized by Lonnie's girlish affection and disregard for the normal boundaries of friendship and marriage. Convinced there must be a secret behind Lonnie's seemingly effortless life, Ella begins sifting through her belongings, meticulously cataloguing lipstick tubes and baby teeth and scraps of writing. All the while, Ella's resentment grows, but so does an inexplicable and dizzying attraction. Soon Ella will be immersed so deeply in her cravings--for Lonnie's lifestyle, her attention, her lovers--that she may never come up for air. Riveting, propulsive, and startling, Devotion is a masterful debut novel where mismatched power collides with blinding desire, incinerating our perceptions of femininity, lust, and privilege.
Book

The moonstoners

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Dzikowski, Barbara,
2019.
Book

Guilty

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Elliot, Laura,
2019.
First U.S. trade paperback edition.
On a warm summer morning, thirteen-year-old school girl Constance Lawson is reported missing. A few days later, Constance's uncle, Karl Lawson, suddenly finds himself swept up in a media frenzy created by journalist Amanda Bowe implying that he is the prime suspect. Six years later, Karl's life is in ruins. His marriage is over and his family is destroyed. But the woman who took everything away from him is thriving. With a successful career, husband and son, Amanda's world is complete. Until the day she receives a phone call and in a heartbeat, she is plunged into every mother's worst nightmare.
Book

Turbulence

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Szalay, David,
2019.
Center Point Large print edition.
"A woman strikes up a conversation with the man sitting next to her on a plane after some turbulence. He returns home to tragic news that has also impacted another stranger, a shaken pilot on his way to another continent who seeks comfort from a journalist he meets that night. Her life shifts subtly as well, before she heads to the airport on an assignment that will shift more lives in turn. In this wondrous, profoundly moving novel, Szalay's diverse protagonists circumnavigate the planet in twelve flights, from London to Madrid, from Dakar to Sao Paulo, to Toronto, to Delhi, to Doha, en route to see lovers or estranged siblings, aging parents, baby grandchildren, or nobody at all. Along the way, they experience the full range of human emotions from loneliness to love and, knowingly or otherwise, change each other in one brief, electrifying interaction after the next." --
Large print

Rainsongs

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Hubbard, Sue,
2018.
Newly widowed, Martha Cassidy has returned to a remote cottage in a nearly abandoned village on the west coast of Ireland. There, she reflects on another loss in her life: that of her ten-year-old son, Bruno, who met an untimely death twenty years earlier. As the days unfold, Martha searches for a way forward beyond grief, but finds herself drawn into a standoff between the successful hotel developer Eugene Riordan and an elderly local hill farmer Paddy O'Connell. As the crisis between these men escalates and Paddy suspiciously ends up in the hospital, Martha encounters Colm, a talented but much younger musician and poet--roughly the same age that Bruno would have been if he'd lived. Caught between her history and future, and that of a rapidly changing Ireland, Martha is beset with choices that will alter her life forever.
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Publication Information (vernacular script) ?2018

Missing pieces

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Gudenkauf, Heather,
[2016]
Sarah Quinlan's husband, Jack, has been haunted for decades by the untimely death of his mother when he was just a teenager, her body found in the cellar of their family farm, the circumstances a mystery. The case rocked the small farm town of Penny Gate, Iowa, where Jack was raised, and for years Jack avoided returning home. But when his beloved aunt Julia is in an accident, hospitalized in a coma, Jack and Sarah are forced to confront the past that they have long evaded. Upon arriving in Penny Gate, Sarah and Jack are welcomed by the family Jack left behind all those years ago--barely a trace of the wounds that had once devastated them all. But as facts about Julia's accident begin to surface, Sarah realizes that nothing about the Quinlans is what it seems. Caught in a flurry of unanswered questions, Sarah dives deep into the puzzling rabbit hole of Jack's past. But the farther in she climbs, the harder it is for her to get out. And soon she is faced with a deadly truth she may not be prepared for.
Book

Julia

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Straub, Peter,
2014.
First Anchor Books edition.
"In a house in London a woman starts a new life, trying to put tragedy behind her. Then a pretty blonde child runs into view, bringing with her an inexplicable suggestion of evil. Once Julia Lofting had a husband and a daughter. But everything has changed since she bolted from her marriage, in flight from the unbearable truth of her daughter's death. For Julia, there is no escape. Another child awaits, another mother suffers, and a circle of the damned gathers around her. The haunting has begun"--
Book

Wonderland

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

D'Erasmo, Stacey.
2014.
Anna Brundage is a rock star. She is tall and sexy, with a powerhouse voice and an unforgettable mane of red hair. She came out of nowhere, an immediate indie sensation. And then, life happened. Anna went down as fast as she went up, and then walked off the scene for seven years. Without a record deal or clamoring fans, she sells a piece of her famous father's art to finance just one more album and a European comeback tour.
Book

Above

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Morley, Isla.
2014.
First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Abducted and locked in an abandoned missile silo by a mad survivalist, a Kansas teen endures loneliness and despair while struggling to raise a baby in isolation before escaping into a world more changed than she anticipated.
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Close My Eyes

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

McKenzie, Sophie.
2013.
First U.S. Edition.
It's been eight years since Geniver Loxley lost her daughter, Beth. Since that day, Gen has been floundering. While her husband Art builds his business reputation and their fortune, she can't let go of Beth. And then one day, everything changes. A strange woman shows up on Gen's doorstep, saying the very thing she longs to hear: that Beth is alive. That she is out there somewhere, waiting for Gen to find her. It's insane. Unthinkable. But why would someone make up such a story? Ignoring the warnings of her husband and friends, Gen begins to hope - hope that quickly turns into fear and paranoia. With questions swirling around her head, Gen is determined to uncover the truth. But who can she trust? Why is Art so reluctant to get involved? To save his wife from further hurt? Or something much more sinister? Is Beth even really out there? And, if so, who is responsible for taking her? What is the truth about Beth Loxley?
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Benediction

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Haruf, Kent.
2013.
1st ed.
A terminally ill cancer patient is attended throughout his final days by his wife and daughter while the trio contemplates their relationships with an estranged son, a situation that stirs up painful memories for a new next-door neighbor who has recently lost her mother.
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Memoirs of an imaginary friend

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Dicks, Matthew.
2012.
1st ed.
A tale imparted from the perspective of long-time imaginary friend, Budo, traces his awareness of his advancing age and constant thought of the inevitable day when eight-year-old Max, an autistic boy, will stop believing in him.
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Rabbit redux

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Updike, John.
2012.
Random House Trade paperback edition.
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Losing Charlotte

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Clay, Heather,
2010.
1st ed.
Knox Bolling has always resented her beautiful sister, Charlotte, and blames Charlotte for her situation. She's 34, living on her parents' Kentucky horse farm and unable to commit to her boyfriend's repeated marriage proposals. Charlotte, on the other hand, has moved to New York City, where she dabbles in acting and holds a series of dead-end jobs before meeting money manager Bruce Tavert, who, after a brief courtship, proposes. Their intention to start a family, however, proves deadly for Charlotte, who dies in childbirth, leaving Bruce with premature twin boys and providing Knox with an opportunity to explore life outside of Kentucky by coming to New York to help Bruce.
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Winter garden

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Hannah, Kristin.
c2010.
The dying wish of a loving father ignites a family drama that brings two sisters and their acid-tongued, Russian-born mother together in a story that reaches back to WWII Leningrad.
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Horns

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Hill, Joe.
c2010.
1st HarperLuxe ed.
After his childhood sweetheart is brutally killed and suspicion falls on him, Ig Parrish goes on a drinking binge and wakes up with horns on his head, hate in his heart, and an incredible new power which he uses in the name of vengeance.
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The executor

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Kellerman, Jesse.
c2010.
A grad student meets his intellectual match and seals his dark fate when he responds to a newspaper ad seeking a conversationalist.
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Walking homeless

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Lamanda, Al.
2010.
In New York, homeless John Tibbets rescues a NYPD officer from a deadly assault making him a city hero for taking a bullet in the abdomen. Tibbets prefers to return to the shadows of the street, but the police are extremely curious about the ability of a homeless man to easily kill three thugs. Adding to the mystery, Tibbets has amnesia and insists he can't recall anything before arriving at a Bowery Street shelter. The media goes crazy over the reluctant hero who upon leaving the hospital realized he's being followed for what he assums is an assassination. He also fears for the life of shelter head Julie Warner. As they flee into the night, corpses are left behind like bread crumbs for the cops to follow their trail.
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Travel writing

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Ferry, Peter.
2009, c2008.
1st Mariner Books ed.
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Spooner

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Dexter, Pete,
c2009.
Losing his father shortly after birth, Warren Spooner endures a troubled childhood and even more troubled young adulthood that is marked by his dishonorably discharged stepfather, whose inexhaustible patience is tested by the difficult Warren. By the National Book Award-winning author of Paris Trout. ATLAS.
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A sandhills ballad

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Randolph, Ladette.
c2009.
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Koko

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Straub, Peter,
2009.
1st Anchor Books ed.
Koko. Only four men knew what it meant. Now they must stop it. They are Vietnam vets -- a doctor, a lawyer, a working stiff, and a writer. Very different from each other, they are nonetheless linked by a shared history and a single shattering secret. Now, they have been reunited and are about to embark on a quest that will take them from Washington, D.C. to the graveyards and fleshpots of the Far East to the human jungle of New York, hunting someone from the past who has risen from the darkness to kill and kill and kill.
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Cleaver : a novel

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Parks, Tim.
2008.
1st North American ed.
Book

Split estate

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Bacon, Charlotte,
2008.
1st ed.
Shortly after his wife, the mother of his two teenage children, ends her life by jumping from the window of their Manhattan apartment, Arthur King decides he must return with his family to his home state of Wyoming. There, his mother welcomes her wounded son and her dereft grandchildren to her much loved, but now quite diminshed, ranch. But how long will they stay?
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Victory Square

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Steinhauer, Olen.
2007.
1st ed.
Book

Engleby : a novel

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Faulks, Sebastian.
c2007.
1st ed. in the U.S.A.
Book

Empathy and the novel

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Keen, Suzanne.
2007.
Book

Falling

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Pike, Christopher,
2007.
1st ed.
Book

A strange commonplace

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Sorrentino, Gilbert.
©2006.
An unsettling, masterful novel of lives distorted in a funhouse mirror of inexplicable coincidences.
Electronic resource

Seven lies : a novel

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Lasdun, James.
c2005.
1st ed.
Dreaming of a life of glory and freedom in America, East German youth Stefan Vogel engages in a series of increasingly dangerous adventures to attain his goal, which involves his marriage to the woman of his dreams and an escape from dark secrets hidden behind the Berlin Wall.
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Broken for you

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Kallos, Stephanie.
©2004.
1st ed.
Margaret Hughes, a septuagenarian living in Seattle, takes in a series of boarders who help her cope with her illness, and whose lives become unexpectedly connected to each other.
Regular print

The coma

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Garland, Alex,
2004.
Having been attacked on the Underground, a man wakes up in a hospital and begins to question his emergence from a coma.
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Being committed

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Maxted, Anna.
c2004.
1st ed.
Book

Florida

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Schutt, Christine,
2004.
Alice Fivey, fatherless since she was seven, is left in the care of her relatives at ten when her love-wearied mother loses custody of her and enters "the San, " submitting to years of psychiatric care. She is moved from place to place, remaining still while others mold her into someone different from her namesake mother. Alice consoles herself with books, and she herself becomes a storyteller who must build her own home word by word. Florida is her story, told in brief scenes of spare beauty as Alice moves ever further from the desolation of her mother's actions, into adulthood and closer to the meaning of her own experience.
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Johnny Angel

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Steel, Danielle.
2003.
Having lost her beloved valedictorian son in a tragic car accident, Alice Peterson begins to experience encouraging visions of her son, which are also witnessed by the late boy's troubled nine-year-old brother.
Regular print

Empire of light

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Czuchlewski, David.
©2003.
Researching a powerful cult into which his ex-girlfriend, Anna, has disappeared, Matt Kelly pretends to join in order to rescue Anna, an endeavor that is complicated by his own vulnerability to the cult's seductive ways.
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The blunderer

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Highsmith, Patricia,
2001.
Two women die under similar circumstances--Melchior Kimmel killed his wife, Walter Stackhouse did not kill his. Lieutenant Corby, investigating the Stackhouse case, links it with the unsolved Kimmel murder. Then begins a nightmare for the two suspected men. Corby's wish to get at the truth becomes perverted by his ambition into an almost insane desire to extract confessions. Soon all three are caught in a trap from which there is no escape.
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Kill your darlings

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Blacker, Terence.
2001.
1st U.S. ed.
"Gregory Keays is a writer whose brilliant future is behind him. Corroded with envy, Gregory watches as his contemporaries produce better work and live happier lives while he teaches community college composition classes and compiles books about other books. One day, Gregory is convinced, the world will recognize his talents."--Jacket.
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Loverboy : a novel

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Redel, Victoria.
©2001.
"Sybil and Marty, indifferent to their daughter in life, left her a small fortune and the cryptic advice, 'It would do well to find a passion.' ... She willfully sets out to become a mother who is nothing if not passionate"--Jacket.
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Eclipse : a novel

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Banville, John.
2001.
1st American ed.
"Alexander Cleave, a famous actor who "took to the stage to give myself a cast of characters to inhabit who would be ... of more weight and moment than I could ever hope to be", faces the almost certain collapse of his thirty-year career. In physical and psychological retreat, he returns to his abandoned childhood home, believing that, away from his wife and daughter, away from the world at large, alone, without an audience of any kind, he might finally stop performing, catch himself in the act of living, and simply be."--Jacket.
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Open house : a novel

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Berg, Elizabeth.
©2000.
1st ed.
Oprah's Book Club.
Regular print

Winter solstice

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Pilcher, Rosamunde,
2000.
First edition.
Five people buffeted by life's difficulties come together at a rundown estate house in Northern Scotland during a revelatory Winter Solstice.
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The tower : a novel

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Hurwitz, Gregg Andrew.
c1999.
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Deepwater

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Jones, Matthew F.
1999.
1st U.S. ed.
Nat Banyon picks up a man after a minot car crash and becomes involved in intrigue and danger in the small town of Deepwater.
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Crime of silence

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Carlon, Patricia,
1998.
Book

The magus

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Fowles, John,
1997.
Book

Fugitive pieces

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Michaels, Anne,
1997.
1st U.S. ed.
A tale of Holocaust survival whose protagonist is Jakob Beer, a Jewish boy in Poland. He is saved from death by a Greek scientist who takes him home to his island, where Beer develops an interest in archeology. He describes the way the Nazis manipulated archeology to prove the superiority of the Aryan race. A first novel.
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Missing pieces

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Fielding, Joy.
1997.
1st ed.
A psychological thriller featuring Kate Sinclair as she watches her half-sister, Jo-Lynn, falling in love with a man on trial for killing a dozen women. No matter how hard Kate tries to dissuade her, Jo-Lynn is determined to marry him, believing him innocent. The killer is aware of Kate's dislike and he has plans for her.
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Cannibal

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Svoboda, Terese.
c1994.
Cannibal is Africa from the inside - inside the head of a woman who fears that the man she loves is CIA, that the film they're supposed to make is his cover, that she might be pregnant. A haunting story of survival, Cannibal lays bare a woman's greatest hungers. Known as Good-For-Nothing by the Africans - unfit for the climate, the work, or friendship, she struggles for recognition, and for her life. What she finds, wandering the savannah for months, are the "blue people," those with AIDS who have been left to die in an abandoned British outpost. But this is only counterpoint to her own predicament. "Trust hasn't enough syllables," she says, regarding her lover walking ahead of her. "He doesn't look at it. I can't not look, but he won't look." In Cannibal, nobody wants to look - the differences are too frightening, the truth too stark, the love too little. A step beyond Heart of Darkness, Cannibal is the virtual reality of exotic paranoia where, when the images break apart, Death grins out.
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Kara, the lonely falcon

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Girzone, Joseph F.
c1990.
1st Collier Books ed.
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The bridge

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Banks, Iain.
c1986.
1st U.S. ed.
Book

Anger : a novel

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Sarton, May,
c1982.
1st ed.
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Warlock

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Harrison, Jim,
©1981.
John Lundgren, a.k.a. Warlock, is an unemployed foundation executive whose life is about to become unhinged. After surviving a midlife crisis, Warlock finally decides to get a job. He soon discovers, however, that his new boss, Dr. Rabun, is no less evil than Professor Moriarty. Hired to troubleshoot for the doctor, Warlock himself battling poachers in the haunted wilderness of northern Michigan while also spying on his employer's wife and son in the seamy underside of Key West.
Book

Excellent women

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Pym, Barbara.
1978, c1952.
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Fact, fiction, and fantasy in childhood

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

1979.
Book

Thieving sun : a novel

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Datta, Monica,
2024.
First edition.
"Grieving the composer who was the love of her youth, a woman meditates on the fantastical circumstances of her birth, her years studying sculpture and the future she dares to envision."--
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What we did

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Chandler, Natalie,
2023.
Jenna has spent the last twenty-five years trying to forget what happened to her as a teenager. Trying to forget what they did. But it has always been there - the mistake the four friends made. Now it has taken another life, Jenna has the opportunity to make amends. But if she comes forward, her family and the friendships she's held onto all these years. And what if she's about to make the biggest mistake of all? (from the Publisher).
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Chrysalis : a novel

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Metcalfe, Anna,
[2023]
First edition.
"Chrysalis is the story of a mysterious young woman transforming first her body and then her digital presence, told by three distinct people, each differently mesmerized by her. Elliot, a recluse who notices her at the gym, witnesses her physical evolution as she becomes bigger and stronger, in order to still her body and mind. Bella, her mother, worries about the strange, dark effect her daughter's new way of life is beginning to have on others as she reflects on their relationship, a close cocoon from which her daughter has broken free. Susie, her ex-colleague and best friend, houses and feeds her as she makes the transition to self-created online phenomenon, posting videos of herself meditating for hours in strange physical positions and encouraging her followers to renounce their previous lives and join her in meditative solitude"--
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Life is everywhere

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Ives, Lucy,
[2022]
"Everything that happened was repetition. But it was repetition with a difference. So she dragged along in a spiral, trusting to this form. Manhattan, 2014. It's an unseasonably warm Thursday in November and Erin Adamo is locked out of her apartment. Her husband has just left her and meanwhile her keys are in her coat, which she abandoned at her parents' apartment when she exited mid-dinner after her father-once again-lost control. Erin takes refuge in the library of the university where she is a grad student. Her bag contains two manuscripts she's written, along with a monograph by a faculty member who's recently become embroiled in a bizarre scandal. Erin isn't sure what she's doing, but a small, mostly unconscious part of her knows: within these documents is a key she's needed all along. With unflinching precision, Life Is Everywhere captures emotional events that hover fitfully at the borders of visibility and intelligibility, showing how the past lives on, often secretly and at the expense of the present. It's about one person on one evening, reckoning with heartbreak-a story which, to be fully told, unexpectedly requires many others, from the history of botulism to an enigmatic surrealist prank. Multifarious, mischievous, and deeply humane, Ives's latest masterpiece rejoices in what a novel, and a self, can carry"--
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Homesick : stories

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Cipri, Nino,
2019.
First US edition.
Dark, irreverent, and truly innovative, the speculative stories in Homesick meditate on the theme of home and our estrangement from it, and what happens when the familiar suddenly shifts into the uncanny. In stories that foreground queer relationships and transgender or nonbinary characters, Cipri delivers the origin story for a superhero team comprised of murdered girls; a housecleaner discovering an impossible ocean in her least-favorite clients' house; a man haunted by keys that appear suddenly in his throat; and a team of scientists and activists discovering the remains of a long-extinct species of intelligent weasels.
Book

Gillyflower : a novel

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Wald, Diane,
2019.
Book

First person

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Flanagan, Richard,
2018.
First American edition.
"From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Narrow Road to the Deep North, the hypnotic tale of a ghost writer writing the memoir of a notorious con man, and the chilling events that unfold as their lives become increasingly intertwined. Kif Kehlmann, a young, penniless writer, is rung in the middle of the night by the notorious con man and corporate criminal, Siegfried Heidl. About to go to trial for defrauding the banks of $700 million, Heidl offers Kehlmann the job of ghost-writing his memoir. He has six weeks to write the book, for which he'll be paid $10,000. But as the writing gets under way, Kehlmann begins to fear that he is being corrupted by Heidl. As the deadline draws closer, he becomes ever more unsure if he is ghost writing a memoir, or if Heidl is rewriting him--his life, his future. Everything that was certain grows uncertain as he begins to wonder: who is Siegfried Heidl--and who is Kif Kehlmann? As time runs out, as Kehlmann's world feels it is hurtling towards a catharsis, one question looms above all others: what is the truth? By turns compelling, comic, and chilling, this is a haunting journey into the heart of our age"--
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Rapid Falls

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Cowie, Amber,
[2018]
First edition.
"It's been twenty years since Cara's boyfriend died in a horrible accident and her sister, Anna, went to prison. The tragedy has become a local legend, but Cara has moved past her grief to have a successful career and a happy family. Pity about Anna. Recently released from incarceration, she's struggling with addiction, guilt, and shame--a shattered life. Cara's forgiveness seems to be the only thing that helps her pick up the pieces. But as Anna pulls herself together, her memories of that night on the bridge start to come into focus. And few of them match her sister's. As past secrets unfold and nothing is what it seems anymore, Anna desperately searches for the truth. But what if Cara doesn't want her to find it?"-- Provided by publisher.
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Kudos

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Cusk, Rachel,
2018.
First American edition.
"A woman writer visits a Europe in flux, where questions of personal and political identity are rising to the surface and the trauma of change is opening up new possibilities of loss and renewal. Within the rituals of literary culture, Faye finds the human story in disarray amid differing attitudes toward the public performance of the creative persona. She begins to identify among the people she meets a tension between truth and representation, a fissure that accrues great dramatic force as Kudos reaches a profound and beautiful climax"--
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Bitter orange

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Fuller, Claire,
2018.
First US edition.
From the attic of Lyntons, a dilapidated English country mansion, Frances Jellico sees them--Cara first: dark and beautiful, then Peter: striking and serious. The couple is spending the summer of 1969 in the rooms below hers while Frances is researching the architecture in the surrounding gardens. But she's distracted. Beneath a floorboard in her bathroom, she finds a peephole that gives her access to her neighbors' private lives.
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Midwinter break

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

MacLaverty, Bernard,
2017.
First American edition.
Gerry, once an architect, is forgetful and set in his ways. Stella is tired of his lifestyle, worried about their marriage, and angry at his constant undermining of her religious faith. Things are not helped by memories that have begun to resurface of a troubled time in their native Ireland. As their midwinter break comes to an end, we understand how far apart they are--and can only watch as they struggle to save themselves. -- amazon.com.
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The night visitor

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Atkins, Lucy,
2017.
First edition.
"The stunning new noir thriller from the internationally bestselling author of The Missing One and The Other Child ... Professor Olivia Sweetman has worked hard to achieve the life she loves, with a high-flying career as a TV presenter and historian, three children, and a talented husband. But as she stands before a crowd at the launch of her new bestseller she can barely pretend to smile. Her life has spiraled into deceit, and if the truth comes out, she'll lose everything. Only one person knows what Olivia has done. Vivian Tester is the socially awkward sixty-year-old housekeeper of a Sussex manor who found the Victorian diary on which Olivia's book is based. Now Olivia's unofficial research assistant, Vivian has secrets of her own. As events move between London, Sussex, and the idyllic South of France, the relationship between these two women grows more entangled and complex. Then a bizarre act of violence changes everything. The Night Visitor is a compelling exploration of ambition, morality, and deception that asks the question: how far would you go to save your reputation?"--
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Transit

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Cusk, Rachel,
[2017]
First American edition.
"The stunning second novel of a trilogy that began with Outline, one of The New York Times Book Review's ten best books of 2015 In the wake of family collapse, a writer and her two young sons move to London. The process of upheaval is the catalyst for a number of transitions--personal, moral, artistic, practical--as she endeavors to construct a new reality for herself and her children. In the city she is made to confront aspects of living she has, until now, avoided, and to consider questions of vulnerability and power, death and renewal, in what becomes her struggle to reattach herself to, and believe in, life. Filtered through the impersonal gaze of its keenly intelligent protagonist, Transit sees Rachel Cusk delve deeper into the themes first raised in her critically acclaimed Outline, and offers up a penetrating and moving reflection on childhood and fate, the value of suffering, the moral problems of personal responsibility, and the mystery of change. In this precise, short, and yet epic cycle of novels, Cusk manages to describe the most elemental experiences, the liminal qualities of life, through a narrative near-silence that draws language toward it. She captures with unsettling restraint and honesty the longing to both inhabit and flee one's life and the wrenching ambivalence animating our desire to feel real."--
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In her wake

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Jennings, Amanda,
2016.
B-format paperback edition.
"A perfect life...until she discovered it wasn't her own. A tragic family event reveals devastating news that rips apart Bella's comfortable existence. Embarking on a personal journey to uncover the truth, she faces a series of traumatic discoveries that take her to the ruggedly beautiful Cornish coast, where hidden truths, past betrayals and a 25-year-old mystery threaten not just her identity, but also her life"--Page 4 of cover.
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Faithful

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Hoffman, Alice
2016.
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Growing up on Long Island, Shelby Richmond is an ordinary girl until one night an extraordinary tragedy changes her fate. Her best friend's future is destroyed in an accident, while Shelby walks away with the burden of guilt. What happens when a life is turned inside out? When love is something so distant it may as well be a star in the sky? Faithful is the story of a survivor, filled with emotion--from dark suffering to true happiness--a moving portrait of a young woman finding her way in the modern world. A fan of Chinese food, dogs, bookstores, and men she should stay away from, Shelby has to fight her way back to her own future. In New York City she finds a circle of lost and found souls--including an angel who's been watching over her ever since that fateful icy night.
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Ladies' night

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Andrews, Mary Kay,
2013.
First edition.
Cut off from her palatial home and checking account after an act of post-divorce rage forces her to move in with her widowed mother and attend court-mandated group therapy, rising media star Grace Stanton bonds with three fellow patients who she helps plot respective pursuits of justice and closure.
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Make it stay

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Frank, Joan,
©2012.
Depicts a poignant if narrow portrait of love, friendship, and mortality. In a bohemian Northern California town, writer Rachel Blum ruminates on the life of Mike Spender, oldest friend of her straight-laced lawyer husband, Neil. Years ago, during a trip to Tahiti, Mike saved Neil's life, a favor that Neil has repaid with dogged loyalty: Neil was Mike's best man at his wedding; cherished his role as uncle to Mike's daughter, Addie; and dutifully assisted the family through an assortment of legal, marital, and health crises. When Rachel entered the picture, marrying Neil late in life, her gratitude for having finally found love is tainted by the separation she feels from his friends and her reservations about Mike's womanizing. When tragedy strikes, Rachel finds her own marriage cast into an upheaval she struggles to understand.
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Cold quiet country

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Lindemuth, Clayton.
2012.
On his last day in power, with a blizzard threatening Wyoming with 18 inches of snow, Sheriff Bittersmith is called to the scene of a crime. A farmer has been stabbed clean through the neck with a pitchfork. Two sets of tracks lead from the barn, and the dead man's frantic wife exclaims her daughter is missing. Convinced it was Gale G'Wain, the orphan who worked at the farm, Bittersmith follows the vanishing footprints into the storm. Three miles away, Gale G'Wain is alone and close to dead. He's holed up in an empty farmhouse, half-dressed and nearly dead after falling through lake ice. Innocent, but unlikely to ever stand trial in a town as corrupt as Bittersmith, he loads his gun and prepares to defend himself against the dead man's bloodthirsty sons and the Sheriff's Department.
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Room : a novel

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Donoghue, Emma,
2011.
1st Back Bay pbk. ed.
It's Jack's birthday and he's excited about turning five. Jack lives with his Ma in Room, which has a locked door and a skylight, and measures 11 feet by 11 feet. He loves watching TV but he knows that nothing he sees on screen is truly real. Until the day Ma admits that there's a world outside.
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Shadow tag

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Erdrich, Louise.
2011.
1st Harper Perennial ed.
Chronicles the emotional war between Irene America, a beautiful, introspective woman of Native American ancestry, struggling to finish her dissertation while raising three children, and her husband Gil, a painter whose reputation is built on a series of now iconic portraits of Irene.
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Running homeless

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Lamanda, Al.
2011.
1st ed.
He is in New Mexico where he executes six drug lords. The extraction team of four goes to get him as a tech support unit watches and videos his activities. The techies are stunned when the agent executes the extraction team. In seconds ten are dead. To the further shock of the observers he vanishes in a blink. Techie Johnson calls Handler Ben Freeman who orders him to follow the GPS signal in John Tibbets' watch but he must keep a distance if he chooses to live. Agent Monroe explains to Freeman and their superior Farris that the watch has an alarm that wipes out Tibbets' memory, which makes him more dangerous as a beast protecting himself. Freeman joins FBI agent Richard Cone in a hunt for Tibbets. Cone is stunned from seeing the video, but is appalled to learn Tibbets and Freeman belong to a top secret government agency whose mission is assassination. Tibbets has ben subject to mind control techniques enhanced by drugs. On his own, he begins to recall bits of his life while leaving corpses on his way to New York City where he vaguely remembers saving a cop's life.
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The great perhaps : a novel

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Meno, Joe.
2010, c2009.
The precarious world of the Casper family is thrown into chaos by the sudden separation of Jonathan and his wife, Madeline, a decision that forces the couple, their two daughters, and grandfather Henry to confront their own pursuits and cowardice.
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Imperfect birds

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Lamott, Anne.
2010.
Rosie Ferguson is seventeen and ready to enjoy the summer before her senior year of high school. But as the school year draws to a close, there are disturbing signs that the life Rosie claims to be leading is a sham, and that Elizabeth's hopes for her daughter to remain immune from the pull of the darker impulses of drugs and alcohol are dashed. Now, Elizabeth is forced to confront the fact that Rosie has been lying to her, and that her deceptions will have profound consequences.
Book

The slide : a novel

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Beachy, Kyle.
2009.
Book

The great perhaps : a novel

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Meno, Joe.
2009.
1st ed.
The precarious world of the Casper family is thrown into chaos by the sudden separation of Jonathan and his wife, Madeline, a decision that forces the couple, their two daughters, and grandfather Henry to confront their own pursuits and cowardice.
Book

Still waters

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

McCrery, Nigel,
2009, c2007.
1st Vintage Crime/Black Lizard ed.
Book

The almost moon : a novel

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Sebold, Alice.
2008.
1st Back Bay pbk. ed.
Helen Knightly, who has set aside her own life in her support of her parents, husband, and children, confronts the realities of the choices that were imposed upon her during a brief, harrowing period of death and revelation.
Book

Off season

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Siddons, Anne Rivers.
2008.
1st ed.
"Anne Rivers Siddons tells the beautiful, tragic, and redemptive story of a woman who searches for meaning after her husband dies"--Provided by publisher.
Book

Black out : a novel

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Unger, Lisa,
c2008.
1st ed.
A woman has to quickly piece together disturbing events--one of which is the murder of her psychologist--before her past comes to claim her future and her daughter.
Book

Isolation : a novel

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Thrasher, Travis,
2008.
1st ed.
When a snowstorm traps a missionary and his family, the supernatural dangers of their new home will test everything they thought they knew about each other, and about their faith.
Book

Elsewhere

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Zevin, Gabrielle.
2007.
1st Square Fish ed.
After fifteen-year-old Liz Hall is hit by a taxi and killed, she must adjust to her new surroundings and figure out how to "live."
Book

García's heart

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Durcan, Liam.
2007.
1st U.S. ed.
Book

The almost moon : a novel

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Sebold, Alice.
2007.
1st ed.
Book

The folded world

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Gaige, Amity,
©2007.
Tells the story of an idealistic young social worker drawn into the lives of his mentally ill clients.
Book

Drachenläufer

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Hosseini, Khaled.
2007.
Deutsche Ausg., 17. Aufl.
Book

Still waters

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

McCrery, Nigel,
c2007.
1st U.S. ed.
When the badly decayed body of an elderly woman is unearthed, Detective Chief Inspector Mark Lapslie and his sergeant, Emma Bradbury, are called in on the case. Lapslie's just returned to the force after a year of relative isolation, trying to avoid the worst symptoms of his synasethsia, a neurological condition that causes him to "taste" sound and that makes his life as complicated as any crime he's been charged with solving. Now he's flooded again--not only with the convolution of senses that can drive him nearly mad but also with the increasing convolutions of this case. The murder appears to be the work of a serial killer, and the investigation is leading in a direction that could be extremely detrimental to Lapslie's career--if not to his very life.
Book

Angelica : a novel

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Phillips, Arthur,
c2007.
1st ed.
Book

Magic hour : a novel

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Hannah, Kristin.
c2006.
1st ed.
Book

The birthdays : a novel

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Pitlor, Heidi.
c2006.
1st ed.
Book

Magic hour : a novel

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Hannah, Kristin.
c2006.
[Book club ed.].
Book

The sense of paper

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Holden, Wendy,
2006.
An enthralling exploration of the role of paper in art, it is also the sumptuous story of a woman living on the dangerous edge of obsession, passion, and murder.
Book

The photograph

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Lively, Penelope,
2004.
Book

Private pleasures

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Small, Bertrice.
c2004.
Book

Last stands : stories

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Red light wives

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Monroe, Mary.
©2004.
Working in the world's oldest profession, six very different women forge a powerful bond that no one can break, not even their controlling "manager" Clyde, until an impulsive act of defiance changes everything.
Book

After

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Tristram, Claire.
c2004.
1st ed.
"After is a stunning debut about an intense erotic affair that takes place over one twenty-four hour period. The woman is unnamed. The time is unspecified. The place is a motel somewhere in California. She is a widow, and it has been one year since her husband's death at the hands of Muslim extremists. She has decided, on the basis of a chance encounter, to take a Muslim lover. He is courtly, solicitous, understanding, and understandably nervous. He is married and has two daughters. She has had no lover since her husband's death. Their graphically recounted affair is passionate and disturbing, and it veers into violence. How can desire so quickly transmogrify into hate? How does prejudice contaminate belief? Can grief ever be expunged? Can we purify ourselves of our pasts, redeem ourselves for the future, or are we consigned to a vicious cycle of recrimination and revenge?"--Publisher's description.
Book

Remembering Sarah

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Mooney, Chris.
2004.
1st Atria Books hardcover ed.
Determined to raise an independent daughter, Mike defies his overprotective wife and is horrified when their child disappears, a situation that culminates in a search for answers when the only suspect becomes terminally ill.
Book

Babyville : a novel

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Green, Jane,
2003.
Book

A burning in homeland

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Yancey, Richard.
©2003.
"Story about the ominous return to a small town in central Florida of a man once sentenced to prison for defending the honor of the woman he loved, about the woman and her husband he loved, about the woman and her husband who both betrayed him, and about a guileless young boy who gets caught up in their web of love, lies, and deceit."--Jacket.
Book

Choke : a novel

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Palahniuk, Chuck.
2002, c2001.
1st Anchor Books ed.
Victor Mancini, a medical-school dropout, is an antihero for our deranged times. Needing to pay elder care for his mother, Victor has devised an ingenious scam: he pretends to choke on pieces of food while dining in upscale restaurants. He then allows himself to be "saved" by fellow patrons who, feeling responsible for Victor's life, go on to send checks to support him. When he's not pulling this stunt, Victor cruises sexual addiction recovery workshops for action, visits his addled mom, and spends his days working at a colonial theme park.
Book

The wasties

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Reuss, Frederick,
c2002.
1st ed.
Book

Choke : a novel

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Palahniuk, Chuck.
2001.
1st ed.
Medical school dropout Victor Mancini comes up with a complicated but ingenious scam to pay for his mother's elder care, cruises sex addiction groups for action, and visits his zany mother, whose Alzheimer's disease hides the bizarre truth about his parentage.
Book

Jimmy's girl

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Gertler, Stephanie.
c2001.
Told in alternating chapters, Emily and Jimmy tell of falling in love as teenagers, drifting apart and establishing separate adult lives, and then taking a chance on reuniting after finding each other via the Internet.
Book

Winter solstice

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Pilcher, Rosamunde.
2000.
Large print ed.
Following a tragedy, Elfrida Phipps takes refuge in a rambling house called Corrydale in the north of Scotland, which attracts a motley assortment of waifs and strays, each trying to escape a difficult personal past.
Book

Raveling

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Smith, Peter Moore,
c2000.
1st ed.
Book

Magic terror : seven tales

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Straub, Peter,
©2000.
1st ed.
An anthology of horror fiction includes "Bunny is Good Bread," in which a future serial killer's childhood is portrayed; "Hunger," narrated by the pompous ghost of a serial killer; and the award-winning novella, "Mr. Clubb and Mr. Cuff."
Regular print

Glamorama : a novel

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Ellis, Bret Easton.
1999.
1st ed.
A young man in what is recognizably fashion and celebrity-obsessed Manhattan is gradually, imperceptibly drawn into a shadowy looking-glass of that society, there and London and Paris, and then finds himself trapped on the other side, in a much darker place where fame and terrorism and family and politics are inextricably linked and sometimes indistinguishable. At once implicated and horror-stricken, his ways of escape blocked at every turn, he ultimately discovers--back on the other, familiar side--that there was no mirror, no escape, no world but this one in which hotels implode and planes fall from the sky.
Book

Cookie cutter

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Anthony, Sterling,
1999.
1st ed.
A killer in Detroit is targeting blacks and leaving by the victim's body an Oreo cookie--black outside, white inside--symbolizing blacks who side with whites. Lieutenant Mary Cunningham goes after him.
Book

Trials of friendship

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Hucker, Hazel.
1998.
1st U.S. ed.
Book

The Lazarus Hotel

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Bannister, Jo.
[1997]
1st U.S. ed.
Book

The information

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Amis, Martin.
c1995.
1st ed.
A spoof on the world of bestsellerdom. The protagonists are a successful novelist and an unsuccessful one. The latter decides to destroy the former with dirty tricks, only to see them backfire. By the author of Time's Arrow.
Book

Dancer with bruised knees

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

McFall, Lynne,
©1994.
A woman sings her blues in this tale of ill luck. Sarah Blight has lost an eye in a bar brawl, she is without a man--having lost her lover as well--and she still pines for her husband, even though he has remarried.
Book

The orchard keeper

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

McCarthy, Cormac,
1993.
1st Vintage International ed.
Book

Night child

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Scholefield, Alan.
1993.
1st U.S. ed.
Book

The throat

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Straub, Peter,
c1993.
Book

The deep end : a novel of suspense

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Crutcher, Chris.
c1992.
1st ed.
Book

Snake eyes

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Smith, Rosamond,
©1992.
When murderer Lee Roy Sears is paroled from prison, he terrorizes the family of the lawyer who helped him.
Book

Strange fits of passion

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Shreve, Anita.
c1991.
1st ed.
Mary Amesbury didn't run far enough. For soon there would be murder, a rape charge, and suicide in St. Hilaire. And then one last betrayal that would haunt her to the grave.
Book

Strange fits of passion

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Shreve, Anita.
1991.
Book

Peru : a novel

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Solo faces

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Salter, James.
c1979.
1st ed.
Book

The fountainhead

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Rand, Ayn.
[1968]
25th anniversary ed.
The Fountainhead has become an enduring piece of literature, more popular now than when published in 1943. On the surface, it is a story of one man, Howard Roark, and his struggles as an architect in the face of a successful rival, Peter Keating, and a newspaper columnist, Ellsworth Toohey. But the book addresses a number of universal themes: the strength of the individual, the tug between good and evil, the threat of fascism. The confrontation of those themes, along with the amazing stroke of Rand's writing, combine to give this book its enduring influence.
Book

The haunting of Hill House.

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Jackson, Shirley,
1959.
Book

Useful fictions : evolution, anxiety, and the origins of literature

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Austin, Michael,
©2010.
"We tell ourselves stories in order to live," Joan Didion observed in The White Album. Why is this? Michael Austin asks, in Useful Fictions. Why, in particular, are human beings, whose very survival depends on obtaining true information, so drawn to fictional narratives? After all, virtually every human culture reveres some form of storytelling. Might there be an evolutionary reason behind our species' need for stories?
Electronic resource

August blue

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Levy, Deborah,
2023.
First American edition.
"A novel by the author of The Man Who Saw Everything about wayward selves, femininities, sexualities, avatars, alter egos, and the twin poles of compassion and cruelty that exist within all of us"--
Book

Housebreaking

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Hubbard, Colleen,
2022.
First edition.
"After years of being away and with both of her parents gone, Del's life is feeling stagnant. Living with her father's ex-boyfriend and recently fired from her cleaning job, it's almost a relief when she hears from her uncle who says he'll pay her for the family home so he can develop the land. Sure, Del's going to take the money, but she's not going to let her house be demolished - and certainly not by her uncle. With a family that's never done her any good and a whole lot of free time, she decides to channel her energy into tearing the home apart - by hand - and moving it across a frozen pond. But as she'll soon discover, this task stirs up old memories, and family members-who she'd rather forget-will eventually come knocking on her door. And just maybe, Del will learn that brokenness can be a remarkable gift as it offers us the chance to start again."--
Book

The collective : a novel

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Gaylin, Alison,
[2021]
First edition.
"Camille Gardener is a grieving--and angry--mother who, five years after her daughter's death, is still obsessed with the privileged young man she believes to be responsible. When her rash actions draw the attention of a secret group of women--the collective--Camille is drawn into a dark web where these mothers share their wildly different stories of loss as well as their desire for justice in a world where privilege denies accountability. Fueled by mutual rage, the collective members devise and act out retribution fantasies via precise, anonymous, highly coordinated revenge killings"--
Book

Second place

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Cusk, Rachel,
2021.
First edition.
"From the author of the Outline trilogy, a fable of human destiny and decline, enacted in a closed system of intimate, fractured relationships"--
Book

Cleanness

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Greenwell, Garth,
2020.
First edition.
"A queer American teacher describes a series of intimate encounters with lovers, friends, and students in and around Sofia, Bulgaria"--
Book

I spy

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Kendal, Claire,
[2019]
First U.S. edition.
Book

All my colors

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Quantick, David,
2019.
First edition.
A wanna-be writer with an eidetic memory decides to claim authorship of a book that only he remembers, but soon finds that there are consequences for his theft.
Book

Sugar run : a novel

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Maren, Mesha,
2018.
First edition.
"Jodi McCarty is seventeen when she's sentenced to life in prison for manslaughter. She's released eighteen years later and finds herself reeling from the shock of unexpected freedom. Not yet able to return to her lost home in the Appalachian mountains, she heads south in search of someone she left behind, as a way of finally making amends. There, she will meet and fall in love with Miranda, a troubled young mother living in a motel room with her children. Together they head toward what they hope will be a new home and fresh start--but what do you do with a town and a family that refuses to change?"--
Book

The nightwalker

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Fitzek, Sebastian,
2017.
First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
As a young man, Leon Nader suffered from insomnia. As a sleepwalker, he even turned to violence during his nocturnal excursions and had psychiatric treatment for his condition. Eventually, he was convinced he had been cured - but one day, years later, Leon's wife disappears from their flat under mysterious circumstances. Could it be that his illness has broken out again? In order to find out how he behaves in his sleep, Leon fits a movement activated camera to his forehead - and when he looks at the video the next morning he makes a discovery that bursts the borders of his imagination. His nocturnal personality goes through a door that is totally unknown to him and descends into the darkness..." -- Book flap.
Book

T2 trainspotting

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Welsh, Irvine,
[2017]
Ten years on from Trainspotting, Simon 'Sick Boy' Williamson is back in Edinburgh after a long spell in London. Having failed spectacularly as a hustler, pimp, husband, father and businessman, Sick Boy taps into an opportunity, which to him represents one last throw of the dice. However, to realize his dream of directing and producing a pornographic movie, Sick Boy must team up with old pal and fellow exile Mark Renton and a motley crew that includes the city's favorite ex-aerated-water-salesman, 'Juice' Terry Lawson. In the world of Porno, however, nothing is straightforward, as Sick Boy and Renton find out that they have unresolved issues to address, concerning the increasingly unhinged Frank Begbie, the troubled, drug-addled Spud, but, most of all, with each other.
Book

Russisches Mädchen : Thriller

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Schiller, B. C.,
[2016]
Book

Eleven hours

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Erens, Pamela,
2016.
First US edition.
Eleven Hours is the story of two soon-to-be mothers who, in the midst of a difficult labor, are forced to reckon with their pasts and re-create their futures. Lore must disentangle herself from a love triangle; Franckline must move beyond past traumas to accept the life that is waiting for her. Pamela Erens moves seamlessly between their begrudging partnership and the memories evoked by so intense an experience: for Lore, of the father of her child and her former best friend; for Franckline, of the family in Haiti from which she's exiled. At turns urgent and lyrical, Erens's novel is a visceral portrait of childbirth, and a vivid rendering of the way we approach motherhood with fear and joy, anguish and awe.
Book

The insect farm

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Prebble, Stuart.
2015.
First North American edition.
When twenty-year-old Jonathan Maguire wakes up in a pool of blood and with a dead body beside him, his shock and grief quickly turn to panic. Being arrested for murder will prevent him from fulfilling the promise he made to his parents - that after their death he would take care of Roger, his mentally handicapped older brother. Roger lives in a strange and complex world of his own creation - populated by millions of tiny insects - his insect farm. As the police move in, it emerges that Roger may know far more than he has revealed...
Book

The forgetting place

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Burley, John,
[2015]
First edition.
A female psychiatrist at a state mental hospital finds herself at the center of a shadowy conspiracy in this dark and twisting tale of psychological suspense. Menaker State Hospital is a curse, a refuge, a prison, a necessity, a nightmare, a salvation. When Dr. Lise Shields arrived at the correctional psychiatric facility five years ago, she was warned that many of its patients-committed by Maryland's judicial system for perpetrating heinous crimes-would never leave. But what happens when a place like Menaker is corrupted, when it becomes a tool to silence the innocent, conceal an injustice, contain a secret? Why is it that the newest patient does not seem to belong there, that the hospital administrator has fallen silent, and that Lise is being watched by two men with seemingly lethal intent? The answers are closer than she realizes and could cost her everything she holds dear.
Book

Adicta : una novela

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Zane,
2014.
Primera edición en rústica de Atria Español.
Book

List : a novel

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Roberson, Matthew.
2014.
Vignettes of a middle-class American family told through lists, each reflecting their obsessions, their complaints, their desires, and their humanity. A suburban family of four- a man, woman, boy, and girl- struggle through claustrophobic days crowded with home improvement projects, conflicts at work and school, a job loss, illnesses, separation, and the wearying confrontation with aging. The accoutrements of modern life- electronic devices and vehicles- have ceased to be tools that support them and have become instead the central ful.
Electronic resource

Accidents happen : a novel

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Millar, Louise.
2013.
First Emily Bestler Books/Atria Paperback edition.
On edge because of the accidental deaths of her parents and the murder of her husband, Kate Parker fears for the well-being of herself and her son, and even after she meets Jago, her unease does not abate for long.
Book

Love water memory

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Shortridge, Jennie.
c2013.
1st Gallery Books hardcover ed.
Who is Lucie Walker? Even Lucie herself can't answer that question after she comes to, confused and up to her knees in the chilly San Francisco Bay. Back home in Seattle, she adjusts to life with amnesia, growing unsettled by the clues she finds to the selfish, carefully guarded person she used to be. Will she ever fall in love with her handsome, kindhearted fiancé, Grady? Can he devote himself to the vulnerable, easygoing Lucie 2.0, who is so unlike her controlling former self? When Lucie learns that Grady has been hiding some very painful secrets that could change the course of their relationship, she musters the courage to search for the shocking, long-repressed childhood memories that will finally set her free.
Book

Range of motion

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Berg, Elizabeth.
2012, 1995.
After a freak accident - ice fell on him as he walked in the street -- a man lies in a coma in a hospital in St. Paul, Minnesota. Lainey, his wife, is the only one who believes he will recover. She visits him every day, bringing family objects and talking of home, becoming ever more aware of the wonder and richness of daily life.
Book

Lunar Park

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Ellis, Bret Easton.
2011, c2005.
Book

The echo chamber

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Williams, Luke,
2011.
1st American ed.
Amassing a collection of historical artifacts through the use of her extraordinary hearing, Evie Steppman, a woman who grew up in mid-20th-century British-occupied Nigeria, realizes that she is losing her abilities and resolves to document the remarkable story of each object.
Book

The raising : a novel

2024-06-03T06:17:18Z

Kasischke, Laura,
©2011.
1st ed.
The accident was tragic, yes. Bloody and horrific and claiming the life of a beautiful young sorority girl. Nicole was a straight-A student from a small town, sweet-tempered, all-American, a former Girl Scout, and a virgin. Too young to die. Unless she didn't ...
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