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6761) Her Final Victim
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With friends like these, who needs enemies? A twisting psychological thriller about what lies behind a marriage's façade-and the deadly results...
Hazel and Jamie are happily married. Or, so it would seem. Behind closed doors, things are far from normal. Jamie has an unhealthy obsession, and Hazel is more worried about herself than her husband.
So, when Millicent injects herself into their lives, with Jamie firmly in her sights, the trio end up...
6762) Blood Angel
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English
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Carrie and Jacob must stop a lunatic who calls himself The Master, as he sends out letters to his potential victims. Fifteen years ago, Herbert Presley Tanner abducted teenager Brenda Drake in order to commit a ritual purification of the flesh demanded by his fanatical beliefs. He doused her in gasoline and was about to light a match when detectives Jacob Rein and Bill Waylon intercepted him and brought him to justice. Now Brenda Drake has been reported...
6763) Waiting for Wednesday
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Pamela Dorman Books, Viking
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English
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While consulting on the murder of housewife who was hiding a shocking secret, brilliant psychotherapist Frieda Klein is brought closer to a serial killer who has long escaped detection and wonders if she is solving both cases or if she is the victim of her own paranoid, fragile mind.
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Atria Books
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English
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"Grayson Hale, the most infamous murderer in Scotland, is better known by a different name: the Devil's Advocate. The twenty-five-year-old American grad student rose to instant notoriety when he confessed to the slaughter of his classmate Liam Stewart, claiming the Devil made him do it. When Hale is found hanged in his prison cell, officers uncover a handwritten manuscript that promises to answer the question that's haunted the nation for years: was...
6766) Fear of dying
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St. Martin's Press
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English
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Restless with her life filled with her family's needs, Vanessa Wonderman contemplates using zipless.com to find no strings attached encounters to fulfill her youthful fantasies.
6767) Lost you: a novel
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Crown
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English
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A provocative and unputdownable psychological suspense about two women locked in a desperate fight over a child each believes is rightfully hers.
6768) Hugo & Rose
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St. Martin's Press
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English
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"Rose is disappointed with her life, though she has no reason to be - she has a beautiful family and a perfectly nice house in the suburbs. But to Rose, this ordinary life feels overshadowed by her other life - the one she leads every night in her dreams. After a childhood accident, Rose's dreams take her to a wondrous island fraught with adventure. On this island, she has never been alone: she shares it with Hugo, a brave boy who's grown up with...
6769) Thursday's child
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Frieda Klein novels volume 4
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Penguin Books
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English
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Pantheon Books
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English
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"From a leading planetary scientist and an award-winning science writer, a propulsive account of the developments and initiatives that have transformed the dream of space colonization into something that may well be achievable. We are at the cusp of a golden age in space science, as increasingly more entrepreneursElon Musk, Richard Branson, Jeff Bezosare seduced by the commercial potential of human access to space. But Beyond Earth...
6771) Case study
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"The Booker-shortlisted author of His Bloody Project blurs the lines between patient and therapist, fiction and documentation, and reality and dark imagination. London, 1965. An unworldly young woman believes that a charismatic psychotherapist, Collins Braithwaite, has driven her sister to suicide. Intent on confirming her suspicions, she assumes a false identity and presents herself to him as a client, recording her experiences in a series of notebooks....
6772) Hairpin Bridge: a novel
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English
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Not accepting that her estranged twin sister committed suicide, Lena Nguyen interviews the highway patrolman who allegedly discovered her body, but who is mentioned by name in the last text her sister ever sent.
6773) Loner
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"David Federman has never felt appreciated. One of the most painfully forgettable members of his New Jersey high school class--yet the only one accepted to Harvard--shy, witty David arrives in Cambridge fully expecting to embrace, and be welcomed by, a new tribe of like-minded peers. But at first, beyond the friendly advances ofa plain-looking girl named Sara, his social status seems devastatingly unlikely to change. Then he meets Veronica Morgan...
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A yet heartbreakingly honest, endearing memoir of incredible weight loss by a young food blogger who battles body image issues and overcomes food addiction to find self-acceptance.
All her life, Andie Mitchell had eaten lustily and mindlessly. Food was her babysitter, her best friend, her confidant, and it provided a refuge from her fractured family. But when she stepped on the scale on her twentieth birthday and it registered...
All her life, Andie Mitchell had eaten lustily and mindlessly. Food was her babysitter, her best friend, her confidant, and it provided a refuge from her fractured family. But when she stepped on the scale on her twentieth birthday and it registered...
6775) The map of true places
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English
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"Masterfully woven…The Map of True Places is a gripping quest for truth that kept me reading at the edge of my seat to the very last page."
-Lisa Genova, author of Still Alice
Brunonia Barry, author of the beloved New York Times and international bestseller The Lace Reader is back with The Map of True Places, an emotionally resonant novel of tragedy, secrets, identity, and love. The moving and remarkable tale of a psychotherapist who discovers...
6776) How to survive a summer
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Blue Rider Press
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English
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"A searing debut novel centering around a gay-to-straight conversion camp in Mississippi and a man's reckoning with the trauma he faced there as a teen. Grad student Will Dillard has largely buried memories of the summer he spent at a camp intended to "cure" homosexuality. But when he finds out a horror movie based on the camp is hitting theaters, he's forced to face his past -- and his role in another camper's death. As he recounts the events surrounding...
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Random House
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English
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The disappearance of twelve-year-old Newell Ewing and the resulting mystery brings together a group of seemingly unrelated strangers in Las Vegas--including his parents, an illustrator, a stripper, a teenage anarchist, and a group of street runaways.
6780) Always watching
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English
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When a new patient, Heather Simeon, is brought to the Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit after a suicide attempt, Nadine is assigned to work with her. As Nadine gently coaxes the story out of Heather, she learns of some troubling parallels to their lives. Digging deep, Nadine is forced to confront her own history, and the damage that began when she and her brother were brought by their mother to a commune by a river on a remote part of Vancouver Island....
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