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The New York Times bestselling author of the Tradd Street novels returns to the South Carolina Lowcountry with a gripping tale of two sisters haunted by one tragic night...
On the night their mother drowns, sisters Marnie and Diana Maitland discover there is more than one kind of death. There is the death of innocence, of love, and of hope. Each sister harbors a secret about that night-secrets that will erode their lives as they...
On the night their mother drowns, sisters Marnie and Diana Maitland discover there is more than one kind of death. There is the death of innocence, of love, and of hope. Each sister harbors a secret about that night-secrets that will erode their lives as they...
2) Never simple
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"A darkly funny and devastating memoir of growing up in '90s Manhattan with a mentally ill single parent"--
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There's plenty about the grownup world that six-year-old Aoife doesn't understand. Like what happened to her big brother Theo and why her mama is in the hospital instead of home where she belongs. Uncle Donny says she just needs to be patient, but Aoife s sure her mama won't be able to come home until Aoife learns what really happened to her brother. The trouble is no one wants to talk about Theo because he was murdered. But by whom?
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Emily has six siblings, but she was also close to her best friend, Lizzie Porter, who died nearly a year ago. Emily is still grieving; Lizzie's family is grieving so much that they use Lizzie's younger sister, Chloe, as a lure and kidnap Emily, forcing her to dress, talk, and act like Lizzie. The Porters threaten to go after Emily's family if she does not become the replacement for the daughter they lost. Emily is caught between fear for herself and...
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They call Eddie Miller 'The Coed Killer's Son' because when Eddie was five years old, his father killed a college girl, dismembered her body, and buried the pieces in woods. Where Eddie's family name has brought only infamy, Jack's has bestowed respect. To exorcise the burden, his teacher Jack encourages Eddie to confront past and discover truth about his father.
6) Wolfwood
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Indigo and her mother, once-famous artist Zoe Serra, have barely been scraping by since her mom's breakdown. When a gallery offers Zoe a revival show for her unfinished blockbuster series, Wolfwood-- a chance for financial stability-- Zoe refuses. Desperate, Indigo secretly takes up the brush herself. Painting submerges Indigo into Wolfwood itself: a dangerous jungle where an army of grotesque, monstrous flora are in a violent battle with a band of...
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A gripping novel about a woman who sets out to find the father who left her years ago, and ends up discovering herself.
When Eden was ten years old she found her father, David, bleeding on the bathroom floor. The suicide attempt led to her parents' divorce, and David all but vanished from Eden's life.
Twenty years later, Eden runs a successful catering company and dreams of opening a restaurant. Since childhood, she has heard from her father only...
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For more than twenty years, Ella has learned to live without her mother, Maggie, who disappeared into a fog of mental illness when Ella turned ten. Despite this trauma, Ella has forged ahead, becoming a veterinarian, getting married, and most of all, developing a deep, trusting bond with her father, John, a ferry captain in Seattle. Ella's contented life is shattered when her father is hit by a car and killed. Going through his papers, she learns...
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Nine-year-old Lottie feels trapped. Her divorced mother has brought her three children from the U.S. to England, en route to what she believes is their religious destiny in the Holy Land. Her schoolmates think she's odd. Her twenty-four-year old piano tutor, Rory, says he's in love with Lottie but she is as frightened by his insistence on keeping their relationship secret as she is confused by his touches.
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Jeanette's life currently revolves around caring for her agoraphobic and hoarder mother, all while dreaming of attending university for a musical theater course. When her mother's illness worsens, she finds solace in a new friendship, but there's one problem: the friendship started with a lie after she created a fake profile under the name of Marcia. Jack seems to have it all together, but his home life is anything but perfect. His mother is violent...
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Quiet your mind, and the silence will help you hear your inner voice--the one that says, "Stay strong enough to forgive, to heal, and to have hope." In her stirring, vulnerable new memoir, Karena Dawn reveals what it was like to grow up with a mother suffering from severe mental health issues, and how, during her teenage years, she desperately tried to escape her own inner demons. Addicted to pain-numbing drugs and crippled by severe depression, Karena...
16) El señor del Sur
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En ocasiones, el pasado es una puerta que más valdría dejar cerrada. O al menos eso es lo que está a punto de descubrir Jack Branch en este thriller donde la violencia se transmite de padres a hijos y las pegajosas sombras del delta del Missisipi esconden los más terribles secretos. Branch, heredero de una familia de la clase alta sureña, lleva tres años dando clase en el instituto de Lakeland cuando descubre que, entre los alumnos de su popular...
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