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"In the tradition of The Girl on the Train, The Silent Wife, and Gone Girl comes an enthralling psychological thriller that spins one woman's seemingly good fortune, and another woman's mysterious fate, through a kaleidoscope of duplicity, death, and deception. Please make a list of every possession you consider essential to your life. The request seems odd, even intrusive--and for the two women who answer, the consequences are devastating. EMMA...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Six hundred years into the future, humans are bred by cloning, and "mother" and "father" are forbidden words. Originally published in 1932, Huxley's terrifying vision of a controlled and emotionless future "Utopian" society is truly startling in its prediction of modern scientific and cultural phenomena, including test-tube babies and rampant drug abuse.
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Exploring the shadow side of love, these are tales of grief, obsession, control. Intricate examinations of trauma and tragedy in raw, poetic prose. A woman imagines horrific scenarios whilst caring for her infant niece; on-line posts chronicle a cancer diagnosis; a couple in the park with their small child encounter a stranger with horrific consequences; a toxic relationship reaches a terrifying resolution…"--publisher's website.
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Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Revised edition.
Physical Desc
x, 384 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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"Sloan will go through hell and back for those she loves. And she does so, every single day. Caught up with the alluring Asa Jackson, a notorious drug trafficker, Sloan has finally found a lifeline to cling to, even if it's meant compromising her morals. She was in dire straits trying to pay for her brother's care until she met Asa. But as Sloan became emotionally and economically reliant on him, he in turn developed a disturbing obsession with her--one...
7) The poet
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Publisher
Doubleday, an imprint of Transworld Publishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
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Written in verse and charged with passion and anger, The Poet is a portrait of a deeply dysfunctional relationship, exploring coercive control, class and privilege. It is also a page-turning tale of female solidarity and survival.
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
772 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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The Giver: Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives. -- Gathering blue: Lame and suddenly orphaned, Kira is mysteriously removed from her squalid village to live in the palatial Council Edifice, where she is expected to use her gifts as a weaver to do the bidding of the all-powerful Guardians....
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Publisher
Vintage Español, una división de Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Primera edición Vintage Español.
Physical Desc
430 pages ; 21 cm
Language
Español
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Es una casa espectacular. Elegante, minimalista. Toda ella respira buen gusto y serenidad. Justo el lugar que Jane estaba buscando para empezar de cero y ser feliz. Aunque lo extraordinario es que se la ofrecen por un alquiler irrisorio. Solo tiene que completar un peculiar formulario de solicitud y aceptar sin condiciones las reglas impuestas por su propietario y creador, un enigmático arquitecto. Al poco de instalarse, Jane descubre que algo le...
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Publisher
Head of Zeus
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
ix, 500 pages : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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"There has always been a darkness to Ilmar, but never more so than now. The city chafes under the heavy hand of the Palleseen occupation, the choke-hold of its criminal underworld, the boot of its factory owners, the weight of its wretched poor and the burden of its ancient curse. What will be the spark that lights the conflagration? Despite the city's refugees, wanderers, murderers, madmen, fanatics and thieves, the catalyst, as always, will be the...
11) No es no
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Publisher
Ediciones Urano
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
279 pages ; 22 cm
Language
Español
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"La agresión sexual es el acto criminal menos denunciado ante la policía. ¿Por qué? Porque la vergüenza y el miedo abruman a la víctima. Porque la víctima debe, encima de todo, hacer frente a los prejuicios originados por la cultura de la violación. Aún en nuestros días, este concepto nos dicta que "no debemos salir solas por las noches a menos de que busquemos problemas; no debemos usar ropa sexi porque provocamos a los hombres; no debemos...
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Publisher
Akashic Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
320 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
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"After almost a century of being shut off from the rest of the world in self-imposed isolation, the neo-medieval statelet of Inner Azhuur suddenly volunteers to host the next season of the global streaming sensation So You Wanna Run a Country? The producers must now assemble the next crew of unqualified misfits whose ineptitude as they attempt to run the country will entertain billions across the globe. From Newer York, where homelessness has been...
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