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1) The sister
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Edition
First United States edition.
Language
English
Description
“This lyrical and haunting story of two sisters, their troubling past, and the terrible secrets they each want buried will stay with you long after you [finish the novel].” –Harlan Coben
From her lookout in the crumbling mansion that was her childhood home, Ginny watches and waits for her younger sister to arrive. Vivien has not set foot in the house since she left nearly fifty years ago; the reclusive Ginny has rarely...
From her lookout in the crumbling mansion that was her childhood home, Ginny watches and waits for her younger sister to arrive. Vivien has not set foot in the house since she left nearly fifty years ago; the reclusive Ginny has rarely...
Author
Series
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
As a young boy, Glyver always believed he was destined for greatness. A chance discovery convinces him that he was right: greatness does await him, along with immense wealth and influence. Overwhelmed by his discovery, he will stop at nothing to win back a prize that he knows is rightfully his. Glyver's path to reclaim his prize leads him from the depths of Victorian London, with its foggy streets, brothels, and opium dens, to Evenwood, one of England's...
Author
Series
Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Edition
First United States edition.
Language
English
Description
A mother and her teenage daughter are found murdered in a remote coastal home, one defiled by multiple stab wounds and the other posed like Sleeping Beauty waiting for her prince. When a former student trades on O'Loughlin's reputation and jeopardizes the police inquiry, Joe is drawn into the case. Discovering a link to a series of vicious attacks in which the victims are choked unconscious and brutally scarred, Joe must stop a ruthless and brash...
4) The plague
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Language
English
Description
In the small coastal city of Oran, Algeria, rats begin rising from the filth only to die as bloody heaps in the streets. And just as mysteriously as it appeared, the rodent problem seems to vanish. Shortly after, however, many local residents experience intense fevers and then perish--victims of the unseen menace of the bubonic plague. And as life in the town comes to a halt, the survivors attempt to come to terms with their own mortality and the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Silver Sprocket
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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Description
Your Black Friend and Other Strangers is a collection of culturally charged comics by cartoonist Ben Passmore. Passmore masterfully tackles comics about race, gentrification, the prison system, online dating, gross punks, bad street art, kung fu movie references, beating up God, and lots of other grown-up stuff with refreshing doses of humor and lived relatability.
Author
Series
Colección Andanzas volume 629
Publisher
Tusquets Editores
Edition
1a edition.
Language
Español
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