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2) Schizo
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A teenager recovering from a schizophrenic breakdown is driven to the point of obsession to find his missing younger brother and becomes wrapped up in a romance that may or may not be the real thing.
3) The boys
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Unable to share a secret with his wife that has haunted him since childhood, introverted Ethan Fawcett, when the foster boys she brings home drive a wedge in their relationship, must find a way to repair their marriage and learn the true meaning of family.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Set primarily on the island of Ibiza, the story is narrated by the writer Amanda Wordlaw, whose closest friend, a gifted sculptor named Catherine Shuger, is repeatedly institutionalized for trying to kill a husband who never leaves her. The three form a quirky triangle on the white-washed island"--
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Drawing on years of investigation and Anne Lister's five-million-word secret journal, Learned by Heart is the long-buried love story of Eliza Raine, an orphan heiress banished from India to England at age six, and Anne Lister, a brilliant, troublesome tomboy, who meet at the Manor School for young ladies in York in 1805 when they are both fourteen. Emotionally intense, psychologically compelling, and deeply researched, Learned by Heart is an extraordinary...
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Diagnosed with schizophrenia as a child, sixteen-year-old Erin has spent half of her life in therapy and on drugs, but now must face the possibility of weird things in the real world, including shapeshifting friends and her "alter," a centuries-old vampire.
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Set in contemporary Northern California, The Harder They Come explores the volatile connections between three damaged people -- an aging ex-Marine and Vietnam veteran, his psychologically unstable son, and the son's paranoid, much older lover -- as they careen towards an explosive confrontation.
13) Asylum
Author
Series
Asylum novels (Madeleine Roux) volume 1
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Español
Description
"Three teens at a summer program for gifted students uncover shocking secets in the sanatorium-turned-dorm where they're staying--secrets that link them all to the asylum's dark past"--
Tres adolescentes en un programa de verano para estudiantes dotados descubren secretos impactantes en el sanatorio convertido en residencia de estudiantes, donde se están quedando - secretos que todos ellos enlazan con pasado oscuro del asilo
14) In the blood
Author
Series
Hollows novels (Lisa Unger) volume 3
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Lana Granger lives a life of lies. She has told so many lies about where she comes from and who she is that the truth is like a cloudy nightmare she can't quite recall. About to graduate from college and with her trust fund almost tapped out, she takes a job babysitting a troubled boy named Luke. Expelled from schools all over the country, the manipulative young Luke is accustomed to controlling the people in his life. But, in Lana, he may have met...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Once again, Jessie Burlingame has been talked into submitting to her husband Gerald's kinky sex games--something that she's frankly had enough of, and they never held much charm for her to begin with. So much for a 'romantic getaway' at their secluded summer home. After Jessie is handcuffed to the bedposts--and Gerald crosses a line with his wife--the day ends with deadly consequences. Now Jessie is utterly trapped in an isolated lakeside house that...
Author
Series
Virtue Falls volume 3
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"From New York Times bestselling author, Christina Dodd, comes the newest thriller of this "remarkable, mesmerizing series" (Library Journal starred review) set in the quaint -- and deadly -- coastal town of Virtue Falls... BECAUSE I'M WATCHING! Veteran Jacob Denisov lives alone in his small, darkened home, sleepless, starving, blaming himself for the horrors of the past and waiting for the moment when he gathers enough courage to kill himself. When...
17) Blowback
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
US President Keegan Barrett has swept into office on his success as Director of the CIA. Six months into his first term, he devises a clandestine power grab with deadly consequences. Barrett personally orders Special Agents Liam Grey and Noa Himel to execute his plan, but their loyalties are divided. The CIA serves at the pleasure of the president, yet they've sworn to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign...
18) Fortuna
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
Una escritora galardonada de ficción absorbente y sofisticada ofrece una novela elegante y propulsora arraigada en la Nueva York de principios del siglo XX, sobre la riqueza y el talento, la confianza y la intimidad, la verdad y la percepción. En la glamorosa ciudad de Nueva York de la década de 1920, dos personajes de gusto sofisticado se unen. Uno es un magnate legendario de Wall Street; la otra, la brillante hija de aristócratas pobres. Empapado...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A young woman takes a job as a nanny for an impossibly wealthy family, thinking she's found her entrée into a better life--only to discover instead she's walked into a world of deception and dark secrets. Nanny needed. Discretion is of the utmost importance. Special conditions apply. When Sarah Larsen finds the notice, posted on creamy card stock in her building's lobby, one glance at the exclusive address tells her she's found her ticket out of...
20) Guy's girl
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Ginny isn't sure which came first-the bad habit or the boy. They showed up at almost exactly the same time, like two trains pulling into one station from opposite directions. And when they left, it took much longer for one to go than the other. On the surface, the two seem completely disconnected--one a human being, the other a human defect--but at their core, they're both powered by the same thing: false versions of love. One the wrong way to love...
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