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What do readers say about A Thousand Splendid Suns?
beautiful, beautiful book sobering fiction cleanly written moving and bittersweetTHE RICHARD & JUDY NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER
'A suspenseful epic' Daily Telegraph
'A triumph' Financial Times
'Heartbreaking' Mail on Sunday... More details on A Thousand Splendid Suns
It happened on a Thursday. It must have, because Mariam remembered that she had been restless and preoccupied that day, the way she was only on Thursdays, the day when Jalil visited her at the kolba. ...
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What do readers say about All the Bright Places?
teen depression and suicide gripping and intense two mismatched young people heart wrenching novelsThis New York Times bestselling love story about two teens who find each other while standing on the edge is now a Netflix film starring Elle Fanning and Justice Smith!
Theodore Finch is fascinated by death, and he constantly thinks of ways he might ... More details on All the Bright Places
This is something I ask myself in the morning when I wake up. In third period when I’m trying to keep my eyes open while Mr. Schroeder drones on and on. At the supper table as I’m passing the green be...
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What do readers say about The Child Finder?
descriptive and vivid gripping and intense thoughtful, measured prose lyrical and movingLibraryReads Selection
A haunting, richly atmospheric, and deeply suspenseful novel from the acclaimed author of The Enchanted about an investigator who must use her unique insights to find a missing little girl.
"Where are you, Madison Culver? Fly... More details on The Child Finder
The home was a small yellow cottage on an empty street. There was something dispirited about it, but Naomi was used to that. The young mother who answered the door was petite and looked much older tha...
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What do readers say about The Body Finder?
young adult book young adult novel realistic and entertaining great twists and plotsThe first book in the Body Finder series from Kimberly Derting is equal parts romance and mystery.
Sixteen-year-old Violet is hiding two secrets. The first is her confusing new feelings for her childhood best friend Jay. The second is her unusual ab... More details on The Body Finder
THE SOUND OF THE ALARM CLOCK WAS AN irritating intrusion into the comfortable haze of sleep that wrapped its arms around Violet. She dragged her hand out from beneath the warm cocoon of blankets to hi...
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What do readers say about Blindsighted?
serial killer thriller extremely mature first novel gripping and intense a serial rape slayerBarry Award Nominee
Gumshoe Award Finalist
Georgia Writer of the Year Award-First Novel Finalist
Macavity Award-Mystery Readers Int'l. Finalist ... More details on Blindsighted
Sara Linton leaned back in her chair, mumbling a soft “Yes, Mama” into the telephone. She wondered briefly if there would ever come a point in time when she would be too old to be taken over her mothe...
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What do readers say about The Hour I First Believed?
more epic than novel an absorbing novel complex, interwoven, in-depth very long and methodicalNew York Times Bestseller
The profound and compelling story of a personal quest for meaning and faith from Wally Lamb, #1 New York Times bestselling author of She's Come Undone and I Know This Much Is True
"The beauty of The Hour I First Believed, a ... More details on The Hour I First Believed
THEY WERE BOTH WORKING THEIR final shift at Blackjack Pizza that night, although nobody but the two of them realized it was that. Give them this much: they were talented secret-keepers. Patient planne...
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What do readers say about Sister?
cool, dark, dreamy melodramatic and preposterous love, loss, relations, ethics a crime novel"Lupton enters the highly charged ring where the best psychological detective writers spar... Like Kate Atkinson, Patricia Highsmith and Ruth Rendell… Both tear-jerking and spine-tingling, Sister provides an adrenaline rush that could cause a chill o... More details on Sister
I’d do anything to be with you, right now, right this moment, so I could hold your hand, look at your face, listen to your voice. How can touching and seeing and hearing - all those sensory receptors ...
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What do readers say about The Ghost Brigades?
smart, fun, and fast engaging, intelligent, and tense more intricate and subtle gripping and intenseThe Ghost Brigades are the Special Forces of the Colonial Defense Forces, elite troops created from the DNA of the dead and turned into the perfect soldiers for the CDF's toughest operations. They're young, they're fast and strong, and they're totall... More details on The Ghost Brigades
And for a very good reason. The rock was nondescript, one of millions of chunks of rock and ice floating in the parabolic orbit of a long-dead short-period comet, looking just like any chunk of that d...
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What do readers say about An Evil Cradling?
a harrowing tale a real survival story his hostage ordeal strong literary skillsBrian Keenan went to Beirut in 1985 for a change of scene from his native Belfast. He became headline news when he was kidnapped by fundamentalist Shi'ite militiamen and held in the suburbs of Beirut for the next four and a half years. For much of th... More details on An Evil Cradling
I think it was D. H. Lawrence, speaking about the act of writing, who said that writers throw up their sickness in books. So it is with this work. It is the process of abreaction in art form, both a t...
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What do readers say about Jane Anonymous?
haunting depictions of torture well-thought out and effective gripping and intense story raw, visceral and heartrendingBestselling author Laurie Faria Stolarz's thrilling novel Jane Anonymous is a revelatory confessional of a seventeen-year-old girl's fight to escape a kidnapper-and her struggles to connect with loved ones and a life that no longer exists.
Seven mon... More details on Jane Anonymous
It was raining that morning, ten months ago. I remember because I’d gotten up early, hoping to go for a run. But it was already 8:15, and I was still waiting for the weather to clear. The streets were...
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