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The Housemaid by Freida McFadden
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 27 ratings“Welcome to the family,” Nina Winchester says as I shake her elegant, manicured hand. I smile politely, gazing around the marble hallway. Working here is my last chance to start fresh. I can pretend to be whoever I like. But I’ll soon learn that the Winchesters’ secrets are far more dangerous than my own…Every day I clean the Winchesters’ beautiful house top to bottom... -
![The Insulted and Injured by Fyodor Dostoevsky]()
The Insulted and Injured by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe Insulted and Injured is that tale of a love quadrangle -- an improbably unpossessive and uninvidious love quadrangle, at that -- told by a young novelist not to unlike Dostoevsky himself. (A young author who has just published a novel so much like Dostoevsky's Poor Folk, in fact, that we find ourselves tempted to wonder over the author's private life. But we'll refrain... -
![Waiting to Begin by Amanda Prowse]()
Waiting to Begin by Amanda Prowse
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsFrom the bestselling author of The Girl in the Corner comes a story that asks: what would you risk for a shot at happiness?1984. Bessie is a confident sixteen-year-old girl with the world at her feet, dreaming of what life will bring and what she’ll bring to this life. Then everything comes crashing down... -
![A Treatise on Shelling Beans by Wiesław Myśliwski]()
A Treatise on Shelling Beans by Wiesław Myśliwski
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsOur narrator, a retired musician, receives a visit from an enigmatic stranger who inspires him to share the story of his long and stormy life... -
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![Of Foster Homes and Flies by Chad Lutzke, Alberto Plumed]()
Of Foster Homes and Flies by Chad Lutzke, Alberto Plumed
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA neglected 12-year-old boy does nothing to report the death of his mother in order to compete in a spelling bee. A tragic coming-of-age tale of horror and drama in the setting of a hot New Orleans summer. "Original, touching coming of age." ~Jack Ketchum, author of THE GIRL NEXT DOOR "With OF FOSTER HOMES & FLIES, Lutzke is firing on all cylinders. It's a lean mean emotional machine... -
![Coming Home by Patricia Dixon]()
Coming Home by Patricia Dixon
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFor a mother and her three daughters, this Christmas is a time to sort out secrets--and find hope for the future . . .As a young girl, Carmen Appleton loved Christmas, but a simple knock at the door was all it took to change things. Her father left home that fateful Christmas Eve and all that was left in his place were painful memories... -
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Fire by John Boyne
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsOn the face of it, Freya lives a gilded existence, dancing solely to her own tune. She has all the trappings of wealth and privilege, a responsible job as a surgeon specialising in skin grafts, a beautiful flat in a sought-after development, and a flash car. But it wasn’t always like this. Hers is a life founded on darkness... -
![The Man Without Qualities: Volume I by Robert Musil]()
The Man Without Qualities: Volume I by Robert Musil
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA Sort of Introduction and Pseudo Reality... -
![The Aftermath by Gail Schimmel]()
The Aftermath by Gail Schimmel
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThree women: a mother, a daughter, a friend. Can they save each other from the past?It’s been twenty-six years since the accident, but Helen still lives on autopilot, going through the motions of work and motherhood. Her one wish is for her daughter Julia to settle down with her own family—so Helen can let go... -
![Keep Saying Their Names by Simon Stranger]()
Keep Saying Their Names by Simon Stranger
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsInspired by historical events and by personal history, a shattering, exquisite double portrait of a Norwegian family savaged by World War II and of a man devoted to crimes against humanity, conjoined by an actual house of horrors they both call home...Categorized as:
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![The Other Son by Nick Alexander, Imogen Church]()
The Other Son by Nick Alexander, Imogen Church
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsFrom the outside, Alice’s marriage looks successful. It’s true that Ken was never her first choice, but four decades in, she’s learned to tolerate him. Their two sons have chosen their own paths, Tim as a successful banker and Matt a carefree globetrotter she can’t keep up with... -
![Everything Calls for Salvation by Daniele Mencarelli]()
Everything Calls for Salvation by Daniele Mencarelli
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWINNER OF THE 2020 YOUTH STREGA PRIZEFrom one of the most exciting voices in a new generation of Italian writers, a powerful and moving novel that explores both the darkest recesses and the most luminous regions of the human heartJune 1994. Twenty-year-old Daniele wakes up in a hospital room, confused and surrounded by strangers... -
![Running the Light by Sam Tallent, Doug Stanhope]()
Running the Light by Sam Tallent, Doug Stanhope
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA bona fide “instant classic” (Doug Stanhope) novel that tells the story of a road comic crashing and burning by acclaimed comedian Sam TallentBilly Ray Schafer stepped off the plane in Amarillo, Texas, with twenty-six hundred dollars tucked down the leg of his black ostrich-skin cowboy boot... -
![Once Upon a Lie by Lisa Ballantyne]()
Once Upon a Lie by Lisa Ballantyne
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsNo. 1 bestselling author of The Guilty One is back with a gripping and emotional new moral thriller about a woman, a child, the gulf that stands between them, and about how far people will go to keep a secret...Magpie is an independent, unconventional and troubled woman with secrets. Returning home late one night she finds a young girl covered in bruises who claims to have run away from home... -
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![The House of Gazes by Daniele Mencarelli]()
The House of Gazes by Daniele Mencarelli
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWinner of the 2019 John Fante First Novel Prize The critically acclaimed novel from the author of Everything Calls for Salvation , adapted into a Netflix Original series, is a powerful coming-of-age story about loss, identity, and rebirth Daniele is a young poet plagued by an unknown darkness, “an invisible disease of the heart, or of the mind...Categorized as:
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![I’m Sorry You Feel That Way by Rebecca Wait]()
I’m Sorry You Feel That Way by Rebecca Wait
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFrom the author of the Waterstones Book of the Month Our Fathers comes a compelling domestic comedy about complex family dynamics, mental health and the intricacies of sibling relationships.For Alice and Hanna, saint and sinner, growing up is a trial. There is their mother, who takes a divide and conquer approach to child-rearing, and their father, who takes an absent one...Categorized as:
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![Saint Richard Parker by Merlin Franco]()
Saint Richard Parker by Merlin Franco
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsHis search for love and enlightenment across India, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia...Ace businessman, writer, and investigative journalist Richard Parker loses his job when he exposes the vegetarian CEO of his newspaper as a beef exporter. Accused of misconduct and forced to dissolve his company, he retreats to his wretched little village... -
![Loving Mothers by Miranda Smith]()
Loving Mothers by Miranda Smith
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA sixteen-year-old girl goes out on a crisp fall evening and never comes home. It’s every parent’s worst nightmare. Everyone holds their children tighter. But two of these loving mothers are hiding something terrible…StellaMoving to this neighborhood was meant to be a fresh start for my son and me. As I sip wine at the block’s Halloween party, I finally feel myself relax... -
![The Index of Self-Destructive Acts by Christopher R. Beha]()
The Index of Self-Destructive Acts by Christopher R. Beha
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratings“Beha tackles finance, faith, war, entitlement, and no end of self-destructive acts. I greatly admired both the writing and the ambition... -
![Buzz Aldrin, What Happened to You in All the Confusion? by Johan Harstad]()
Buzz Aldrin, What Happened to You in All the Confusion? by Johan Harstad
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA pop-saturated epic novel about the second man on the moon, and the quiet thirty-year-old gardener who idolizes him. A story of unconventional psychiatry, the Faroe Islands, amateur boat building, and the journey across the space that divides us from other people: a journey as remote and dangerous as the trip to the moon itself... -
![Not My Mother by Miranda Smith]()
Not My Mother by Miranda Smith
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWhat if the person you trust most in the world is lying to you?I’d heard of the Baby Caroline case, of course. When a baby is snatched from her mother’s arms, the whole country knows about it. I knew about the parents left lying by the swimming pool, the open window in the nursery. But I never dreamed it had anything to do with me.Today, my beautiful daughter turned one...Categorized as:
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Farmer by Jim Harrison
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsJoseph is 43, a farmer-teacher who suddenly finds himself at a crossroads. Forced to choose between two lovers - one a tantalizing young student, the other his childhood friend, he must also decide whether or not to stay on the farm or seek employment in the outside world... -
![The Missing Woman by Georgina Cross]()
The Missing Woman by Georgina Cross
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThey live in the big houses on the pretty street. Those other women, as we call them. And to think I used to want to be like them, to have their money and happiness, to live and laugh and play like them. Not any more.It’s the fourth of July and the whole town is gathered at the local pool... -
![Emotional Geology by Linda Gillard]()
Emotional Geology by Linda Gillard
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsRose Leonard is on the run from her life. Taking refuge in a remote island community, she cocoons herself in work, silence and solitude in a house by the sea. But she is haunted by her past, by memories and desires she'd hoped were long dead. Life and love are offered by new friends, her lonely daughter, and most of all Calum, a fragile younger man who has his own demons to exorcise... -
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![Secret Lives of Mothers & Daughters by Anita Kushwaha]()
Secret Lives of Mothers & Daughters by Anita Kushwaha
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFor readers of Shilpi Somaya Gowda’s "Secret Daughter" and Nancy Richler’s "The Imposter Bride", a breathtaking novel from Anita Kushwaha about the ties that bind mothers and daughters together and the secrets that tear them apartVeena, Mala and Nandini are three very different women with something in common... -
![The Beasts of Success by Jasun Ether]()
The Beasts of Success by Jasun Ether
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn this dog-eat-dog world, three friends find themselves getting nowhere in their careers despite their education and work skills. They decide to make their own rules to the game of life and play dirty to get ahead. Each of them concoct schemes to sabotage colleagues and clear the path for their swift advancement... -
![The House of Mirth / The Reef / The Custom of the Country / The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton]()
The House of Mirth / The Reef / The Custom of the Country / The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEdith Wharton’s full and glamorous life bridged the literary worlds of two continents and two centuries. Born in 1862 into an exclusive New York society against whose rigid codes of behavior she often rebelled, she lived to regret the passing of that stable if old-fashioned community and to appreciate the sense of personal identity its definitions provided... -
![The Presence of Absence by Simon Van Booy]()
The Presence of Absence by Simon Van Booy
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratings“Flows with depth and power....wide-open wonder.”— Washington Post“Simon Van Booy electrifyingly combines story with parable....wise, witty and always breathtakingly beautiful...Categorized as:
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![Masterwork Studies Series: 100 Years of Solitude by Regina Janes]()
Masterwork Studies Series: 100 Years of Solitude by Regina Janes
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWritten in an easy-to-read, accessible style by teachers with years of classroom experience, Masterwork Studies are guides to the literary works most frequently studied in high school. Presenting ideas that spark imaginations, these books help students to gain background knowledge on great literature useful for papers and exams... -
![The Homemaker by Miranda Rijks]()
The Homemaker by Miranda Rijks
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsMaria always wanted a family. Now she’s found one.Imogen has never been so busy – she’s juggling two jobs, has a young family and now she’s pregnant again.Enter Maria, the perfect housekeeper. Hard working and capable, she seems like the ideal solution to Imogen's chaotic life. But Maria isn’t at all what she seems – she has a sinister agenda of her own... -
![Tenir debout by Mélissa Da Costa]()
Tenir debout by Mélissa Da Costa
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsJusqu'où peut-on aimer ? Jusqu'à s'oublier...Le nouveau roman de Mélissa Da Costa nous plonge au coeur de l'intimité d'un couple en miettes et affronte, avec une force inouïe, la réalité de l'amour, du désespoir, et la soif de vivre, malgré les épreuves... -
![حالات نادرة by عبدالوهاب السيد الرفاعي]()
حالات نادرة by عبدالوهاب السيد الرفاعي
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsما هي مشاكل المراهقات في الكويت ؟! .. هل هي شبيهة بالمشاكل المعتادة التي نتعرض لها جميعا ؟! .. أم أن لهن أسرارا مخيفة لا يعرف عنها الكبار شيئا ؟!! .. أطرح هذا السؤال بسبب عملي كطبيب نفسي .. وبسبب الحالات التي تمر علي في المستشفى .. ففي كل مرة تقريبا تجلس أمامي فتاة في سن المراهقة .. أجدها تروي لي أحداثا مذهلة لا تصدق عن حياتها الشخصية .. وأجد في جعبتها أسرارا سوداء يقشعر لها البدن . -
![Strange Angels by Kathe Koja]()
Strange Angels by Kathe Koja
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsGrant, an ambitious photographer, is possessed by a young mental patient's strange drawings and becomes the disturbed young artist's confidant and guardian in a relationship that pushes Grant's own sanity to the edge. Reprint. LJ... -
![A Terrible Country by Keith Gessen]()
A Terrible Country by Keith Gessen
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA New York Times Editors' Choice Named a Best Book of 2018 by Bookforum, Nylon, Esquire, and Vulture"This artful and autumnal novel, published in high summer, is a gift to those who wish to receive it."--Dwight Garner, The New York Times"Hilarious, heartbreaking . . . A Terrible Country may be one of the best books you'll read this year... -
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![The Wife's House by Arianne Richmonde]()
The Wife's House by Arianne Richmonde
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe perfect house or the perfect lie?The moment my husband showed me Cliffside—a sleek and modern glass home perched on the edge of the jagged Big Sur clifftops—I fell in love. And right there and then I made a pact with myself. I am never leaving this house... -
![The Lover: A Novel by Rebecca Sacks, Gabi Epstein]()
The Lover: A Novel by Rebecca Sacks, Gabi Epstein
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe author of the acclaimed City of a Thousand Gates returns with an intense, page-turning love story between a twenty-seven year old Canadian woman and a nineteen-year old Israeli soldier, set in contemporary Israel...Categorized as:
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![The Strange Case of Jane O. by Karen Thompson Walker]()
The Strange Case of Jane O. by Karen Thompson Walker
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn this mind-bending novel by the New York Times bestselling author of The Age of Miracles, a young mother and her unconventional psychiatrist encounter strange dimensions of the human mind and love as they try to understand the eerie things that are happening to Jane... -
![A Bit Much by Sarah Jackson]()
A Bit Much by Sarah Jackson
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFor fans of Sally Rooney and Ottessa Moshfegh, A Bit Much is a darkly funny novel about the complexity of friendships, the agony of insecurity, and the beautiful and embarrassing nature of loving someone.Alice is twenty-four and falling apart. She’s lost her job, her appetite, her ability to sleep...Categorized as:
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![The Guest: A Novel by B.A. Paris]()
The Guest: A Novel by B.A. Paris
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsNew York Times bestselling author B. A. Paris captivated psychological thriller readers everywhere with Behind Closed Doors. Now she invites you into another heart-pounding home full of secrets, in The Guest.Some secrets never leave... -
![Portrait of a Nuclear Family by J.P. Behrens]()
Portrait of a Nuclear Family by J.P. Behrens
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWanda has uncovered a dark secret that could shatter the image of her perfect family. Attempting to force the situation back into the societal framework she’d strived for years to present, events spiral out of control. Secrets threaten to emerge from a carefully suppressed past and become public. To save her family’s reputation, Wanda succumbs to a madness no one could have expected... -
![The Hummingbird by Sandro Veronesi]()
The Hummingbird by Sandro Veronesi
Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThe #1 international sensation from a master of European literature—winner of Italy’s Premio Strega—a saga of a Florentine family from the 1960s to the present that brilliantly captures the power of history and the multi-faceted experience of life itself as it explores how we contend with uncontrollable forces that both buffet and buoy us...Categorized as:
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![Playlist: Music is her life. 15 songs decide how long it lasts... by Sebastian Fitzek]()
Playlist: Music is her life. 15 songs decide how long it lasts... by Sebastian Fitzek
Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsMusic is her life. 15 songs decide how long it lasts.A month ago, fifteen-year-old Feline Jagow disappeared, presumed abducted, on her way to school. Her distraught mother asks private investigator Alexander Zorbach, a former police detective, to discover her whereabouts.Despite a month having elapsed since her disappearance, Feline's music playlist was changed just a few days ago... -
![The Candy House by Jennifer Egan]()
The Candy House by Jennifer Egan
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrom one of the most dazzling and iconic writers of our time and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, an electrifying, deeply moving novel about the quest for authenticity, privacy, and meaning in a world where our memories are no longer our own—featuring characters from A Visit from the Goon Squad.It’s 2010. Staggeringly successful and brilliant tech entrepreneur Bix Bouton is desperate for a new idea...Categorized as:
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![Afternoon of a Faun by James Lasdun]()
Afternoon of a Faun by James Lasdun
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratings"The truth might be hard to bring to light, but that didn’t mean it didn’t exist, because it did exist: fixed in its moment, unalterable, and certainly not a matter of ‘belief.’ "When an old flame accuses him of sexual assault in her memoir, expat English journalist Marco Rosedale is brought rapidly and inexorably to the brink of ruin...Categorized as:
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![What It's Like in Words by Eliza Moss]()
What It's Like in Words by Eliza Moss
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEliza Moss's intoxicating debut novel is a dark, intense, and compelling account of what happens when a young woman falls in love with the wrong kind of man.Enola is approaching 30 and everything feels like a lot. The boxes aren’t ticked and she feels adrift in a way she thought she would have beaten by now... -
![A Lie For A Lie by Julie Corbin]()
A Lie For A Lie by Julie Corbin
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWe all tell lies, don't we? Most of the time, they're harmless. But every now and then, we lie without thinking about the consequences.As a school nurse, Anna Pierce is a well-respected and trusted member of the community. So when she is accused of hitting a pupil, the reaction is one of shock and disbelief... -
![The Song of Hartgrove Hall: A Novel by Natasha Solomons]()
The Song of Hartgrove Hall: A Novel by Natasha Solomons
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA captivating novel that evokes the author’s New York Times bestseller The House at Tyneford Natasha Solomons’s breathtaking new novel has it all: a love triangle, family obligations, and rediscovering joy in the face of grief, all set against the alluring backdrop of an English country estate. It's a terrible thing to covet your brother’s girl New Year’s Eve, 1946... -
![Uit het leven van een hond by Sander Kollaard]()
Uit het leven van een hond by Sander Kollaard
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsUit het leven van een hond beslaat een zaterdag uit het leven van Henk van Doorn, 56, IC-verpleegkundige, alleenstaand. Hij wordt wakker, ontbijt, laat de hond uit, doet boodschappen. Het wordt allesbehalve een doodgewone zaterdag als Henks hond ziek blijkt. Het dier zal sterven, niet vandaag of morgen, maar binnen afzienbare tijd... -
![The Family Clause by Jonas Hassen Khemiri]()
The Family Clause by Jonas Hassen Khemiri
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe Family Clause is a novel about a family on the verge of collapse, by the critically acclaimed Swedish author of Montecore “The son did as he was told. All his bloody life, he has done as he has been told. Time to change that, he thinks, grabbing a pen. He doesn’t write that this will be the last time his father stays here. He doesn’t write that he wants to break the father clause... -
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