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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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"From one of our boldest, most celebrated new literary voices, a shocking and tender novel about a young woman's efforts to sustain a state of deep hibernation over the course of a year on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Our narrator should be happy, shouldn't she? She's young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, works an easy job at a hip art gallery, lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like the rest of her...
2) Remember me?
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
When twenty-eight-year-old Lexi Smart wakes up in a London hospital, having survived a car accident, she has lost a big chunk of her memory--three years to be exact. And that's not all. Somehow Lexi went from a twenty-five-year-old working girl to a corporate big shot with a sleek new loft, a personal assistant, a carb-free diet, and a set of glamorous new friends. And who is this gorgeous husband--who also happens to be a multimillionaire?
Author
Language
English
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Best Fiction - 2021
Possible Mystery Book Titles 2024
Read alikes for Jodi Picoult's Mad Honey
Read Alikes for We Begin at the End
Possible Mystery Book Titles 2024
Read alikes for Jodi Picoult's Mad Honey
Read Alikes for We Begin at the End
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Retreating to her childhood foster home in the wake of a tragedy, a veteran missing-persons detective becomes entwined in the search for a local teen whose disappearance eerily resembles an unsolved case from the detective’s past.
"Anna Hart is a seasoned missing persons detective in San Francisco with far too much knowledge of the darkest side of human nature. When unspeakable tragedy strikes her personal life, Anna, desperate and numb, flees...
Author
Language
English
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Good Morning America Book Club
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Read-Alikes for The Midnight Library
Time Travel, Loops, & Slips
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Read-Alikes for The Midnight Library
Time Travel, Loops, & Slips
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"Time Traveler's Wife meets Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind in a wondrous novel exploring the burdens of time, the endurance of love, and the timelessness of family. Just because life might be out of order, doesn't mean it's broken. It's new years eve 1982, and Oona Lockhart has her whole life before her. At the stroke of midnight she will turn nineteen, and the year ahead promises to be one of consequence. Should she go to London to study economics,...
5) Stoker
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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Description
Following the tragic death of her father on her eighteenth birthday, India Stoker meets Charlie, her charismatic uncle, whom she never knew existed. When Charlie moves in with India and her unstable mother, both are drawn to his charming and calming demeanor. But it soon becomes clear that Charlie's arrival was no coincidence, and that the shocking secrets of his past could shatter India's future.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
From visionary director Emerald Fennell (Killing Eve) comes a delicious new take on revenge. Everyone said Cassie (Carey Mulligan) was a promising young woman…until a mysterious event abruptly derailed her future. But nothing in Cassie's life is what it appears to be: she's wickedly smart, tantalizingly cunning, and she's living a secret double life by night. Now, an unexpected encounter is about to give Cassie a chance to right the wrongs of the...
Publisher
Screen Media
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
It is a hilarious and poignant window into the mind of a dry-witted, sexual, angry, grief-riddled woman, as she hurls herself at modern living in London. An unfiltered woman trying to heal, while rejecting anyone who tries to help her and keeping up her bravado all along.
10) The night tiger
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
A vivacious dance-hall girl in 1930s colonial Malaysia is drawn into unexpected danger by the discovery of a severed finger that is being sought by a young houseboy in order to protect his late master's soul.
Quick-witted, ambitious Ji Lin is stuck as an apprentice dressmaker, moonlighting as a dancehall girl to help pay off her mother's Mahjong debts. But when one of her dance partners accidentally leaves behind a gruesome souvenir, Ji Lin may finally...
11) Madam
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"A riveting, modern gothic debut with shades of The Secret History, The Stepford Wives, and a dash of Circe, set at a secretive all girls' boarding school perched on a craggy Scottish peninsula. For 150 years, high above rocky Scottish cliffs, Caldonbrae Hall has sat untouched, a beacon of excellence in an old ancestral castle. A boarding school for girls, it promises that the young women lucky enough to be admitted will emerge 'resilient and ready...
12) Emma
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Emma Woodhouse is a young woman who, having engineered the marriage of her companion, turns her attention toward making a match for the local vicar and her new protegée, Harriet Smith. Her one voice of reason and restraint is Mr. Knightley, who has known her since she was a child and who watches her behaviour with wry amusement and sometimes with real anger. Emma presides over the small provincial world of Highbury with enthusiasm, but she will find...
13) Colossal
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Gloria is an out-of-work party girl who, after getting kicked out of her apartment by her boyfriend, is forced to leave her life in New York and move back to her hometown. When news reports surface that a giant creature is destroying Seoul, South Korea, Gloria gradually comes to the realization that she is somehow connected to this far-off phenomenon. Gloria must determine why her seemingly insignificant existence has such a colossal effect on the...
14) Morvern Callar
Author
Publisher
Anchor Books
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
When her boyfriend commits suicide, Scottish supermarket clerk Morvern Callar disposes of his body by chopping it to pieces, then heads for warmer climes to spend his money. The money gone, she returns home to learn--oh, joy--he had even more money and he left it all to her. So it is back to the sun.
15) Kiss of the bees
Author
Series
Walker family volume 2
Language
English
Description
From critically acclaimed master of suspense J. A. Jance, the New York Times bestselling author of Fire and Ice, comes a nerve-shattering tale of rage and retribution, and a nightmare even death cannot end. Twenty years ago, a darkness rose up out of the blistering heat of the Arizona desert and descended upon the Walker family of Tucson. A personified evil, a serial killer named Andrew Carlisle, brought blood and terror into the Walkers' world, nearly...
17) About Cherry
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
18-year-old Angelica shuffles between school, a dead-end job, her exploitative boyfriend and home, where her life consists of cleaning up after her alcoholic mother and protecting her younger sister from their menacing stepfather. After arranging an escape to San Francisco with her best friend Andrew, she soon finds herself dating a coke-addicted attorney and becoming immersed in the local adult film industry.
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