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2) STORM CHILD
Author
Series
A Cyrus Haven Novel volume 4
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The mystery of Evie Cormac's background has followed her into adulthood. As a child, she was discovered hiding in a secret room where a man had been tortured to death. Many of her captors and abusers escaped justice, unseen but not forgotten. Now, on a hot summer's day, the past drags Evie back as she watches the bodies of seventeen migrants wash up on a Lincolnshire beach. There is only one survivor, a teenage boy, who tells police their small boat...
Author
Publisher
New Directions
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Portraying himself as a failure, the protagonist of Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human narrates a seemingly normal life even while he feels himself incapable of understanding human beings. His attempts to reconcile himself to the world around him begin in early childhood, continue through high school, where he becomes a "clown" to mask his alienation, and eventually lead to a failed suicide attempt as an adult. Without sentimentality, he records the casual...
6) GHOST MOTHER
Author
Publisher
Union Square & Co
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A psychological ghost story about a couple, Lily and Jack, who are struggling with infertility issues and move from Chicago to a small Wisconsin town when Jack gets a new job; Lily convinces Jack to buy a decrepit mansion that she falls in love with, butshe soon begins to experience strange occurrences that lead her to believe the house is haunted, blurring the line between imagination and reality"--
Author
Series
Collector trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Four months after the explosion at the Garden, a place where young women known as the Butterflies were kept captive, FBI agents Brandon Eddison, Victor Hanoverian, and Mercedes Ramirez are still entrenched in the aftermath, helping survivors in the process of adjusting to life on the outside. With winter coming to an end, the Butterflies have longer, warmer days of healing ahead. But for the agents, the impending thaw means one gruesome thing: a...
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