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Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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Set against Iceland's stark landscape, Agnes, charged with the brutal murder of her former master, is sent to an isolated farm to await execution. Horrified at the prospect of housing a convicted murderer, the family at first avoids Agnes. Only Tóti, a priest Agnes has mysteriously chosen to be her spiritual guardian, seeks to understand her.
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English
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Set in the magical Wessex landscape so familiar from Thomas Hardy's early work, Tess of the D'Urbervilles is unique among his great novels for the intense feeling that he lavished upon his heroine, Tess, a pure woman betrayed by love. Hardy poured all of his profound empathy for both humanity and the rhythms of natural life into this story of her beauty, goodness, and tragic fate. In so doing, he created a character who, like Emma Bovary and Anna...
5) Slammerkin
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Language
English
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Mary Saunders' desire to lead a life of luxury leads her to prostitution at a young age, until she is taken in by a childhood friend of her mother's, who tries to help Mary turn over a new leaf.
Author
Series
Ballad novels volume 5
Language
English
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A career lawman will bear witness to the final judgement, as a man he put away twenty years ago is about to be executed for the brutal slaying of two hikers. However, his conscience is no longer clear to the point of absolute certainty about the man's guilt. Also of intense interest to the lawman is the parallel between the current events and a legendary murder and execution over 100 years old -- the story of a great injustice, and a woman condemned...
7) Maplecroft
Author
Series
Borden dispatches volume 1
Language
English
Description
Lizzie Bordon, slayer of malevolent entities. With her trusty axe, she's ready to save the people of Fall River, Massachusetts from the evil that threatens them. They fear her-- perhaps rightfully so-- despite the verdict of innocence at her trial. As Lizzie and her sister Emma take up residence in Maplecroft, a mansion near the sea, she knows that the evil originates from the ocean's depths, plaguing the populace with tides of nightmares and madness....
Author
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
For 10 years Arlene has kept her promises, and God has kept His end of the bargain. Until now. When an old schoolmate from Possett turns up at Arlene's door in Chicago asking questions about Jim Beverly, former quarterback and god of Possett High, Arlene's break with her former hometown is forced to an end. At the same time, Burr, her long-time boyfriend, has raised an ultimatum: introduce him to her family or consider him gone. Arlene loves him dearly...
9) Mainline
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
Bystanders, beware: Reva the assassin always gets her man, and anyone caught in the crossfire won't live to tell about it. Reva has the unique ability to see different lines of causality spread out before her. When she chooses any one of them, the other possibilities fade into nothingness and the new reality becomes her Mainline.
10) Perfect match
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English
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Career-driven assistant district attorney Nina Frost prosecutes child molesters and works determinedly to ensure that a legal system with too many loopholes keeps these criminals behind bars. When her own five-year-old son, Nathaniel, is traumatized by a sexual assault, Nina and her husband, Caleb, a stone mason, are ripped apart by an enraging sense of helplessness in the face of a futile justice system. Nina hurtles toward a plan to exact her own...
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Seven women, inextricably linked by one man, must figure out which of them killed him in order to protect each other in this electrifying debut thriller. New Year's Eve, 1999. Seven women are gathered in a hotel room at midnight; a man's head sits in the center of the floor. They all had a motive to kill Jamie Spellman. They all swear they didn't. But in order to protect each other, they have to find out who did.
13) Blood sugar
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Language
English
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"'I could just kill you right now!' It's something we've all thought at one time or another. But Ruby has actually acted on it. Three times, to be exact. Though she may be a murderer, Ruby is not a sociopath. She is an animal-loving therapist with a thriving practice. She's felt empathy and sympathy. She's had long-lasting friendships and relationships, and has a husband, Jason, whom she adores. But the homicide detectives at Miami Beach PD are not...
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Language
English
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All the world is a puzzle, and Mike Brink--a celebrated and ingenious puzzle constructor--understands its patterns like no one else. Once a promising Midwestern football star, Brink was transformed by a traumatic brain injury that caused a rare medical condition: Acquired Savant Syndrome. The injury left him with a mental superpower--he can solve puzzles, calculate equations, and see patterns in ways ordinary people can't. But his condition has also...
15) The murder book
Author
Series
DI Tom Thorne volume 18
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Tom Thorne finally has it all. In Nicola Tanner and Phil Hendricks, Thorne has good friends by his side. His love life is newly reformed by a promising relationship and he is happy in the job he has devoted his life to. As he sets off hunting the woman responsible for a series of grisly murders, Thorne has no way of knowing that he will be plunged into a nightmare from which he may never wake. A nightmare that has a name. Thorne's past threatens to...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
Miriam is a nineteen-year-old imprisoned in Siberia following the Russian Revolution of 1905. Reaching out to the young daughter whom she gave up at birth, Miriam weaves a haunting tale of life in a small Jewish village during the last days of imperial Russia and of a community caught between the rich yet rigid traditions of the past and the frightening, unfamiliar ways of a society desperately trying to reinvent itself. Rejected by her suicidal mother...
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