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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Miles, a lead creative at a midsize virtual reality company known for its "original experiences," has engineered a new product called The Ghost Lover. Wildly popular from the outset, the "game" is simple: a user's simulated life is almost identical to their reality, except they're haunted by the ghost of an ex-lover. However, when a shift in the company's strategic vision puts The Ghost Lover at the center of a platform-wide controversy, Miles becomes...
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English
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Bellwether Award winner Susan Nussbaum's powerful novel invites us into the lives of a group of typical teenagers—alienated, funny, yearning for autonomy—except that they live in an institution for juveniles with disabilities. This unfamiliar, isolated landscape is much the same as the world outside: friendships are forged, trust is built, love affairs are kindled, and rules are broken. But those who call it home have little or no control over
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English
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After Rachel Childs, a former journalist, suffers an on-air mental breakdown, she lives as a virtual shut-in. In all other respects, however, she enjoys an ideal life with an ideal husband. Until a chance encounter on a rainy afternoon causes that ideal life to fray. As does Rachel's marriage. As does Rachel herself. Sucked into a conspiracy thick with deception, violence, and possibly madness, Rachel must find the strength within herself to conquer...
5) Evernight
Author
Series
Darkest London volume 5
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Will Thorne is living a nightmare, his sanity slowly being drained away by a force he can't control. His talents have made him the perfect assassin for hire. But as he loses his grip on reality, there is no calming him-until he finds his next target: the mysterious Holly Evernight. Holly cannot fathom who would put a contract on her life, yet the moment she touches Will, the connection between them is elemental, undeniable-and she's the only one who...
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Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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Set in contemporary Northern California, The Harder They Come explores the volatile connections between three damaged people -- an aging ex-Marine and Vietnam veteran, his psychologically unstable son, and the son's paranoid, much older lover -- as they careen towards an explosive confrontation.
8) Schizo
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Publisher
Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
A teenager recovering from a schizophrenic breakdown is driven to the point of obsession to find his missing younger brother and becomes wrapped up in a romance that may or may not be the real thing.
10) Lost at sea
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
A brother and sister recount their harrowing experiences as they sail a small yacht across the Atlantic Ocean, after their mentally unstable mother's boyfriend is washed overboard.
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Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"A woman struggling with her mental health spends the winter with her cruel in-laws in their eerie, haunting manor that sweeps her back through time and into the arms of her fiancé's mysterious, alluring 19th century ancestor"--
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Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"Quietly heartbroken, Edwin Tully lives alone in the house he used to share with the man he once loved. He tends to damaged books and faded memories, trying to build a future from the fragments of the past. Then the weather turns, and the river spills into Edwin's quiet world, bringing with it Adam Dacre from the Environment Agency. An unlikely knight, this stranger with roughened hands and worn wellingtons offers Edwin the hope of something he thought...
13) Stella Maris
Author
Series
Passenger novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
"The best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Road returns with the second volume of The Passenger series: Stella Maris is an intimate portrait of grief and longing, as a young woman in a psychiatric facility seeks to understand her own existence. 1972, Black River Falls, Wisconsin: Alicia Western, twenty years old, with forty thousand dollars in a plastic bag, admits herself to the hospital. A doctoral candidate in mathematics at the University...
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
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Phoenix Dance battles an illness of her mind and emotions, realizes her dream of becoming shoemaker to the Royal Household, and attempts to discover what magic compels the twelve princesses of Windward to wear out their shoes each night. Based on the the fairy tale "The twelve dancing princesses."
Author
Series
Indigo Lewis volume 2
Publisher
[Restoring Your Destiny]
Pub. Date
[2021].
Language
English
Description
"Indigo Lewis had hoped her freshman year at Titus University would be a fresh start where she could put the ugliness of her past behind her. Then she saw him. Mr. Chestnut; an unassuming predator, is up to his old tricks. Someone has to stop his reign of terror, and the voices assure Indigo there's no one better fit for that grisly task than her. She must divide her focus between her social life, two men who are vying for her heart that are impossible...
17) In the blood
Author
Series
Hollows novels (Lisa Unger) volume 3
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Lana Granger lives a life of lies. She has told so many lies about where she comes from and who she is that the truth is like a cloudy nightmare she can't quite recall. About to graduate from college and with her trust fund almost tapped out, she takes a job babysitting a troubled boy named Luke. Expelled from schools all over the country, the manipulative young Luke is accustomed to controlling the people in his life. But, in Lana, he may have met...
18) Shift
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Publisher
Egmont USA
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Olive, having recently suffered mental problems, is unsure whether to trust her instincts when a new student, rumored to have killed her parents, develops a parasitic relationship with Olive's former best friend, Jubilee Park High School's "Queen Bee."
20) Dirt: a novel
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Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Galen, a twenty-two year-old man controlled by his mother, adopts a New Age lifestyle in order to free himself from her, but is ultimately undone by his lust for his seductive seventeen year-old cousin, Jennifer.
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