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"A woman suffering from bipolar disorder cannot remember if she murdered her friend" --
"Dana Catrell is shocked when her neighbor Celia is brutally murdered. To Dana's horror, she was the last person to see Celia alive. Suffering from mania, the result of her bipolar disorder, she has troubling holes in her memory, including what happened on the afternoon of Celia's death. Her husband's odd behavior and the probing of Detective Jack Moss create...
3) Cage's Bend
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Growing up in the 1960s and 1970s American South, three archetypal sons witness the unraveling of their tight-knit family as they struggle with ambitions, tragic death, and mental illness.
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"Abigail has given up everything she's worked so hard for to chase down the object of her obsession, Tyler Kamp. As she follows him across the border into Canada, her journey is awash in memories of family and childhood, especially those of her younger sister, Hailey. Even as Abigail races to her future, her past pulls her back. And only when she is brought to the edge of her obsession will she be able to come to terms with the tragedy that ignited...
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"From the author of the bestselling memoir Wild Game comes a riveting novel about Cape Cod, complicated families, and long-buried secrets--for fans of the New York Times bestsellers The Paper Palace and Ask Again, Yes. Ken and Abby Gardner lost their mother when they were small and they have been haunted by her absence ever since. Their father, Adam, a brilliant oceanographer, raised them mostly on his own in his remote home on Cape Cod, where the...
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"Joseph March, a twenty-one-year-old working class kid from Seattle, has just graduated from college and his future beckons, unencumbered, limitless, magnificent. Joe's life implodes when he starts to suffer the symptoms of bipolar disorder, and, not long after, his mother, Anne-Marie March, beats a stranger to death with a hammer. Joe moves to White Pine, Washington, where Anne-Marie is serving time and his father has set up house. He is followed...
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"Beautiful and charismatic, Catherine, a.k.a. "Maman," smokes too much, drives too fast, laughs too hard, and loves too extravagantly. During a joyful and chaotic childhood in Paris, her daughter Violaine wouldn't have it any other way. But when Maman is hospitalized after a third divorce and a breakdown, everything changes. As the story of Catherine's own traumatic childhood and adolescence unfolds, the pieces come together to form an indelible portrait...
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2023.
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"When Sarah Taylor arrives at the exclusive St. Ambrose School, she's carrying more baggage than just what fits in her suitcase. She knows she's not like the other girls--if the shabby, all-black, non-designer clothes don't give that away, the bottle of lithium hidden in her desk drawer sure does. St. Ambrose's queen bee, Greta Stanhope, picks Sarah as a target from day one-the most popular, powerful, horrible girl at school is relentless in making...
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Romance novelist Cara Bentley travels to Bird-in-Hand, Pennsylvania, in search of her roots and is surprised to find her grandfather was adopted, and her quest to learn her true identity leads her to Lancaster County where a series of mysterious incidents bring her to the realization that someone does not want the truth revealed.
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Nan A. Talese
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Recently divorced, out-of-work actor Benedick Hunter stumbles upon a forgotten book of fairy tales his mother had created decades earlier, stories that provide an illuminating glimpse of his own life and the secrets of his past.
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Little, Brown
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[1959]
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Duddy -- the third generation of a Jewish immigrant family in Montreal -- is combative, amoral, scheming, a liar, and totally hilarious. From his street days tormenting teachers at the Jewish academy to his time hustling four jobs at once in a grand plan to "be somebody," Duddy learns about living -- and the lesson is an outrageous roller-coaster ride through the human comedy. As Richler turns his blistering commentary on love, money, and politics,...
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