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Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
417 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 24 cm
Description
In 1960's Manhattan, patrons flock to Masha's to savor its brisket Wellington and impeccable service, and to admire its dashing owner and head chef, Peter Rashkin. With his movie-star good looks and tragic past, Peter, a survivor of Auschwitz, is the most eligible bachelor in town. But he does not care for the parade of women who come to the restaurant hoping to catch his eye. He has resigned himself to a solitary life. Running Masha's consumes him...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Formats
Description
"Named One of the Most Anticipated Thriller Novels Of 2017 by Bustle! THE NEW CHILLING, PROPULSIVE NOVEL FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLING BEHIND CLOSED DOORS. If you can't trust yourself, who can you trust? Cass is having a hard time since the night she saw the car in the woods, on the winding rural road, in the middle of a downpour, with the woman sitting inside--the woman who was killed. She's been trying to...
Author
Publisher
Custom House
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
271 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"It has been years since Helen Franklin left England. In Prague, working as a translator, she has found a home of sorts--or, at least, refuge. That changes when her friend Karel discovers a mysterious letter in the library, a strange confession and a curious warning that speaks of Melmoth the Witness, a dark legend found in obscure fairy tales and antique village lore. As such superstition has it, Melmoth travels through the ages, dooming those she...
5) The Whopper
Author
Publisher
Templar Books, an imprint of Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Description
A little boy named Percy tells a lie, which turns into the Whopper, a hungry and persistent monster. As Percy's guilt grows, the Whopper does too, until finally ... the Whopper easts Percy! It is only when the Whopper threatens to also eat Percy's brother that Percy finally speaks up --
6) Soulprint
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
353 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Alina has spent her seventeen years imprisoned for the crimes of her past self, as shown by soul-fingerprinting when she was a newborn, but when a group of people with questionable motives helps her escape, she discovers she may not be as innocent as she believes and must wonder if she is fated to repeat her past.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
390 pages ; 22 cm
Description
For Annie's tenth birthday, her papa gives her a pad of paper, some colored pencils, and the Klimas family secret. It's called the nuodeema burna, or eater of sins. Every time Annie misbehaves, she has to write down her transgression and stick the paperinto a hidey-hole in the floor of their house. But Annie's inheritance has a dark side: with each paper fed to the burna, she feels less guilty about the mean things she says and does. As a plague of...
8) Without Tess
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
280 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Fifteen-year-old Lizzie Cohen recalls what it was like growing up with her imaginative but disturbed older sister Tess, and how she is striving to reclaim her own life since Tess died.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
261 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
Zoe, a teenager in Bath, England, writes letters to a death-row inmate in Texas, hoping to find comfort in sharing her guilty secret over the death of a friend with someone who can never tell her family.
10) The goldfish boy
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Description
Emotionally crippled by his obsessive-compulsive disorder, teenager Matthew Corbin rarely leaves his room on a cul-de-sac in London, and he passes the day observing and writing down his neighbors' doings from his window--but when a toddler staying next door disappears Matt is the key to solving a mystery and possibly saving a child's life...if he can manage to expose himself, and his secret guilt to the outside world.
11) Nightspark
Author
Series
(Michael B.).Ghostcloud volume 2
Publisher
Peachtree
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
318 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Description
"Several months after the ghosts freed the children of Battersea and uncovered Tabatha Margate’s sinister experimentation on ghostclouds and cloudghouls, Luke Smith-Sharma struggles to divide his time between learning the ropes of being a ghostcloud and studying to become a detective. But not everyone made it out of the power station, and as he tries to adjust to 'normal' life by pursuing his dreams, the guilt over his friends left behind...
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