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The lovely bones
The Lovely Bones is the story of a family devastated by a gruesome murder -- a murder recounted by the teenage victim. Upsetting, you say? Remarkably, first-time novelist Alice Sebold takes this difficult material and delivers a compelling and accomplished exploration of a fractured family's need for peace and closure. The details of the crime are laid out in the first few pages: from her va…
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- 1ed
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780316044400
- Collation
- 372p.18cm.
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- 823 SEB t
Room : A Novel
To five-year-old Jack, Room is the entire world. It is where he was born and grew up; it's where he lives with his Ma as they learn and read and eat and sleep and play. At night, his Ma shuts him safely in the wardrobe, where he is meant to be asleep when Old Nick visits. Room is home to Jack, but to Ma, it is the prison where Old Nick has held her captive for seven years. Through determinat…
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- 1ed
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780316183871
- Collation
- 321p.17cm.
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- 823 DON r
We need to talk about kevin
Eva never really wanted to be a mother - and certainly not the mother of the unlovable boy who murdered seven of his fellow high school students, a cafeteria worker, and a much-adored teacher who tried to befriend him, all two days before his sixteenth birthday. Now, two years later, it is time for her to come to terms with marriage, career, family, parenthood, and Kevin's horrific rampage in a…
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- 1ed
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780062119049
- Collation
- 400p.20cm.
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- -
- Call Number
- 823 SHR w
Did you miss me ?
Baltimore prosecutor Daphne Montgomery pulled herself out of a damaged past to build a solid life for herself and her son. But after she helps to convict a killer, her confidence is shattered once again by the news that her son has been kidnapped. Daphne believes it’s connected to the recent high-profile trial, and at first FBI special agent Joseph Carter agrees. But together they find th…
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- 1ed
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780755374212
- Collation
- 638p.18cm.
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- Call Number
- 823 ROS d
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