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The vanishers

Having fallen into an anonymous existence that allows her to keep her psychic gifts a secret, Julia Severn is surprised when she is asked to use her abilities to help locate a missing person. As she sifts through physical and psychic clues, she uncovers evidence that the missing person may have a connection to her mother, who committed suicide years ago.
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Trust exercise

a novel
In the 1980s, David and Sarah are freshman students at a highly competitive performing arts school when they fall in love. Their relationship has its joys and challenges until the outside world penetrates this isolated environment in a shocking turn of events. A dozen years later, a new voice sheds doubt on the people and events of the past, and experiences one final shocking act.
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Looker

a novel
An unnamed narrator feels her life unraveling--she is childless, her husband left her, and her job is at a dead-end. She becomes obsessed with her neighbor, a celebrity actress with a husband, three kids, and fame. The narrator's chance interaction with the actress at the annual block party creates disaster, and her innocent preoccupation spirals into lethality and madness.
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The snow was dirty

Nineteen-year-old Frank Friedmaier lives in France under German occupation, and he works as a pimp in his mother's whorehouse when he murders a German soldier.
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Good me, bad me

a novel
After Milly's mother is arrested as a serial killer, Milly goes to live with a foster family and given a new name, new school, and whole new life. But things begin to unravel and Milly begins to question if she is really that much different than her mother.
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Bitter orange

When the hedonistic and glamorous couple of Peter and Cara move into the Lyntons, a dilapidated English country mansion, Frances Jellico, the woman living in the upper floors researching the architecture in the mansion's gardens. One day Frances accidentally finds a peephole beneath a floorboard in her bathroom, giving her access into the private lives of her new neighbors. Then, surprisingly, Cara and Peter welcome her into their lives as a friend, but as Frances gets to know the couple it becomes clear that something is off between them, and things spiral out of control leading to a terrible crime that will sear their lives forever.
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Born scared

Ever since he was born, Elliot has suffered terrible anxiety and fear, fear even of his own feelings of fear. Only a daily regimen of pills makes life manageable--but one Christmas Eve the pharmacy has mixed-up his prescription, threatening to unleash "the beast," as Elliot calls it. His mother heads out during the severe snowstorm, with the pharmacy only ten minutes away, and hours later is still gone. The only thing to do is for Elliot to face his fear and head out after her, hoping his medication will last before the beast takes over his mind.
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Whistle in the dark

a novel
Jen Maddox is determined to understand what happened to her daughter, Lana, during the four days she was missing. But Lana is equally determined not to discuss it and hides her memories behind a claim that she cannot remember. But Jen won't let it rest. As she watches Lana spiral into a deeper depression, she investigates her daughter's life and uncovers the truth behind why she was gone.
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The invisible man

2013
The tale of a scientist who discovers how to make his body become invisible, but, when he can't make himself visible again, becomes violently insane.
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Foundation

2008
As the Galactic Empire declines, psychohistorian Hari Seldon and his band of psychobiologists form the Foundation, designed to be the nucleus of an eventual ideal universal ruling corporation.
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