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3) The whispers
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English
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When their picture-perfect hostess explodes in fury because her son disobeys her and then he falls from his bedside window in the middle of the night, three women grapple with what led to that terrible night as his life hangs in the balance.
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Series
Where are the children? volume 2
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In this much-anticipated sequel to the iconic thriller Where Are the Children?, lawyer-turned-podcaster Melissa and her brother Mike must draw on the experience of their own abduction when Melissa’s stepdaughter goes missing to save her from the trauma they still struggle with—or worse.
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English
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In 1915, Adelaide Henry, after her secret sin killed her parents, sets out for Montana, dragging an enormous steamer trunk that’s locked at all times, to become one of the “lone women” taking advantage of the government’s offer of free land where she hopes to bury her past.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Growing up as the only child of affluent and overprotective parents, Norma, troubled by recurring dreams and visions that seem more like memories than imagination, searches for the truth, leading her to the blueberry fields of Maine, where a family secret is finally revealed.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When her niece, Nicole, a part of the Nigerwives—a community of foreign women married to wealthy Nigerian men—disappears, Claudine digs into Nicole’s life, uncovering a dark side filled with secrets, isolation and violence that threatens to expose her own buried history.
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English
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Struggling with a darkness that threatens to consume her, Alejandra discovers she, like the women in her family before her, is being haunted by La Llorona, the vengeful and murderous mother of Mexican legend, and must summon everything she’s inherited from her foremothers to banish this demon forever.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"When internet-famous teen Eva goes missing less than a week before her graduation, it's her mother, Charlie, who is immediately suspected of foul play. As the investigation progresses, Charlie learns that the rose-colored image that she and her daughter projected to the world is even more false than she realized. Now, to clear her name and find out what has happened to her daughter, she'll have to confront her own role in Eva's disappearance-and...
14) Gone tonight
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A mother senses danger closing in when her daughter, ready to spread her wings and move away from home, begins asking questions about her past.
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English
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Moving into Akbar Manzil, a ruined mansion off the coast of South Africa, Sana stumbles upon the long-forgotten story of Meena, the original owner’s second wife who died there tragically 100 years ago, awakening a grieving djinn, an invisible spirit who has haunted the mansion since Meena’s mysterious death.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Faced with a difficult decision, Betty, a young, queer Palestinian American woman finds answers in partially translated notebooks that reveal her late Aunt Nuha’s complex life and struggle with her own sexuality, which she hid from the family, along with much more than that.
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Language
English
Description
Stepping out of her comfort zone with her former best friend Beat Dawkins to convince their mothers to perform one last concert on Christmas Eve, Melody Gallard, the daughter of music royalty, discovers a decades-old scandal threatens to wreck everything--the reunion, their relationships with their mothers and their newfound love.
20) One blood
Author
Publisher
Forge, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Discovering she’s adopted, Rae, about to become a mother herself, knows there is an important reckoning that must be faced about herself and her two mothers, in a novel spanning from the Great Migration to the civil unrest of the 1960s to the quest for women’s equality in the early 2000s.
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