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Lexile measure
1030L
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English
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In Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert masterfully unravels the tale of Emma Bovary, a young, disillusioned woman yearning for passion and excitement beyond her provincial French life. As Emma strives to escape the monotony of her existence through indulgence in romantic fantasies and lavish spending, her relentless pursuit of fulfillment drives her deeper into turmoil.
Set against the backdrop of 19th-century provincial France, this novel explores...
2) Let me lie
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English
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"The police say it was suicide. Anna says it was murder. They're both wrong. Last year, Tom and Caroline Johnson chose to end their lives; one seemingly unable to live without the other. Their daughter Anna is struggling to come to terms with her parents' deaths, unwilling to accept the verdict of suicide. Now with a young baby herself, she feels her mother's absence keenly and is determined to find out what really happened to her parents. But as...
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A family is wiped out after a burglary gone wrong. An executive accused of embezzling kills himself and his loved ones. A house fire claims the lives of all its inhabitants. Separate incidents with two common threads--a first wife who took her own life, and a secret the victims took to their graves. Stephanie Coburn has barely recovered from her sister's mysterious suicide before her brother-in-law and his new wife are murdered, her face disfigured...
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"Growing up, Nora Watts only knew one parent--her father. When he killed himself, she denied her grief and carried on with her life. Then a chance encounter with a veteran who knew him raises disturbing questions Nora can't ignore--and dark emotions she can't control. To make her peace with the past, she has to confront it. Finding the truth about her father's life and his violent death takes her from Vancouver to Detroit where Sam Watts grew up,...
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Lexile measure
HL 760L
Language
English
Description
"A single mother turns up dead at the bottom of the river that runs through town. Earlier in the summer, a vulnerable teenage girl met the same fate. They are not the first women lost to these dark waters, but their deaths disturb the river and its history, dredging up secrets long submerged. Left behind is a lonely fifteen-year-old girl. Parentless and friendless, she now finds herself in the care of her mother's sister, a fearful stranger who has...
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English
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Aspiring playwright Kate Gamble is struggling to launch a script she's been secretly researching her entire life, mostly at the family dinner table. Her father is Christian Gamble, CEO of Buck Technologies, a private data integration company whose clients include the CIA and virtually every counter-terrorism organization in the Western World. Kate's father adores her, and a play about the dark side of Big Data would be the ultimate betrayal in his...
7) Steal
Author
Series
Murder games volume 3
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
When the son of the founder of the world's largest hedge fund is thought to have committed suicide, but a body hasn't been found, his father, believing that he is still alive, turns to Dylan Reinhart for help, drawing him into a world of multi-million-dollar secrets and danger.
Imagine everyones surprise when Carter von Oehson, a sophomore in Dr. Dylan Reinharts Abnormal Psychology class, posts on Instagram that he plans to kill himself. 24 hours...
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Lexile measure
760L
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English
Description
When she was only twenty-three, Carson McCullers's first novel created a literary sensation. She was very special, one of America's superlative writers who conjures up a vision of existence as terrible as it is real, who takes us on shattering voyages into the depths of the spiritual isolation that underlies the human condition. This novel is the work of a supreme artist, Carson McCullers's enduring masterpiece. The heroine is the strange young girl,...
9) Liar, liar
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English
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In death, Didi Storm is finally getting the kind of publicity that eluded her in life. Twenty years ago, the ex-beauty queen worked the Vegas strip as a celebrity impersonator, too busy trying to make it big to spare much time for her daughter, Remmi. Shortly before she leaped from a San Francisco building, Didi's profile was rising again, thanks to a tell-all book. To Detective Dani Settler, it looks like a straightforward suicide, or perhaps a promotional...
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"Over the last few years, prominent people--a retired diplomat, beloved basketball coach, the CEO of an empire--have died in a series of fluke accidents and shocking suicides. There's no apparent connection, no signs of foul play. Behind it all is a powerful group of women, the Sophie Foundation, who meet over wine and cheese to review files of men who behave very, very badly, and then mete out justice. Jessa Hall jumped at the mysterious, exclusive...
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Lexile measure
850L
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English
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After enduring his father's suicide, his own suicide attempt, broken friendships, and more in the Bronx projects, Aaron Soto, sixteen, is already considering the Leteo Institute's memory-alteration procedure when his new friendship with Thomas turns to unrequited love.
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"In the aftermath of her financier husband's suicide, Emma Shay Compton's dream life is shattered. Richard Compton stole his clients' life savings to fund a lavish life in NYC and, although she was never involved in the business, Emma bears the burden of her husband's crimes. She is left with nothing. So she goes home to Sonoma County. But starting over isn't easy, and Sonoma is full of unhappy memories, too. And people she'd rather not face, especially...
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Series
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
406 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Zee Finch, a psychotherapist, has come home to Salem to take care of her ailing father and to try to figure out her own life after the suicide of one of her patients, which was made even more difficult by Zee's past--her mother committed suicide herself, in front of her.
14) Night train
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Pub. Date
1997
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
175 pages ; 21 cm
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English
Description
Detective Mike Hoolihan has seen it all. A fifteen-year veteran of the force, she's gone from walking a beat, to robbery, to homicide. But one case, this case, has gotten under her skin.
When Jennifer Rockwell, darling of the community and daughter of a respected career cop, now top brass, takes her own life, no one is prepared to believe it. Especially her father, Colonel Tom. Homicide Detective Mike Hoolihan, longtime colleague and friend of Colonel...
15) I liked my life
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
262 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Maddy was a loving, devoted stay-at-home mother . . . until she committed suicide, which left her husband Brady and her teenage daughter Eve heartbroken and reeling, wondering how they can possibly continue without her. Maddy, however, isn't quite done with them. In an attempt to fulfill her family's needs, Maddy watches and meddles from beyond the grave, determined to find the perfect wife and mother to replace herself and heal her family. That's...
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English
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"Seth--a small town journalist raised by foster parents--is assigned to write about a young boy found in a ditch after a car and train collision. As he works to discover the boy's identity, he also finds the story of his own history and the father who gave up everything to get him back"--
They have one summer to find what was lost long ago. "Never settle for less than the truth," she told him. But when you don't even know your real name, the truth...
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Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
276 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Shares the author's experiences after the suicide of her ex-husband, as well as the most recent insights into suicide from the medical community.
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Series
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
390 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When a notorious millionaire banker hangs himself, his death attracts no sympathy. But the legacy of a lifetime of selfishness is widespread, and the carnage most acute among those he ought to be protecting: his family. Meanwhile, in a wealthy suburb of Glasgow, a young woman is found savagely murdered. The community is stunned by what appears to be a vicious, random attack. When Detective Inspector Alex Morrow, heavily pregnant with twins, is called...
19) Choose me
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English
Description
"Taryn Moore is young, beautiful, and brilliant...so why would she kill herself? When Detective Frankie Loomis arrives on the scene to investigate the girl's fatal plunge from her apartment balcony, she knows in her gut there's more to the story. Her instincts are confirmed when surprise information is revealed that could have been reason enough for Taryn's suicide--or a motive for her murder. To English professor Jack Dorian, Taryn was the ultimate...
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Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 352 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A generational saga that mixes historical fiction with the romance and intrigue of a Latin soap opera. When Malena Sevilla's tidy, carefully planned world collapses following her father's mysterious suicide, she finds a letter-signed with an 'A'--which reveals that her mother is very much alive and living in San Isidro, a quaint town tucked in the Andes Mountains. Intent on meeting her, Malena arrives at Alameda Street and meets four sisters who...