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VPL - Books Just For You - Tragic Tales, Moral Greyness, & Retellings in eBook Format

This Books Just For You List was put together by a VPL staff member for a patron with an interest in emotionally devastating content, morally grey characters, retellings from the perspective of other characters, and mysteries that can be solved as the characters are also solving them. Happy reading!

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15 items

  • An interpretation of the myth of Theseus and the Minotaur from the perspective of Ariadne, the Princess of Crete.
    eBook, 2021Macmillan Publishers, 2021.
  • Aiden Bishop must solve Evelyn Hardcastle's murder to break a time loop. The catch? Every day Aiden experiences the event in the body of a different guest at the scene.
    eBook, 2018[Place of publication not identified] : HarperCollins Canada, Limited 2018.
  • A crew of outcasts with dangerous secrets comes together to pull off a heist.
    eBook, 2015New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2015.
  • A retelling of The Odyssey from the perspective of Odysseus's wife Penelope.
    eBook, 2006Toronto : Vintage Canada, 2006.
  • Wallace, a lawyer who only cares about himself, unexpectedly dies. His story isn't over, however, as he finds himself tethered to an intriguing ferryman with the choice to cross over (literally) looming over him.
    eBook, 2021Macmillan Publishers, 2021.
  • A retelling of the tragic myth of the generational curse that plagues the House of Atreus.
    Book, 2017New York : Scribner, 2017.
  • Grace is in prison for murders she can't remember committing. What will happen when she's helped to remember that day?
    eBook, 2010New York : Emblem Editions, 2010.
  • A standalone mystery from the Truly Devious series, Nine Liars follows Stevie as she attempts to solve a cold case from the 1990s.
    eBook, 2022HarperCollins Publishers Incorporated, 2022.
  • A retelling of the Aeneid from the perspective of Lavinia.
    eBook, 2009Boston : Mariner Books, 2009.
  • The emotionally devastating story of Kathy, her friends, and their futile attempts to fight destiny.
    eBook, 2006Toronto : Vintage Canada, 2006.
  • The first book in a high fantasy series which looks at the ongoing war on the Shattered Plains of Roshar.
    eBook, 2010[Place of publication not identified] : Tom Doherty Associates, 2010.
  • The classic Gothic novel which follows the recent marriage of a lady's maid to a widower, and the enclosing shadows of his deceased wife that follow them.
    eBook, 2015Albin Michel, 2015.
  • Transgender teen Benji must survive a post-apocalyptic city while on the run from the transphobic cult that raised him.
    eBook, 2022Random House, Incorporated, 2022.
  • A young novelist must hide her editor from the Memory Police, who ensure that what is lost remains forgotten by any means necessary.
    eBook, 2019New York : Pantheon Books, [2019]