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KCLS BookMatch: Dark & Mysterious & Memoir

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  • Hiring Zoe to help her around the house as she prepares for her baby's arrival, Claudia Morgan-Brown discovers that there is something off about Zoe and, after learning about a series of vicious attacks on pregnant women in the area, worries that…
    Book, 2014New York : Crown Publishers, [2014]
  • Moving to a tiny Scottish island a year after one of their identical twin daughters, Lydia, dies in an accident, Angus and Sarah are shattered when their surviving daughter claims they have mistaken her identity and that she is actually the twin…
    Book, 2015New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2015.
  • After killing the red-haired man, I took myself off to Quinn's for an oyster supper." So begins the extraordinary story of Edward Glyver - booklover, scholar, and murderer. As a young boy, Glyver always believed he was destined for greatness. A…
    Book, 2006New York : W.W. Norton, c2006.
  • On a damp October night, beautiful young Ashley Cordova is found dead in an abandoned warehouse in lower Manhattan. Though her death is ruled a suicide, veteran investigative journalist Scott McGrath suspects otherwise. As he probes the strange…
    Audiobook CD, 2013New York, NY : Random House Audio, p2013.
  • The Dane family's roots tangle deep in the Ozark Mountain town of Henbane, but that doesn't keep sixteen-year-old Lucy Dane from being treated like an outsider. Folks still whisper about her mother, a bewitching young stranger who inspired local…
    Book, 2014New York : Spiegel & Grau, [2014]
  • The international literary sensation--a runaway bestseller in Spain, rights sold in more than twenty countries--about a boy's quest through the secrets and shadows of postwar Barcelona for a mysterious author whose book has proved as dangerous to…
    Audiobook CD, 2004New York, N.Y. : Penguin Audio, p2004, c2001.
  • Her medical record, from a month-long hospital stay of which she had no memory, showed psychosis, violence, and dangerous instability. Yet, only weeks earlier she had been a healthy, ambitious twenty-four-old. Susannah's astonishing memoir…
    Audiobook CD, 2012[Minneapolis, Minn.] : HighBridge Audio, p2012.
  • Ann Patchett and the late Lucy Grealy met in college in 1981, and, after enrolling in the Iowa Writer's Workshop, began a friendship that would be as defining to both of their lives as their work. In Grealy's critically acclaimed memior,…
    Book, 2004New York : HarperCollins, c2004.
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