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You'll never know, dear : a novel of suspense
\"From the award-winning author of Night Night, Sleep Tight comes a novel about a little girl's disappearance and the porcelain doll that may hold the key to her fate.\"--Jacket.
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Liebmann
Teacher Antek Liebmann moves to the French countryside to leave his former life in Germany behind. He soon gets a job and finds himself in a new relationship. But the strange energy of a nearby artists' residency and an unexpected visitor from Germany make him realize he cannot escape his memories. He has to find his own way to confront the ghosts of his past.
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The perfect family
Maddie Castle is broken. Ever since the tragedy that struck on her twins' tenth birthday, she's been trying to fit the pieces together, to get back to the life she led before. Maddie, her husband, Dom, and their children, Aidan and Annabel, lived in a comfortable home on a quiet street in a London suburb. Life was busy and satisfying. They were happy. Weren't they? Now, a disoriented and grieving Maddie floats like a ghost through each day, hardly sleeping, eating, or speaking. It's easier to stay locked in her own head than to torment herself by reliving what happened. And yet, the harder Maddie tries to pin down her memories, the more they slip out of reach. Is her guilt and remorse justified? Is it Maddie's fault that everything was ripped apart? Or could it be that the real terror is still to come?
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American Gothic
In America as in Britain, the rise of the Gothic represented the other-the fearful shadows cast upon Enlightenment philosophies of common sense, democratic positivism, and optimistic futurity. Many critics have recognized the centrality of these shadows to American culture and self-identification.American Gothic,however, remaps the field by offering a series of revisionist essays associated with a common theme: the range and variety of Gothic manifestations in high and popular art from the roots of American culture to the present.
The thirteen essayists approach the persistence of the Gothic in American culture by providing a composite of interventions that focus on specific issues-the histories of gender and race, the cultures of cities and scandals and sensations-in order to advance distinct theoretical paradigms. Each essay sustains a connection between a particular theoretical field and a central problem in the Gothic tradition.
Drawing widely on contemporary theory-particularly revisionist views of Freud such as those offered by Lacan and Kristeva-this volume ranges from the well-known Gothic horrors of Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne to the popular fantasies of Stephen King and the postmodern visions of Kathy Acker. Special attention is paid to the issues of slavery and race in both black and white texts, including those by Ralph Ellison and William Faulkner. In the view of the editors and contributors, the Gothic is not so much a historical category as a mode of thought haunted by history, a part of suburban life and the lifeblood of films such asThe ExorcistandFatal Attraction.
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Give me your hand
\"Kit Owens harbored only modest ambitions for herself when the mysterious Diane Fleming appeared in her high school chemistry class. But Diane's academic brilliance lit a fire in Kit, and the two developed an unlikely friendship. Until Diane shared a secret that changed everything between them. More than a decade later, Kit thinks she's put Diane behind her forever, and she's begun to fulfill the scientific dreams Diane awakened in her. But the past comes roaring back when she discovers that Diane is her competition for a position both women covet: taking part in groundbreaking new research led by their idol. Soon enough, the two former friends find themselves locked in a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse that threatens to destroy them.\"--Dust jacket.
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Cosmos
A dark, quasi-detective novel, \"\"Cosmos \"\"follows the classic noir motif to explore the arbitrariness of language, the joke of human freedom, and man's attempt to bring order out of chaos in his psychological life.Published in 1965, \"\"Cosmos \"\"is the last novel by Witold Gombrowicz (1904-1969) and his most somber and multifaceted work. Two young men meet by chance in a Polish resort town in the Carpathian Mountains. Intending to spend their vacation relaxing, they find a secluded family-run \"\"pension. \"\"But the two become embroiled first in a macabre event on the way to the \"\"pension, \"\"then in the peculiar activities and psychological travails of the family running it. Gombrowicz offers no solution to their predicament.\"\"Cosmos \"\"is translated here for the first time directly from the Polish by Danuta Borchardt, translator of \"\"Ferdydurke.\"\".
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Sister of mine
A year after orphaned sisters Penny and Hattie conspire to kill Penny's abusive husband, a charming young man enters their lives, straining their relationship and threatening their secret.
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The name of the sister
Review(s) of: The Name of the Sister, by Gail Jones, Text Publishing, 2025. 208 pages. AU$34.99. ISBN 9781923058538 Paperback.
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Sunburn : a novel
A \"novel of psychological suspense about a pair of lovers with the best intentions and the worst luck: two people locked in a passionate yet uncompromising game of cat and mouse. But instead of rules, this game has dark secrets, forbidden desires, inevitable betrayals, and cold-blooded murder. One is playing a long game. But which one?\"--Jacket flap.
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Next to the Final Frontier
Many have argued that the critique of neoliberalism figures prominently in contemporary Scandinavian crime fiction. It is evident in the novels of such Finnish writers as Matti Joensuu, Hannu Vuorio, Seppo Jokinen and Leena Lehtolainen. Yet there is another prominent and thought-provoking theme that figures perhaps even more prominently in Finnish crime fiction, as well as to a degree in Scandinavian crime fiction generally. This theme has received much less comment. It is the relationship of Finland, and the Scandinavian region, with its largest neighbour, Russia. The economic and political transformation of the Scandinavian region since 1989 is often discussed
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