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Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of perhaps the most bestselling and beloved literary fiction of our time comes a triumph of imagination and compassion, a soaring novel about children on the cusp of adulthood in a broken world, who find resilience, hope, and story. The heroes of Cloud Cuckoo Land are children trying to figure out the world around them, and to survive. In the besieged city of Constantinople in 1453, in a public library in Lakeport,...
3) Crank
Author
Series
Crank trilogy volume 1
Language
English
Description
Kristina Georgia Snow is the perfect daughter, gifted high school junior, quiet, never any trouble. But on a trip to visit her absentee father, Kristina disappears and Bree takes her place. Bree is the exact opposite of Kristina. Through a boy, Bree meets the monster: crank. And what begins as a wild ecstatic ride turns into a struggle through hell for her mind, her soul - her life.
6) Glass
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
For one special security guard, tracking people down is a paranormal sort of hobby. Able to use his rare abilities to find people, David Dunn is suddenly given a job that seems more daunting than all the others before it. He'll need to find Kevin Wendell Crumb, and time is of the essence. But part of the problem is that Crumb is an extremely disturbed man and with 24 personalities, he's a lot more complicated than the others Dunn has found.
8) Split
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entert
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
After being abducted by a strange man, three teenage girls begin to meet his twenty-four separate personalities.
Author
Series
Montmorency volume 1
Language
English
Description
In Victorian London, after his life is saved by a young physician, a thief utilizes the knowledge he gains in prison and from the scientific lectures he attends as the physician's case study exhibit to create a new, highly successful, double life for himself. When a petty thief falls through a glass roof while fleeing from the police, it should have been the death of him. Instead, it marks the beginning of a whole new life. Soon he has become the...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Pru Dunning has everything she ever wanted: a successful boyfriend, a thriving nursing career, and a truly comfortable life. But then the strange voicemails start. Scarletta, the woman calls herself. She seems to know Pru, although Pru certainly doesn't know that name, nor does she recognize the glamorous voice leaving her poisonous messages. Is this the work of jealous revenge from someone at work? An old enemy she has forgotten about? Pru begins...
12) Up Jim River
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2011, c2010
Language
English
Description
M�earana enlists the help of Donovan, a man with multiple personalities, to search for her missing mother, and they follow the woman's trail to the worlds of the frontier, edging closer to the uncivilized and barbarian planets of the wild.
15) When she was bad
Author
Series
E. L. Pender series volume 4
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Subterranean Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Stephen Leeds, also known as 'Legion', has a unique mental condition. He can become an expert on any subject in hours... and with every new area of expertise a new 'aspect' of Stephen is created. Is he schizophrenic? Possibly. Does that make him an incredible intelligence agent? Definitely. And this is his final, and perhaps his strangest, adventure. It begins with two unrelated events: the disappearance of Armando, one of Stephen's many "aspects,"...
17) Split
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Even though Kevin has revealed 23 personalities to his trusted psychiatrist, Dr. Fletcher, there remains one still submerged who is set to materialize and dominate all the others. Compelled to abduct three teenage girls--led by the willful, observant Casey--Kevin reaches a war for survival among all of those contained within him, as well as everyone around him, as the walls between his compartments shatter apart.--
18) Hi five
Author
Series
IQ novels volume 4
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Cristiana is the daughter of the biggest arms dealer on the West Coast, Angus Byrne. She's also the sole witness and number one suspect in the murder of her boyfriend, found dead in her Newport Beach boutique. Isaiah Quintabe is coerced into taking the case to prove her innocence. If he can't, Angus will harm the brilliant PI's new girlfriend, ending her career. The catch: Christiana has multiple personalities. Among them, a naïve, beautiful shopkeeper,...
20) Someone like me
Author
Publisher
Orbit, an imprint of Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A gentle, devoted mother hides the dark and malicious side of her personality until it takes control, triggering devastating consequences.
Divorce�e Liz Kendall is devoted to her two kids, and most people who know her know that she wouldn't hurt a fly. But there's another side to Liz-- one that's dark and malicious. She will do anything to get her way, no matter how extreme. And when this alter ego takes control, the consequences are devastating....