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1) The anomaly
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Winner of the Prix Goncourt, this dizzying literary page-turner ingeniously blends crime, fantasy, sci-fi, and thriller as it plumbs the mysteries surrounding a Paris-New York flight. In June 2021, a senseless event upends the lives of hundreds of men and women, all passengers on a flight from Paris to New York. Among them: Blake, a respectable family man, though he works as a contract killer; Slimboy, a Nigerian pop star tired of living a lie; Joanna,...
Author
Series
Marvel crime volume 1
Publisher
Hyperion Avenue
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"#1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jewell launches the Marvel Crime program with an original story of Jessica Jones investigating a case about a mother who fears her children have been replaced"--
3) August blue
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The mesmerising new novel from the twice Booker-shortlisted author of Hot Milk and Swimming Home. If she was my double and I was hers, was it true that she was knowing, I was unknowing, she was sane, I was crazy, she was wise, I was foolish? That summer, the air was electric between us as we transmitted our feelings to each other across three countries. Elsa M. Anderson is a classical piano virtuoso. In a flea market in Athens, she watches an enigmatic...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The city of San Siroco is sinking. The basement of Dr. Tamsin Rivers, the arrogant, selfish head of the research team assigned to find the source of the subsidence, is sinking faster. As Tamsin grows obsessed with the distorting dimensions of the room at the bottom of the stairs, she finds a door that didn't exist before - and one night, it opens to reveal an exact physical copy of her. This doppelgänger is sweet and biddable where Tamsin is calculating...
Author
Publisher
Tordotcom
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Aimee Pokwatka's novel Self-Portrait with Nothing is "fraught and deeply moving...the work of a genuinely exciting new talent." (Booker Prize winner, George Saunders). If a picture paints a thousand worlds... Abandoned as an infant on the local veterinarian's front porch, Pepper Rafferty was raised by two loving mothers, and now at thirty-six is married to the stable, supportive Ike. She's never told anyone that at fifteen she discovered the identity...
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A hilarious and heartfelt holiday rom com about doppelganger best friends who trade one's cabin Christmas vacation for the other's Hawaiian honeymoon after she's left at the altar, and both find love they weren't expecting"--
7) 3:59
Author
Language
English
Description
Josie Byrne's life is spiraling out of control. Her parents are divorcing, her boyfriend Nick has grown distant, and her physics teacher has it in for her. When she's betrayed by the two people she trusts most, Josie thinks things can't get worse. Until she starts having dreams about a girl named Jo. Every night at the same time -- 3:59 a.m. Jo's life is everything Josie wants: she's popular, her parents are happily married, and Nick adores her. It...
Author
Series
Molly Southbourne volume 2
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Who was Molly Southbourne? What did she leave behind? A burnt-out basement. A name stained in blood. Bodies that remember murder, one of them left alive. A set of rules that no longer apply. Molly Southbourne is alive. If she wants to survive, she'll need to run, hide, and be ready to fight. There are people who remember her, who know what she is and what she's done. Some want her alive, some want her dead, and all hold a piece to the puzzles in...
Author
Series
Molly Southbourne volume 3
Publisher
Tordotcom
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Whenever Molly Southbourne bled, a murderer was born. Deadly copies, drawn to destroy their creator, bound by a legacy of death. With the original Molly Southbourne gone, her remnants drew together, seeking safety and a chance for peace. The last Molly and her sisters built a home together, and thought they could escape the murder that marked their past. But secrets squirm in Molly Southbourne's blood-secrets born in a Soviet lab and carried back...
10) The stolen child
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Stolen by changelings from his family and home, Henry Day is given the name Aniday by the ageless and magical beings, who replace him with another child who takes his place with his parents, a young boy who possesses an extraordinary gift of music but whom is haunted by persistent memories of a life in another time and place.
11) The lie
Author
Publisher
Bitter Lemon
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
"...One shares Susanne's belief that she must try to carry the deception off. Whether she will succeed keeps the reader, peering over Susanne's shoulder at all the traps, turning the pages of this remarkable book."—The Independent (UK)
Praise for Petra Hammesfahr's The Sinner:
"The Sinner is best psychological suspense novel I have read all year."—Daily Telegraph
"Dubbed Germany's
...12) The Icarus girl
Author
Language
English
Description
'This is a beautiful, haunting story of precocious eight-year-old Jessamy ... This compelling tale of folklore and cultural differences is sure to top the bestseller lists' Daily Mail
'A moving study of alienation' Guardian
'An astonishing achievement' Sunday Telegraph
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Jessamy Harrison is eight years old. Sensitive, whimsical, possessed of a powerful...
'A moving study of alienation' Guardian
'An astonishing achievement' Sunday Telegraph
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Jessamy Harrison is eight years old. Sensitive, whimsical, possessed of a powerful...
Author
Series
Publisher
Bonnie Meadow Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Andrea Kane explores the urban legend of the doppelganger, as the favorite team of investigators find themselves in a conflict of interest between two clients. When one case unexpectedly intersects with the other, the only solution is to find the link between the two and unearth who is pulling the strings and why.
14) Dead ringers
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Language
English
Description
"When Tess Devlin runs into her ex-husband Nick on a Boston sidewalk, she's furious at him for pretending he doesn't know her. She calls his cell to have it out with him, only to discover that he's in New Hampshire with his current girlfriend. But if Nick's in New Hampshire...who did she encounter on the street? Frank Lindbergh's dreams have fallen apart. He wanted to get out of the grim neighborhood where he'd grown up and out of the shadow of his...
Author
Series
Publisher
Roc
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When Cal Leandros' nightmarish monster side tries to take over by changing him both mentally and physically, he and his brother Niko must try to fight it, while at the same time. destroying a covert supernatural organization bent on their destruction as well as everything else in existence.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday Canada
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Jean Mason has a doppelganger. At least, that's what people tell her. Jean's curiosity quickly gets the better of her, and she visits the market, but sees no one who looks like her. The next day, she goes back to look again. With the aid of a small army of locals, she expands her surveillance. A peculiar collection of drug addicts, scam artists, philanthropists, philosophers and vagrants are eager to contribute to Jean's investigation. But when some...
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
For as long as Molly Southbourne can remember, she's been watching herself die. Whenever she bleeds, another molly is born, identical to her in every way and intent on her destruction. Molly knows every way to kill herself, but she also knows that as long as she survives she'll be hunted. No matter how well she follows the rules, eventually the mollys will find her. Can Molly find a way to stop the tide of blood, or will she meet her end at the hand...
18) Such lovely skin
Author
Publisher
Page Street Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Viv isn't known for telling the truth, but she's not lying about having an evil doppelganger. After spending the summer wracked with guilt about causing the accident that killed her little sister, ambitious gamer and chronic liar Viv returns to Twitch streaming. She never told her parents the truth about the accident, but she hopes that maybe making it big in streaming and giving the money to them is penance enough for her mistakes. The weekend before...
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
John Rayburn thought all of his problems were the mundane ones of an Ohio farm boy in his last year in high school. Then his doppelgänger appeared, tempted him with a device that let him travel across worlds, and stole his life from him. John soon finds himself caroming through universes, unable to return home-the device is broken. John settles in a new universe to unravel its secrets and fix it.
Meanwhile, his doppelgänger tries to exploit the...
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