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Astrid is on her way home one day when her neighbor accidentally knocks her off her bike. The next day, she learns that the same neighbor was beaten to death only hours after the accident. Two weeks later there's another brutal murder-- and she realizes there is a killer in the household.
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"They come together by chance in the heart of New York City, four young women at turning points in their lives. Claire Kelly finds the walk-up apartment-- a spacious loft in Hell's Kitchen. But the aspiring shoe designer needs at least one roommate to manage it. She meets Abby Williams, a writer trying to make it on her own, far away from her successful family in L.A. Four years later, Morgan Shelby joins them. She's ambitious, with a serious finance...
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"Two people. One house. A year that changes everything. Twenty-nine-year-old Jess is following her dream and moving to London. It's December, and she's taking a room in a crumbling, but grand, Notting Hill house-share with four virtual strangers. On her first night, Jess meets Alex, the guy sharing her floor, at a Christmas dinner hosted by her landlord. They don't kiss, but as far as Jess is concerned the connection is clear. She starts planning...
7) Fall
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St. Ebury, an elite Ottawa boarding school, might appear to an outsider like a place steeped in rules and traditions. But the animal instincts of the boys who reside there are only barely restrained. A handful of girls are also in attendance-among them, Fall, a beautiful and elusive figure who becomes the object of fascination for many of the male students, including Noel, a smart, intensely idiosyncratic young man. But Fall ends up dating his roommate,...
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Kendall's managed to wrangle her grandmother's house--free and clear--except for the rules. No male roommates. But that's okay. With the right ad she'll pull in some girls who will pay rent. If she's lucky, Kendall won't have to go to work any time soon.
Anna, Lelani, and Megan all have their reasons for wanting to move in. Anna has got to get out from under her overprotective parents. Lelani can't take another day in her aunt's tiny crackerbox house...
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Winning a scholarship to a prestigious college where she befriends a beautiful girl of privilege, unassuming Mabel joins her friend during a lakeside summer surrounded by wealthy vacationers only to discover morally ambiguous truths about her friend's family fortune.
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After turning down a proposal from her long-time partner, in-demand wedding photographer Harriet Hatley moves in with a new roommate, a hopeless romantic who makes her question everything about her life and her past when her heavily guarded secret comes to light.
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What happens when a psychic tells Lucy that she'll be getting married within the year? Her roommates panic! What is going to happen to their blissful existence of eating take-out, drinking too much wine, bringing men home, and never vacuuming?
Lucy reassures her friends that she's far too busy arguing with her mother and taking care of her irresponsible father to get married. And then there's the small matter of not even having a boyfriend.
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13) The housemate
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Once again assigned to the story of the Housemate Homicide after a body is discovered, Melbourne-based journalist Olive Groves unearths new facts about the three housemates, revelations that force her to confront past traumas and insecurities as she relentlessly searches for the killer.
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From the author of the New York Times bestseller As Nature Made Him comes a “clever and entertaining first novel.”-Elle
Despite a severe case of writer's block, Cal Cunningham dreams of writing a novel that will permit him to escape from his life as a penniless stockboy in dirty and dangerous upper Manhattan bookstore. However, when his roommate is suddenly killed in a bicycle accident, Cal is suddenly the author of a page-turning autobiography....
15) Emancipated
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Legally liberated from parental control for different reasons, six teenagers share a house in Venice Beach, acting as a family, while harboring dangerous secrets.
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After a recent break-up sent her into a self-imposed "personal hiatus," thirty-something New York TV-promo producer Tori Miller is determined to get a life. The fastest way? A Hamptons summer share house. She ditches her old look-thanks to a last-minute makeover on a reality show pilot-and over the next three months, the new-and-improved "Miller" becomes the wing-woman to a glamorous new B.F.F., goes head-to-head with her house's prickly Resident...
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"Losing a father isn't easy. Neither is the split existence you live afterwards when you can still conjure up the past where he was alive and yet have to live in the present where he is not. Grief is universal and eternal, yet how we deal with it-or how it deals with us-depends on who is grieving, when, and with whom"--
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"Rosie Graham has a problem. A few, actually. She just quit her well paid job to focus on her secret career as a romance writer. She hasn't told her family and now has terrible writer's block. Then, the ceiling of her New York apartment literally crumbles on her. Luckily she has her best friend Lina's spare key while she's out of town. But Rosie doesn't know that Lina has already lent her apartment to her cousin Lucas, who Rosie has been stalking--for...
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"A powerful new novel from the Whiting Award-winning author of Loner and The Love Song of Jonny Valentine. In 1996, the unnamed narrator in Teddy Wayne's Apartment is attending the MFA program at Columbia on his father's dime and living in an illegal sublet of a rent-stabilized apartment. Feeling guilty about his good fortune, the narrator offers his spare bedroom--rent-free--to Billy, a handsome, talented classmate from a working-class family in...
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