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#BehindHerEyes #SarahPinborough #booksummary

Behind Her Eyes, a thriller by Sarah Pinborough, centers on a woman who finds out that the picture-perfect couple she just met is nothing like what they seem.

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Behind Her Eyes (2017), a thriller by Sarah Pinborough, centers on a woman who finds out that the picture-perfect couple she just met is nothing like what they seem. The book received widespread critical praise upon publication for its suspenseful plot and its unexpected ending; however, the ending received mixed reviews from general readers. Pinborough, a New York Times bestseller, writes fiction for adults and teenagers. She is best known for Behind Her Eyes, which sold in more than twenty-five territories, received a nomination for the 2017 Goodreads Choice Awards, and is available in multiple languages.

#MexicanGothic #SilviaMoreno-Garcia #booksummary

Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, A gothic horror story set in 1950s Mexico.

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Silvia Moreno-Garcia is the New York Times bestselling author of the critically acclaimed speculative novels Gods of Jade and Shadow, Signal to Noise, Certain Dark Things, and The Beautiful Ones; and the crime novel Untamed Shore. She has edited several anthologies, includ­ing the World Fantasy Award–winning She Walks in Shadows (aka Cthulhu’s Daughters). She lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.

#TheSecretsWeKept #LaraPrescott #booksummary

The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott, A love story about a CIA plot to smuggle Doctor Zhivago into Russia.

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Lara Prescott is the author of The Secrets We Kept, an instant New York Times bestseller and a Hello Sunshine x Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick. The Secrets We Kept is Lara’s debut novel and will be translated into over 30 languages and adapted for television by The Ink Factory and Marc Platt Productions.

Lara received her MFA from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas. She studied political science at American University in Washington, D.C. and international development in Namibia and South Africa. Prior to writing fiction, Lara worked as a political campaign consultant.

Lara's writing has appeared in The Southern Review, The Hudson Review, Crazyhorse, and more. She lives in Austin, Texas with her husband, son, cats, and dog.

#Caste #IsabelWilkerson #booksummary

Caste by Isabel Wilkerson, A masterful book about American's unseen caste system.

Isabel Wilkerson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Humanities Medal, is the author of the critically acclaimed New York Times bestseller The Warmth of Other Suns. Her debut work won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction and was named to Time’s 10 Best Nonfiction Books of the 2010s and The New York Times’s list of the Best Nonfiction of All Time. She has taught at Princeton, Emory, and Boston Universities and has lectured at more than two hundred other colleges and universities across the United States and in Europe and Asia.

#ConversationswithFriends #SallyRooney #booksummary

Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney, A modern romance about relationships and interpersonal dynamics.

Sally Rooney is the author of the novels Conversations with Friends and Normal People. She was the winner of the Sunday Times/Peters Fraser + Dunlop Young Writer of the Year Award in 2017. In 2018, Conversations with Friends was shortlisted for both the Dylan Thomas Prize and the Rathbones Folio Prize and Normal People was the Waterstones Book of the Year, won the Costa Novel Award and was longlisted for the Booker Prize. Rooney won the Encore Award for Normal People in 2019. She was the editor of the Stinging Fly in 2018 and a Cullman Center Fellow at the New York Public Library from 2019–20. She was nominated for an Emmy for her work on the television adaptation of Normal People, which was broadcast on CBC Gem in 2020.

#thepush #ashleyaudrain #booksummary

The Push by Ashley Audrain, A tense domestic drama slash thriller about motherhood and a woman who is struggling under the pressure to be a "good mother".

ASHLEY AUDRAIN previously worked as the publicity director of Penguin Books Canada. Prior to Penguin, she worked in public relations. She lives in Toronto, where she and her partner are raising their two young children. The Push is her first novel.