Gillian Flynn
1) The grownup
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English
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"A canny young woman is struggling to survive by perpetrating various levels of mostly harmless fraud. On a rainy April morning, she is reading auras at Spiritual Palms when Susan Burke walks in. A keen observer of human behavior, our unnamed narrator immediately diagnoses beautiful, rich Susan as an unhappy woman eager to give her lovely life a drama injection. However, when the 'psychic' visits the eerie Victorian home that has been the source of...
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English
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For more than ten years, a mysterious and violent predator committed fifty sexual assaults in Northern California before moving south, where he perpetrated ten sadistic murders. Then in 1986 he disappeared, eluding capture by multiple police forces and some of the best detectives in the area. Three decades later, true crime journalist Michelle McNamara was determined to find the violent psychopath she called "the Golden State Killer." Michelle pored...
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English
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"They were a perfect family, golden and carefree--until a heartbreaking tragedy shattered their happiness. Now, for the sake of an inheritance that will ensure their future, the children must be hidden away out of sight, as if they never existed. Kept on the top floor of their grandmother's vast mansion, their loving mother assures them it will be just for a little while. But as brutal days swell into agonizing months and years, Cathy, Chris, and...
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Series
Publisher
Azbuka
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Russian
Description
After witnessing the murder of her mother and sisters, seven-year-old Libby Day testifies against her brother Ben, but twenty-five years later she tries to profit from her tragic history and admit that her story might not have been accurate.
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Español
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"Recién salida de una breve estancia en un hospital psiquiátrico, Camille Preaker se dirige a su ciudad natal para cubrir una serie de asesinatos para el periódico donde trabaja. Por primera vez en once años, la reportera de sucesos regresa a la inmensa mansión en la que creció, donde se tendrá que enfrentar a los recuerdos de su hermana, que murió en plena adolescencia; pero lo que más perturba a Camille es la presencia de su madre, una...
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Series
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
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"Libby Day tenía siete años cuando su madre y sus dos hermanas fueron victimas de lo que los medios llamaron la masacre de la granja de Kinnakee, Kansas. Ella salvo la vida y testificó contra su hermano Ben, a quien señaló como el culpable. Veinticinco años después, el Kill Club--una sociedad secreta obsesionada con crimenes célebres--localiza a una Libby en franca decadencia y pretende que les ayude a escarbar en los cabos sueltos de aquella...
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Publisher
Azbuka
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Russian
Description
Kamilla Parker, ne osobo udachlivyĭ reporter odnoĭ iz ne osobo uspeshnykh gazet Chikago, mechtaet o blesti︠a︡shcheĭ karʹery. I vot devushke vypadaet shchastlivyĭ shans, sposobnyĭ rezko povysit ee zhurnalistskiĭ status, -- Kamillu posylai︠u︡t korrespondentom v malenkiĭ gorodok, gde zhertvoĭ manʹi︠a︡ka stali neskolko maloletnikh devochek. Eë zadacha vydatʹ chitateli︠a︡m sensat︠s︡ionnoe soobshchenie s mesta sobytiĭ. Delo...
10) Garota exemplar
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Publisher
Intrínseca
Language
Portuguese
Description
On a warm summer morning in North Carthage, Missouri, it is Nick and Amy's fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are being wrapped and reservations made when Nick's clever and beautiful wife disappears from their rented McMansion on the Mississippi River. Husband-of-the-year Nick isn't doing himself any favors with cringe-worthy daydreams about the slope and shape of his wife's head, but passages from Amy's diary reveal the alpha-girl perfectionist...
11) Gone girl
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20th Century Fox Film Corporation
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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On the occasion of his fifth wedding anniversary, Nick Dunne reports that his wife, Amy, has gone missing. Under pressure from the police and a growing media frenzy, Nick's portrait of a blissful union begins to crumble. Soon his lies, deceits and strange behavior have everyone asking the same dark question. Did Nick Dunne kill his wife?
13) An chu
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Series
Lei xing yue du volume 24
Publisher
Mu ma wen hua shi ye gu fen you xian gong si
Pub. Date
2012
Language
中文
Description
Libby Day was seven when her mother and two sisters were murdered in "The Satan Sacrifice of Kinnakee, Kansas." As her family lay dying, little Libby fled their tiny farmhouse into the freezing January snow. She lost some fingers and toes, but she survived-and famously testified that her fifteen-year-old brother, Ben, was the killer. Twenty-five years later, Ben sits in prison, and troubled Libby lives off the dregs of a trust created by well-wishers...
14) El Adulto
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Publisher
Reservoir Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
Description
"Una mujer joven a quien no le ha ido demasiado bien en la vida se reconvierte a incrédula lectora de auras en Spiritual Palms, un dudoso negocio de artes esotéricas en cuya trastienda se gestiona otras necesidades, digamos, más terrenales. Una mañana entra en la tienda Susan Burke, una mujer bella y adinerada mujer que le pide purificar su casa de presencias malignas. Cuando la «vidente» visita la sombría mansión victoriana, se da cuenta...
15) Li qi
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Series
Lei xing yue du volume 15
Publisher
Mu ma wen hua shi ye gu fen you xian gong si
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
中文
18) Temnye taĭny
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Series
Publisher
Azbuka
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Russian
Description
Libby Day was seven years old when her evidence put her fifteen-year-old brother in jail for the murder of their family--now, twenty-four years later a group convinced of his innocence is causing her to question her memory and raise the question: who massacred the Day family?