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(0)Sheila Kohler
Author
Language
English
Description
At thirty-seven, Sheila Kohler received the news that her sister Maxine, only two years older, was killed when her husband drove off a deserted road in Johannesburg. Stunned, she flew home determined to find answers. Flashing back to their storybook childhood at the family estate, Kohler evokes a bond between sisters that changes but never breaks.
2) Cracks
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
An "eerie, elliptical masterpiece set in a South African boarding school in the early 1960s. . . . First-rate psychological suspense . . . played out flawlessly" (Kirkus Reviews).
The members of an elite girls swim team are the reigning queens at their South African boarding school. And then Italian student Fiamma Coronna joins their ranks. Beautiful, athletic, and suddenly commanding all the coach's attention, Fiamma is the envy of every girl...
3) Open secrets
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The lies between a husband and wife are revealed, unraveling their family in this thrilling novel that moves between Beaulieu-Sur Mer, Switzerland, and Amagansett. Alice, Michel, and their daughter, Pamela, live a charmed life with a beautiful house on the French Riviera, elegant vacations, and boarding school in Switzerland for Pamela. But when Michel discovers Alice's betrayal in the midst of dealing with a crisis at the bank that he works for,...
8) Cracks
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Miss G, a glamorous teacher idolized by her students at an all-girls British boarding school, becomes obsessed with Fiamma, a self-confident transfer student from Spain.
Publisher
Akashic Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"While the common belief is that "body horror" as a subgenre of horror fiction dates back to the 1970s, Joyce Carol Oates suggests that Medusa, the snake-haired gorgon in Greek mythology, is the "quintessential emblem of female body horror." In A Darker Shade of New Stories of Body Horror by Women Writers, Oates has assembled a spectacular cast to explore this subgenre focusing on distortions to the human body in the most fascinating of ways" -- Page...