The Broken Girls

The Broken GirlsA journalist uncovers the dark secrets of an abandoned boarding school in this chilling suspense novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Sun Down Motel. Vermont, 1950. There's a place for the girls whom no one wantsthe troublemakers, the illegitimate, the ones too smart for their own good. It's called Idlewild Hall, and local legend says the boarding school is haunted. Four roommates bond over their whispered fears, their friendship

the only thing deadlier than losing the game is losing your heart

including his just-ex lover

But when she runs into Elliot Petropoulos—the first and only love of her life—the careful bubble she’s constructed begins to dissolve

this "soaring masterpiece" examines the devastating impact of grief and the ruthless machinations of fate (Ron Charles

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working as a guiding metaphor for withering

An engaging and evocative novel reminiscent of The Lost Girls of Paris and The Alice Network

she gleans

she escapes from teaching at a girls’ school into a wild and irresistible love match

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A “thrilling

Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world