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The guest room / by Sylva, Tasha,author.;
"Tess has a bad habit. She can't stop snooping through her guests' belongings ... When Tess is forced to rent out her late sister's old room to pay the bills, the urge to rummage through her guests' belongings overtakes her every thought. Teasing herself with forbidden glimpses into the lives of strangers is a momentary thrill, but it's the closest she's felt to anyone since the mysterious death of her sister, Rosie. After her newest lodger, Arran, takes the room, Tess finds his salaciously detailed diary, which chronicles his infatuation with a beautiful stranger. The diary, which appears harmless at first, slowly takes a darker, more menacing tone with each new entry. Is this a crush or an obsession? Her compulsion to know the truth leads to Tess shadowing Arran through the streets of London, hoping to catch a glimpse of this unnamed woman. And as she continues to peruse his diary, she can't help but notice the similarities between the woman on the pages and herself, leaving her to wonder, Who has truly been watching whom?"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Apartments; Curiosity; Infatuation; Secrecy; Single women; Strangers;

The burning room : a novel / by Connelly, Michael,1956-author.;
Subjects: Suspense fiction.; Mystery fiction.; Bosch, Harry (Fictitious character); Cold cases (Criminal investigation); Murder; Police;

The whispering room : a Jane Hawk novel / by Koontz, Dean R.(Dean Ray),1945-author.;
"No time to delay. Do what you were born to do. Fame will be yours when you do this." These are the words that ring in the mind of mild-mannered, beloved schoolteacher Cora Gundersun--just before she takes her own life, and many others', in a shocking act of carnage. When the disturbing contents of her secret journal are discovered, it seems certain that she must have been insane. But Jane Hawk knows better. In the wake of her husband's inexplicable suicide--and the equally mysterious deaths of scores of other exemplary individuals--Jane picks up the trail of a secret cabal of powerful players who think themselves above the law and beyond punishment. But the ruthless people bent on hijacking America's future for their own monstrous ends never banked on a highly trained FBI agent willing to go rogue--and become the nation's most wanted fugitive--in order to derail their insidious plans to gain absolute power with a terrifying technological breakthrough. Driven by love for her lost husband and by fear for the five-year-old son she has sent into hiding, Jane Hawk has become an unstoppable predator. Those she is hunting will have nowhere to run when her shadow falls across them.--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Psychological fiction.; Suicide; Nanotechnology; Conspiracies;

The whispering room [sound recording] : a Jane Hawk novel / by Koontz, Dean R.(Dean Ray),1945-author.; Rodgers, Elisabeth S.,narrator.; Recorded Books, LLC,publisher.;
Read by Elisabeth Rodgers."No time to delay. Do what you were born to do. Fame will be yours when you do this." These are the words that ring in the mind of mild-mannered, beloved schoolteacher Cora Gundersun--just before she takes her own life, and many others', in a shocking act of carnage. When the disturbing contents of her secret journal are discovered, it seems certain that she must have been insane. But Jane Hawk knows better. In the wake of her husband's inexplicable suicide--and the equally mysterious deaths of scores of other exemplary individuals--Jane picks up the trail of a secret cabal of powerful players who think themselves above the law and beyond punishment. But the ruthless people bent on hijacking America's future for their own monstrous ends never banked on a highly trained FBI agent willing to go rogue--and become the nation's most wanted fugitive--in order to derail their insidious plans to gain absolute power with a terrifying technological breakthrough. Driven by love for her lost husband and by fear for the five-year-old son she has sent into hiding, Jane Hawk has become an unstoppable predator. Those she is hunting will have nowhere to run when her shadow falls across them.--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Audiobooks.; Psychological fiction.; Suicide; Nanotechnology; Conspiracies;

The locked room / by Griffiths, Elly,author.;
"Ruth is in London clearing out her mother's belongings when she makes a surprising discovery: a photograph of her Norfolk cottage taken before Ruth lived there. Her mother always hated the cottage, so why does she have a picture of the place? The only clue is written on the back of the photo: Dawn, 1963. Ruth returns to Norfolk determined to solve the mystery, but then Covid rears its ugly head. Ruth and her daughter are locked down in their cottage, attempting to continue with work and home-schooling. Happily, the house next door is rented by a nice woman called Zoe, who they become friendly with while standing on their doorsteps clapping for carers. Nelson, meanwhile, is investigating a series of deaths of women that may or may not be suicide. When he links the deaths to an archaeological discovery, he breaks curfew to visit the cottage where he finds Ruth chatting to her neighbour whom he remembers as a carer who was once tried for murdering her employer. Only then her name wasn't Zoe. It was Dawn."--Publisher.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Novels.; Galloway, Ruth (Fictitious character); COVID-19 (Disease); Forensic anthropologists; Murder; Pandemics; Parent and child; Photographs; Quarantine; Secrecy;

Room for everyone / by Khan, Naaz.; López, Mercè,1979-;
One stop becomes two stops which soon becomes ten, and Musa wonders when it will end: "How can any more people get in? We're already smushed like sardines in a tin!" But there's always room for one more, if you make the room, which is the heartwarming take-away from this bouncy, joyous tale in rhyme.LSC
Subjects: Stories in rhyme.; Brothers and sisters; Ridesharing; Transportation;

The change room / by Connelly, Karen,1969-author.;
Eliza Keenan is the mother of two young sons, the owner of a flower studio that caters to the city's elite, and the loving wife of a deliciously rumpled math professor named Andrew. She's on the move from dawn until her boys are in bed, and after they're asleep she cleans her house. Her one complaint about her life is that the only time she has for herself is her twice-weekly swim in the local community centre pool, where sunlight shines in through a tall window and lights up the water in a way that reminds her of the year she spent as a footloose youth on an island in Greece. Then one morning into this life that is full of satisfactions of all kinds except sexual (because who has the time or the energy once the kids are asleep?) comes a tall, dark and lovely stranger, a young woman Eliza encounters at the pool and nicknames 'the Amazon.' The sight of this woman, naked in the change room, completely undoes Eliza, and soon the two of them are entangled in an affair that breaks all the rules, and threatens to capsize not only Eliza and her happy family, but her lover's world, too. And yet the sex is so all-encompassing, so intimate, so true ... how can it be bad?
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Married women; Adultery; Families; Lesbians;

Room on the broom / by Donaldson, Julia.; Scheffler, Axel.;
The witch and her cat fly happily over forests, rivers and mountains on their broomstick until a stormy wind blows away the witch's hat, bow and wand. Luckily, they are retrieved by a dog, a bird and a frog, who are all keen for a ride on the broom. It's a case of the more, the merrier, but the broomstick isn't used to such a heavy load and it's not long before...SNAP! It breaks in two! And with a greedy dragon looking for a snack, the witch's animal pals better think fast.
Subjects: Stories in rhyme.; Picture books.; Witches; Brooms and brushes; Dragons;

The room next door [videorecording] / by Almodóvar, Agustin,film producer.; Almodóvar, Pedro,film director,screenwriter.; Font, Teresa,editor of moving image work.; García, Esther,1956-film producer.; Grau, Eduard,1981-director of photography.; Iglesias, Alberto,composer (expression); Moore, Julianne,actor.; Swinton, Tilda,actor.; Turturro, John,1957-actor.; Weinberg, Inbal,production designer.; Motion picture adaptation of (work):Nunez, Sigrid.What are you going through.; Deseo, S.A.,production company.; Sony Pictures Classics (Firm),publisher.;
Music by Alberto Iglesias; director of photography, Edu Grau; editor, Teresa Font ; production designer, Inbal Weinberg.Julianne Moore, Tilda Swinton, John Turturro, Alessandro Nivola.Ingrid and Martha were close friends in their youth, when they worked together at the same magazine. Ingrid went on to become a novelist while Martha became a war reporter. Separated by the circumstances of life and after years of being out of touch, they meet again in an extreme but strangely sweet situation.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.MPA Rating: PG-13; for thematic content, strong language, and some sexual references.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; anamorphic wide screen presentation (2.20:1) ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Feature films.; Fiction films.; Critically ill; Death; Empathy; Female friendship; Interpersonal relations;
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The repeat room : a novel / by Ball, Jesse,1978-author.;
"In a speculative future, Abel, a menial worker, is called to serve in a secretive and fabled jury system. At the heart of this system is the repeat room, where a single juror, selected from hundreds of candidates, is able to inhabit the defendant's lived experience, to see as if through their eyes. The case to which Abel is assigned is a record of a boy's broken and constrained life, a tale that reveals an illicit and passionate psycho-sexual relationship, its end as tragic as the circumstances of its conception"--
Subjects: Dystopian fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Satirical fiction.; Novels.; Jurors; Crime; Teenage boys;

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