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"Jane Ellison is a 'super recognizer' able to identify strangers by the slightest facial details. When she spies Bella Valencia in a crowded airport, Jane's convinced she's found the woman responsible for her sister Kit's disappearance and presumed death eleven years earlier. But her attempt to detain Bella ends with Jane herself fired and humiliated. As Bella prepared to marry Will Pease, scion of the uber-wealthy and ruthless Pease family, on Cape...
2) Bone Gap
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Eighteen-year-old Finn, an outsider in his quiet Midwestern town, is the only witness to the abduction of town favorite Roza, but his inability to distinguish between faces makes it difficult for him to help with the investigation, and subjects him to even more ridicule and bullying.
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"A man with a neurological disorder that prevents him from recognizing human faces confronts an enigmatic killer in Chile's Atacama desert - the most lifeless place on earth Gabe Traylin is face-blind, unable to tell one person from the next. Content to earn his living well away from civilization, he works as an astronomer at an observatory in the earth's driest desert, where no rain has fallen in 400 years. But when he witnesses a murder that he's...
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" From Brazil's most acclaimed young novelist, the mesmerizing story of how a troubled young man's restorative journey to the seaside becomes a violent struggle with his family's past - So why did they kill him? - I'm getting there. Patience, tchê. I wanted to give you the context. Because it's a good story, isn't it? A young man's father, close to death, reveals to his son the true story of his grandfather's death, or at least the truth as he knows...
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Fifteen-year-old Berta says that beautiful things aren't made for her, or that she isn't destined to have them, or that the only things she deserves are ugly. It's why her main activity, when she's not at school, is playing the "prosopagnosia game" standing in front of the mirror and holding her breath until she can no longer recognize her own face. An ibis is the only animal she wants for a pet. Berta's mother is in her forties. By her own estimation,...
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