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Author
Pub. Date
2023
Description
"What if you woke up one morning and found you'd acquired another self--a double who was almost you and yet not you at all? What if that double shared many of your preoccupations but, in a twisted, upside-down way, furthered the very causes you'd devoted your life to fighting against? Not long ago, the celebrated activist and public intellectual Naomi Klein had just such an experience--she was confronted with a doppelganger whose views she found abhorrent...
3) Unknown
Pub. Date
[2011]
Formats
Description
Some intense sequences of violence and action, and brief sexual content.
Dr. Martin Harris awakens after a car accident in Berlin to discover that his wife suddenly doesn't recognize him and another man has assumed his identity. Ignored by disbelieving authorities and hunted by mysterious assassins, he finds himself alone, tired, and on the run. Aided by an unlikely ally, Harris plunges into a deadly mystery, forcing him to question his sanity, his...
Author
Description
"Multiverse travel is finally possible, but there’s just one catch: No one can visit a world where their counterpart is still alive. Enter Cara, whose parallel selves happen to be exceptionally good at dying—from disease, turf wars, or vendettas they couldn’t outrun. Cara’s life has been cut short on 372 worlds in total. On this Earth, however, Cara has survived. Identified as an outlier and therefore a perfect candidate for multiverse travel,...
5) Unseen magic
Author
Series
Unseen magic volume 1
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Description
"Eleven-year-old Fin has never felt safe until she and her mother move to the magic-infused town of Aldermere in the Pacific Northwest, but when the town is suddenly overrun with disturbances Fin is the only one who knows why--and she's the only one who can stop the havoc"--
Author
Series
Septology volume 1
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"The year is coming to a close and Asle, an aging painter and widower, is reminiscing about his life. He lives alone, his only friends being his neighbor, sleik, a bachelor and traditional Norwegian fisherman-farmer, and Beyer, a gallerist who lives in Bjorgvin, a couple hours' drive south of Dylgja, where he lives. There, in Bjorgvin, lives another Asle, also a painter. He and the narrator are doppelgangers--two versions of the same person, two versions...
Author
Series
Septology volume 3
Pub. Date
c2021.
Description
Asle is an aging painter and widower who lives alone on the west coast of Norway. His only friends are his neighbor, Åsleik, a traditional fisherman-farmer, and Beyer, a gallerist who lives in the city. There, in Bjørgvin, lives another Asle, also a painter but lonely and consumed by alcohol. Asle and Asle are doppelgängers—two versions of the same person, two versions of the same life. In this final installment of Jon Fosse’s Septology, “a...
Author
Series
Lost Wonderland diaries volume 2
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"Celia and Tyrus must travel through another secret diary of Charles Dodgson (a.k.a. Lewis Carroll) into the Looking-Glass World to save their reflections, which have been stolen by the Bandersnatch, and reunite the warring Red and White Kingdoms"--
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
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Description
Beth has never had any friends and she has always been kind of invisible at school, so when a new girl, Lizzie, moves into her building she thinks that she has finally found a best friend; but things turn creepy when Lizzie starts copying Beth so exactly that she might be a twin--and Beth starts to wonder if Lizzie is a friend or something a lot more sinister.
Author
Series
Ms Marvel volume v 1
Formats
Description
"After an interdimensional explosion at her cousin's lab, Kamala Khan suddenly has a doppelganger to deal with! As Ms. Marvel, it's her duty to help out the newcomer -- but something doesn't feel quite right. Kamala's powers are on the fritz, and she suspects that this new hero-in-training isn't trustworthy. Can a misfiring Ms. Marvel protect her good name when the copycat goes wild? And why has everything around her ... turned into a Bollywood set?!...
Author
Series
Dead is-- volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Description
In the beach town of Nightshade, California, home to both human and supernatural beings, the Giordano sisters find summer employment and uncover mysteries involving doppelgangers and oversized football players.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"New York Timesbestselling team Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton invite readers to come hang out with them in their 169-story treehousethe thirteenth and final book in the illustrated chapter book series filled with Andy and Terry's signature slapstick humor!"--
14) No Ordinary Man
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Series
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Description
One thing was certain: Rob Carpenter was no ordinary man. He was the sexiest guy she'd ever met. And that was about all Jess Baxter knew about her newest tenant. Rob Carpenter was a master at dodging questions. And igniting her desires. With just one of his searing kisses, Jess was hotter than the Florida sun.Then the murders started--all women who looked like her. And the profile of the killer matched Rob. Was he an innocent victim--or had his burning...
15) The double
Author
Pub. Date
©2004
Description
Renting a recommended video to ease his depression, divorced history teacher Tertuliano Maximo Afonso is unsettled to see a man in the video who looks exactly the way he looked five years earlier.
16) Us
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
Haunted by trauma from her past and compounded by a string of eerie coincidences, Adelaide grows increasingly certain that something bad is going to befall her family. After spending a tense beach day with their friends, Adelaide and her family return to their vacation home. When darkness falls, the Wilsons discover the silhouette of four figures holding hands as they stand in the driveway. The endearing American family faces doppelgangers of themselves....
Author
Pub. Date
c1999
Description
A son searches for his father before the father kills him in this spooky novel. The protagonist, jazz singer Ned Dunstant of Illinois, learns about his father from his mother on her deathbed. The father is a psychopathic killer with supernatural powers who considers his son a deadly danger.
20) Merciful secrecy
Author
Series
Miracles and mysteries of Mercy Hospital volume 11
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"Anne Mabry loves her volunteer work at Mercy Hospital, and she loves the relationships she's been able to form with the staff. So, when she learns that nurse Katie McNamara is unsettled by a strange sequence of events, Anne can't help but wonder if someone is threatening her. When Anne later meets Katie's grandfather, a retired Atlanta detective, and learns that Katie was adopted after her father testified against the mob, Anne and her friends set...