Girl Unwrapped

10 best books like Girl Unwrapped (Gabriella Goliger): Captive: A Mother's Crusade to Save Her Daughter from the Terrifying Cult Nxivm, Sunburn, Little Fish, The Chelsea Girls, Don’t You Cry, A Wolf at the Table, Help for the Haunted, People Like Us, Closed Doors, Shelter

Captive: A Mother's Crusade to Save Her Daughter from the Terrifying Cult Nxivm
AuthorCatherine Oxenberg
ISBN1508260176
Now updated with a new afterword, Captive is an emotional, ripped-from-the-headlines exposé that lays bare the secretive cult that shocked the world—for fans of Leah Remini’s Troublemaker and Lawrence Wright’s Going Clear.

I am a mother whose child is being abused and exploited....
Sunburn
AuthorLaura Lippman
ISBN0062389920
One is playing a long game. But which one?

They meet at a local tavern in the small town of Belleville, Delaware. Polly is set on heading west. Adam says he’s also passing through.

Yet she stays and he stays—drawn to this mysterious redhead whose quiet stillness both unnerves and...
Little Fish
AuthorCasey Plett
ISBN1551527200
WINNER, Lambda Literary Award; Firecracker Award for Fiction; $60,000 Amazon Canada First Novel Award

In this extraordinary debut novel by the author of the Lambda Literary Award-winning story collection A Safe Girl to Love, Wendy Reimer is a thirty-year-old trans woman who comes across...
The Chelsea Girls
AuthorFiona Davis
From Fiona Davis, the nationally bestselling author of The Dollhouse and The Address, the bright lights of the theater district, the glamour and danger of 1950s New York, and the wild scene at the iconic Chelsea Hotel come together in a dazzling new novel about the twenty-year friendship that...
Don’t You Cry
AuthorCass Green
One stolen baby. Two desperate strangers. One night of terror.


The USA Today and Sunday Times top ten bestselling author returns with a dark and twisty psychological thriller.


She saved your life.
When Nina almost dies during a disastrous blind date, her life is saved...
A Wolf at the Table
AuthorAugusten Burroughs
ISBN0312342020
“As a little boy, I had a dream that my father had taken me to the woods where there was a dead body. He buried it and told me I must never tell. It was the only thing we’d ever done together as father and son, and I promised not to tell. But unlike most dreams, the memory of this one never left me. And sometimes…I...
Help for the Haunted
AuthorJohn Searles
ISBN0060779632
It begins with a call in the middle of snowy February evening. Lying in her bed, young Sylvie Mason overhears her parents on the phone across the hall. This is not the first late-night call they have received, since her mother and father have an uncommon occupation, helping "haunted souls" find peace....
People Like Us
AuthorDominick Dunne
ISBN0345430549
The way journalist Gus Bailey tells it, old money is always preferred, but occasionally new money sneaks in--even where it is most unwelcome. After moving from Cincinnati, Elias and Ruby Renthal strike it even richer in New York, turning their millions into billions. It would be impolite for high society...
AuthorLisa O'Donnell
'There are no strangers in Rothesay, Michael. Everyone knows who you are and always will. It's a blessing but it's also a curse.' Eleven-year-old Michael Murray is the best at two things: keepy-uppies and keeping secrets. His family think he's too young to hear grown-up stuff, but he listens at doors;...
AuthorFrances Greenslade
A gorgeous, poetic literary debut from award-winning author Frances Greenslade, Shelter is a brilliant coming-of-age story of two strong, brave sisters searching for their mother.

For sisters Maggie and Jenny growing up in the Pacific mountains in the early 1970s, life felt nearly perfect....
New Europe
AuthorMichael Palin
ISBN0297844490
Michael Palin's New Europe starts with a simple idea: that only a couple of hours from home is a half of Europe that is for him as unknown and unexplored as the plateau of Tibet or the vastnesses of the Sahara. Cut off for most of his life by Cold Wars and Iron Curtains, Europe's eastern lands are now open for...
Lying in Wait
AuthorLiz Nugent
ISBN1501167774
From the international bestselling author of Unraveling Oliver, an “unputdownable psychological thriller with an ending that lingers long after turning the final page” (The Irish Times) about a Dublin family whose dark secrets and twisted relationships are suddenly revealed.

My...
Constellations
AuthorSinéad Gleeson
ISBN1509892753
I have come to think of all the metal in my body as artificial stars, glistening beneath the skin, a constellation of old and new metal. A map, a tracing of connections and a guide to looking at things from different angles.

How do you tell the story of life that is no one thing? How do you tell the story...
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