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    Nice Girls
    • Returning home after being kicked out of college, Mary becomes obsessed with the disappearance of a rising social media star--and her former best friend--and, as hatred consumes her, discovers a link to another missing person that opens up old wounds. Growing up in Liberty Lake, Minnesota, Mary was chubby, awkward, and smart; a scholarship to an Ivy League school was her ticket out. Three years later she's back-- thinner, cynical, and a restless failure. Kicked out of Cornell at the beginning of senior year, she won't tell anyone why. When Olivia Willand, a rising social media star, goes missing, Mary becomes obsessed. Best friends in childhood, Mary knows better than anyone that behind the Instagram persona hid a wilful, manipulative girl with sharp edges. She also believes that the disappearance is tied to that of nineteen-year-old DeMaria Jackson, whose disappearance has gone under the radar

      Nice Girls
    • A haunting coming-of-age tale following the daughter of Vietnamese immigrants, Ronny Nguyen, as she grapples with the weight of generational trauma while navigating the violent power of teenage girlhood, for fans of Jennifer's Body and Little Fires Everywhere.[Bokinfo].

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