TWIN SISTERS
Sisters.  TWINS.  Best friends.  Worst enemies.  
Black Sunday

by Tola Rotimi Abraham
 
Twin sisters Bibike and Ariyike are enjoying a relatively comfortable life in Lagos in 1996. Then their mother loses her job due to political strife, and the family, facing poverty, becomes drawn into the New Church, an institution led by a charismatic pastor who is not shy about worshipping earthly wealth.
 
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Hairpin Bridge

by Taylor Adams
 
Three months ago, Lena Nguyen's estranged twin sister, Cambry, drove to a remote bridge seventy miles outside of Missoula, Montana, and jumped two hundred feet to her death. At least, that is the official police version. But Lena isn't buying it.
 
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The Lady in the Coppergate Tower

by Nancy Campbell Allen
 
Hazel Hughes finds romance and danger as she travels to Romania in an attempt to save her twin sister, who is slowly going mad inside the Coppergate Tower. 
 
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I'll Be You

by Janelle Brown

Sam and Elli are identical twins who spent their childhood years, and then their teenage ones, as actors. Now grown, they've also grown apart--Elli in the direction of a husband, a career as a florist, and an upper-middle-class life; Sam in a downward spiral of addiction. 
 
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The Girl in the Mirror

by Rose Carlyle
 
Here's what Iris knows about her identical twin sister, Summer:
Everything that belongs to Summer is perfect, from her magnificent yacht to her gorgeous husband. Summer's life will always be better than Iris's.Nobody -- absolutely nobody -- can tell the twins apart. Even with $100 million at stake.
 
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West End Girls

by Jenny Colgan
 
They may be twin sisters, but Lizzie and Penny Berry are complete opposites. The one trait they do share is a desire to DO something with their lives, and as far as they are concerned, the place to get noticed is London.
 
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First Born

by Will Dean

Molly Raven lives a quiet, structured life in London, finding comfort in security and routine. Her identical twin Katie, living in New York, is the exact opposite: outgoing, spontaneous, and adventurous.
 
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Magic for Liars

by Sarah Gailey
 
When a gruesome murder is discovered at The Osthorne Academy of Young Mages, where her estranged twin sister teaches Theoretical Magic, reluctant detective Ivy Gamble is pulled into the world of untold power and dangerous secrets. 
 
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The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies

by Alison Goodman

 high society amateur detective at the heart of Regency London uses her wits and invisibility as an 'old maid' to protect other women .
 
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Half

by Sharon Harrigan
 
Written in spare,lyrical prose, this book is an achingly beautiful story of intimacy and loss, revealing the complexity -- and cost -- of sharing your life entirely with someone else.
 
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Such Sharp Teeth

by Rachel Harrison

Rory Morris isn't thrilled to be moving back to her hometown, even if it is temporary. There are bad memories there. But her twin sister, Scarlett, is pregnant, estranged from the baby's father, and needs support. 
 
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The Good Sister

by Sally Hepworth
 
From the outside, everyone might think Fern and Rose are as close as twin sisters can be: Rose is the responsible one, with a home and a husband and a fierce desire to become a mother. Fern is the quirky one, the free spirit, the librarian who avoids social interaction and whom the world might just describe as truly odd.
 
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The Woman With Two Shadows

by Sarah James
 
Lillian Kaufman hasn't heard from her twin sister since Eleanor left for a mysterious job at an Army base somewhere in Tennessee. Then she learns that Eleanor is missing. 
 
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Snuffed Out

by Valona Jones

Twin sisters Tabby and Sage Winslow, owners of The Book and Candle Shop in Savannah, come to the aid of their shop clerk Gerald when he becomes the prime suspect in the murder of one of the shop's customers.
 
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The Holiday Swap

by Maggie Knox
 
With only days until Christmas, a desperate Charlie asks her twin sister Cass to do something they haven't done since they were kids: switch places. Looking for her own escape from reality, Cass agrees. But temporarily trading lives proves more complicated than they imagined.
 
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On the Savage Side
 
by Tiffany McDaniel

Inspired by the unsolved murders of the Chillicothe Six, this harrowing and haunting novel tells the story of two sisters, both of whom could be the next victims.
 
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The Sisters Sweet

by Elizabeth Weiss
 
As "The Sisters Sweet," they pose as conjoined twins in a vaudeville act conceived of by their ambitious father and managed by their practical mother, who were once theatrical stars in their own rights. Then, in an explosive act, Josie exposes the fraud in a spectacular fashion and runs away to Hollywood. 
A Saint From Texas

by Edmund White
 
Yvette and Yvonne Crawford are twin sisters, born on a humble patch of East Texas prairie but bound for far grander fates. 
 
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The Keepsake Sisters

by Lori Wilde
 
It was a story that couldn't possibly be true: identical twins, separated at birth. Anna Drury wouldn't have believed it, but the woman standing before her was physically alike her in every way, and held in her hands a keepsake baby bracelet, the same as Anna had.
 
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The Lost Girls of Willowbrook

by Ellen Marie Wiseman
 
Six years after her twin sister's death, 16-year-old Sage discovers a shocking secret, her sister didn't die, she was committed to Willowbrook State School. 
 
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