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Series
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
Returning to her beloved one-room school and her adopted community of Rockytop, Colorado, Minta tries to put the terrible and traumatic events of the previous year behind her. However, despite evidence that her abusive husband was killed while being transported from Colorado to Indiana for trial, the young school teacher remains haunted by Edmund's specter of vengeance--and with good cause...--From publisher's description.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Luke has been away for two endless years, but he's finally returning today. Lily was only twelve when he left. But now, at fourteen, she feels transformed. She can't wait to see how Luke will react when he sees the new her. And when her mother tells her that Luke will be staying with them for a while, in the bedroom right next to hers, her heart nearly stops. Having Luke back is better than Lily could have ever dreamed. His lingering looks set Lily...
Author
Series
Heart of Texas (Donna Grant) volume 4
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
In the Heart of Texas, a heartthrob cowboy may get his second chance at love... Danny Oldman, the handsome Lone Star sheriff, is still single. He tells himself, and anyone who asks, that he is married to his job--and what matters most is keeping the people of his beloved Texas hometown safe. The truth? Danny still hasn't gotten over his high school crush. She moved away after graduation and took Danny's heart with her. Skylar Long never thought she...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
1975. In the town of Rexburg, Idaho, Aran Rigby and his siblings are locked in orbit around their emotionally abusive father Gad. Arriving in Rexburg is Linda Duff, an outsider from Seattle hoping to plant new roots far from the bitter ones of her childhood. She's quickly taken with Aran, but when they fall in love, Linda is drawn into a family more damaged than the one she left behind. Linda becomes an unwitting catalyst for the upheaval of Gad's...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022].
Description
When her grandfather suffers a suspicious, fatal heart attack at her wedding, Violet can barely conceal her joy. For herself, and for the sake of other victims like her, Violet is reclaiming the power stolen from her as a child. Predator by predator, she's coming for them. It's intoxicating. It's liberating. But the secrets she now keeps, and the lies she must tell, come with a price.
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
In this suspenseful romantic thriller, Julia Roberts stars as Laura, a young woman who thinks she's found the man of her dreams in Martin (Patrick Bergin). Only after they are married does she discover the real Martin--compulsive, controlling and dangerously violent. After three years of living in fear and dread, Laura finally escapes, only to have Martin track her down.
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
Faith Finley has it all: she's a talented psychologist with a flourishing career, a bestselling author and the host of a popular local radio program, Someone's Listening, with Dr. Faith Finley. She's married to the perfect man, Liam Finley, a respected food critic. Until the night everything goes horribly wrong, and Faith's life is shattered forever. Liam is missing--gone without a trace--and the police are suspicious of everything Faith says. They...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"From the author of the PEN/Faulkner winning debut novel Preparation for the Next Life--a searing, tender, haunting story about fathers and sons, sons and mothers, and a young boy's struggle to become a man. Corey Goltz is fifteen years old when his mother, Gloria, is diagnosed with ALS. Estranged from his father, and increasingly responsible for meeting both his mother's needs and his own, Corey is determined to be the hero Gloria needs --at any...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Clare and Zari are best friends. They write music together, go everywhere together, and they know everything about the other. At least they did before Zari started dating Dion. The more Zari falls for Dion, the less she has time for anything else. At first, Clare chalks it up to a new and exciting relationship, and she tries to be happy for her friend despite her loneliness. When Zari starts to show up to school with half-hidden bruises, Clare knows...
56) The apology
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"This book, The Apology, written by Eve from her father's point of view in the words she longed to hear attempts to transform the abuse she suffered, with unflinching truthfulness, compassion, and a expansive vision for the future. Through The Apology Eve has set out to provide a new way for herself and a possible road for others, so that survivors of abuse may finally imagine how to be free. In it, she grapples with questions she has sought answers...
58) Dream boy
Author
Pub. Date
1995
Description
In a small Southern town, Nathan, an unloved boy abused by his father forms a friendship with Roy, a boy next door. While studying algebra on Roy's bed, they engage in sexual acts, run off together, and drama follows. By the author of Winter Birds
59) The Ice House
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
Ten years ago, Phoebe Maybury's hateful husband David disappeared from Streech Grange. Now, a naked, unidentifiable corpse has been discovered in the icehouse on the Grange and Inspectors Walsh and McLoughlin have to decide whose it is, whether he was murdered ; and who killed him.