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1) Journey
Author
Language
English
Description
When Washington newswoman Maddy joins a commission on violence against women, she recognizes that her husband's behavior is harmful and leaves him. Will she ever dare to love again?
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux/Frances Foster Books
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
After being left by her husband at a gas station in Florida, sixteen-year-old Sally Jo Walker, also known as Jody, makes some difficult decisions and a better life for herself.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Before terror flowered in the attic there was a young girl. An innocent, hopeful girl... When young Olivia arrives at Foxworth Hall, she thinks her marriage to handsome Malcolm will bring the joy she has longed for. But in the gloomy mansion filled with festering desires and forbidden passions, a stain of jealous obsession begins to spread--an evil that will threaten her children, two charming boys and one very special, beautiful girl. For within...
Author
Publisher
HarperTempest
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
A year after running away with a traveling carnival to escape his unbearable home life, sixteen-year-old Michael returns to Miami, Florida, to find that his mother is going on trial for the murder of his abusive stepfather.
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Following a difficult childhood, Kim has built a successful life for herself. But the guilt she harbors over a tragic mistake she made years ago colors all of her success. When she meets Rick, she thinks she has found everything she needs in her life-including a way to pay for her sins every time he hits her. A new neighbor, Joshua, knows more about Rick than Kim realilzes, but he has demons of his own to battle. And Debbie, a new friend who has...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Flight Attendant, the enthralling story of a young Puritan woman who marries the wrong man and soon finds herself caught up in the violence and hysteria of the Salem Witch Trials"--
Boston, 1662. Mary Deerfield is twenty-four-years-old. Her skin is porcelain, her eyes delft blue, and in England she might have had many suitors. But here in The New World, amid this community of saints, Mary is the...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
In the town of Coal Run, the local deputy, Ivan Zoschenko, a permanently-injured one-time football legend branded for life as "The Great Ivan Z," spends a week seemingly preparing for an old teammate's imminent release from prison. He is surrounded by a rich cast of characters: his wise and comic ex-beauty-queen sister; his former idol, Val Claypool; and the young woman whose life he changed forever. During the events of this week, Ivan Confronts...
Author
Publisher
Suma
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Español
Description
Liz Nugent's novel of psychological suspense is a complex and elegant study of the making of a sociopath in the tradition of Barbara Vine and Patricia Highsmith. Oliver Ryan is a handsome and charismatic success story. He lives in the leafy suburbs with his wife, Alice, who illustrates his award-winning children's books and gives him her unstinting devotion. Their life together is one of enviable privilege and ease - enviable until, one evening after...
Author
Publisher
B & H Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
In 1808, when Emma meets and marries Eric Montclair (the famed "most handsome man west of the Appalachians"), this young daughter of prominent St. Louis Citizens believes a fairy tale has just begun. Instead, her husband's angelic looks quickly prove only to mask the monstrous soul all too capable of possessive emotions and physical abuse. Praying for mercy, she is devastated when Eric insists on her joining his yearlong group expedition to the Pacific...
Author
Series
Josephine Tey mysteries volume 9
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
"December 1938, and storm clouds hover once again over Europe. Josephine Tey and Archie Penrose gather with friends for a Cornish Christmas, but two strange and brutal deaths on St. Michael's Mount--and the unexpected arrival of a world famous film star, in need of sanctuary--interrupt the festivities. Cut off by the sea and a relentless blizzard, the hunt for a murderer begins"--
13) Cracker Jackson
Author
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
1986, c1985
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
After attempting to save his ex-babysitter from wife abuse, Cracker Jackson gains an adult insight into the sadness of failed heroics.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A young Indian woman falsely rumored to have killed her husband finds a way to make her unfortunate reputation surprisingly useful--but complications arise when other village women seek her help offing their husbands--in this provocative, razor-sharp debut. "The Bandit Queens heralds a prodigious and sophisticated literary talent." Tǎ Obreht, New York Times bestselling author of Inland In the five years since her husband's disappearance, Geeta has...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2021.
Language
English
Description
"One weekend, sisters Tanya and Nessa Bloom pause their respective adult lives and travel to the Boston suburbs to help their mother pack up and move out of their childhood home. For the first time since they were teenagers sharing a bunk bed over a decade ago, they find themselves in the place where long-kept secrets were born, where jealousy, comfort, anger, forgiveness, and repulsion coexist with the fiercest love and loyalty. What they don't expect...
Author
Publisher
Scout Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
Oliver Ryan, handsome, charismatic, and successful, has long been married to his devoted wife, Alice. Together they write and illustrate award-winning children's books; their life one of privilege and ease-- until, one evening after a delightful dinner, Oliver delivers a blow to Alice that renders her unconscious, and subsequently beats her into a coma. As Alice hovers between life and death, the couple's friends, neighbors, and acquaintances try...
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Language
English
Formats
Description
The breathtaking tale of a woman on the run who gets the chance for a whole new life.... If her abusive husband hadn't tried to kill her and her beloved dog Lucie, Helen Ward might never have left her million-dollar home and run far away. Now Helen's changed her identity and moved across the country, hopeful that she can be safe, happy, maybe even loved. And when she meets college professor Sam Tolliver, she begins to believe fairytales do come true....
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In her 20s, Ivy Peterman escaped an abusive marriage with little more than her kids and the clothes on her back. Quaint New Bern, Connecticut seemed an ideal place to make a fresh start. With a part-time job at the Cobbled Court Quilt Shop, and budding friendships, Ivy feels hopeful. But when a popular television show is taped at the quilt shop, Ivy's unwitting appearance alerts her ex to her whereabouts. Suddenly, Ivy is facing the fight of her life...
Author
Series
Safe Haven novels volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Return to Safe Haven, where a new beginning with your first love is only a heartbeat away... Yasmin Tanner has devoted her life to making other people's dreams come true. But between running Safe Haven's women's center and caring for her brother, the long days -- and lonely nights -- are catching up with her... until Officer Liam O'Dwyer knocks on her door. She had good reasons for breaking Liam's heart all those years ago, but that hasn't made sharing...
Author
Series
Safe Haven novels volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sunny, carefree days splashing in the ocean— it's the life Anna George has always wanted for her five-year-old twins. And now that they've made it to Safe Haven, South Carolina, she won't let anyone stand in her way. Not the abusive ex she's just escaped and not the rugged contractor who caught her setting up house in the shuttered beachfront cabins he's refurbishing. When he offers Anna and her daughters a place to stay in exchange for her help...