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Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Astrid is newly sober and trying to turn her life around. Having reluctantly moved back in with her mother, in a quiet seaside town away from the temptations and darkness of her previous life, she is focusing on her recovery. She's going to meetings. Confessing her misdeeds. Making amends to those she's wronged. If she fills her days, maybe she can outrun the ghosts that haunt her. Maybe she can start anew. But someone is tormenting me now. Someone...
2) Dead even
Author
Language
English
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"Heart-stopping intensity." —San Francisco Chronicle
"Meltzer has come up with a gem of a plot....It breezes along in high gear....[A] highly recommended suspenser." —Chicago Tribune
In this second novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Brad Meltzer, husband and wife face off in a legal thriller that poses the most chilling question of all: How far would you go to save the
...Author
Publisher
The Guilford Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"When a man showers all of his attention on a woman, it can feel incredibly romantic, and can blind her to hints of problems ahead. But what happens when that attentiveness becomes domination? For certain people, the desire to control leads to jealousy, threats, micromanaging--even physical violence. Lisa Aronson Fontes draws on both professional expertise and personal experience to provide practical guidance and support for readers who find themselves...
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
10-year-old Luke lives with his parents and grandparents in Arkansas during the Korean War. To pick the cotton in their fields, they must hire "hill people" and Mexicans. Hank is a "hill person" who doesn't take kindly to people looking down on him. Luke witnesses a fight that Hank gets into that causes the death of another person. With better times ahead to look forward to, the town gets excited about a new invention - television.
Author
Series
Ella Clah mysteries volume 16
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Contemplating a lucrative job offer that would force her to leave the Reservation, Navajo officer Ella Clah wonders how the move would affect her daughter and investigates an airfield shooting that involves an alternative-fuel lobbyist and a tribal attorney.
Author
Series
Alex Delaware novels volume 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Child psychologist Alex Delaware returns in a story that begins with a childlike chant and finishes with Alex at the end of a chain of unexpected deaths.
8) Tickled
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
After stumbling upon a bizarre 'competitive endurance tickling' video online, wherein young men are paid to be tied up and tickled, reporter David Farrier reaches out to request a story from the company. But the reply he receives is shocking. The sender mocks Farrier's sexual orientation and threatens extreme legal action should he dig any deeper. So, like any good journalist confronted by a bully, he does just the opposite: he travels to the hidden...
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