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1) Absolution
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"A riveting account of women's lives on the margins of the Vietnam War, from the renowned winner of the National Book Award"--‡cProvided by publisher.
2) Fractured
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Series
Will Trent series volume 2
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English
Description
Gailyn Campano is used to being the victim, but when her daughter is attacked and murdered, she kills the perpetrator with her bare hands. Or did she? When another teenage girl disappears, Detective Will Trent is sure that the killer is still out there.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 9
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English
Description
As a young, black woman living in 1930s Georgia, Celie faces constant violence and oppression. She survives the brutality of incest before being married off to "Mr.," who routinely abuses her both physically and emotionally. Eventually, Celie develops a deep bond with her husband's mistress Shug, and it is through this relationship that she understands she is a woman capable of being loved and respected.
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English
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For nearly a year, Beth has been planning for this day. A day some people might call any other Wednesday, but Beth prefers to see it as her new beginning, one with a new look, new name, and a new city. Beth has given her plan significant thought, because one small slip and her violent husband will find her. A couple hundred miles away, Jeffrey returns home from a work trip to find his wife, Sabine, is missing. Wherever she is, she's taken almost nothing...
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Series
Tess Monaghan mysteries volume 8
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English
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Tess Monaghan is called to help Mark Rubin, a wealthy Orthodox Jew who grudingly gives important information, find his family that simply vanished. Tess is able to locate the runaway wife and family, moving furtively with an unremarkable stranger. An intricate web of betrayal and vengeance unravels as memory leads to rage to murder.
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English
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Now an HBO Max series starring Ray Romano and Cristin Milioti
From one of our most exciting and provocative young writers, a poignant, riotously funny story of how far some will go for love—and how far some will go to escape it.
Hazel has just moved into a trailer park of senior citizens, with her father and Diane—his extremely lifelike sex doll—as her roommates. Life with Hazel's
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English
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Always the wedding coordinator, Lillie Bauer makes brides' dreams come true, but when it comes to her own love life, she's never the bride.
Fifteen years after the mysterious disappearance of her childhood sweetheart, Ted, Lillie —bungee-jumper, book addict, and delightfully offbeat coordinator of “extreme” high-concept weddings—is ready to find love again. As she boldly but reluctantly braves a disastrous dating scene,...
Fifteen years after the mysterious disappearance of her childhood sweetheart, Ted, Lillie —bungee-jumper, book addict, and delightfully offbeat coordinator of “extreme” high-concept weddings—is ready to find love again. As she boldly but reluctantly braves a disastrous dating scene,...
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English
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An emotional, heartwarming story from New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand about a grieving family that finds solace where they least expect it. Celebrity chef Deacon Rowe is struggling with addiction, depression and not one, but two scandals. As summer nears, he travels to the idyllic Eastern bluff of Nantucket, where he takes his own life. In the shocking wake of Deacon's suicide, his first wife and childhood sweetheart, Laurel Rowe,...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Los Angeles, 1928. An up-and-coming journalist, Daisy Washington anonymously chronicles fierce activism and behind-the-scenes Hollywood scandals to save her family from poverty. But power is also fueled by racism, greed, and betrayal. Chicago, 1968. For Frankie Saunders, fleeing across America is her only escape from an abusive husband. But her rescuer is her Aunt Daisy, still reeling from her own shattered past. Daisy will do whatever it takes to...
10) The husbands
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Language
English
Description
"Nora Spangler is a successful attorney but when it comes to domestic life, she packs the lunches, schedules the doctor appointments, knows where the extra paper towel rolls are, and designs and orders the holiday cards. Her husband works hard, too... but why does it seem like she is always working so much harder? When the Spanglers go house hunting in Dynasty Ranch, an exclusive suburban neighborhood, Nora meets a group of high-powered women--a tech...
12) Palindrome
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Language
English
Description
Tells a story that moves from the urban chaos of Atlanta and Los Angeles to untamed island hideaways, from moments of tender passion to acts of overwhelming violence.
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Series
Hidden identity (Lynette Eason) volume 2
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English
Description
When Danielle Harding's abusive husband dies, she begins to feel that she and her son are safe, until a man who had dealings with her dead husband begins to pursue her, and she must seek help from Adam Buchanan of Operation Refuge.
Author
Publisher
Zebra Books/Kensington
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Fleeing an abusive wealthy husband, Helen Ward changes her identity and moves across the country to build a new life for herself, but her past may come back to haunt her as it threatens her relationship with Sam Tolliver.
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Language
English
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Frank Guidry knows too much about the crime of the century: the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Within hours of JFK's murder, everyone with ties to New Orleans' mob boss Carlos Marcello is turning up dead. Guidry was in Dallas on an errand for the boss less than two weeks before the president was shot. He hits the road to Las Vegas, to see an old associate who might help him vanish. Guidry stops to help a housewife on the side of the road...
Author
Series
Carrion City duology volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"Julie is a coked-up, burnt-out thirty-year-old whose only retirement plan is dying early. She's been trying to establish herself in the NYC magic scene, and she'll work the most gruesome gigs, exorcize the nastiest demons, and make deals with the cruelest gods to claw her way to the top. But nothing can prepare her for the toughest job yet: when her best friend, Sarah, shows up at her door in need of help. Keeping Sarah safe becomes top priority....
20) Willow Springs
Author
Series
Troublesome Creek volume 2
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
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