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Andrea Oliver novels volume 1
Language
English
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"Following the success of The Good Daughter - her fastest-selling Morrow hardcover to date - Karin Slaughter returns with another electrifying standalone thriller exploring the deadly secrets kept between a mother and daughter"--
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English
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Spending the days searching for truths on an island in the Great Massasauga Swamp, eleven-year-old Dorothy Zook, the granddaughter of an herbalist and eccentric healer, finds her childhood upended by family secrets, passionate love, and violent men where the only bridge across the water is her wayward mother.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Promising to be the debut novel of the season The Silent Patient is a shocking psychological thriller of a woman's act of violence against her husband?and of the therapist obsessed with uncovering her motive... Alicia Berenson's life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house with big windows overlooking a park in one of London's most desirable areas. One evening her husband Gabriel...
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English
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"Olivia McAfee knows what it feels like to start over. Her picture-perfect life-living in Boston, married to a brilliant cardiothoracic surgeon, raising a beautiful son, Asher-was upended when her husband revealed a darker side. She never imagined she would end up back in her sleepy New Hampshire hometown, living in the house she grew up in, and taking over her father's beekeeping business. Lily Campanello is familiar with do-overs, too. When she...
5) Alone
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Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
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Alone . . . Massachusetts State Trooper Bobby Dodge watches a tense hostage standoff unfold through the scope of his sniper rifle. Just across the street, in wealthy Back Bay, Boston, an armed man has barricaded himself with his wife and child. The man’s finger tightens on the trigger and Dodge has only a split second to react . . . and forever pay the consequences.
Alone . . . that’s where the nightmare began for cool, beautiful,...
Alone . . . that’s where the nightmare began for cool, beautiful,...
7) Wringer
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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As Palmer comes of age, he must either accept the violence of being a wringer at his town's annual Pigeon Day or find the courage to oppose it.
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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In a rough-and-tumble Mississippi town, the vices of drugs, whiskey, guns, and the desire for revenge violently intersect when Russell Gaines, newly released from prison, returns home on the same night that a young and desperate mother shoots a local deputy.
9) The wives
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English
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She's never met the other wives. None of them know each other, and because of this unconventional arrangement, she can see her husband only one day a week. But she loves him so much she doesn't care. Or at least that's what she told herself. But one day, while she's doing laundry, she finds a scrap of paper in his pocket, an appointment reminder for a woman named Hannah, and she knows it's another of the wives. She thought she was fine with her arrangement,...
11) My darling girl
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Alison has never been a fan of Christmas. But with it right around the corner and her husband busily decorating their cozy Vermont home, she has no choice but to face it. Then she gets the call. Mavis, Alison's estranged mother, has been diagnosed with cancer and has only weeks to live. She wants to spend her remaining days with her daughter, son-in-law, and two granddaughters. But Alison grew up with her mother's alcoholism and violent abuse and...
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Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
c2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When her abusive boyfriend dies in what seems to be a drunk-driving accident, Sawyer is secretly relieved until she opens her locker and finds a note from a secret admirer that says "You're welcome.".
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Publisher
Seventh Street Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Recovering from being shot by a student she'd never met, Chicago sociology professor Amelia Emmet, desperate to know why she was targeted, gets some investigative help from her teaching assistant and together they must live through the darkest hours of their lives to find the truth.
Author
Series
Jonathan Grave thrillers volume 4
Language
English
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When a bus full of teenagers on a church mission is taken hostage and the ransom demands are explicit, rescue specialist Jonathan Grave, who doesn't believe in ultimatums, discovers that someone within the U.S. government is willing to sacrifice innocent lives in order to protect a deadly secret.
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English
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"What awaits Emily Leland back home in Sweetwater Crossing is far from what she expected. First, her father has died under mysterious circumstances. Then the house where the new schoolteacher, Craig Ferguson, and his son are supposed to board burns, leaving them homeless. When Emily proposes turning the family home into a boardinghouse, her sister is so incensed that she leaves town. Emily is determined to solve the mystery of her father's death and...
Author
Series
Anna Curtis novels volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
As a newly minted assistant U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C., Anna Curtis has already developed a thick skin to help her deal with the unsettling brutality she encounters daily with her overflowing stack of domestic violence cases. Yet when Laprea Johnson walks into Anna's life, battered by her boyfriend on the morning after Valentine's Day, there's something about this particular case that Anna can't quite shake, something that reminds the prosecutor...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Description
Alex Craft knows how to kill someone. And she doesn't feel bad about it. When her older sister, Anna, was murdered three years ago and the killer walked free, Alex uncaged the language she knows best. The language of violence.
20) Bad boy
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Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Devastated to find herself back in a group home after a peaceful year of living with loving foster parents, a Brooklyn teenager striving to become strong and independent soon falls prey to the dangerous affections of a good looking but shady young man.
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