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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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"Separated as girls, sisters Celie and Nettie sustain their loyalty to and hope in each other across time, distance, and silence."--Page 4 of cover.
"Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, this novel about a resilient and courageous woman has become a Broadway show and a cultural phenomenon. A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick Celie has grown up poor in rural Georgia, despised by the society around her and abused by her own...
2) Fractured
Author
Series
Will Trent series volume 2
Language
English
Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A superior crime novel.”—The Washington Post
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Ansley Park is one of Atlanta’s most upscale neighborhoods—but in one gleaming mansion, in a teenager’s lavish bedroom, a girl has been savagely murdered. And in the hallway, her mother stands amid shattered glass, having killed her daughter’s attacker with her bare...
WATCH WILL TRENT ON ABC
Ansley Park is one of Atlanta’s most upscale neighborhoods—but in one gleaming mansion, in a teenager’s lavish bedroom, a girl has been savagely murdered. And in the hallway, her mother stands amid shattered glass, having killed her daughter’s attacker with her bare...
3) The jury
Author
Series
Sisterhood series volume 4
Language
English
Description
When the sisters find that Nikki's ex-fiance is no longer hoping to bring the sisterhood down, they focus their attention on another man. A new member of the sisterhood is sworn into the club when word spreads that her powerful Washington advisor husband has been mistreating her. Now the sisters are out to seek revenge on Woodley's husband.
4) Spencerville
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Language
English
Description
After returning to his home town of Spencerville, ex-intelligence operative Keith Landry begins an affair with his former sweetheart, now married to and fearful of the dangerous local police chief.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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A nurse escapes her abusive husband, a New York policeman, taking their son with her to Florida. She assumes a new identity and even finds romance, but there is a price, the 10-year-old boy misses his father and she lives in constant fear the father will find them, which he does. The novel analyzes why abused women wait so long to make their break.
Author
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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Growing up under an assumed identity after accidentally shooting her mother and escaping her abusive father, Liza Barton, still fearful that her past will reclaim her, is shocked when her husband inadvertently buys her childhood home.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
Cassie Barrett, a world-renowned anthropologist, wakes up in a graveyard and doesn't know who she is. Taken in for a few days by William Flying Horse, a Native American police officer, she waits for her life to reappear. When Hollywood heartthrob Alex Rivers shows up to claim her as his wife, she is stunned but still doesn't remember anything
To the outside world, they seem to have it all. Cassie Barrett, a renowned anthropologist, and Alex Rivers,...
Author
Series
Carrion city volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"Bestselling authors Cassandra Khaw and Richard Kadrey have teamed up to deliver a dark new story with magic, monsters, and mayhem, perfect for fans of Neil Gaiman and Joe Hill. 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...
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Series
Language
English
Description
"“Readers won’t want to leave the heartwarming stories of Honeymoon Harbor, and its characters’ second chances at life and love.” —Publishers Weekly Quinn Mannion never believed in destiny until she came to Honeymoon Harbor. The eldest of five siblings, Quinn has always found success—head altar boy, valedictorian of Honeymoon High, big-city lawyer. Until he gave it all up. Walking away from his lucrative career and returning to Honeymoon...
Author
Series
Elm Creek Quilts volume 19
Language
English
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Struggling with a meager existence on a Prohibition-era farm in Southern California and devastated by the losses of four of her children to a wasting disease, Rosa flees with her surviving children after a shattering act of violence.
15) The gallows land
Author
Publisher
Chivers Press
Pub. Date
c1983
Language
English
Description
Following the death of his young wife, Roy Boone wanders aimlessly in the arid Southwest, desperate for water. Instead he finds a heap of trouble-when he meets a pretty young woman whose face bears the signs of an abusive husband.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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1928, Los Angeles: The newly-built Hotel Somerville is the hotspot for the city's glittering African-American elite. It embodies prosperity and dreams of equality for allespecially Daisy Washington. An up-and-coming journalist, Daisy anonymously chronicles fierce activism and behind-the-scenes Hollywood scandals in order to save her family from poverty. But power in the City of Angels is also fueled by racism, greed, and betrayal. And even the most...
17) Steadfast
Author
Series
Elemental masters volume 9
Publisher
DAW Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
On the run from an abusive husband, magician's assistant Katie discovers that her employer is an Elemental Magician capable of commanding the Elementals of Air to help with his illusions.
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"By the bestselling author of A Beautiful, Terrible Thing, a haunting thriller about a mother and daughter who need to draw strength from each other when they find themselves trapped in a cabin with a man who wants to either control them--or kill them"--
19) Don't tell
Author
Publisher
Warner
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
After staging her own death in order to escape her abusive husband, Mary Grace Winters and her son search for refuge in a small town, but when her husband discovers she is alive, Mary must decide whether she wants to sacrifice the new life she has built and run or stay and face her worst fears.
Author
Publisher
Zebra Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Torn apart by war and treachery, Kendall Moore, a proud Southern beauty escaping from an abusive marriage, and Brent McClain, a Confederate agent, must find a way back to each other. By a New York Times best-selling author.
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