Washoe County Library System

"Titus Crown is the first Black sheriff in the history of Charon County, Virginia. In recent decades, quiet Charon has had only two murders. But after years of working as an FBI agent, Titus knows better than anyone that while his hometown might seem like a land of moonshine, cornbread, and honeysuckle, secrets always fester under the surface. Then a year to the day after Titus’s election, a school teacher is killed by a former student and the...

"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author, a novel about the power of family to harm--and to heal. Within the walls of a tasteful, perfectly kept house in North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains, young Zane Bigelow feels like a prisoner of war. Strangers--and even Zane's own aunt across the lake--see his parents as a successful surgeon and his stylish wife, making appearances at their children's ballet recitals and baseball games. Zane and his...

"A child disappears . . . a foster mom faces an impossible choice . . . a baby's future hangs in the balance. When Debra Moerke and her husband decided to become foster parents, they never imagined how their lives would change. Debra became especially close to one little girl: four-year-old Hannah. She loved her and did everything she could to help Hannah learn to trust and teach her to feel safe. But when Hannah went back to her birth mother, Karen,...

Spenser reflects back to when he was fourteen-years-old and how he helped his best friend Jeannie when she was abducted by her abusive father.

When she becomes physically and emotionally abusive to her own children, Irma Miller, struggling with her own childhood trauma, reaches out to her friend Doretta for prayer and wisdom, learning that to save her family, she must admit she needs professional help. Friendship Letters Series - Doretta Schwartz has always enjoyed writing letters and feels her letters can be a bit of a ministry to her friends. In this series, exchanging letters that contain...

A young girl desparately seeks the mother who abandoned her and her brother as children.

"An examination of the link between Adverse Childhood Events (ACE's) and adult illnesses"--Provided by publisher.

In North Kensington three orphaned mixed-race children are bounced from one home to another. The middle child Joel takes care of the youngest, Toby, who isn't quite right. When a local gang threatens the oldest child, Toby, Joel makes a pact with the devil that ends in the murder of Thomas Lynley's wife.

a"Regina Louise's mother abandoned her at birth, her father barely knows she's alive, and even the state isn't there to protect her from the horrors unfolding daily in the illegal foster home where her mother left her. Clothed in rags, fed just enough food to keep her alive, and beaten at the slightest pretext, she makes a pact with God: If the beatings get worse, she'll know she is meant to leave. But when at age eleven Regina runs away from the...