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2023.
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English
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"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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URANO
Pub. Date
2021
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Español
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Explores America's epidemic of domestic violence and how it has been misunderstood, sharing insights into what domestic violence portends about other types of violence and what countermeasures are needed today.
"De todos los crímenes por violencia doméstica, un ochenta y cinco por ciento son perpetrados contra mujeres y niñas. 137 mujeres son asesinadas a diario en el mundo por sus parejas o en el contexto familiar. La periodista de investigación...
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Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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The problem of domestic violence and partner abuse knows no bounds, can affect anyone, and when kept silent and in the dark can become deadly. Hon. John Leventhal presided over the Brooklyn Felony Domestic Violence Court, the first felony domestic violence part in the nation, since it opened in June 1996 until he was elevated to the appellate court January 2008. While domestic violence has greater social and legal visibility today then it did in the...
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"Years before the name Alex Murdaugh was splashed across every major media outlet in America, local South Carolina journalist Mandy Matney had an instinct that something wasn’t right in the Lowcountry. The powerful Murdaugh dynasty had dominated rural South Carolina for generations. No one dared to cross them. When Mandy and her reporting partner Liz Farrell looked closer at a fatal boat crash involving the storied family’s teenage son Paul,...
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Sourcebooks
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"Hollywood starlet Lana Turner was one Tinseltown's most recognizable faces in the 1940s and 50s. But, when the Academy Award-winning actress began dating mobster Johnny Stompanato-a thug for west coast mob boss Mickey Cohen-all the lights and glamor of Hollywood did not brighten the darkness of her personal life. Johnny's intense jealousy over Lana ruled their relationship from the get-go and Lana's daughter, Cheryl, witnessed her mother's bruises...
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"Two women wrenched apart by a family member’s disappearance must find a way back to each other in this haunting page-turner by the author of A Crooked Tree. Nessa Garvey’s sister Deena vanished without a trace in Philadelphia in 2004. In all that time, Nessa has never once doubted what her instincts told her: her sister’s ex-husband has gotten away with an unspeakable crime. Nessa’s niece, Ruby, is raised by her father, the man Nessa suspects,...
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Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"In this unforgettable debut novel, twenty-seven-year-old Tessa, pregnant with her third child and living in a trailer on her mother-in-law's property, encounters the woman she used to love-leading Tessa to question the very foundations of the life she'sbuilt Abandoned by first her father and then her mother, as a girl Tessa is left to live with her abusive stepfather and stepbrother. She survives by finding reserves of strength in herself, and by...
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HarperCollins Ibérica, S.A
Pub. Date
2022.
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Español
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"¿Hasta dónde llegarías para descubrir lo que oculta tu marido?Imagina que tu marido tiene otras dos mujeres. Nunca te vas a encontrar con las otras esposas. Ninguna conoce a la otra y a causa de este acuerdo tan poco convencional solo puedes ver a tu marido una vez por semana. Pero le quieres tanto que no te importa. O al menos es lo que te dices a ti misma. Un día, haciendo la colada, encuentras un trozo de papel en su bolsillo, en él una cita...
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