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Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Laura Pritchett is an award-winning author who has quickly become one of the west's defining literary voices. We first met hardscrabble ranchers Renny and Ben Cross in Laura's debut collection, and now in Stars Go Blue, they are estranged, elderly spouses living on opposite ends of their sprawling ranch, faced with the particular decline of a fading farm and Ben's struggle with Alzheimer's disease. He is just on the cusp of dementia, able to recognize...
44) 3 mujeres
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Ibérica, S.A
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
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Description
"¿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...
45) Falling down
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
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Description
Follows a troubled man, Bill Foster, who has a mental breakdown and embarks upon an increasingly violent crime spree across Los Angeles. A police detective, Sgt. Prendergast, who is working his last day before retiring, is the only one who correctly pieces together the clues. Prendergast races to find and arrest Foster before the dangerous and unpredictable man reaches his destination: his ex-wife and young daughter.
Author
Series
All these monsters volume 1
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Clara runs away from home to join a vigilante monster-flghting squad, only to discover that sometimes the most dangerous monsters are where you least expect them.
48) Under currents
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
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 sister know the truth: there is something terribly wrong. As his father's violent, controlling rages and...
50) Babel Tower
Author
Series
Frederica Potter series volume 3
Publisher
Vintage International
Pub. Date
1997, ©1996.
Language
English
Description
In England, a woman marries into the landed gentry, only to find the life stifling. When she tries to renew with her old milieu, her husband objects. Drama follows drama, ending in a custody battle for their only child.
51) Vinyl moon
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Description
"A teen girl reeling from the scars of a past relationship finds healing and hope in the words of strong Black writers and the new community she builds in Brooklyn, New York"--
52) The desert crop
Author
Publisher
Doubleday Direct
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Money was tight in the farming communities around Fellburn, England, in the 1880's, so when Hector Stewart announces to his children, Daniel and Pattie, that he is to marry Moira Conelly, a "wealthy" distant relative, it is easy to discern his motive.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Language
English
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Formats
Description
"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...
54) Mary underwater
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Mary Murphy feels like she s drowning. Her violent father is home from prison, and the social worker is suspicious of her new bruises. But Mary doesn t want to be a victim anymore. She has a plan: build a real submarine, like the model she's been making with Kip Dwyer, the secretly sweet class clown.
Gaining courage from Joan of Arc, fourteen-year-old Mary Murphy navigates the waters of Chesapeake Bay in a submersible built with her friend, Kip,...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK A soul-stirring novel about what we choose to keep from our past and what we choose to leave behind, from the New York Times bestselling author of Wish You Were Here and the bestselling author of She’s Not There Olivia McAfee knows what it feels like to start over. Her picture-perfect life—living in Boston, married to a brilliant cardiothoracic surgeon, raising their beautiful son, Asher—was...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The raw, uplifting, and unforgettable memoir from the CEO and president of the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence chronicling her personal battle against abuse, violence, and even a murder attempt. Ruth M. Glenn wasn't surprised the first time her husband beat her. She was hurt and disappointed but after a childhood in a broken and violent home, she was not surprised. After all, this was just the way things were, right? It was only after...
Author
Publisher
Random House Large Print
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her "head-for-the-hills bag." In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged in her father's junkyard. Her father distrusted the medical establishment, so Tara never saw a doctor or nurse....
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