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Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Language
English
Description
The heroine is Rue Shaw, a specialist in raising children who is headmistress of a private school for girls in California. But her training is of little use when her own daughter decides to quit music school for a rock-band leader. It is the start of one misfortune after another. By the author of Domestic Pleasures.
42) Boone
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"With his smooth talk, rugged good looks, and deep pockets, native Texan Boone McBride appears to be a man who has it all. Few people know about the heartbreak behind his decision to leave home, family, and career for the isolation of a small town in the Colorado Rockies. Luckily, time and life in Eternity Springs has worked its healing magic upon his wounded soul, so when he meets obviously troubled Hannah Dupree, Boone sees a chance to pay his good...
43) Not her daughter
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
When a struggling mother loses her five-year-old daughter to a kidnapper, two women and one girl will find their loyalties and affections tested.
Emma Townsend lives with her cruel mother and clueless father, retreating into her own world of quiet and solitude. When a chance encounter with Emma presents itself, Sarah Walker takes her. Has Emma been stolen, or rescued? Amy Townsend is unsure whether she wants her daughter back. She had physically...
Author
Series
Publisher
Carolrhoda Lab
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
June is physically and emotionally abused by her stepmother, and the only person June feels safe telling is her friend Blister, who helps her believe she can escape her nightmare situation, but when a shocking tragedy occurs June finds herself trapped, potentially forever.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From Lou Berney, the acclaimed, multi award-winning author of November Road and The Long and Faraway Gone, comes a Dark Ride"--
"Twenty-one-year-old Hardy "Hardly" Reed--good-natured, easygoing, usually stoned--is drifting through life. A minimum wage scare actor at an amusement park, he avoids unnecessary effort and unrealistic ambitions. Then one day he notices two children, around six or seven, sitting all alone on a bench. Hardly checks if they're...
47) Genesis Road
Author
Publisher
Madville Publishing
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Glenna Daniels faces a midlife cul-de-sac. She bears a recent miscarriage and third divorce the way her Appalachian parents taught her to cope with tragedy-in stoic secrecy. She quits her social work position in Knoxville and runs away from home at the age of thirty-six, heading west with childhood friend, Carey, a gay professor in Atlanta. During their years in school, Glenna protected him from bullies. Now Carey is her savvy guide as she tries to...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"In the affluent town of Weslyn, Connecticut, where most people worry about what to be seen in and who to be seen with, Emma Thomas would rather not be seen at all. She's more concerned with feigning perfection while pulling down her sleeves to conceal the bruises- not wanting anyone to know how far from perfect her life truly is. Without expecting it, she finds love. It challenges her to recognize her own worth- at the risk of revealing the terrible...
49) Harrow Lake
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Lola Nox is sent to live with her estranged maternal grandmother in the mining town where her horror movie director father's most iconic film was set, when paranormal incidents and whispers of a century-old monster make her question if she'll make it out alive"--
Author
Publisher
Orenda Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Film star Amelie Hart is the darling of the silver screen, appearing on the front pages of every newspaper. But at the peak of her fame she throws it all away for a regular guy with an ordinary job. The gossip columns are aghast: what happened to the woman who turned heads wherever she went? Any hope the furore will die down are crushed when Amelie's boyfriend Dave is arrested on charges of child sexual abuse. Dave strongly asserts his innocence,...
51) Barely breathing
Author
Series
Breathing series volume 2
Publisher
Skyscape
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Although Emma Thomas's secret abusive home life has been exposed and her tormentor eliminated, she is still haunted by her experience, and must learn to reclaim her life.
52) Strawgirl
Author
Series
Bo Bradley mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
53) Lizzie
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A modern-day reimagining of the story of Lizzie Borden, casting her as a shy seventeen-year-old whose blackouts become worse after her father and stepmother try to prevent her from studying to be a chef.
55) Lies like poison
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Three years after one secretly backed out of a plot to kill Raven's abusive stepmother, former friends Poppy, Lily, and Belladonna are drawn back together when one of them is arrested for the stepmother's murder.
Poppy, Lily, and Belladonna would do anything to protect their best friend, Raven. When they discovered he was suffering abuse at the hands of his stepmother, they came up with a lethal plan: petals of poppy, belladonna, and lily in her...
56) Turtle baby
Author
Series
Bo Bradley mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Description
Bo Bradley of the San Diego Child Protection Service investigates the herbal poisoning of an eight-month-old baby, a probe which puts her own life in danger. Lots of information on the way the service works. By the author of Strawgirl.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
At the end of high school, Johanna finally begins dating the girl she has loved from afar, but Reeve is as much trouble as she claims to be as she and her twin brother damage Johanna's self-esteem, friendships, and already precarious relationship with her sister.
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