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Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
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Description
When their friend is assaulted in the street of their hard-drinking, gun-toting Colorado town, a young schoolteacher and a spinster set out in an open wagon to find a safer life, an endeavor that pits them against violent natural elements and their friend's assailant.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"This isn't a fairytale where the princess marries a prince. It's one where she kills him. From Hugo, Nebula, and Locus award-winning author T. Kingfisher comes an original and subversive new fantasy adventure. After years of seeing her sisters suffer at the hands of an abusive prince, Marra-the shy, convent-raised, third-born daughter-has finally realized that no one is coming to their rescue. No one, except for Marra herself. Seeking help from a...
3) Hidden
Author
Series
Publisher
Avon Inspire
Pub. Date
©2008.
Language
English
Description
Fleeing from an abusive boyfriend, Anna hides at an Amish country bed-and-breakfast run by a childhood friend and finds herself in an unlikely relationship with her friend's disapproving older brother.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"The Color Purple depicts the lives of African American women in early twentieth-century rural Georgia. Separated as girls, sisters Celie and Nettie sustain their loyalty to and hope in each other across time, distance, and silence. Through a series of letters spanning twenty years, first from Celie to God, then from the sisters to each other, the novel draws readers into the experiences of Celie, Nettie, Shug Avery, and Sofia"--
Author
Series
Nina Borg volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Protecting the young daughter of an illegal immigrant who has escaped police custody in the aftermath of a brutal murder, Danish Red Cross nurse Nina Borg struggles with a belief in the woman's innocence as she learns more about her violent past.
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
©1998.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
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.
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Language
English
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Description
Sloan will go through hell and back for those she loves. And she does so, every single day. Caught up with the alluring Asa Jackson, a notorious drug trafficker, Sloan has finally found a lifeline to cling to, even if it's meant compromising her morals. She was in dire straits trying to pay for her brother's care until she met Asa. But as Sloan became emotionally and economically reliant on him, he in turn developed a disturbing obsession with her...
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Language
English
Description
"Celebrity cooking show host Marni McGuire has seen it all. She's been married--twice--and widowed and divorced. Now in her midfifties, she's single. Happily so. She just needs to convince her pregnant daughter, Bella, of this fact. And maybe convince herself, too. Especially after Marni's efforts to humor her determined daughter result in a series of disastrous dates that somehow prompt Marni to wonder if maybe the right man for her is still out...
Author
Publisher
Center Street
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Modern cowboy Tyler Steele must raise his son, Brodie, save his ranch, and rebuild his life after his wife leaves him for being emotionally distant and ultimately learns that being a man means confronting your true weaknesses.
Modern cowboy Tyler Steele must raise his son, Brodie, save his ranch, and rebuild his life after his wife leaves him for being emotionally distant. Samantha and her daughter, Hope, are on the run from an abusive ex who has...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
Español
Description
"Desde pequeña, Leah ha vivido con akinetopsia, o cequera del movimiento. Nada se ha movido a su alrededor en los últimos veinte años. Su mundo suele transformarse en un abrir y cerrar de ojos: al parpadear, lo que se encuentre ante ella desaparece. Leah se orienta con la ayuda de un bastón por su barrio de Morningside Heights, en Manhattan. Para quienes la rodean es ciega, pero en realidad lo único que ella no puede ver es el movimiento. Leah...
Author
Series
Heart of a hero volume 1
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
When Clayton Proffitt, foreman of the Circle Z Ranch in Texas, discovers that Vanessa Grant has been the victim of her stepfather's violent advances, Clayton knows he must protect her honor and move her far away from the ranch - and from the man she fears. As they make their way west, an unexpected, deep bond develops between Clayton and Vanessa - far more powerful than mere friendship or his sense of duty to her. But Vanessa's stepfather doesn't...
12) Saturday morning
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Four women whose lives center around Casa de Jesus, a women's shelter in San Francisco, find solace in their faith and friendship as they join together to stop a business conglomerate from taking over the shelter and replacing it with a commercial development.
13) Nowhere to turn
Author
Series
Hidden identity (Lynette Eason) volume 2
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The day Danielle Harding takes her 11-year-old son and flees from her abusive husband is the same day Kurt Harding dies. Dani believes she and her son are finally safe, but the danger has just begun. Kurt had taken something that was important to a mysterious person who wants it back and believes Dani has it. Running for their lives, Dani and her son have nowhere to turn -- until she hires Adam Buchanan of Operation Refuge and goes into hiding. But...
15) Wings of glass
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Penny Carson thought she'd found her Prince Charming in farmhand Trent Taylor. With a handsome face and flashy promises, Trent was her escape from an overbearing father and a one-stop-sign town. But Penny's happily-ever-after doesn't outlast their courtship. Out of options, she resigns herself to the fate of a woman controlled by a man with no control. Then a welding accident forces Trent to allow Penny to take a job, where she...
Author
Series
Bright's Pond volume 2
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Newly widowed Charlotte Figg purchases a double-wide trailer sight unseen and moves to the Paradise Trailer Park. Unfortunately, neither the trailer nor Paradise is what Charlotte expected. But her new friend Rose Tattoo learns that Charlotte used to play softball, and convinces her to rally the women of Paradise into a team. Reluctant at first, Charlotte is soon coaching the Paradise Angels. That's when she discovers that the manager is abusing his...
18) The magic beads
Author
Publisher
Simply Read Books
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
It's seven-year-old Lillian's first day at a new school, and she's got butterflies in her tummy, but those butterflies turn into grasshoppers when she learns she has to bring something for Show and Tell at the end of the week! Lillian and her mother have just moved away from Lillian's abusive father and into a family shelter, leaving behind all of their possessions. Every day that Lillian anxiously watches her classmates bring toys with which she...
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2010, ©2009.
Language
English
Description
Stella Hardesty, our salty, unlikely heroine, runs a sewing shop in rural Missouri. She also has a side business helping battered women with their abusive boyfriends and husbands. When Chrissy Shaw asks Stella for help, it seems like a straightforward case, until Chrissy's no-good husband disappears with her two-year-old son. Now Stella finds herself in a battle against a more formidable enemy as she risks her own life to recover the boy.
Author
Series
Frank Miller's Sin City volume 2
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
It's one of those hot nights, dry and windless. The kind that makes people do sweaty, secret things. Dwight's thinking of all the ways he's screwed up and what he'd give for one clear chance to wipe the slate clean, to dig his way out of the numb gray hell that is his life. And he'd give anything. Just to cut loose. Just to feel the fire. One more time. And then Ava calls.
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