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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
vii, 355 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Graphic designer Maggie Anderson has lived under her boyfriend's tyranny for nearly two years...until she's carjacked in New York. Will this terrifying experience be the end for Maggie -- or the beginning of a freedom greater than she dares imagine? To gain that freedom, she'll have to remember to forget everything about her old life. Trevor Ashlock is existing, day by day, in the little town of Clayburn, Kansas. Surrounded by too many painful reminders...
22) Queen of Hearts
Author
Series
Queen of hearts volume 1
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016], 2017.
Lexile measure
840L
Physical Desc
306, 10 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
As Princess of Wonderland Palace and the future Queen of Hearts, Dinah's days are an endless monotony of tea, tarts, and a stream of vicious humiliations at the hands of her father, the King of Hearts. The only highlight of her days is visiting Wardley, her childhood best friend, the future Knave of Hearts--and the love of her life. When an enchanting stranger arrives at the Palace, Dinah watches as everything she's ever wanted threatens to crumble....
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Taking inspiration from the infamous, empowering song, Goodbye Earl follows four best friends through two unforgettable summers, fifteen years apart. In 2004, Rosemarie, Ada, Caroline, and Kasey are in their final days of high school and on the precipice of all the things teenagers look forward to when anything in life seems possible...from falling in love, to finding their dream jobs, to becoming who they were meant to be. In 2019, Kasey has returned...
24) Road queens
Author
Publisher
Montlake
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
314 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Operation Starfish has one goal: to remove domestic violence survivors from danger. But when a mission backfires in tragedy, the band of bikers who founded OpStar dissolves the organization and their ride-or-die friendship. Five years later Amanda, Sidney, and Cassandra are brought back together by the same thing that tore them apart when the man who victimized his wife is murdered, and all signs point to Cassandra. Circumstances being what they are--in...
Author
Series
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
285 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Returning to Guthrie, Oklahoma for the funeral of his mysterious and beloved Aunt Sue, Adam Binder once again finds himself in the path of deadly magic when a dark druid begins to prey on members of Adam's family. It all seems linked to the death of Adam's father many years ago--a man who may have somehow survived as a warlock. Watched by the police, separated from the man who may be the love of his life, compelled to seek the truth about his connection...
26) Devil's peak
Publisher
Screen Media
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An Appalachian crime lord controls his family and his meth business with his fists. When his son meets the girl of his dreams, desperately wanting to escape the life he is expected to lead and free himself from the clutches of his father, he is forced to go head-to-head with the terrifying man who will stop at nothing to ensure loyalty from all of those around him.
27) Time to run
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
276 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sara Garret thought the military lawyer she married would be the perfect husband and father. But he has become her worst nightmare. Now one vicious act has driven Sara to take their young son and flee. And she discovers that the only thing more frightening than running away Œ́ is trusting a stranger. Chase McCaffrey is a damn good sniper, and an even better SEAL b́ut he ś no knight in shining armor. Still he can t́ refuse Sara ś plea for help....
Author
Publisher
Bookouture, an imprint of Storyfire Ltd
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
253 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"In their holiday home, a stone's throw from the beach, Elizabeth dials the police with trembling hands. 'My little boy, he's missing.' Elizabeth is Joe's foster mother, but she loves him like her own. The five-year-old, who adores superheroes and watching the birds outside, is the child she has dreamed of. As she looks into the garden, where he was playing just moments ago, her heart feels like it has been ripped from her chest. She was meant to...
29) Finally mine
Author
Series
Publisher
Bloom Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
441 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Aldo Moretta has always been the hero. The strongest, the fastest, the bravest. He fought for his country and built a thriving business in his hometown. With friends and family never more than a few blocks away, there was just one things he was missing. The right girl. She'd fallen for the wrong guy. The bad guy. But now that she's finally free, Also isn't going to miss his second chance. Not until his last deployment goes horribly wrong. He was...
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
280 pages ; 22 cm
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 askes 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.
31) In her own footsteps: Flora Ross and her struggle for identity and independence in the Colonial West
Author
Publisher
Butterwort Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
460 pages : maps, illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1859, British and American troops stood at the brink of war over a small island in the Pacific Northwest, each claiming sovereignty over the region in a military standoff that has become known as the "Pig War" of San Juan Island. In the midst of the dispute sat a Hudson's Bay Company farm, where seventeen year-old Flora Ross, the Métis daughter (Anishinaabe/Scottish) of a prominent company family, nursed a farmworker's dying wife....
Author
Publisher
Union Square & Co
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
313 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"'I'm a big believer that women should help each other, Tasha,' she says. 'Don't you think?' Tasha Jenkins has finally found the courage to leave her abusive husband. Taking her teenage son with her, Tasha checks into a hotel the night before their flight out of D.C. and out of Kordell Jenkins's life forever. But escaping isn't so easy, and Tasha soon finds herself driving back to her own personal hell. As she is leaving, a white woman pounds on her...
Author
Publisher
Harperteen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
249 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
High school senior Bee falls in love with Aiden, who seems perfect for her until his possessiveness leads to abuse.
A powerful YA debut, told with astonishing insight and wit, about the depths and boundaries of true friendship and obsessive teenage love--perfect for fans of Sarah Dessen, E. Lockhart, and Sara Zarr. When Betts meets Aiden at the candy store where she works, their connection is like a sugar rush to the heart. Betts already knows the...
Author
Series
Harlequin intrigue volume 2118
Description
"Mariela Hernandez has a target on her back, thanks to her abusive ex-husband's latest plot. Teaming up with Ricky Gonzalez and his family's respected private security firm is her only chance at survival. Keeping the vulnerable woman safe isn't easy. Neither is denying their growing attraction. But with bullets flying, Ricky will risk it all to be the hero Mariela needs..." -- Page [4] cover.
Author
Series
Harlequin intrigue volume 2118
Publisher
Harlequin Intrigue
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
247 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Mariela Hernandez has a target on her back, thanks to her abusive ex-husband's latest plot. Teaming up with Ricky Gonzalez and his family's respected private security firm is her only chance at survival. Keeping the vulnerable woman safe isn't easy. Neither is denying their growing attraction. But with bullets flying, Ricky will risk it all to be the hero Mariela needs..." -- Page [4] cover.
Author
Series
Wishcraft mystery volume 4th
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
313 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
When her closest friend and fellow witch Staria Sullivan is stalked by her murderous ex-husband, Kyle, who is invisible to everyone but her, Darcy Merriweather must discover the secret behind his latest disappearing act before he does something they can't see coming.
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
304 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
"Carole and her lover, Lee, knew there was only one way to get rid of Carole's abusive husband for good. They planned every detail. And they thought they had committed the perfect crime. But a stranger named Wayne saw what they did, and he was thrilled. Now Wayne wants to be their friend. He wants to share the excitement of murder with them. He wants to take Carole and Lee on a road trip straight to hell so his new friends can enjoy an all-out killing...
Author
Publisher
Avon
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
406 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Liverpool, 1941. Haunted by the death of her sister, June Lavender takes a job at a Dr. Barnardo's orphanage. June couldn't save Clara from their father's violence, but perhaps she can help children whose lives have been torn apart by war. When June bumps into Flight Lieutenant Murray Andrews on the bombed streets of Liverpool, the attraction is instant. But how can they think of love when war is tearing the world apart? As winter closes in, and the...
39) Lulu's Caf©♭
Author
Description
"On the run from a violent past, Leah Allen arrived in tiny Rivertown, South Carolina, battered and broken, but ready to reinvent herself. By a stroke of fate, Leah is drawn to the Southern hospitality of a small caf©♭. Lulu, the owner, offers her a job, a place to stay, and a new lease on life. Leah quickly finds herself embraced by the quaint community as she tries to put herself back together.Soon Leah meets Crowley Mason, the most eligible...
40) Lulu's Café
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
viii, 323 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
"On the run from a violent past, Leah Allen arrived in tiny Rivertown, South Carolina, battered and broken, but ready to reinvent herself. By a stroke of fate, Leah is drawn to the Southern hospitality of a small café. Lulu, the owner, offers her a job, a place to stay, and a new lease on life. Leah quickly finds herself embraced by the quaint community as she tries to put herself back together.Soon Leah meets Crowley Mason, the most eligible bachelor...