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Language
English
Description
"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author, a novel about the power of family to harm--and to heal. 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...
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First U.S. edition, First international edition.
Physical Desc
338 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"After years of working as an FBI agent, Titus Crown returns home to Charon County, land of moonshine and cornbread, fist fights and honeysuckle. Seeing his hometown struggling with a bigoted police force inspires him to run for sheriff. He wins, and becomes the first Black sheriff in the history of the county. Then a year to the day after his election, a young Black man is fatally shot by Titus's deputies. Titus pledges to follow the truth wherever...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Description
"In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis's parents and load him into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there's no window. And outside his door are other doors, behind which are other kids with special talents--telekinesis and telepathy--who got to this place the same...
7) Child abuse
Publisher
Greenhaven Press
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
221 p.
Language
English
Description
Opposing viewpoints series. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
179 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Discovering that two withdrawn neighborhood children are being physically abused by their father, Mascha bravely takes things into her own hands when the adults in the community deny that anything is wrong.
13) Baby doll
Author
Publisher
Redhook
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
281 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After escaping the basement prison she'd been held in for eight years, kidnapping victim Lily and her young daughter return to her family only to discover that the hardest part still lies ahead.
15) The chase
Author
Series
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
368 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
16) Under currents
Author
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Formats
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...
18) A list of cages
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Adam is assigned to track down Julian for the school psychologist, and when he discovers Julian is his long-lost foster brother he is happy to be reunited with him and determined to understand the secrets going on in Julian's life.
Author
Publisher
s.n
Pub. Date
c2013
Edition
Second edition.
Physical Desc
270 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Brooke Nolan is a battered child who makes an anonymous phone call about the escalating brutality in her home. When social services jeopardize her safety condemning her to keep her father's secret, it's a glass of spilled milk at the dinner table that forces her to speak about the cruelty she's been hiding.
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
224 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When teacher Nora begins to see an apparition of a girl, she seeks treatment from neurologists and a psychiatrist for an explanation for the visions, which reveals a terrible secret that pushes Nora toward an even deeper psychological breakdown.