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Years after discovering her father's predatory double life, successful photographer Naomi Bowes struggles to hide her painful past from her fellow residents in a community thousands of miles away, a situation that introduces her to a new relationship and forces her to confront her demons.
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English
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"AN ORDINARY LIFE ... Leigh Collier has worked hard to build what looks like a normal life. She has a good job as a defense attorney, a daughter doing well in school, and even her divorce is relatively civilized-her life is just as unremarkable as she'd always hoped it would be. HIDES A DEVASTATING PAST ... But Leigh's ordinary life masks a childhood which was far from average ... a childhood tarnished by secrets, broken by betrayal, and finally torn...
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Series
Jesse Stone volume 8
Language
English
Description
Paradise, Massachusetts, Police Chief Jesse Stone must deal in his own laconic way with the town's rights and wrongs, including a Peeping Town, the Paradise Free Swingers, and a firestorm of protests at the junior high school.
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English
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"2000. Bright, ambitious, and yearning for adulthood, fifteen-year-old Vanessa Wye becomes entangled in an affair with Jacob Strane, her magnetic and guileful forty-two-year-old English teacher. 2017. Amid the rising wave of allegations against powerful men, a reckoning is coming due. Strane has been accused of sexual abuse by a former student, who reaches out to Vanessa, and now Vanessa suddenly finds herself facing an impossible choice: remain...
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English
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"PI Sunny Randall has often relied on the help of her best friend Spike in times of need. When Spike's restaurant is taken over under a predatory loan agreement, Sunny has a chance to return the favor. She begins digging into the life of the hedge fund manager who screwed Spike over - surely a guy that smarmy has a skeleton or two in his closet - and soon finds this new enemy may have the backing of even badder criminals. At the same time, Sunny's...
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English
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"A fast-paced, page-turning novel of betrayal, vengeance, and depraved secrets in high places from the New York Times bestselling author of the John Rain and Livia Lone series. After narrowly escaping an attempted hit on her, Livia Lone assembles a collective of killers to identify and neutralize the threat"--
8) Blindsighted
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Pediatrician and coroner Dr. Sara Linton, her ex-husband and chief of police Jeffrey Tolliver, and detective Lena Adams are on the case when a sadistic rapist and murderer begins targeting women in Grant County.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
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English
Description
After accidentally intercepting some telephone messages for the previous tenant of his new apartment, Henry Price is drawn into a web of dangerous secrets as he races against time to save the life of a woman he has never met.
10) Anthem: a novel
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"The wheels are coming off in America. Opioid addictions accelerate unstoppably. Environmental collapse can be read in every weather report. Vigilante bands take over streets at night, wearing clown face makeup. The very idea of government, of citizenship, is challenged daily. And something is happening to teenagers across the country, spreading through memes only they understand. At the Float Anxiety Abatement Center, in a suburb of Chicago, Simon...
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"My Dark Vanessa meets The Queen's Gambit in this new novel of suspense about the bonds of family, the limits of talent, the risks of ambition, and the rewards of revenge. When former piano prodigy Saskia Kreis returns home to Milwaukee after her mother's unexpected death, she expects to inherit the family estate, the Elf House. But with the discovery that her mother's will bequeathed the Elf House to a man that Saskia shares a complicated history...
12) All the devils
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
352 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
13) A dark lure
Author
Publisher
Montlake Romance
Pub. Date
c2015
Physical Desc
408 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Struggling with PTSD, Sarah Baker changes her name and finds sanctuary working on Broken Bar Ranch after being abducted and held against her will for months. As her scars begin to heal, a cop involved in the case remains convinced that the offender is still out there.
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Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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An account of wealth, power, and the influence they bring to bear on the American justice system follows the story of Jeffrey Epstein, a member of New York City's financial elite, whose fall from grace resulted from charges of abusing and exploiting underage girls at his home.
15) Sexual violence
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Publisher
Greenhaven Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
193 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
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English
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Series
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
c2017
Physical Desc
xv, 197 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Offers teenagers, who account for seventy percent of sexual assault victims, resources for finding support and assistance to begin the healing process after an assault.
17) The chaos kind
Author
Series
John Rain novel volume 11
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Assistant US Attorney Alondra Diaz hates traffickers. And she's determined to put one of America's most powerful financiers, Andrew Schrader, in prison forever for his crimes against children. But Schrader has videos implicating some of the most powerful members of the US national security state. To eliminate Diaz, the powers that be bring in a contractor: Marvin Manus, an implacable assassin whose skills have been forged in intelligence, the military,...
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Series
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
1 audio media player (9.5 hr.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Language
English
Description
THE PURSUIT OF JUSTICE Assistant DA Kate Stone has just suffered the biggest loss of her career. Shed worked so hard to prosecute a serial assaulter of women, and it was a case she should have won. But a corrupt judge allowed Max James to walk free. When he confronts her outside the courthouse, she punches James, and he goes down hard. After the footage is plastered across every TV screen, Kates boss demands that she either attend anger management...
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Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
1 audio media player (approximately 15 hr., 30 min.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Language
English
Description
"2000. Bright, ambitious, and yearning for adulthood, fifteen-year-old Vanessa Wye becomes entangled in an affair with Jacob Strane, her magnetic and guileful forty-two-year-old English teacher. 2017. Strane has been accused of sexual abuse by a former student, who reaches out to Vanessa, and now Vanessa suddenly finds herself facing an impossible choice: remain silent, firm in the belief that her teenage self willingly engaged in this relationship,...