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"Nessa Garvey's sister Deena vanished without a trace in Philadelphia in 2004. In all that time, Nessa has never once doubted what her instincts told her: her sister's ex-husband has gotten away with an unspeakable crime. Nessa's niece, Ruby, is raised by her father, the man Nessa suspects, in rural Vermont, on the shores of Lake Champlain. Ruby learns how to hunt, how the plants and trees grow, how to avoid making her father angry. The one question...
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Wade Abbott is one and done-one look, one conversation, one weekend, and he knows who he wants. Except, Mia Simpson is not free to return his affection. In fact, he suspects she's in an abusive marriage, but she never confirms that, and he has no choice but to mind his own business where she's concerned. Two years after they first met and a year after he last heard from her, Mia shows up half-frozen, bruised and beaten on his doorstep, needing something...
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"John 'Preacher' Middleton is about to close the bar when a young woman and her three-year-old son come in out of the wet October night. A marine who has seen his share of pain, Preacher knows a crisis when he sees one - the woman is covered in bruises. He wants to protect them, and to punish whoever did this, but he knows immediately that this is more than just instinct. Paige Lassiter has stirred up emotions in this gentle giant of a man - emotions...
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Oxygen thief diaries volume 1
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Say Holden Caulfield was an alcoholic advertising executive and Lolita was a photographer's assistant and somehow they met in Bright Lights Big City. He's blinded by love; she by ambition. Purporting to be an autobiography, this book is honest, hilarious and heartrending, but above all a very real account of what we do to each other and what we allow to have done to us. --
6) The dogs
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Cameron is used to moving at a moment's notice because he and his mother are always running away from his supposedly violent father, but he is disturbed by their latest refuge, a creepy, deserted farmhouse, haunted by bloodthirsty dogs--and when he sees a boy hiding in the barn, and finds an old picture of the same boy, he starts wondering about the possibility of human ghosts.
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"In this brave and beautiful memoir...a woman chronicles how her marriage devolved from a love story into a shocking tale of abuse--examining the tenderness and violence entwined in the relationship, why she endured years of physical and emotional pain, and how she eventually broke free."--
8) Joe
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A hard-living ex-con who is the unlikeliest of role models, but when he meets a troubled fifteen-year-old homeless boy in need of help from a violent and destitute father, Joe is faced with the heartbreaking choice of redemption or ruin.
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Jakia thinks her young-girl love and innocence can turn set-up thug Spencer Spade Johnson into the man of her dreams. But the fairytale she lives in her mind is soon knocked straight once he introduces her to the power of his fist. He abuses her, disrespects her, and manipulates her into believing she's not worth anything more than the hell he's created for her within their home. Spade and his comrade-cousin, Rocko, use Jakia in a dangerous mission,...
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"From the author of the PEN/Faulkner winning debut novel Preparation for the Next Life--a searing, tender, haunting story about fathers and sons, sons and mothers, and a young boy's struggle to become a man. Corey Goltz is fifteen years old when his mother, Gloria, is diagnosed with ALS. Estranged from his father, and increasingly responsible for meeting both his mother's needs and his own, Corey is determined to be the hero Gloria needs --at any...
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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...
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" '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...
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"Udodi's death was the beginning of the raging storm but at that moment, we thought that the worst had already happened, and that life would treat us with more kindness. When seventeen-year-old Nani loses her older sister and then her father in quick succession, her world spins off its axis. Isolated and misunderstood by her grieving mother and sister, she's drawn to an itinerant preacher, a handsome self-proclaimed man of God who offers her a new...
14) The girl in red
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Kathy thought she'd met her soulmate. But Police Inspector Michael Conner's behaviour changes on the day of their wedding. When Kathy tries to escape, Connor does his best to convince everyone that she is mentally ill. But Anna, Kathy's identical twin sister, doesn't believe it. After a tragic event, Kathy decides enough is enough and elicits Anna's help to rid herself of Connor for good. But will Connor simply let Kathy walk away or have the sisters...
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"[The author] takes readers through a ... step-by-step process for moving from victim to survivor to overcomer"--Amazon.com.
Herself a victim of an abusive relationship, Probasco recounts how one out of every four women in the United States will experience some form of domestic violence or abuse in her lifetime. She takes readers through a step-by-step process for moving from victim to survivor to overcomer. Each chapter encourages the reader to...
17) Lighting the way
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Southern Grace volume Volume 2
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Lighting The Way is the second novel in the Southern Grace Series, and once again focuses on Rev Rock, the Presbyterian minister in the quaint little town of Park Place, South Carolina and his new bride, Liz. It's the Christmas season and storefront displays, twinkling Christmas trees and busy shoppers liven up Main Street as the town prepares for its most exciting season of the year. Christmas parades, candle lit street lamps, and children's Christmas...
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Free yourself from toxic relationships with "the new gold standard in abuse recovery" from the founder of the Women's Therapy Clinic (Jackson MacKenzie, author of Whole Again).
Foreword by Lois P. Frankel, Ph.D., New York Times bestselling author of Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office
ARE YOU A VICTIM OF SUBTLE ABUSE?
Are you always the one apologizing?
Constantly...
Foreword by Lois P. Frankel, Ph.D., New York Times bestselling author of Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office
ARE YOU A VICTIM OF SUBTLE ABUSE?
Are you always the one apologizing?
Constantly...
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Kassie O'Callaghan's meticulous plans to divorce her emotionally abusive husband, Mike, and move in with Chris, a younger man she met five years ago on a solo vacation in Venice, are disrupted when she finds out Mike has chronic kidney disease--something he's concealed from her for years. Once again, she postpones her path to freedom--at least, until she pokes around his pajama drawer and discovers his illness is the least of his deceits.
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"Each new day. One new meditation. One new step forward. Even if you've read Why Does He Do That?, it may be hard to see the truth of what is happening to you. You may feel overwhelmed by confusion, loss, and fear, and find yourself looking away from the truth and falling back into traumatic patterns. What you need is something that is there for you every day--to help you make a long series of little changes that will ultimately add up to a big one....
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