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1) Baby doll
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"For fans of Gone Girl and Girl on the Train, BABY DOLL is the most tense thriller you will read this year. Held captive for eight years, Lily has grown from a teenager to an adult in a small basement prison. Her daughter Sky has been a captive her whole life. But one day their captor leaves the deadbolt unlocked. This is what happens next.....to her twin sister, to her mother, to her daughter...and to her captor. "--
"You've been held captive...
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Schoolteacher Hallie Wolcott, her friend Pearl Parsons, and their friend Mary leave the lawless town of Whiskey Bend behind, hoping to start a new life, and when a violent storms forces them to take refuge with rancher Eli Morgan, who is facing his own troubles, they must all learn strength, perseverance, and courage in order to escape from their inner demons and the enemies that have followed them.
3) Grown
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 9
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HL 560L
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"When legendary R&B artist Korey Fields sports Enchanted Jones at an audition, Chanty's dreams of being a famous singer take flight. Until she wakes up with blood on her hands and zero memory of the previous night. Who killed Korey Fields? Before there was a dead body, Enchanted's dreams had turned into a nightmare, because behind Korey's charm and star power was a controlling dark side. Now he's dead, the police are at the door, and all signs point...
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When a woman's body is unearthed at the demolition derby track, Stella Hardesty, avenger of wronged women, and her former client Chrissy Shaw start snooping around their Missouri town in an effort to prove that gentle Neb Donovan cannot be the woman's murderer.
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"After her family suffers a tragedy, nine-year-old Alice Hart is forced to leave her idyllic seaside home. She is taken in by her grandmother, June, a flower farmer who raises Alice on the language of Australian native flowers, a way to say the things that are too hard to speak. Under the watchful eye of June and the women who run the farm, Alice settles, but grows up increasingly frustrated by how little she knows of her family's story. In her early...
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"Eleven years ago, Lindsey Nash escaped into the night with her young daughter and left an abusive relationship. Her ex-husband, Andrew, was sent to jail and Lindsey started over with a new life. Now, Lindsey is older and wiser, with her own business and a teenage daughter who needs her more than ever. When Andrew is finally released from prison, Lindsey believes she has cut all ties and left the past behind her. But she gets the sense that someone...
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Broken by life's disappointments, four women forge a friendship that leads in unexpected directions. Drawn together at the weekend market held in the shelter's parking lot, the women pool their resources to fend off an unscrupulous conglomerate that threatens to replace the facility with a commercial development. As they fight to retain this haven for women in need, they find their own longings for home answered by the solace of faith and friendship....
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Miami nights volume 04
Pub. Date
2022
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English
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From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Marie Force comes a steamy new contemporary romance in her Miami Nights Series that brings two people together who have nothing in common except their feelings for each other...
Nico
My reputation with women stinks. I'll admit I haven't always treated them with the respect they deserve. That's not to say I'm a bad guy or anything. What my sisters and cousin would
...10) Don't tell
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Armed with a new identity in a new town, she and her son have found refuge hundreds of miles away. As Caroline Stewart, she has almost forgotten the nightmare she left behind nine years ago. She is even taking a chance on love with Max Hunter, a man with wounds of his own. Bur her past is about to collide with the present when her husband uncovers her trail and threatens her hard-won peace. Step by step, he's closing in on her-and everything and everyone...
11) Family
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
900L
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In the 1960s, seventeen-year-old Melinda leaves an abusive home for San Francisco, meets the charismatic Henry, and follows him to his desert commune where sex and drugs are free, but soon his "family" becomes violent against rich and powerful people and she is compelled to join in.
12) Hidden
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"When Anna decides it's time to leave her abusive boyfriend, she doesn't know where to turn. Rob has completely won over her parents, and the entire community, with his good looks and smooth charm. Only Anna has seen his dark side. Desperate, she runs to the only place she's ever felt completely safe--the Amish Brenneman Bed and Breakfast, where Anna met life-long friend Katie Brenneman. The family welcomes her in, and with few questions asked allows...
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Landy Wisdom was a survivor. Her former husband's abuse hadn't broken her spirit-no, she'd picked herself right up and helped run the local Underground Railroad for battered women.
But when it came to love, Landy felt that the train had left the station. She'd built a wall around her heart no man could breach...until journalist Micah Walker showed up and bought the hometown newspaper.
For Micah, returning to small-town life was a culture shock....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
830L
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English
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Two women born a generation apart witness the destruction of their home and family in wartorn Kabul, and the losses incurred over the course of thirty years test the limits of their strength and courage.
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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.
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"Axel Heyst aims to drift through life in solitude, believing he can avoid suffering by cutting himself off from humanity's passions and delusions. Then, living on a remote island in the Malay Archipelago, he rescues a young English girl escaping from a man who is infatuated with her"--Back cover.
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"Dara, savvy in business but not so savvy in love, has unexpectedly found success running a monthly tag sale after losing her job and inheriting her uncle's farmette in Maryland. Colleen, feeling underappreciated and in a rut with her husband and kids, rents a stall at Dara's tag sale, and now the two women are embarking on a two-week antiquing/thrift shopping roadtrip to Florida in the hopes of finding some diamonds in the rough to fix up and sell....
18) Under the radar
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A Sister's work is never done--not when there are wrongs to right and underdogs to defend. Just returned to their mountaintop hideaway in the wake of their latest successful mission, the seven fearless friends have barely had time to enjoy a celebratory dinner with their mentor, Charles Martin, when they're embroiled in a new adventure.
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The acclaimed author of The Color Purple presents a provocative story of a young tribal African woman who lives most of her adult life in America. Tashi submits toher people's custom of genital mutilation. Severely traumatized by the experience, she spends the rest of her life battling madness, trying to regain the ability to recognize her own reality.
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