Bohjalian, Chris
Summary: Boston, 1662. Mary Deerfield is twenty-four-years-old. Her skin is porcelain, her eyes delft blue, and in England she might have had many suitors. But here in The New World, amid this community of saints, Mary is the second wife of Thomas Deerfield, a man as cruel as he is powerful. When Thomas, prone to drunken rage, drives a three-tined fork into the back of Mary's hand, she resolves that she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC BOHHyde, Catherine Ryan
Summary: No longer tolerating her husband's borderline abuse, Faith escapes to her parents' California beach house to plan her next move. She befriends Sarah, a fourteen-year-old on the run from her father and reeling from her mother's sudden and suspicious death. While Sarah's grandmother scrambles to get custody, Sarah implores Faith to take her to Falkner's Midnight Sun, the prized black mare that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC HYDLewis, Susan
Summary: Linked by one irrevocable act of violence, Archie Colbrook and Claudia Winters' lives intertwine. Claudia can't overlook what Archie did to her family, but is forgiveness the only way to truly move on?
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2021
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC LEWHyde, Catherine Ryan
Summary: "Thirteen-year-old Abby Hubble lives in an unhappy home in the Sierra Nevada foothills where her father makes life miserable for her and her mother, Mary. One day Abby witnesses a man dump a litter of puppies into the nearby river. Diving in to rescue all seven, she knows she won't be able to bring them home. Afraid for their fate at the pound, she takes them to an abandoned cabin, where all...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HYDWalker, Alice
Summary: Tells the story of two African-American sisters: Nettie, a missionary in Africa, and Celie, a child-wife living in the south, in the medium of their letters to each other and in Celie's case, the desperate letters she begins, "Dear God."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 0000
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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: BOOK CLUB KIT FIC WALWalker, Alice
Summary: Beautifully imagined and deeply compassionate, this is the story of two sisters--one a missionary in Africa and the other a child wife living in the South--who sustain their loyalty to and trust in each other across time, distance, and silence. This classic novel of American literature is rich with passion, pain, inspiration, and an indomitable love of life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALClark, Mary Higgins.
Summary: Growing up under an assumed identity after accidentally shooting her mother and escaping her abusive father, Liza Barton, still fearful that her past will reclaim her, is shocked when her husband inadvertently buys her childhood home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2005
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS CLARoberts, Nora.
Summary: When Nell Channing arrives on charming Three Sisters Island, she believes that she's finally found refuge from her abusive husband - and from the terrifying life she fled so desperately eight months ago. But even in this quiet, peaceful place, Nell never feels entirely at ease. Careful to conceal her true identity, she takes a job as a cook at the local bookstore cafe - and begins to explore...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jove Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION ROBMichaels, Fern.
Summary: A mysterious political operative needs the Sisterhood to track down a computer hacker who stole a list of secret fundraisers' names, but the job proves to be more dangerous than they thought.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zebra Books 2008
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Summary: "By the bestselling author of A Beautiful, Terrible Thing, a haunting thriller about a mother and daughter who need to draw strength from each other when they find themselves trapped in a cabin with a man who wants to either control them--or kill them"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WAIEason, Lynette.
Summary: The day Danielle Harding takes her 11-year-old son, Simon, and flees from her abusive husband, is the same day Kurt Harding dies. A relieved Dani believes she and her son are finally safe--but in reality, the danger has just begun. When Kurt was alive, he took something important to a mysterious person. That person wants the item back and believes Dani now has it. As she and her son run for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Revell 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION EASCorrea, Armando Lucas
Summary: "Leah has been living with akinetopsia, or motion blindness, since she was a child. For the last twenty years, she hasn't been able to see movement. As she walks around her upper Manhattan neighborhood with her white stick tapping in front, most people assume she's blind. But the truth is Leah sees a good deal, and with her acute senses of smell and hearing, very little escapes her notice. She...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC CORJakeman, Jo
Summary: "A wickedly dark debut thriller about three women who've all been involved with the same man and realize the one thing they have in common is that they all want revenge against him... Divorces are often messy, and Imogen's is no exception. Phillip Rochester is controlling, abusive, and determined to make things as difficult as possible. When he shows up without warning demanding that Imogen...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Jakeman 2018Casale, Alexia
Summary: When Sally kills her husband with a cast-iron skillet, she's more fearful of losing her kids than of disposing of a fresh corpse. That just wouldn't be fair--not after twenty years of marriage to a truly terrible man. But Sally isn't the only woman in town reaching the brink. Soon, Sally finds herself leading an extremely unusual self-help group, and among them there are four bodies to hide....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2024
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Summary: Midsummer's Eve, 1648, England is in the grip of civil war between renegade King and rebellious Parliament. The struggle reaches to every corner of the kingdom, even the remote Tidelands - the marshy landscape of the south coast. Alinor a descendant of wise women, crushed by poverty and superstition, waits in the graveyard under the full moon for a ghost who will declare her free from her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2019
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Summary: Midsummer's Eve, 1648, England is in the grip of civil war between renegade King and rebellious Parliament. The struggle reaches to every corner of the kingdom, even the remote Tidelands - the marshy landscape of the south coast. Alinor a descendant of wise women, crushed by poverty and superstition, waits in the graveyard under the full moon for a ghost who will declare her free from her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Gregory 2019Khaw, Cassandra
Summary: "Julie is a coked-up, burnt-out thirty-year-old whose only retirement plan is dying early. She's been trying to establish herself in the NYC magic scene, and she'll work the most gruesome gigs, exorcize the nastiest demons, and make deals with the cruelest gods to claw her way to the top. But nothing can prepare her for the toughest job yet: when her best friend, Sarah, shows up at her door in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nightfire, Tor Publishing Group 2023
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC KHAReid, Cheryl.
Summary: August 1956. After a night of rage and terror, Anna Nassad wakes to find her abusive husband dead and instinctively hides her bruises and her relief. As the daughter of Syrian immigrants living in segregated Alabama, Anna has never belonged, and now her world is about to erupt. Days before, Anna set in motion an explosive chain of events by allowing the first black postman to deliver the mail...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC REIGibbons, Kaye
Summary: Maureen Ross, who has had her spirit battered throughout her marriage to Troop Ross, is experiencing a difficult pregnancy, and Troop's niece, coming to help her aunt in the last weeks of confinement, is horrified by Troop's bullying.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike/Chivers 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GIBClark, Mary Higgins.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CLAKingfisher, T.
Summary: "This isn't a fairytale where the princess marries a prince. It's one where she kills him. From Hugo, Nebula, and Locus award-winning author T. Kingfisher comes an original and subversive new fantasy adventure. After years of seeing her sisters suffer at the hands of an abusive prince, Marra-the shy, convent-raised, third-born daughter-has finally realized that no one is coming to their rescue....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor/Tom Doherty Associates Book 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KINRobins, Jane
Summary: "This chilling psychological suspense novel--think Strangers on a Train for the modern age--explores the dark side of love and the unbreakable ties that bind two sisters together. Felix and Tilda seem like the perfect couple: young and in love, a financier and a beautiful up-and-coming starlet. But behind their flawless facade, not everything is as it seems. Callie, Tilda's unassuming twin,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone 2017
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLETurrill, David A.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bonneville Books 2001
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1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL FIC TURBatta, Patricia K.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lillimar Pub. 2010