Walker, 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 WALSlaughter, Karin
Summary: Detective Will Trent of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation takes on the case of a girl who has been savagely murdered in one of Atlanta's most desirable neighborhoods.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SLAO'Dell, Tawni.
Summary: Coal mining community deputy Ivan Zoschenko remembers the injury that ended his football career, prepares for a former teammate's release from prison, and confronts a secret that has troubled his conscience.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ODEPalmer, Liza.
Summary: In Frances's mind, beautiful, successful, ecstatically married Emma Dunham is the height of female perfection. Frances, recently dumped with spectacular drama by her boyfriend, aspires to be just like Emma. So do her close friends and fellow teachers, Lisa and Jill. But Lisa's too career-focused to find time for a family. And Jill's recent unexpected pregnancy could have devastating...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PALBohjalian, 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...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC BOHShroff, Parini
Summary: "A young Indian woman falsely rumored to have killed her husband finds a way to make her unfortunate reputation surprisingly useful--but complications arise when other village women seek her help offing their husbands--in this provocative, razor-sharp debut. "The Bandit Queens heralds a prodigious and sophisticated literary talent." Téa Obreht, New York Times bestselling author of Inland In the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SHRBeinhart, Larry
Summary: Ex-private eye Tony Casella lives in the Catskill mountains, a lonely old tough guy whose body can no longer do what it once did. His wife and son are dead; his daughter barely talks to him; his bank is threatening to repossess his house. But a chance encounter with a rich young woman on a train changes everything. He is hired to kill her superrich, Jeffrey Epstein-ish husband. That job leads...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BEIAllen, Charlotte Vale
Summary: To escape her husband's unpredictable rages; Grace fled to her brother Gus's home in Vermont, along with her infant daughter. Now, Grace is a successful author with her own web site. She is puzzled when she receives a strange e-mail from another troubled woman named Stephanie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MIRA 2002
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Summary: Successful TV anchorwoman Madeleine hides the truth about her emotionally abusive marriage until she joins an anti-violence group and falls in love with Bill, a diplomat who encourages her to become empowered.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2000
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Summary: "A young Indian woman falsely rumored to have killed her husband finds a way to make her unfortunate reputation surprisingly useful--but complications arise when other village women seek her help offing their husbands--in this provocative, razor-sharp debut. "The Bandit Queens heralds a prodigious and sophisticated literary talent." Téa Obreht, New York Times bestselling author of Inland In the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 0000
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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: BOOK CLUB KIT FIC SHRBohjalian, Chris
Summary: "From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of 'The Flight Attendant, ' the enthralling story of a young Puritan woman who marries the wrong man and soon finds herself caught up in the violence and hysteria of the Salem Witch Trials"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2021
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Summary: I am a Weyward, and wild inside. 2019: Under cover of darkness, Kate flees London for ramshackle Weyward Cottage, inherited from a great aunt she barely remembers. With its tumbling ivy and overgrown garden, the cottage is worlds away from the abusive partner who tormented Kate. But she begins to suspect that her great aunt had a secret. One that lurks in the bones of the cottage, hidden ever...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: Before terror flowered in the attic there was a young girl. An innocent, hopeful girl... When young Olivia arrives at Foxworth Hall, she thinks her marriage to handsome Malcolm will bring the joy she has longed for. But in the gloomy mansion filled with festering desires and forbidden passions, a stain of jealous obsession begins to spread--an evil that will threaten her children, two charming...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Pulse 2010
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Summary: "If I stay, he will kill me. If I leave, he'll destroy Addie and Drew." Jillian Kane appears to have it all--a successful career, a gorgeous home, a loving husband, and two wonderful children. The reality behind closed doors is something else entirely. For nine years, she has hid the bruises and the truth of her abusive marriage in order to protect Addie and Drew, knowing, if she left, Gordon...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub. 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC REDGlass, Leslie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 1999
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Summary: Elaine Cane is scared of her suspicious, overbearing husband. But one day he goes too far he drunkenly tries to use force on her, so she flees the house. A sense of responsibility makes her return, to check he has not injured himself in his drunken rage, and she finds herself in the middle of a nightmare.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ASHMichaels, Fern.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MICBostwick, Marie.
Summary: At twenty-seven, fleeing an abusive marriage with little more than her kids and the clothes on her back, Ivy Peterman figures she has nowhere to go but up. Quaint, historic New Bern, Connecticut, seems as good a place as any to start fresh. With a part-time job at the Cobbled Court Quilt Shop and budding friendships, Ivy feels hopeful for the first time in ages. But when a popular quilting TV...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing. Corp. 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Click, clack, moo: A bunch of literate cows go on strike after Farmer Brown refuses to give in to their typed demands of electric blankets when the barn gets too cold. The day Jimmy's boa ate the wash: Jimmy's boa constrictor wreaks havoc on the class trip to a farm. The Pigs' wedding: all the pigs must get cleaned up for the big wedding. Hendrika, a Dutch cow, wants to visit the city. Charlie...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2002