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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
"In 1974, a former Vietnam POW, suffering from flashbacks and nightmares, moves his family to Alaska to live off the grid in an attempt to find peace, restoration, and freedom. They will also face dangers, both internally and externally, as they face the ultimate test of the human spirit"--
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Language
English
Description
"Everyone knows a couple like Jack and Grace: he has looks and wealth, she has charm and elegance. You'd like to get to know Grace better. But it's difficult, because you realize Jack and Grace are never apart. Some might call this true love. Picture this: a dinner party at their perfect home, the conversation and wine flowing. They appear to be in their element while entertaining. And Grace's friends are eager to reciprocate with lunch the following...
Author
Series
Sisterhood series volume 25
Language
English
Description
When French model, Amalie Laurent and her one-time maid, Rosalee Muno fail to report for their weekly check-in with former Supreme Court Justice Pearl Barnes, the Sisterhood and their allies begin a search for them.
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Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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"Trent Powers relocates his family from Anaheim to Arkansas to take over as head coach of the Denton Pirates, a high school football team powered by a volatile but talented running back named Billy Lowe. Billy comes from an extremely troubled home: a trailer park where he is terrorized by his unstable mother's abusive boyfriend. Billy takes out his anger on the field, and it's not long before he crosses a line. Instead of punishing him, though, Trent...
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Language
English
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"Twenty years ago, Tansy was drawn to Selenes hard edges...Since then, the confused tangle of guilt about covering up a murder shattered their friendship...now, Selene is back, demanding her old friend repay her...Selene's daughter, Jupiter, attends the college where Tansy works...Selene is convinced that Jupiter's boyfriend, Colton, is abusive...As she is drawn back into the intensity of Selene's world, Tansy discovers the ugly truth about Colton"--...
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"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 move out of their house by the end of the month or he'll...
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English
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Detective Royce Fleming has dealt with the worst of the worst in his small Utah town. But even after years of dealing with criminals, he's shaken when a battered young woman enters his office. The victim of ruthless domestic abuse, Ellerie Pearson finally has the courage to share her painful secret history with the kind officer. For Royce, this information is just another piece in the puzzle he's working to solve--because unbeknownst to Ellerie, her...
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Publisher
Covenant Communications, Inc
Language
English
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"Florence Prescott and her family live in fear of her father's vicious outbursts. Lord Prescott rules his household with a cruel and violent hand, and when one of his drunken rages leads to the abuse of Florence's beloved younger brother, Florence boldly confronts her father--and pays the price for her insolence. Broken and hopeless, Florence feels like a prisoner in her own life. As a former stablehand for the Prescotts, Evan Avery is all too familiar...
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Language
English
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Description
Can my partner abuse me and still be a good parent? Should I stay with my partner for my children's sake? How should I talk to my children about the abuse and help them heal? Am I a bad mother? Mothers in physically or emotionally abusive relationships ask themselves these questions every day. Whether it's physical or "just" emotional abuse, whether it's aimed at them or you, whether they see or hear it, your kids need you. This book, the first ever...
11) Joe
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
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.
12) Hot rod
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Self-proclaimed stuntman Rod Kimble is preparing for the jump of his life. Rod plans to clear fifteen buses in an attempt to raise money for his abusive stepfather Frank's life-saving heart operation. He'll land the jump, get Frank better, and then fight him, hard.
13) Run, Rose, run
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
439 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
On the rise and on the run, a young singer-songwriter arrives in Nashville to claim her destiny, but it's also where the darkness she's fled might find her--and destroy her.
14) Cavedweller
Publisher
Showtime Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of Delia, a determined young mother who decides to return to her rural southern hometown after the unexpected death of her second husband. There she must face the two daughters and abusive husband she abandoned a decade ago.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 99 min.) : sd., color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In this suspenseful romantic thriller, Julia Roberts stars as Laura, a young woman who thinks she's found the man of her dreams in Martin (Patrick Bergin). Only after they are married does she discover the real Martin--compulsive, controlling and dangerously violent. After three years of living in fear and dread, Laura finally escapes, only to have Martin track her down.
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Into the Wild meets Helter Skelter in this riveting true story of a modern-day homesteading family in the deepest reaches of the Alaskan wilderness—and of the chilling secrets of its maniacal, spellbinding patriarch.
When Papa Pilgrim, his wife, and their fifteen children appeared in the Alaska frontier outpost of McCarthy, their new neighbors saw them as a shining example
17) The ice house
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (180 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Daniel Craig stars in one of his earliest roles in this adaptation of award-winning crime novelist Minette Walters's literary debut. Ten years ago, Phoebe Maybury's hateful husband David disappeared from Streech Grange. Now, a naked, unidentifiable corpse has been discovered in the icehouse on the Grange and Inspectors Walsh and McLoughlin have to decide whose it is, whether he was murdered; and who killed him.
Publisher
[Distributed by] Phase 4 Films
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After her ex-husband Carlos shoots Celeste three times, she is ready to give payback! In the fight for her godson, Rob, she hires three outlawed country brothers to bring him back to her. But nothing can be that simple in the South. What begins as a small rescue mission rises to a Southern battle royal.
19) Buttons and hate
Author
Series
Buttons volume 2
Publisher
Hartwick Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
336 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
20) Devil's peak
Publisher
Screen Media
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in the Appalachian Mountains, Devil's Peak is a tense country-noir thriller about a family dominated by a crime lord who controls his family and his business with his fists. When his son meets the girl of his dreams, desperately wanting to escape the life he is expected to lead and free himself from the clutches of his father, he is forced to go head-to-head with the terrifying man who will stop at nothing to ensure loyalty from all of those around...
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