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61) Little night
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
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Clare Burke's life took a devastating turn when she tried to protect her sister, Anne, from an abusive and controlling husband and ended up serving prison time for assault. The verdict largely hinged on Anne's defense of her spouse - all lies - and the sisters have been estranged ever since. Nearly twenty years later, Clare is living a quiet life in Manhattan when her niece, Grit, turns up on her doorstep.. Together they face the wounds inflicted...
Author
Publisher
Bad Hand Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"From the author of the viral sensation Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke comes They Were Here Before Us, a novella written in pieces, designed to be consumed as a single, thematically cohesive work. The only thing more brutal than nature is love."--
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Harbor Lights is a story collection from one of the most popular and widely acclaimed icons of American fiction, featuring a never-before-published novella. These eight stories move from the marshlands on the Gulf of Mexico to the sweeping plains of Colorado to prisons, saloons, and trailer parks across the South, weaving together love, friendship, violence, survival, and revenge. A boy and his father watch a German submarine sink an oil tanker as...
65) The heartless
Author
Series
Bruno Johnson novels volume 7
Publisher
Oceanview Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Court bailiff Bruno Johnson reverts to violent crime mode when his daughter is threatened by a violent killer awaiting trial --
Author
Publisher
Dutton Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Unveils the details of a horrific murder, its effects on permanent and summer residents of the small Appalachian town where the body is discovered, and especially how the related violence shakes eighteen-year-old Becca's determination to leave home as soon as possible.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"A mysterious plague that causes random bouts of violence is sweeping the nation. Now three generations of women must navigate their chilling new reality in this moving exploration of identity, cycles of abuse, and hope. Chelsea Martin appears to be the perfect housewife: married to her high school sweetheart, the mother of two daughters, keeper of an immaculate home. But Chelsea's husband has turned their house into a prison; he has been abusing...
68) Homeland
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Here is the story of two families in small-town Basque country, pitted against each other by the ideology and violence of the terrorist group ETA (Basque Homeland and Liberty), from the unrelentingly grim 1980s to October 2011 when the group proclaimed an end to its savage insurgency. Erstwhile lifetime friends--especially the generation of parents on both sides--the two families become bitter enemies when a father of one is killed by ETA militants,...
69) Sparrow: a novel
Author
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Though Savannah Rose - "Sparrow" to her friends and family - is a gifted ballerina, her real talent is keeping secrets. Schooled in silence by her long-dead mother, Sparrow has always believed that her lifelong creed - "I'm not the kind of girl who tells" - will make her just like everyone else: Normal. Happy. Safe. But in the aftermath of a brutal assault by her seemingly perfect boyfriend Tristan, Sparrow must finally find the courage to confront...
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"Sterling Beckenbauer is plunged into a terrifying and nonsensical world one morning when they are attacked, then unfairly arrested, in their neighborhood in London. With the help of their friends, Sterling hosts a trial of their own in order to exonerate themselves and to hold the powers that be to account"--
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
"Roya is a dreamy, idealistic teenager living in 1953 Tehran who, amidst the political upheaval of the time, finds a literary oasis in kindly Mr. Fakhri's neighborhood book and stationery shop. She always feels safe in his dusty store, overflowing with fountain pens, shiny ink bottles, and thick pads of soft writing paper. When Mr. Fakhri, with a keen instinct for a budding romance, introduces Roya to his other favorite customer -- handsome Bahman,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Actress Clarissa Lisle has always been famous for her beauty -- and her unscrupulous manipulations. Now her schemes have won her a starring role in a nightmare in which she can trust no one. Private detective Cordelia Gray is invited to the sunlit island of Courcy to protect the actress from veiled threats on her life. But when the curtain goes up on Courcy, nothing is as it seems, and Detective Gray quickly finds that the stage is set for death.
73) Syndrome E
Author
Series
Lucie Hennebelle novels volume 1
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"Lucie Henebelle, single mother and beleaguered detective, has just about enough on her plate with one daughter in the hospital and another off at summer camp when she receives a panicked call from an ex-lover. Lucie's old friend has developed a case of hysterical blindness after watching an obscure and mysterious film from the 1950s. Embedded in the film are subliminal images so unspeakably heinous that Lucie realizes she must get to the bottom of...
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
©2018.
Language
English
Description
"When her mother is arrested for killing Brooke's abusive father, Brooke must confront the shadow of her family's violence and dysfunction"--
Brooke Winters has transferred; she's starting fresh, and making plans for college so she can finally leave her hometown, her family, and her past behind. When her mother is arrested for killing Brooke's abusive father, Brooke and her siblings are on their own. As she confronts the shadow of her family's violence...
75) Monday, Monday
Author
Publisher
Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In this gripping, emotionally charged novel, a tragedy in Texas changes the course of three lives On an oppressively hot Monday in August of 1966, a student and former marine named Charles Whitman hauled a footlocker of guns to the top of the University of Texas tower and began firing on pedestrians below. Before it was over, sixteen people had been killed and thirty-two wounded. It was the first mass shooting of civilians on a campus in American...
76) Eynhallow
Author
Publisher
Raw Dog Screaming Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Orkney Islands, 1797. Agnes Tulloch feels a little cheated. This windswept place is not the island paradise her husband promised it to be when they wed. Now with four young children, she struggles to provide for her family while her husband grows increasingly distant. When a stranger comes ashore to rent an abandoned cottage, Agnes and the other islanders are abuzz with curiosity. Who is this wealthy foreigner and why on earth would he come to Eynhallow?...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Law school graduate and newlywed Ruth Appelbaum is acclimating to life and marriage in a posh Philadelphia neighborhood. She'll do almost anything to endear herself to her mother-in-law, who's already signed up Ruth for etiquette lessons conducted by the impeccably accessorized tutor Lillian Diamond. But Ruth brings something fresh to the small circle of housewives--sharp wit, honesty, and an independent streak that won't be compromised. Right away...
78) Mansour's eyes
Author
Publisher
Transit Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Description
"Mansour al-Jazairi is on his way to his public execution. As his faithful friend Hussein looks on, the crowd calls for his head. Gassouh! Gassouh! It is a time when age-old rituals play out amid skyscrapers and are replayed on smartphone screens in the air-conditioned corridors of shopping malls. Set over the course of a single day in the Saudi Arabian capital, Mansour's Eyes weaves together several historical pasts: the time of Mansour's great-grandfather,...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Sometimes, there's a thin line between love and hate. Or at least that's one theory for DI Zoe Dolan, tracking the Creeper - a stalker who's been breaking into women's homes and attacking them. But the Creeper's violence is escalating and there's no pattern, no clue as to how he's getting in, and no clue as to who's next. Until Jane Webster gets a call to the helpline where she volunteers. It's meant to be a confidential service and Jane is torn -...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
©2013.
Language
English
Description
"'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 hidden the bruises and the truth of her abusive marriage in order to protect Addie and Drew, knowing, if she left, Gordon would destroy her--destroy them. When, in an act of...
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