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Author
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
"The spellbinding story of Chris McCandless, who gave away his savings, hitchhiked to Alaska, walked into the wilderness alone, and starved to death in 1992, fascinated not just New York Times bestselling author Jon Krakauer, but also the rest of the nation. Krakauer's book, Into the Wild, became an international bestseller, translated into thirty-one languages, and Sean Penn's inspirational film by the same name further skyrocketed Chris McCandless...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author, a novel about the power of family to harm -- and to heal. Within the walls of a tasteful, perfectly kept house in North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains, young Zane Bigelow feels like a prisoner of war. Strangers -- and even Zane's own aunt across the lake -- see his parents as a successful surgeon and his stylish wife, making appearances at their children's ballet recitals and baseball games. Zane and...
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 1969 Alabama, eleven-year-old Dixie Dupree learns that the family she once believed was happy has deep fractures and records everything in her diary in this coming-of-age story about mothers and daughters, the guilt and pain that pass between generations, and the truths that are impossible to hide, especially from ourselves"--
4) Gossamer
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
While learning to bestow dreams, a young dream giver tries to save an eight-year-old boy from the effects of both his abusive past and the nightmares inflicted on him by the frightening Sinisteeds.
5) Darker
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
After being rejected by Anastasia Steele, Christian Grey attempts to regain her trust while also dealing with the consequences of his past sexual relationships.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Formats
Description
"To their family, neighbors, and online friends, Louise and David Turpin presented a picture of domestic bliss: dressing their thirteen children in matching outfits and buying them expensive gifts. But what police discovered when they entered the Turpin family home would eclipse the most shocking child abuse cases in history. For years, David and Louise had kept their children in increasing isolation, trapping them in a sinister world of torture,...
Author
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
"In 1948, Sally Horner was just eleven years old when she was kidnapped by a man claiming to be an FBI agent. Seven years later, Vladimir Nabokov published Lolita, perhaps the most seminal novel of the twentieth century. Sarah Weinman's investigation into how the two are connected is a thrilling, heartbreaking mix of literary scholarship and true-crime writing."--back cover.
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Nora Brown teaches high school English and lives a quiet life in Seattle with her husband and six-year-old daughter. But one November day, moments after dismissing her class, a girl's face appears above the students' desks and terror rushes through Nora's body. Twenty-four hours later, while on Thanksgiving vacation, the face appears again. Shaken and unsteady, Nora meets with neurologists and eventually, a psychiatrist. As the story progresses, a...
9) Grey
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Formats
Description
"See the world of Fifty Shades of Grey anew through the eyes of Christian Grey. In Christian's own words, and through his thoughts, reflections, and dreams ... Christian Grey exercises control in all things; his world is neat, disciplined, and utterly empty -- until the day that Anastasia Steele falls into his office, in a tangle of shapely limbs and tumbling brown hair. He tries to forget her, but instead is swept up in a storm of emotion he cannot...
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Having forged a new identity as a gay man in New York, Daniel Henriquez returns to the floodlands where he went to high school, to mourn Aubrey, the self-identified "redneck" girl he loved back then. His track team buddies-Twig, a long-distance runner; Desmond, a sprinter; Des's girlfriend, Egypt; and Jess, Aubrey's best friend-help him reckon with who they are to him, and he to them. Recklessly, he confronts the good-ole-boy responsible for Aubrey's...
11) The final case
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"A provocative new novel from the best-selling author of Snow Falling on Cedars--a moving father-son story that is also a taut courtroom drama and a bold examination of privilege, power, and how to live a meaningful life. In a small rural town outside Seattle, Joanna, an Ethiopian girl adopted by a white fundamentalist Christian family, is found dead of hypothermia in her own backyard--setting in motion a gripping journey into the complexities of...
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
"Ezra Ahern wakes up one day to find his older sister, Bea, gone. No note, no sign, nothing but an email address hidden somewhere only he would find it. Ezra never expected to be left behind with their abusive stepfather and their neglectful mother, how is he supposed to navigate life without Bea? Bea Ahern already knew sh eneeded to get as far away from home as possible. But a message in her inbox changes everything, and she finds herself alone in...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
Maude Julien's parents were fanatics who sought to turn her into the ultimate survivor through constant, elaborate abuse. But she befriended animals and read novels in secret, even though her parents had forbidden compassion as "weakness." When an outsider penetrated her family's paranoid world, Maude seized her opportunity to escape.
14) Harrow Lake
Author
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers Group
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Lola Nox is sent to live with her estranged maternal grandmother in the mining town where her horror movie director father's most iconic film was set, when paranormal incidents and whispers of a century-old monster make her question if she'll make it out alive"--
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In this twisty, mind-bending thriller from the bestselling author of Behind Her Eyes, Emma Averill worries that her crippling insomnia is a sign that she's slowly going insane-like the mother she's worked so hard to leave in her past"--
Emma Averell loves her life--her high-powered legal career, her two beautiful children, and her wonderful stay-at-home husband--but it wasn’t always so perfect. When she was just five years old, Emma and her...
16) Being Toffee
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Allison runs away and, in what she thinks is an abandoned house, finds a home with Marla, an elderly woman with dementia who believes her to be an old friend named Toffee." --
Running away from an abusive home, Allison takes shelter in a shed behind an abandoned house. But the house isn't empty after all; an elderly woman named Marla, who suffers from dementia, lives there. And rather than turn her away, Marla welcomes her-- mistaking Allison for...
18) Carrie
Author
Series
Bestseller) volume 102
Publisher
Penguin Random House Audio
Pub. Date
2016
Language
EspaƱol
Description
Carrie, an odd girl who is ostracized at school, has the power of telekinesis and after being harassed by her fellow students begins to exact revenge with violence.
Author
Series
Letters to the lost volume 2
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Rev Fletcher and Emma Blue meet, they both long to share secrets, his of being abused by his birth father, hers of her parents' failing marriage and an online troll who truly frightens her.