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"John 'Preacher' Middleton is about to close the bar when a young woman and her three-year-old son come in out of the wet October night. A marine who has seen his share of pain, Preacher knows a crisis when he sees one - the woman is covered in bruises. He wants to protect them, and to punish whoever did this, but he knows immediately that this is more than just instinct. Paige Lassiter has stirred up emotions in this gentle giant of a man - emotions...
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"Celebrity cooking show host Marni McGuire has seen it all. She's been married--twice--and widowed and divorced. Now in her midfifties, she's single. Happily so. She just needs to convince her pregnant daughter, Bella, of this fact. And maybe convince herself, too. Especially after Marni's efforts to humor her determined daughter result in a series of disastrous dates that somehow prompt Marni to wonder if maybe the right man for her is still out...
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To escape an abusive marriage, Frankie Saunders flees across the country to Los Angeles with her reckless, profane Aunt Daisy, who will do whatever it takes to settle old scores and resolve the past--no matter what the damage, forcing Frankie to make some hard choices.
1928, Los Angeles: The newly-built Hotel Somerville, a hotspot for the city's African-American elite, embodies prosperity and dreams of equality for all. Daisy Washington, an up-and-coming...
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"After fleeing her hometown, Katharine Miller finds peace and anonymity while working at Stoll's Inn and keeping to herself. As long as her guard is up, she can protect herself and others from her past, with the hope that one day her family will forgive her for leaving. Ezra Bontrager has never shared a love of farming with his brothers and father, and when he takes a job at Stoll's Inn, he quickly finds even more reason to come to work every day....
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Four suburban mothers conspire to cover up a deadly crime in Just Between Us, a heart-stopping novel of suspense by Rebecca Drake. Alison, Julie, Sarah, Heather. Four friends living the suburban ideal. Their jobs are steady, their kids are healthy. They're as beautiful as their houses. But each of them has a dirty little secret, and hidden behind the veneer of their perfect lives is a crime and a mystery that will consume them all. Everything starts...
6) Womb city
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This genre-bending Africanfuturist horror novel blends The Handmaid's Tale with Get Out in an adrenaline-packed, cyberpunk body-hopping ghost story exploring motherhood, memory, and a woman's right to her own body. Nelah seems to have it all: fame, wealth, and a long-awaited daughter growing in a government lab. But, trapped in a loveless marriage to a policeman who uses a microchip to monitor her every move, Nelah's perfect life is precarious. After...
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Sloan will go through hell and back for those she loves. And she does so, every single day. Caught up with the alluring Asa Jackson, a notorious drug trafficker, Sloan has finally found a lifeline to cling to, even if it's meant compromising her morals. She was in dire straits trying to pay for her brother's care until she met Asa. But as Sloan became emotionally and economically reliant on him, he in turn developed a disturbing obsession with her...
8) Baby doll
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"For fans of Gone Girl and Girl on the Train, BABY DOLL is the most tense thriller you will read this year. Held captive for eight years, Lily has grown from a teenager to an adult in a small basement prison. Her daughter Sky has been a captive her whole life. But one day their captor leaves the deadbolt unlocked. This is what happens next ... to her twin sister, to her mother, to her daughter ... and to her captor."--
"You've been held captive in...
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Creative Thoughts, LLC
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[2021]
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He carries the burden of his mistakes. The wounds on Jason Gonzalez's body are nothing compared to the ones on his heart. The former Marine avoids getting close to anyone new, especially his gorgeous next-door neighbor. Until he hears a scream coming from her house in the middle of the night. Her enemies are too numerous to count. Addison Foster escaped an abusive marriage and has become an advocate for others. When an intruder breaks into her home...
10) Montana dawn
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McCutcheon family novel volume 1
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Center Point Large Print
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2022.
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"When Luke McCutcheon finds Faith Brown about to give birth in her rickety wagon, his first instincts are to ride for help. Instead, he stays and delivers a beautiful baby girl. Unable to leave the pretty young widow and her little son and newborn unprotected in the Montana wilderness, he brings them along on his family's cattle drive, to the absolute delight of the other friendly cowboys. Luke, third son of Montana's wealthy McCutcheon family, is...
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Grand Central Publishing, Hachette Book Group
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2024.
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"In September 2017, a knock on the door upends Michelle Horton's life forever: her sister had just shot her partner and was now in jail. During the investigation that follows, Michelle learns that Nikki had been hiding horrific abuse for years. Stunned to find herself in a situation she'd only ever encountered on television and true crime podcasts, Michelle rearranges her life to care for Nikki's children and simultaneously launches a fight to bring...
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"Aldo Moretta has always been the hero. The strongest, the fastest, the bravest. He fought for his country and built a thriving business in his hometown. With friends and family never more than a few blocks away, there was just one things he was missing. The right girl. She'd fallen for the wrong guy. The bad guy. But now that she's finally free, Also isn't going to miss his second chance. Not until his las deployment goes horribly wrong. He was prepared...
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Lake Union Publishing
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[2023]
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Taking a caretaking job at a nature preserve, Katie gets more than she bargained for when a terrified woman arrives late at night expecting a safe place to hide, and she suddenly doesn't know whom she can trust as she decides how much she'll risk to do the right thing.
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Melissa Foster
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[2021]
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"Desmond "Diesel" Black is a Nomad with the Dark Knights motorcycle club. He protects others with his life and always rides alone. Tracey Kline left the only family she had for a man who broke more than her spirit, leaving her untrusting and on her own. When a twist of fate reveals pieces of the other no one else sees, will they be able to help each other mend their past hurts and learn to trust the chemistry and connection that's too strong to deny?"--Page...
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Warner Books
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�2004
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A memoir by a young Jordanian woman who was the victim of an "honor crime" describes how she was nearly killed by her own family, her struggle to survive critical burns after being set on fire, and her determination to build a new life for herself.
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Peace Valley Amish volume 2
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[Createspace Independent Publishing Platform]
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2017
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English
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Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
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[2021]
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English
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"From the woman who gave the landmark testimony against Clarence Thomas as a sexual menace, a new manifesto about the origins and course of gender violence in our society; a combination of memoir, personal accounts, law, and social analysis, and a powerful call to arms from one of our most prominent and poised survivors. In 1991, Anita Hill began something that's still unfinished work. The issues of gender violence, touching on sex, race, age, and...
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Center Point Large Print
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2023.
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""A fighting machine" was one of the terms folks used for Quentin Reed. He was "a man born for trouble" because he seemed, through no conscious effort, to gravitate to it, to fall into the middle of it, especially if a beautiful woman was involved. When Quentin Reed won control of the only freight line to the White River Indian Agency from James Otis, he unwittingly forced into motion one of the vilest schemes for frontier plunder ever conceived....
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A road to refuge novel volume 2
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[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English