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1) Leave me
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English
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"International bestselling author Gayle Forman's trademark humor and insight abound in this masterful adult debut, showing us that sometimes you have to leave home in order to find it again. For every woman who has ever fantasized about driving past her exit on the highway instead of going home to make dinner, for every woman who has ever dreamed of boarding a train to a place where no one needs constant attention--meet Maribeth Klein, a harried working...
2) Sanctuary
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English
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Based on characters first introduced in The Shunning.
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Rory Abernathy's wedding to Liam Bastian turned into a bloodbath. She fled after stabbing a masked intruder, just before a gunman opened fire on the wedding party. Five years on, Rory still has no idea who was behind the attacks. Fearful she and her daughter remain targets, she's made a new life far from Liam and the wealthy, powerful Bastians. But even in remote Point Roberts, Washington, she can't hide from the past. Liam tracks Rory down, stunned...
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"Hurtling past the downtrodden communities of Depression-era America, painter Val Welch travels westward to the rural town of Dawes, Wyoming. Through a stroke of luck, he's landed a New Deal assignment to create a mural representing the region for their new Post Office. A wealthy art lover named John Long and his wife Eve have agreed to host Val at their sprawling ranch. Rumors and intrigue surround the couple: Eve left behind an itinerant life riding...
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English
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"When Jace Montgomery comes home late from entertaining clients, he discovers that his wife Tessa is missing. There's broken glass below the kitchen window. Clumps of her hair. Blood. The cops in their small New Jersey town have him pegged as a suspect, especially after he explodes at a reporter during a press conference. Jace maintains his innocence despite the mounting evidence against him, but when a coworker he's accused of having an affair with...
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Rendezvous Eighteenth marks the emergence of an exciting voice in crime fiction. Ricky Jenks gave up life in the U.S. years ago and is content, if not happy, with his life as a piano player in a small café in the Montmartre neighborhood of Paris. He has many friends among the other African-Americans living in Paris and is happily, if casually, involved with a French Muslim woman.
But then, everything changes. His American life comes crashing down...
7) Rose Madder
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Description
After suffering a miscarriage brought on by a beating, an abused wife leaves her husband, using his ATM card to buy a bus ticket out of town. The novel describes her struggle to begin a new life, then her husband, a sadistic police officer, comes looking for her. After fourteen years of beatings and abuse, Rose runs away from her husband. Unfortunately, he is a detective, and he has ways of finding her.
Publisher
Vanguard
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
A runaway bride is unaware that her mother has married her fiance by proxy and the two have set out to bring her back. Her escape lands her in a car with a joy-riding 15-year-old who is subsequently carjacked by two lovesick convicts. When the teenager encounters the bride's mother and groom, his vague description of the crooks lead them to believe that the bride has turned to a life of crime. Eventually, all paths cross at a remote motel run by a...
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English
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Third generation Texas Ranger Tyler Steele is the last of a dying breed -- a modern day cowboy hero living in a world that doesn't quite understand his powerful sense of right and wrong. Despite his strong moral compass, Ty has a terrible weakness. His hard outer shell -- the one essential to his work -- made him incapable of forging the emotional connection his wife Andie so desperately needed. Now retired, raising their son Brodie on his own, and...
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Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"Continuing the events from Beneath the Attic and Out of the Attic, the prequel trilogy to the Dollanganger series comes to a riveting end with The Shadows of Foxworth, a passionate novel about Corrine Foxworth's intense desire to flee her overbearing life trapped in the Foxworth estate. Two generations before Corinne Foxworth locked her children in an attic, the life of her grandmother, a gorgeous young girl named Corrine Dixon changed forever. At...
11) The runaway wife
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Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
"When Rose Pritchard flees her abusive husband in the middle of the night, there's only one place she can think of going. Millthwaite is a remote village deep in the Lake District, hundreds of miles from her unhappy home. It's also Rose's only link to Frasier McCleod. They met just once, long ago, but his kindness sparked a connection that has sustained her ever since"--Page 4 of cover.
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Publisher
Revell
Pub. Date
�2011
Language
English
Description
The Civil War has ended, but in Katie's Georgia home, conflict still rages. To protect herself and her young brother from her unstable husband, she flees north, finding sanctuary as the cook in a north woods lumber camp. Can she keep her past a secret from a man she is slowly growing to love?
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English
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"Set against the assassination of JFK, a poignant and evocative crime novel that centers on a desperate cat-and-mouse chase across 1960s America--a story of unexpected connections, daring possibilities, and the hope of second chances from the Edgar Award-winning author of The Long and Faraway Gone. Frank Guidry's luck has finally run out. A loyal street lieutenant to New Orleans' mob boss Carlos Marcello, Guidry has learned that everybody is expendable....
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Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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Del Wensley, wife of the most celebrated preacher in Harlan County, tries to mind her place. Until her husband's infidelity pushes an already strained marriage to a breaking point. Clinging to her last hope for self-respect, Del turns her back on the rigid life she's known. A coal train is rolling through the valley. With her eyes wide open to the unfamiliar, and to the freedom she craves, Del takes to the rails. Rumbling across America, Del is soon...