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Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (86 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Three stories of women on their way to life-changing crossroads. One is a battered wife fleeing her husband, one is a young woman dealing with feelings of infidelity and the third is a pregnant woman trapped in a relationship she doesn't want.
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Series
Hidden identity (Lynette Eason) volume 2
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Description
When Danielle Harding's abusive husband dies, she begins to feel that she and her son are safe, until a man who had dealings with her dead husband begins to pursue her, and she must seek help from Adam Buchanan of Operation Refuge.
5) The jury
Author
Series
Sisterhood series volume 4
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
188 p. ; 23 cm.
Description
Tea. Sympathy. Revenge. The Sisterhood Has Their Own Style Of Justice.
The women of the Sisterhood know life isn't fair, but that doesn't mean they have to like it--or let it pass. Instead, these best friends share their joys, troubles, triumphs, heartaches and one collective mission: to right wrongs and bring justice where it is desperately needed. Even reeling from loss of one of their own, the Sisterhood is always prepared to rally behind a new...
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Antonio Banderas' directorial debut opens in the sweltering summer of 1965, and everyone in Alabama has gone completely crazy, especially 12-year-old Peejoe's glamorous Aunt Lucille. Deciding not to let her abusive husband stand in the way of her dreams of television stardom, she gets rid of him in a most unusual way and leaves Peejoe with lots of questions and an explosive secret.
Author
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Celie is a poor black woman whose letters tell the story of 20 years of her life, beginning at age 14 when she is being abused and raped by her father and attempting to protect her sister from the same fate, and continuing over the course of her marriage to "Mister," a brutal man who terrorizes her. Celie eventually learns that her abusive husband has been keeping her sister's letters from her and the rage she feels, combined with an example of love...
Author
Series
Butternut Lake volume 3
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
366 pages , 9 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
"Mila Jones has fled the big city seeking a safe haven on the serene shores of Butternut Lake. Her position looking after Reid Ford is more than a job. It's a chance at a fresh start. And although her sullen patient does everything he can to make her quit, Mila refuses to give up on him. But Mila isn't the only one needing refuge. Haunted by the car accident that nearly killed him, Reid has hidden himself away. He wants Mila to just leave him alone....
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Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 24 cm
Description
FOURTEEN YEARS BEFORE THE CABIN: Twenty-something Anne meets the man of her dreams right out of college, but after they get married, Anne notices that her husband begins acting differently. Why is Ethan suddenly so moody? And will their marriage endure? A WEEK BEFORE THE CABIN: Ten years later, Anne and her twelve-year-old daughter, Thea, are safely living in Vermont. Anne is a successful therapist, Thea has friends at her new school, and they receive...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Formats
Description
No longer tolerating her husband's borderline abuse, Faith escapes to her parents' California beach house to plan her next move. She never dreamed her new chapter would involve befriending Sarah, a fourteen-year-old on the run from her father and reeling from her mother's sudden and suspicious death. While Sarah's grandmother scrambles to get custody, Faith is charged with spiriting the girl away on a journey that will restore her hope: Sarah implores...
Author
Series
Elm Creek Quilts volume 19
Pub. Date
2012
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Description
Struggling with a meager existence on a Prohibition-era farm in Southern California and devastated by the losses of four of her children to a wasting disease, Rosa flees with her surviving children after a shattering act of violence.
13) Day one
Author
Publisher
Tyrus Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
378 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Description
"Born and raised in southern Oregon farm country, Ellie Spaneker flees her home and abusive husband, her trail dogged by a brutal ex-cop in the hire of her vengeful father-in-law. In Portland, retired homicide detective Skin Kadash fills his idle days drinking coffee and searching for Eager Gillespie, a teen runaway of special interest as the only witness in a troublesome and long unsolved murder. Eager, meanwhile, is on his own, grifting and working...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1997.
Physical Desc
226 pages ; 20 cm
Description
Paula Spencer is a thirty-nine-year-old working-class woman struggling to reclaim her dignity after marriage to an abusive husband and a worsening drinking problem. Paula recalls her contented childhood, the audacity she learned as a teenager, the exhilaration of her romance with Charlo, and the marriage to him that left her feeling powerless. Capturing both her vulnerability and her strength, Roddy Doyle gives Paula a voice that is real and unforgettable....
15) Monstrous
Publisher
Screen Media Films
Pub. Date
2022
Formats
Description
A terrifying new horror awaits Laura and her seven-year-old son Cody when they flee her abusive ex-husband and try to settle into a new life in an idyllic and remote lakeside farmhouse. Still traumatized, their physical and mental well-being are pushed to the limit as their fragile existence is threatened.
Author
Publisher
D.J. Funk
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
260 pages
Description
"Based on a true story, Emilie would create history, amending U.S. laws applying to victims of domestic abuse and creating today's definition of 'duress.' In the 1950's, Emilie, a private and reserved woman, would end up in an epic battle against the U.S. Government and the Office of the U.S. Attorney General. She was told by her attorney that no one had ever successfully won such a case. The odds were against her. For five long years, she fought...
17) Here and Gone
Author
Publisher
Random House, Inc
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
8 CDs (10 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A woman is fleeing through Arizona with her kids in tow, trying to escape an abusive marriage. When she's pulled over by an unsettling local sheriff, things soon go awry and she is taken into custody. Only when she gets to the station, her kids are gone. And then the cops start saying they never saw any kids with her, that if they're gone than she must have done something with them. Meanwhile, halfway across the country, a man hears the frenzied news...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
374 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
320 pages cm
Description
"After escaping an abusive marriage, Cara Brookins had four children to provide for and no one to turn to but herself. In desperate need of a home but without the means to buy one, she did something incredible. Equipped only with YouTube instructional videos, a small bank loan and a mile-wide stubborn streak, Cara built her own house from the foundation up with a work crew made up of her four children. It would be the hardest thing she had ever done....
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"In Breaking Free, Rachel blows the lid off this taciturn community made famous by John Krakauer?s bestselling Under the Banner of Heaven to offer a harrowing look at her life with Warren Jeffs, and the years of physical and emotional abuse she suffered. Sexually assaulted, compelled into an arranged polygamous marriage, locked away in "houses of hiding" as punishment for perceived transgressions, and physically separated from her children, Rachel,...
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