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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...
3) What we did
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"In a sleepy college town, a woman who was sexually abused as a child must face her traumatic past and protect her family when her abuser appears in town and forces his way back into her life"--
4) Fade
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Wake trilogy (Lisa McMann) volume 2
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Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2009
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248 p. ; 22 cm.
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Using her ability to tap into other people's dreams, eighteen-year-old Janie investigates an alleged sex ring at her high school that involves teachers using the date rape drug on students.
5) Yes, Daddy
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2021.
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256 pages
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Jonah Keller moved to New York City with dreams of becoming a successful playwright, but, for the time being, lives in a rundown sublet in Bushwick, working extra hours at a restaurant only to barely make rent. When he stumbles upon a photo of Richard Shriver-the glamorous Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and quite possibly the stepping stone to the fame he craves-Jonah orchestrates their meeting. The two begin a hungry, passionate affair. When summer...
6) Atada a ti
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Crossfire novel volume 3
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Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2013.
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383 pages ; 21 cm.
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"El fenómeno mundial continua... Eva y Gideon enfrentan los demonios de su pasado y aceptan las consecuencias de sus deseos obsesivos... Desde el primer momento en que conocí a Gideon Cross, reconocí algo en el que yo necesitaba. Algo que no podía resistir. También vi el alma peligrosa y dañada que llevaba por dentro... un alma tan similar a la mía. Me sentí atraída. Los necesitaba con la misma intensidad con la que necesitaba el latido...
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Alex Delaware novels volume 25
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Homicide detective Milo Sturgis and psychologist Alex Delaware probe the hallowed halls of Windsor Prep Academy, one of L.A.'s most prestigious prep schools, searching for the killers of a murdered woman.
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"Rory Morris isn't thrilled to be moving back to her hometown, even if it is temporary. There are bad memories there. But her twin sister, Scarlett, is pregnant, estranged from the baby's father, and needs support, so Rory returns to the place she thought she'd put in her rearview. After a night out at a bar where she runs into an old almost-flame, she hits a large animal with her car. And when she gets out to investigate, she's attacked. Rory survives,...
9) Edinburgh
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Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2019, ©.
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7 CDs (8 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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Twelve-year-old Fee is a shy Korean American boy and a newly named section leader of the first sopranos in his local boys' choir. But when Fee learns how the director treats his section leaders, he is so ashamed he says nothing of the abuse, not even when Peter, his best friend, is in line to be next. When the director is arrested, Fee tries to forgive himself for his silence. But when Peter takes his own life, Fee blames only himself.In the years...
10) Old God's time
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Viking
Pub. Date
2023.
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261 pages ; 22 cm
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"Recently retired policeman Tom Kettle is settling into the quiet of his new home, a lean-to annexed to a Victorian castle overlooking the Irish Sea. For months he has barely seen a soul, catching only glimpses of his eccentric landlord and a nervous young mother who has moved in next door. Occasionally, fond memories return, of his family, his beloved wife June and their two children, Winnie and Joe. But when two former colleagues turn up at his...
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