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1) The jury
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Sisterhood series volume 4
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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...
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Soledad County novels volume 2
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
292 p. : map ; 24 cm.
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When Riley Griggs is waiting for her husband to arrive at the ferry one Friday afternoon, she is instead served with papers informing her that her island home is being foreclosed. To make matters worse, her husband is nowhere to be found. She turns to her island friends for help and support, but each of them has their own secrets and the clock is ticking as the mystery deepens
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Elm Creek Quilts volume 19
Pub. Date
2012
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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.
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From the bestselling author of The Illuminator comes a magnificent tale about the power of love and the perils of faith
Tudor England is a perilous place for booksellers Kate Gough and her brother John, who sell forbidden translations of the Bible. Caught between warring factions-English Catholics opposed to the Lutheran reformation, and Henry VIII's growing impatience with the Pope's refusal to sanction his marriage to Anne Boleyn-Kate embarks...
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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...
10) Another woman
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When the seemingly elated Cressida Forrest disappears without a trace the night before her lavish wedding, a frantic search for answers reveals a fragile web of sexual and financial secrets involving two families.
13) The husband
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"We have your wife. You can get her back for two million cash." Landscaper Mitchell Rafferty thinks it must be some kind of joke. He was in the middle of planting impatiens in the yard of one of his clients when his cell phone rang. Now he's standing in a normal suburban neighborhood on a bright summer day, having a phone conversation out of his darkest nightmare.
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Publisher
Broadway Books
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
278 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Determined to leave her unfaithful husband, Judy Van Brunt takes the money she inherited from her mother and flees, taking a job as a groom at a North Carolina horse farm, where she shares an apartment with three extraordinary women.
15) Absolution
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
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"A riveting account of women's lives on the margins of the Vietnam War, from the renowned winner of the National Book Award"--
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Hidden identity (Lynette Eason) volume 2
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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.
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Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
326 p. ; 25 cm.
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Having lived in a dozen different towns due to her husband's frequent corporate relocations, Joanna leaves her husband to return to the coastal South Carolina community she loves, while Paul, distraught by Joanna's abandonment, endeavors to win her back.
18) El marido
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Publisher
Suma de Letras
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
402 p. ; 24 cm.
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When Mitchell Rafferty receives a phone call that his wife has been kidnapped and there is a two million dollar ransom, his extraordinary commitment to his wife will take him on a seventy-two-hour journey of sacrifice and redemption.
20) My name is Anton
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Publisher
Brilliance Audio, Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
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9 CDs (11 hrs., 36 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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It's 1965, and life has taken a turn for eighteen-year-old Anton Addison-Rice. Nearly a year after his brother died in a tragic accident, Anton is still wounded, physically and emotionally. Alone for the holidays, he catches a glimpse of his neighbor Edith across the street one evening and realizes that she's in danger.
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