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1) The innocent
Author
Series
Will Robie volume 1
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Will Robie, a freelance hitman working for the government, rescues a teenage girl whose parents' disappearance may be linked to a vast, high-level cover-up.
Author
Language
English
Description
It was 1970 when thirteen-year-old runaway Kit Walker was abducted by Manny Romero, a smooth-talking, low-level criminal, who first coddled her and then groomed her into his partner-in-crime. Before long, Kit and Manny were infamous for their string of gas station robberies throughout Texas, making a name for themselves as the Texaco Twosome. Fourteen years later, Kit has scraped together a life for herself and her daughter amongst the pecan trees...
3) Family honor
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
PI Sunny Randall of Boston searches for a rich man's daughter who ran away to be a prostitute. After finding her Sunny must guard her because the girl is on a hit list. She witnessed a conspiracy involving state government.
4) River's end
Author
Series
Inn at Shining Waters volume 3
Language
English
Description
When Anna Larson's granddaughter Sarah finds her independence, she travels away from all that is familiar, but when she returns to Shining Waters, three generations of family heartbreak converge and Sarah finds God right in the center of it all.
5) Mama Ruby
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
After Othella--the daughter of the town tramp in Shreveport, Louisiana--convinces her to give her baby away, 15-year-old Ruby Jean Upshaw runs away to New Orleans where nothing can erase the memories of the child she lost or quell her simmering rage at Othella for persuading her to let her baby go.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Her mother lied about her identity, and her husband wasn't who she thought he was - can Bailey even trust herself anymore? Running for her life in the wake of her mother's murder, Bailey Fleming escapes to the only place she can think of - a remote, dilapidated cabin in Lavender Tides. Intending to finally get to the truth behind the lies of her past, Bailey only finds more questions when bodies are discovered near her cabin hideout along with traces...
7) Runner
Author
Series
Jane Whitefield volume 6
Language
English
Description
After years of a happy, quiet life as the wife of an Amherst, New York, surgeon, former Native American guide Jane Whitefield is drawn back into her dangerous old world when a bomb goes off in the middle of a hospital fundraiser.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jewelry maker Daisy Tucker, having left her husband and returned to Connecticut thirteen years earlier after her three-year-old son, Jake, was lost in the Wyoming wilderness, is forced to confront her past when her daughter, Sage, now sixteen, runs away to find the father she never knew.
9) Daredevils
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
An unforgettable debut novel about Loretta, a teenager married off as a “sister wife,” who makes a break for freedom.
Author
Series
Nice volume 3
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The beautiful town of Bellevue-sur-Mer, tucked between glitzy Monte Carlo and the plush red carpets of Cannes, is home to Theresa, Carol, William, Benjamin, and Sally: five retired expats who have pooled their resources to set up La Mosaïque, a divine little restaurant. But there is trouble in paradise: the friends are desperately struggling to make ends meet. It will take every bit of their talent and gumption to save La Mosaïque. With fussy customers,...
Author
Publisher
Shaye Areheart Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Working on the Underground Railroad throughout the Civil War, Morgan Kinneson is shaken by the murder of a slave and the disappearance of his brother from the Union army, triggering his life-threatening search through war-stricken landscapes.
12) Daniel's desire
Author
Series
Devaneys volume 5
Language
English
Description
When a runaway teen surfaces at Molly Creighton's tavern, Daniel Devaney's job as a child advocate forces him to investigate, and to confront his tumultuous past with Molly. Their overwhelming attraction is undulled by time, but Molly fears risking her heart again.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
1969. Sixteen-year-old Lucy is about to run away with a much older man, to live off the grid in rural Pennsylvania. Her rash act will have vicious repercussions for both her and her older sister, Charlotte. Charlotte's youth has been marked by the burden of responsibility, but never more so than when Lucy's dream of a rural paradise turns into a nightmare.
18) Runaway
Author
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Glasgow, 2015. Jack Mackay dares not look back on a life of failure and mediocrity. The heavy-hearted sixty-seven-year-old is still haunted by what might have been. His recollections of the terrible events that befell him and his friends some fifty years earlier, and how he did not act when it mattered most is a memory he has tried to escape his entire adult life.
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Troubled by haunting memories of the past, a rugged Christmas tree farmer from Nova Scotia and a reclusive young librarian from New York City come together amid the holiday magic of a glittering city, in a tender story of love, hope, and renewal.
Author
Series
At home in Trinity volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In 1830s small-town Pennsylvania, midwife Martha Cade's world changes when she faces tense relationships, a new doctor in town whose arrival threatens her job, a town scandal, and an unexpected romance. --Provided by publisher.
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