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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Detective Michael Bennett takes his family to upstate New York in an effort to escape a lawless crime wave erupting in Manhattan only to find themselves immersed in another nightmare, one that endangers his relationship with his wife.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Catherine had been single long enough to recognize a catch when she saw one. In fact, Lee seemed almost too perfect. She should have listened to her inner voice. When what began as flattery turned into a sexual encounter, and then into jealousy, Catherine saw a darker side of Lee. Now, four years later, with Lee about to be released from prison, she fears for her safety.
Author
Series
Kate Burkholder volume 10
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A deadly fire exposes the dark side of Amish life in this harrowing new thriller in the New York Times bestselling series. When a historic barn burns to the ground in the middle of the night, Chief of Police Kate Burkholder is called in to investigate. At first, it looks like an accident, but when the body of eighteen-year-old Daniel Gingerich is found inside--burned alive--Kate suspects murder. Who would want a well-liked, hardworking young Amish...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sex education materials meant to explain important basics to kids are too-often not written with an empathic understanding of what those basics are. This is particularly obvious regarding books that include LGBTQ identities. Even when they do hit the mark, many have a limited scope and don't take into account the practical realities of developing sexuality. The Pride Guide is written explicitly for the almost ten percent of teenagers who identify...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Video
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
A notorious mobster is brought into an under-manned police precinct on its last day of operation. Remaining cops and prisoners must fight for their lives against a group of rogue cops intent on taking down the mobster before he testifies against them.
Author
Publisher
Haymarket Books
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
In this collection of essays, Solnit offers a timely commentary on gender and feminism. Her subjects include women who refuse to be silenced, misogynistic violence, the fragile masculinity of the literary canon, the recent history of rape jokes, and much more.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Killing the Witches revisits one of the most frightening and inexplicable episodes in American history: the events of 1692 and 1693 in Salem Village, Massachusetts. What began as a mysterious affliction of two young girls who suffered violent fits and exhibited strange behavior soon spread to other young women. Rumors of demonic possession and witchcraft consumed Salem. Soon three women were arrested under suspicion of being witches--but as the hysteria...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Deeply shaken after a brutal attack, Bailey Carpenter struggles to reclaim control over what had once seemed like a neatly-ordered life. Unable to face her job, her friends, or even the world outside her apartment, Bailey is trapped with her thoughts, replaying the attack in a desperate search for a detail that will help the police uncover the identity of her unknown assailant. --Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Rosen Publishing
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Readers can expect a thoughtful overview of the different kinds of household abuse, whether it's at the hands of partners, parents, or siblings. This approachable volume will help those who are suffering and looking for help as well as those who know someone living in an abusive home.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"For fans of Harlan Coben and Lisa Gardner, a thrilling debut about a mother desperate to find the connections between her husband who's just gone missing and a stalker who knows way too much about her own dark family history." --
11) Medical judgment
Author
Publisher
Abingdon Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
After losing the two people she loved most, Sarah Gordon doesn't think life could get worse. But, after a fire in her garage is ruled an arson, she begins to realize someone is after her--and that person wants to see her dead. But first, they want to see her suffer. --Publisher
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
It's February 1976, and Odessa, Texas, stands on the cusp of the next great oil boom. While the town's men embrace the coming prosperity, its women intimately know and fear the violence that always seems to follow. In the early hours of the morning after Valentine's Day, fourteen-year-old Gloria Ramírez appears on the front porch of Mary Rose Whitehead's ranch house, broken and barely alive. The teenager had been viciously attacked in a nearby oil...
Author
Series
New York confidential volume 2
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Someone is murdering beautiful young women in the New York area and displaying them in mausoleums and underground tombs. The FBI is handling the case, with Special Agent Craig Frasier as lead. Kieran Finnegan, forensic psychologist and part owner of Finnegan's, her family's pub, is consulting on the case. Craig and Kieran are a couple who've worked together on more than one occasion. On this occasion, though, Craig fears for the safety of the woman...
15) The slap
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
At a family barbeque in suburban Melbourne, a man slaps another guest's unruly and disobedient child. Tensions run high in the family when the boy's mother presses assault charges.
16) Elmet: a novel
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Cathy and Daniel live in the remote woods of Yorkshire with their gentle brute of a father, a former enforcer who now wants only to be left alone to raise his children. But when a powerful landowner shows up on their doorstep, a chain of violent events is set in motion"--
Publisher
IDW Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"The comic book industry comes together to support the survivors and honor those killed at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, on June 12, 2016. Writers and artists from across the globe have created exclusive new material expressing their sorrow, compassion, frustration, and hope, all inspired by the tragic events. In doing so, they celebrate the victims, survivors, and their families while also spreading a message of peace and inclusion"
18) The ripper gene
Author
Publisher
Forge Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Neuroscientist turned FBI profiler Lucas Madden is haunted by the memory of his mother's unsolved brutal murder. His quest to track down the culprit has left him with a penchant for finding other killers... When Mara Bliss, Madden's former fiancee, is kidnapped, he is drawn into a deadly game with a killer who is always two steps ahead of him. Only by entering the killer's mind will Madden have a chance at ending the psychopath's reign of terror.
Author
Publisher
Southeast Missouri State University Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
It's the Midwest in the 1970-80s, and Mary is growing up in Detroit, where the recession hits hard, and jobs are scarce. In a set of linked stories, Mary tries to conjure the spirits of protection to confront economic struggle, violence, addiction, and death. Mary moves to cities across the Midwest looking for work, all the while learning the healing power of dignity from the true patrons: her community of friends and family who teach her to love...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
The girls' names were Padma and Lalli, but they were so inseparable that people in the village called them Padma Lalli. Sixteen-year-old Padma sparked and burned. Fourteen-year-old Lalli was an incorrigible romantic. They grew up in Katra Sadatganj, an eye-blink of a village in western Uttar Pradesh crammed into less than one square mile of land. It was out in the fields, in the middle of mango season, that the rumors started. Then one night in the...
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