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Series
A.C. Greene volume 9
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
The Johnson & Sims families were pioneer ranchers, settling in the same region--Lampasas & Burnet counties--in the dangerous years before the Civil War. After the War, Billy & Nannie Johnson & Dave & Laura Sims establish large ranches in adjoining counties in West Texas. At the turn of the century the two families united in a marriage of 14-year-old Gladys Johnson & 21-year-old Ed Sims. Several years later a nasty divorce ensued due in part to Gladys...
202) Still waters
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 10
Description
"High-schooler Jason, who lives with a drunk, abusive father at home, hopes to earn enough money to escape with his younger sister, Janie, by being tough at school, but the stakes grow ever more dangerous and soon even his fists and ability to think on his feet are not enough to keep his head above water."--
204) The lost boy
Author
Series
David Pelzer trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
c1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Description
A foster child's search for the love of a family.
205) Margaux with an X
Author
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Margaux, known as a "tough chick" at her Los Angeles high school, makes a connection with Danny, who, like her, struggles with the emotional impact of family violence and abuse.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 20
Description
Jason Schmidt wasn't surprised when he came home one day during his junior year of high school and found his father, Mark, crawling around in a giant pool of blood. Things like that had been happening a lot since Mark had been diagnosed with HIV, three years earlier. Jason's life with Mark was full of secrets--about drugs, crime, and sex. If the straights--people with normal lives--ever found out any of those secrets, the police would come. Jason's...
208) Watch over me
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
Told in two voices, eighteen-year-old Zoey Ward struggles to protect her mother and siblings from her violent father, and her brother's best friend, Tristan, a member of the Coast Guard, tries to make her feel safe. From the author of Come Back to Me.
Zoey has spent much of her life caring for her mom and her little sister, defending them from her violent father. She sacrificed her wants and dreams to keep her family together. Her father, just released...
Author
Pub. Date
1996
Description
Provides a step-by-step plan of action for abused women who need to protect themselves from domestic violence and stalking, discussing how to deal with the police, how to make the decision to leave, how to navigate the legal system, and how to ensure the safety of family members.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1985
Description
Si eres una latina en una relacion donde hay abuso emocional o fisico, este libro es para ti.Mejor sola que mal acompanada ofrece apoyo, entendimiento, e informacion practica tocante a varios temas y preguntas incluyendo: Que es el abuso, las esperanzas de la familia y la cultura, obteniendo la asistencia de la policia, de servicios medicos y legales, adonde puedes ir si te sales de tu casa, que puede decir la iglesia, portegiendo a tus ninos, tratando...
213) The darkness rises
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"Whitney knows what death looks like. Since she was seven, she's seen it hover over strangers' heads in dark, rippling clouds. Sometimes she can save people from the darkness. Sometimes she can't. But she's never questioned if she should try. Until the unthinkable happens-and a person she saves becomes the perpetrator of a horrific school shooting. Now Whitney will do anything to escape the memory of last year's tragedy and the guilt that gnaws at...
215) Mercy
Author
Series
Night man chronicles volume 3
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"With their jobs in the spy world on suspension, all Nate and Jar wanted was a little vacation time out of the city. But not even two days on the road, their plans are hijacked by a teen's cry. What starts out as helping the kid out of a tricky situation leads Nate and Jar into a dark world of fire and hate, of greed and corruption. As much as they might want to continue on their way, neither would ever do so. Because helping those who aren't...
216) The hideaway
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Tells the story of a boy, Billy McKenna, who runs away from a difficult situation at home and takes refuge in an overgrown graveyard. While hiding there he meets an elderly man who is tending the graves in preparation for a day in November when something magical is set to happen. The book is written in two alternating narratives, both different aspects of the same story. One thread tells of Billy's experience of hiding away in the graveyard, his mixed-up...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"Christy Martin spent most of her life hiding. For someone who for two decades was the most famous female fighter in the world, that wasn't easy. This book is the extraordinary tale of a female athlete's rise to become the fighter who legitimized women in combat sports and the personal turmoil she hid from the world"--
218) Made of stars
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Description
When Hunter Jackson and his half sister, Ashlin, return to their dad's for the first winter in years, they expect everything to be just like as when they were kids, but secrets are quickly spiraling out of control and someone turns up with a bullet to the head, and now they have to prove that the childhood friend they both love didn't do it.
Author
Series
Secrets of Sweetwater Crossing volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Emily Leland sheds no tears when her abusive husband is killed in a bar fight, but she arrives back home in Sweetwater Crossing to discover her father has died under mysterious circumstances. Then the house where the new schoolteacher and his son are supposed to board burns, leaving them homeless. When Emily proposes turning the family home into a boardinghouse, her sister is so incensed that she leaves town. Her family name sullied by controversy,...
220) The runaway heiress
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
A brave woman on the run from her vindictive husband faces a dangerous path in the thrilling new romantic suspense novel from Oscar-nominated actress Meg Tilly. Sarah Rainsford has been on the run for more than three years. She's changed identities yet again in hopes of throwing her violent estranged husband, a police lieutenant, off her trail. Since she's still legally married to him, and he is willing to bend any laws to get his hands on her inheritance,...
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