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"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author, a novel about the power of family to harm--and to heal. Within the walls of a tasteful, perfectly kept house in North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains, young Zane Bigelow feels like a prisoner of war. Strangers--and even Zane's own aunt across the lake--see his parents as a successful surgeon and his stylish wife, making appearances at their children's ballet recitals and baseball games. Zane and his...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 19
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English
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"Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her "head-for-the-hills bag." In the summershe stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged in her father's junkyard. The family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure the...
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The first contemporary novel by New York Times bestselling author, The Burning Point is a riveting story of the ties that bind two people together—and the incendiary forces that can tear them apart.
Kate Corsi always dreamed of working for her family's world famous explosive demolition business—a wish her old-fashioned father denied until the day he died. According to his will, Kate will receive a fortune while her ex-husband, Donovan,
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Anna Curtis novels volume 1
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English
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As a newly minted assistant U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C., Anna Curtis has already developed a thick skin to help her deal with the unsettling brutality she encounters daily with her overflowing stack of domestic violence cases. Yet when Laprea Johnson walks into Anna's life-battered by her boyfriend on the morning after Valentine's Day-there's something about this particular case that Anna can't quite shake, something that reminds the prosecutor...
5) Me & Emma
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English
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Eight-year-old Carrie Parker struggles to protect her younger sister Emma from the harsh realities of the impoverished life in North Carolina, using her imagination to create a fairytale world where they can escape from reality.
6) A vigilante
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Give her a call, and she'll give justice. After escaping her violent husband, Sadie makes it her life's mission to help free others in danger. Now, after months of rigorous training in survival skills, boxing, and lethal martial arts, Sadie is back with a vengeance in this fight-packed action-thriller.
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Can my partner abuse me and still be a good parent? Should I stay with my partner for my children's sake? How should I talk to my children about the abuse and help them heal? Am I a bad mother? Mothers in physically or emotionally abusive relationships ask themselves these questions every day. Whether it's physical or "just" emotional abuse, whether it's aimed at them or you, whether they see or hear it, your kids need you. This book, the first ever...
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All these monsters volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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"Seventeen-year-old Clara runs away from home to join a vigilante monster-flghting squad, only to discover that sometimes the most dangerous monsters are where you least expect them." --
Clara is ready to fight back against her abusive father, against the only life she's ever known, and most of all, against scrabs, the earth-dwelling monsters that are currently ravaging the world. When an opportunity arises for Clara to join an international monster-fighting...
10) Mom and Dad
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Momentum Pictures
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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A teenage girl and her little brother must survive a wild 24 hours during which a mass hysteria of unknown origins causes parents to turn violently on their own kids.
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Covenant Communications, Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
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Hunted: Young Reagan has simply seen too much. She knows her abusive stepfather will stop at nothing to silence her and quickly realizes that escape into the murky forest is her only hope of survival.
The death house: Adam embarks on a late-night investigation of an abandoned mansion, site of a grisly murder a century ago, and is horrified by what he discovers.
Haunting reminders: When her former fiancé and his wife become the victims of a vicious...
12) Alone
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Bobby Dodge, sniper for the Massachusetts State Police, encounters a situation where he makes a split-second decision to kill the man holding a woman and her son hostage; however, things begin to unravel when the woman turns out not to be what she appeared and Dodge becomes the prime suspect in a murder investigation.
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2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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After committing suicide just before high school graduation, Ellie Walker haunts her home and school, reflecting on her life of domestic violence, friendship with August, and dreams of a writing career. Includes list of resources for people in crisis.
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Disney * Hyperion
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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"Ever since her father died in a terrible accident, Maddy Gaines has worried a lot. She calls the police so often that she's on a first-name basis with the Sheriff. When a new boy moves to town, Maddy is convinced that he's not who he says he is-he's a boy who went missing six months ago. Maddy, her dog, her best friend, and her stepdad team up to see what he's hiding"--
15) The gateway
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Parker is a down on his luck social worker who finds himself in over his head when he tries to protect his client from her recently paroled husband. Can Parker save the family from the violent threat of the maniacal drug dealer and his crew, desperate to reclaim their priceless stash at any cost?
16) The fort
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Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Five middle schoolers find a fully stocked bomb shelter constructed decades ago in the local woods by an eccentric tycoon and lost until a hurricane exposes the entrance. So, how to keep the hideout secret from interfering grown-ups--and, more particularly, from scary teen psychopath Jaeger Devlin.
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David Pelzer trilogy volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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A Man Named Dave, which has sold over 1 million copies, is the gripping conclusion to Dave Pelzer’s inspirational and New York Times bestselling trilogy of memoirs that began with A Child Called "It" and The Lost Boy.
"All those years you tried your best to break me, and I'm still here. One day you'll see, I'm going to make something of myself." These words were Dave Pelzer's declaration...
"All those years you tried your best to break me, and I'm still here. One day you'll see, I'm going to make something of myself." These words were Dave Pelzer's declaration...
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Publisher
Square Fish, Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Square Fish edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
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"In his searing, honest, and ultimately inspiring memoir, Jason Schmidt tells the story of growing up with an abusive father, who contracted HIV and ultimately died of AIDS when Jason was a teenager"--
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Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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"When survivors of domestic violence reveal their predicaments, the first question many ask is "Why did you stay?" Here, an abuse survivor answers that question through her own story of survival and offers help to those who want to leave and rebuild their lives"--
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