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2) Surrender
Author
Series
Steel brothers saga volume 6
Publisher
Waterhouse Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jonah Steel has fallen in love with Melanie Carmichael but still lives with the guilt that consumes him as he tries to unravel the mystery of his family's past. A new threat has surfaced, and he finds himself trapped in a web of deceit and lies.
4) Lock and key
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
When she is abandoned by her alcoholic mother, high school senior Ruby winds up living with Cora, the sister she has not seen for ten years, and learns about Cora's new life, what makes a family, how to allow people to help her when she needs it, and that she too has something to offer others.
Author
Series
Garage sale mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Bluewater Press LLC
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
McLean, Virginia resident Jennifer Shannon's passion for weekend treasure hunting leads her into a world of crime, child abuse and murder.
6) Twisted
Author
Series
Steel brothers saga volume 8
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ryan Steel, his world recently upended by an earth-shattering secret, now faces yet another potential revelation surrounding the Steel family mystery. He no longer fully trusts his siblings or the woman he loves. He's alone---alone and terrified and immersed in a conundrum that becomes more twisted each day. Ruby Lee loves Ryan and desperately wants to help him. She'll do whatever she must to see him through this troubling time, but her own shrouded...
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Raised in seclusion by fundamentalist grandparents who claim she is an evil product of her mother's sinful mistake, teenager Elle Edwards finally learns the truth about her conception and struggles with profound feelings of insecurity while pursuing a relationship with a vacationing boy.
Author
Language
English
Description
"As a child, Abby had the same recurring nightmare night after night, in which she wandered through a field ridden with human skulls and bones. Now an adult, Abby thinks she's outgrown her demons until, the evening before her wedding, the terrible dream returns, forcing her to confront the dark secrets from her past that she has kept from her new husband, Willem. The following day-less than 24 hours after exchanging vows-Abby steps out into traffic....
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Alice, released from prison with a new identity after serving six years for murdering a child, tries to keep her anonymity from the British tabloids, while haunted by memories of her past trauma.
10) Squabbles
Author
Publisher
Price Stern Sloan
Pub. Date
1990.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The Squabbles, a raccoon family newly arrived in the Forest of Glade, shock the community when it is discovered that the father is beating his wife and son.
11) Push
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Relentless, remorseless, and inspirational, this "horrific, hope-filled story" ("Newsday") is certain to haunt a generation of readers. Precious Jones, 16 years old and pregnant by her father with her second child, meets a determined and highly radical teacher who takes her on a journey of transformation and redemption.
12) Our Gracie Aunt
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children/Jump at the Sun
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When a brother and sister are taken to stay with their mother's sister because their mother neglects them, they wonder if they will see their mother again.
13) Barely breathing
Author
Series
Breathing series volume 2
Publisher
R. Donovan
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
"Emma's struggle with an abusive home life came to a heart pounding conclusion in the final chapters of "Reason to Breathe". Now everyone in Weslyn knows Emma's secret, but Carol can't hurt Emma anymore. Some are still haunted by the horror of that night, and some must face the repercussions of their choices. Fans of Rebecca Donovan's debut novel with discover there's still much more to learn about Emma's life."--p.[4] of Cover.
Author
Series
Dollanganger family series volume 4
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
1984.
Language
English
Description
The forbidden love that blossomed when Cathy and Christopher were held captive in Foxworth Hall is one the Dollanganger family's darkest secrets. Now, with three grown children and even a new last name, the pair seem to have outlived a twisted legacy. But on their son Bart's twenty-fifth birthday, when the spiteful and disturbed young man claims his rightful inheritance, the full, shattering truth of their tainted past will be revealed at Foxworth...
Author
Series
Breathing volume 1
Publisher
R. Donovan
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"In the affluent town of Weslyn, Connecticut, where most people worry about what to be seen in and who to be seen with, Emma Thomas would rather not be seen at all. She's more concerned with feigning perfection while pulling down her sleeves to conceal the bruises- not wanting anyone to know how far from perfect her life truly is. Without expecting it, she finds love. It challenges her to recognize her own worth- at the risk of revealing the terrible...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis' parents and load him into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there's no window. And outside his door are other doors, behind which are other kids with special talents - telekinesis and telepathy - who got to this place the same...
17) Lies like poison
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Three years after one secretly backed out of a plot to kill Raven's abusive stepmother, former friends Poppy, Lily, and Belladonna are drawn back together when one of them is arrested for the stepmother's murder.
Poppy, Lily, and Belladonna would do anything to protect their best friend, Raven. When they discovered he was suffering abuse at the hands of his stepmother, they came up with a lethal plan: petals of poppy, belladonna, and lily in her...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 1969 Alabama, eleven-year-old Dixie Dupree learns that the family she once believed was happy has deep fractures and records everything in her diary in this coming-of-age story about mothers and daughters, the guilt and pain that pass between generations, and the truths that are impossible to hide, especially from ourselves"--
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
A twelve-year-old boy is confined to his basement without food or clothing. For Charlie, the basement is home. He's being punished. He doesn't mean to leave--Father wouldn't allow it--but when Charlie is accidentally thrust outside, he awakens to the alien surroundings of a world to which he's never been exposed. Though haunted by fear of the basement and his father's rage, Charlie embarks on a journey toward healing and blossoms when he becomes an...
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