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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Celie is a poor black woman whose letters tell the story of 20 years of her life, beginning at age 14 when she is being abused and raped by her father and attempting to protect her sister from the same fate, and continuing over the course of her marriage to "Mister," a brutal man who terrorizes her. Celie eventually learns that her abusive husband has been keeping her sister's letters from her and the rage she feels, combined with an example of love...
2) Identical
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixteen-year-old identical twin daughters of a district court judge and a candidate for the United States House of Representatives, Kaeleigh and Raeanne Gardella desperately struggle with secrets that have already torn them and their family apart.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dolores is a class-A emotional basket case, and why shouldn't she be? She's suffered almost every abuse and familial travesty that exists: Her father is a violent, philandering liar; her mother has the mental and emotional consistency of Jell-O; and the men in her life are probably the gender's most loathsome creatures.
Author
Series
Alex Delaware novels volume 25
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Masterly storytelling and expert insight into the darkest of human compulsions make �1 New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Kellerman's Alex Delaware novels as compelling as they are addictive. And just when you think he has taken his spellbinding tales of mystery and psychological suspense to the limit, with Deception he takes a bold leap into terrifying and uncharted new territory. Her name is Elise Freeman, and her chilling cry for help...
Author
Series
Torpedo ink volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Torpedo Ink is Aleksei 'Absinthe' Solokov's whole life. They're his brothers, his family - his everything. But that doesn't stop him from wanting something that only belongs to him. That's why the tough biker has spent the last six weeks at the library, reading every book he can get his hands on and watching the prim and proper librarian who makes his blood rush. For the past six weeks, Scarlet Foley has been fantasizing about the handsome, tattooed...
7) Ever since
Author
Publisher
Rocky Pond Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Seventeen-year-old Virginia makes bad choices. In fact, she's That Kind of Girl, according to the whispers. But as long as she has her tight group of best friends by her side, she's able to ignore the gossipers. Until she finds herself spending time with Rumi, Poppy's boyfriend. Breaking with tradition, she doesn't hook up with Rumi. Worse, she falls in love with him. While Virginia and Rumi's relationship grows in secret, she discovers that his...
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Series
Language
English
Description
"As the enforcer of the Torpedo Ink motorcycle club, Reaper lives for riding and fighting. He's a stone-cold killer who turns his wrath on those who deserve it. Feelings are a weakness he can't afford--until a gorgeous bartender gets under his skin ... Near Sea Haven, the small town of Caspar has given Anya Rafferty a new lease on life. And she's desperate to hold on to her job at the biker bar, even if the scariest member of the club seems to have...
Author
Series
Never Enough volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's the Depression and it's rural Kansas. For good measure, nature decides to throw in a Dust Bowl. It's not the life Cat Peters would have chosen, but the young Mennonite girl doesn't have much say in it. Driven to the edge of bankruptcy by the relentless winds of the Dust Bowl, Cat's family is desperate. Fortunately, wealthy Simon Yoder generously saves them with a loan. Everyone gets something more out of the arrangement than what they bargain...
Author
Publisher
Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sophie Hollis could charm any man. Kidnapped as a child and sold to Tek Garrett, a conman, she was a fast learner, and in no time at all, she could sweet-talk her way out of trouble. Now all Sophie wants is to be left alone to build a new life --one that was honest and decent, and based on truth rather than trickery. But the one man she wants -- Clay Connor -- is the last man she should care about. Upright and honorable, the town's marshal deserves...
Author
Series
Ruby Bozarth volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
The jailhouse lawyer: A young lawyer takes on the judge who is destroying her hometown--and ends up in jail herself. In picture-perfect Erva, Alabama, the most serious crimes are misdemeanors. Speeding tickets. Shoplifting. Contempt of court. Then why is the jail so crowded? And why are so few prisoners released? There's only one place to learn the truth behind these incriminating secrets. Sometimes the best education a lawyer can get is a short stretch...
12) Prey
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Told from their separate points of view, fifteen-year-old Ryan has a secret affair with his thirty-three-year-old history teacher at an Atlanta high school, and his best friend Honey becomes determined to uncover the reason he is increasingly distant.
Author
Publisher
Vintage Contemporaries/Vintage Books
Pub. Date
c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
A self-portrait of a black teenage girl, big, fat, unloved, with a father who rapes her and a jealous mother who screams abuse. For Precious, as she is called, hope appears when a courageous teacher, a young black woman, bullies, cajoles and inspires her to learn to read. By the author of American Dreams.
15) Gold
Author
Series
Plated prisoner volume 5
Publisher
[Independently published]
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Book 5 of this adult fantasy series continues in this epic story inspired by the myth of King Midas, fae, and fated romance. -- Amazon.
16) Girl last seen
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Two missing girls. Thirteen years apart. Olivia Shaw has been missing since last Tuesday. She was last seen outside the entrance of her elementary school in Hunts Point wearing a white spring jacket, blue jeans, and pink boots. I force myself to look at the face in the photo, into her slightly smudged features, and I can't bring myself to move. Olivia Shaw could be my mirror image, rewound to thirteen years ago. If you have any knowledge of Olivia...
17) Glow
Author
Series
Plated prisoner volume 4
Publisher
[Raven Kennedy]
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Free. I'm finally out from under Midas's thumb, but there are consequences when you kill a king. The other monarchs are coming for me. With Slade Ravinger by my side, I have to learn to control my power. Because so long as I live in this world, I won't be used again. So I will fight for him, and he will kill for me, and if we need to, we will become the villains."
18) Fade
Author
Series
Wake trilogy (Lisa McMann) volume 2
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Janie uses her ability to tap into other people's dreams to investigate an alleged sex ring at her high school that involves teachers using the date rape drug on students.
19) Old God's time
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Retired policeman Tom Kettle is enjoying the quiet of his new home. But his peace is interrupted when two former colleagues ask questions about a decades-old case that Tom never came to terms with.
Author
Series
Never Enough volume 2
Publisher
WorldTrek Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
It all seemed so simple in the moment. Simon Yoder is an evil man who steals the souls of young girls. Get rid of Simon Yoder, and all will be right with the world. Except it only works that way in fairy tales, and Mennonites don't put much stock in fairy tales. Henry Schmidt throws his daughter Suzanne out of the house because of her bad funeral behavior. She eventually lands in the home of Cat Peters, her best friend and would be savior, just in...
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