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Wonder When You'll Miss Me Wonder When You'll Miss Me Amanda Davis "Follow sixteen-year-old Faith Duckle in this audacious and darkly funny tale as she moves through the difficult journey from the schoolyard to the harlequin world of the circus. At fifteen, Faith wa… OL121049W
We were the Mulvaneys We were the Mulvaneys Joyce Carol Oates We Were the Mulvaneys is the intricate story of close knit family in a close knit community and the unraveling of the Mulvaney family and their community after an act of sexual violence. OL14958461W
Daisy sisters Daisy sisters Henning Mankell Henning Mankell (Estocolmo, 1948-Göteborg, 2015) ha sido conocido en todo el mundo por su serie de novelas policiacas protagonizadas por el célebre inspector Kurt Wallander, traducidas a cuarenta y d… OL14969878W
Intended consequences Intended consequences Jonathan Torgovnik The portraits and testimonies featured in 'Intended Consequences' offer intensely personal accounts of survivors' experiences of the genocide in Rwanda, as well as their conflicted feelings about rai… OL15895096W
The Central Park Five The Central Park Five Sarah Burns An in-depth account of one of New York City's most notorious crimes. On April 20, 1989, the body of a woman is discovered in Central Park, her skull badly smashed. Within days, five black and Latino … OL16261038W
Up against a wall Up against a wall Rose Corrigan "Rape law reform has long been hailed as one of the most successful projects of second-wave feminism. Yet forty years after the anti-rape movement emerged, legal and medical institutions continue to … OL16715134W
Breath of scandal Breath of scandal Sandra Brown On a rainy Southern night, Jade Sperry endured a young woman's worst nightmare at the hands of three local hell-raisers. Robbed of her youthful ideals and at the center of scandal and tragedy, Jade r… OL167304W
The Wanton Redhead The Wanton Redhead Meg Hutchinson When her selfish, flighty sister leaves home following a false promise of becoming the wife of a wealthy sugar plantation owner, Alyssa becomes solely responsible for her poor, deranged mother as wel… OL17411163W
Kill for me Kill for me Karen Rose Vowing to stop a black market ring that sells teenage girls, Susannah Vartanian and Luke Papadopoulos find comfort in each others' arms. OL17727669W
I am the Central Park jogger I am the Central Park jogger Trisha Meili The center of the 1989 case recounts the discovery of her badly injured body, her treatment and rehabilitation, the trials of the suspects, and her subsequent experiences. OL17728640W
Denial Denial Jessica Stern A scientist and expert on terrorism and post-traumatic stress disorder describes her own journey through trauma and its lingering effects after repressing and disassociating her own ordeal as the vic… OL17737461W
Little Girl Lost Little Girl Lost Leisha Joseph,Deborah Bruner Mendenhall "All of my Bible heroes are survivors. I guess all of the people I have met in my life and I consider to be my heroes are survivors...This book is the story of a survivor. It is the story of a remark… OL17764825W
The jaguar man The jaguar man Lara Naughton "What happens when one harrowing incident changes your life, splitting it between before and now? On the fourth day of what Lara Naughton thought would be two weeks of bliss in Belize, she was kidnap… OL17876853W
The sandpiper The sandpiper Susan B. Lovell "Nestled in the safe haven of The Sandpiper, a white-shingled cottage perched above the endless blue of Lake Michigan, Nina Judd has always been the guardian angel of the three Cameron women. Ellie C… OL17924728W
The Outsider The Outsider Stephen King,Will Patton,Bernhard Kleinschmidt "An unspeakable crime. A confounding investigation. At a time when the King brand has never been stronger, he has delivered one of his most unsettling and compulsively readable stories. An eleven-yea… OL18147915W
The Sacrifice of Tamar (Readers Guide Editions) The Sacrifice of Tamar (Readers Guide Editions) Naomi Ragen A rabbi's wife in New York is raped by a black man, but hides the incident from her husband and they continue sleeping as normal. On becoming pregnant she cannot tell who the father is, so decides ag… OL1853907W
The exile The exile James Patterson,Alison Joseph The woman Finn O'Grady swore to protect is convinced an ancient curse has put her family in danger. O'Grady has seen too much evil to believe in the supernatural. And then the killing starts. OL19729076W
Not that bad Not that bad Roxane Gay In this valuable and revealing anthology, cultural critic and bestselling author Roxane Gay collects original and previously published pieces that address what it means to live in a world where women… OL19739322W
Deep dark blue Deep dark blue Polo Tate I want to be in the Air Force someday. These are the words Polo Tate engraves on her junior dog tags at age eleven. An unpopular dream for most young girls, but her hard work pays off and at age eigh… OL19748593W
Mikhail Gorbachev Mikhail Gorbachev Anna Sproule An account of Mr. Gorbachev's role in the Soviet Union at the present time, as events unfold which portend a much freer way of life for the Russian people. OL1995485W
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