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1) Darker
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
After being rejected by Anastasia Steele, Christian Grey attempts to regain her trust while also dealing with the consequences of his past sexual relationships.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Brilliant, heartbreaking, tender, and highly original - poet Ocean Vuong's debut novel is a sweeping and shattering portrait of a family, and a testament to the redemptive power of storytelling. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family's history that began before he was born--a history whose epicenter is rooted in...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"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...
4) What we did
Author
Publisher
Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"In a sleepy college town, a woman who was sexually abused as a child must face her traumatic past and protect her family when her abuser appears in town and forces his way back into her life"--
Author
Series
Angela Constantine novels volume 1
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Daughter of a meth addict, haunted by an abusive childhood, Angela Constantine is convinced she is a freak. She juggles multiple jobs to live a secluded life in a cabin in the mountains. But she also lives a secret life-- because her family's bloodline carries the ability to recognize killers, she adopts a solitary, violent existence in service of her own, personal mission in life. When Angela unexpectedly finds herself the prey of a group of international...
Author
Publisher
Oceanview Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Though they seem to have everything, Hannah Parks has watched her husband, Dallin, become increasingly distant. Her hope is buoyed when the couple decides to start a family, but what Dallin reveals in his sleep one night rocks Hannah to her core. As she starts to investigate a much darker side of Dallin than she ever knew existed, Hannah peels away the layers of a diseased relationship closely tied to her own abusive past. When Dallin attempts to...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Nora Brown teaches high school English and lives a quiet life in Seattle with her husband and six-year-old daughter. But one November day, moments after dismissing her class, a girl's face appears above the students' desks and terror rushes through Nora's body. Twenty-four hours later, while on Thanksgiving vacation, the face appears again. Shaken and unsteady, Nora meets with neurologists and eventually, a psychiatrist. As the story progresses, a...
Author
Series
Lan xiao shuo volume 309
Publisher
Shi bao wen hua chu ban qi ye gu fen you xian gong si
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
中文(繁體)
9) Lila
Author
Series
Gilead novels volume 3
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Lila, homeless and alone after years of roaming the countryside, steps inside a small-town Iowa church -- the only available shelter from the rain -- and ignites a romance and a debate that will reshape her life. She becomes the wife of a minister, John Ames, and begins a new existence while trying to make sense of the days of suffering that preceded her newfound security. Neglected as a toddler, Lila was rescued by Doll, a canny young drifter, and...
Author
Series
Black Harbor novels volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A wealthy family shrouded in scandal; a detective tasked with solving an impossible cold case; and a woman with a dark past collide in Hannah Morrissey's stunning new Black Harbor mystery, The Widowmaker. Ever since business mogul Clive Reynolds disappeared twenty years ago, the name "Reynolds" has become synonymous with "murder" and "mystery." And now, lured by a cryptic note, down-on-her-luck photographer Morgan Mori returns home to Black Harbor...
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Cold Creek, Ohio, is a place with a dark history, especially for the Lockwoods. Now adults, the three Lockwood sisters are still recovering from events that led to the destruction of their family when they were children. Determined to move forward, Tess and Kate are making fresh starts, ready to put bad -- even deadly -- memories to rest and settle happily in the small but booming town. And they're hoping their older sister, Charlene, can do the same....
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Returning to Cold Creek, Ohio, is an act of courage for Tess Lockwood. Abducted and held captive as a young girl, she is unable to remember anything about the crime that destroyed her childhood and tore her family apart. Now a grown woman with a bright future, she is certain she has put the past behind her. But when she inherits the family home, Tess must confront the demons that still haunt her and the town of Cold Creek. Gabe McCord has always blamed...
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Despite a traumatic childhood in Cold Creek, Ohio, the Lockwood sisters have reunited there for the wedding of youngest sister Tess to the town's sheriff. Maid of honor Kate Lockwood is determined to break through best man Grant Mason's defenses. An anthropologist, Kate makes her living studying the dead. She is particularly interested in the prehistoric Adena civilization that once called the area home. A large burial mound sits on Mason family land,...
Author
Publisher
Scout Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
For Sally Diamond, people are confusing, unpredictable, and hard to read. She has always preferred routines to spontaneity, silence to noise, and forthright communication to small talk. Adopted at the age of seven by a psychiatrist, she cannot remember any details of her childhood before that age. Now forty-three, Sally finds the truth coming into sharp focus when her past becomes headline news: she endured something unthinkable as a child, and now...
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