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4) Journey
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Language
English
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Seemingly perfect Washington, D.C., media couple Maddy and Jack Hunter have a not-so-perfect marriage behind the scenes, and Maddy finally admits to herself that Jack is emotionally abusive when the First Lady invites her to join the Commission on Violence Against Women, and when she meets fellow commission member Bill Alexander.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Tells the story of two African-American sisters: Nettie, a missionary in Africa, and Celie, a child-wife living in the south, in the medium of their letters to each other and in Celie's case, the desperate letters she begins, "Dear God."
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2000, c1999
Language
English
Description
Journalist Andrew Sherwood tracks down the victim of a brutal attack in the hopes of learning more about her for his story, and when he locates her, he finds himself drawn to her, but before they can start their life together, Andrew must find a way to help her escape from her abusive husband.
Author
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Raised near New Orleans as one of six children, Dorothy Newton was surrounded by abuse and poverty as she grew up. But she became the first in her family to graduate from college and moved out of poverty. She then began to live out her dreams in Dallas of a better home and life when she married celebrity superstar football player Nate Newton. She had gone from poverty to the pinnacle of success. She was married to a handsome, successful, famous professional...
11) Spencerville
Author
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
Description
Keith Landry returns to his Ohio hometown to reclaim his soul and lost love, Annie, only to find her married to a very dangerous man.
Author
Publisher
Urim Publications
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Providing a religious lens on the topic, this book directly addresses the problem of spousal abuse in the Jewish community, in hopes of confronting the truth and taking definitive steps to end this violation of all that Judaism stands for. A leading rabbi and psychiatrist reveals with striking candor, firmness, and compassion what may have been closely kept dark secrets in many Jewish families and offers urgently needed advice and direction. Rabbi...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Bestselling British author Patrick Gale chronicles the misadventures of a misfit tree surgeon in this "modern-day myth of self-discovery" ( The Guardian ). It was in the ancient cathedral city of Barrowcester that eight-year-old Lawrence Frost began his love affair with the trees that had "sprung up on the site of an ancient plague grave and unconsecrated resting place for the city's outcasts." And it is there that the thirty-two-year-old forester...
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Publisher
Distributed by Team Marketing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
An essential examination of the rise and fall of Orenthal James Simpson, and parallels between his incredible story with that of race in America. This critically-acclaimed documentary series reveals how he first became a football star, why America fell in love with him off the field, what happened in the trial for his ex-wife's murder, and finally, why he is now sitting in jail for another crime 20 years later.
15) Nothing to Lose
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
I shouldn't have come back to Miami ... I've been escaping cops' notice for a year now. I'm no longer Michael Daye, high school athlete with a promising future. Now I look like someone whit no future. When Michael saw a chance to leave town with a traveling carnival a year ago, he took it. Back then, his home life was spinning violently out of control. The carnival, with its "no questions asked" policy, seemed like a welcome escape. But now Michael's...
16) Sonoma Rose
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Language
English
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Description
Rosa Diaz Barclay, mourning the loss of four of her eight children, lives on a rye farm in California with her abusive husband when she finally leaves him in order to save two of her remaining children from succombing to a mysterious wasting disease and when she reunites with her ex-husband, the father of her two healthy children, they try to start a winery in the midst of prohibition.
17) Mad river road
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Ralph Fisher, free after spending a year in prison for domestic abuse, sets out to find his ex-wife, the woman he blames for his plight, and treat her to his version of justice, not caring who else he hurts or kills along the way.
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