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4) Sanctuary
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English
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She prayed the day would never come, but when her past comes calling, Melissa James has no choice but to flee. Pursued and living on the run, she finds longed-for sanctuary in Amish country. Part thriller, art romance, Sanctuary is a compelling story of revenge, the price of freedom, and the solace found in friendship.
6) Bittersweet
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Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
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Fourteen years ago, photojournalist India Taylor gave up her career to raise her four children and be a perfect wife, and now that her children are older, she feels it would be fun to take on some easy assignments, but when her husband demands that she stay at home and care for his family, India must decide between her marriage and her happiness.
7) Fractured
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English
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“Breathless tension!” raved the San Francisco Chronicle. “One of [the year’s] most remarkable achievements,” crowed the Philadelphia Inquirer. Karin Slaughter dazzled readers and critics alike with Triptych, her New York Times bestselling suspense novel set in metropolitan Atlanta. Now the #1 internationally bestselling
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From the author of The White Bone, a piercing novel of passionate attachment and of the fear and freedom of letting go.
Louise Kirk learns about love and loss at an early age. When she is nine years old, her former beauty queen mother disappears, leaving a note that reads only, and incorrectly, Louise knows how to work the washing machine. Soon after, the Richters and their adopted son, Abel, move in across the street. Louise's immediate devotion...
15) Precious
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Random House
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
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In 1978, as the disappearance of ten-year-old Vicki Anderson rocks her small Pennsylvania town, members of the neighboring Keim family deal with the the abandonment of Natalia, who leaves her husband and two daughters for another man.
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Norton
Pub. Date
c2006
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English
Description
In 1900, a Midwestern farm girl flees a stormy marriage and heads to gold-prospecting Alaska, where she earns a living caring for horses and delivering mail to the miners, and finds herself drawn to the idealistic foreman of the mining company, but before she can open her heart to love, she must face her abusive husband.
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Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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A tale exploring themes of class, women's rights and domestic abuse in the 1970s American South shares the story of The Beach House's Lovie Rutledge, who reflects on a summer during which a beach vacation to escape her unfaithful, disdainful husband culminates in a fateful romance with a handsome biologist.
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English
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Tim Wallace, devastated after his wife's death, which the police suspect he is responsible for, finds himself once again at the center of a murder investigation when a drunken stranger gives Tim proof of another murder, leading the cops to believe Tim is hiding a dirty secret.
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