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41) Shella: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
[1993]
Description
Tells the story of a killer stalking his prey, driven by forces he cannot understand.
42) Head games
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Description
She's seen it all, until…Head Games, a Medical Thriller from Eileen Dreyer-2004 - St. Louis, Missouri-St. Louis death investigator and trauma nurse Molly Burke has seen just about everything, until gifts begin showing up on her doorstep-gifts like human eyes and painted bones-the signature of a twisted serial killer.Complicating the dangerous situation, Molly's 16-year-old nephew unexpectedly shows up on her doorstep, with problems of his own.Now,...
45) Iodine: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
From her earliest years, Trace turned away from her abusive mother toward her loving father. Alone but for her beloved dog, she's eked out an impoverished but functional existence, putting herself through college, and astonishing her teachers with her genius and erudition. What they don't know is that she leads a double life: thanks to forged documents, at school she is Ianthe Covington, a young woman with no past. Falling in love with her professor,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2002]
Description
Nina and her brother Andrew share a strong bond: during childhood, they helped each other survive the cruelty of their physician father. Their mother has not fared so well: she is a drunken byproduct of domestic mythology. Now Nina, a reclusive editor, has sealed herself off from the world since her husband's accidental death, while her brother is busy locating and seducing women he knew in high school.
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Description
"The Front Porch Promise" is a breathtaking story about one incredible woman's life and her ability to overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles. Following the tragic loss of her parents, the author, who was then just nine years old, and her three siblings were torn apart. With her older sisters departing on different paths, the author and her five-year-old brother were taken from the only life they had ever known--a rural dairy farm--and moved...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
"Grace had it tough growing up. Child of an abusive mother, she learned to be a secret-keeper, holding close the horrors of her childhood and what she had to do to survive. Her daughters, Martha and Lavender, could only puzzle over the mysteries they uncovered when they cleared out their motheŕђةs house after her death. It was too late to ask her about the ways in which their own lives were shaped by her experiences. Told in alternating voices,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
"Raised by an abusive, narcissistic mother (who once tried to trick her into having an abortion), Julie Coons was also raped in college by a stranger and later married an abusive man who threatened to kill her if she ever tried to leave. Suffering from physical and mental torment resulting in very low self-esteem, Julie often felt so completely alone during the many struggles of her life that she tried to take her own life. This book is her true story...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
A pioneering physician reveals how childhood stress leads to lifelong health problems and what we can do to break the cycle. For anyone who has faced a difficult childhood, or who cares about the millions of children who do, the innovative and acclaimed health interventions outlined in this book will represent vitally important hope for change.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022].
Description
When her grandfather suffers a suspicious, fatal heart attack at her wedding, Violet can barely conceal her joy. For herself, and for the sake of other victims like her, Violet is reclaiming the power stolen from her as a child. Predator by predator, she's coming for them. It's intoxicating. It's liberating. But the secrets she now keeps, and the lies she must tell, come with a price.
56) Invisible Ellen
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
For many of us, there comes a moment when we wish we were invisible. For Ellen Homes, not only does she wish it --she actually lives it. She spends her days quietly observing but unobserved, watching and recording in her notebooks the lives of her neighbors, coworkers, and total strangers. Overweight, socially stunted, and utterly alone, one night Ellen saves a blind young woman from being mugged. Then everything changes.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
"'Abuse' is an ugly word. And to many people, abuse is an ugly reality of life. This book tells the stories of two men and two women whose lives have been painfully marked by abuse. As a child, Kenyon was beaten first by his mother, later by his father and stepmother. Dawn grew up surrounded by abusive people, then married a violent man. Ryan's stepfather terrorized his entire family, physically and emotionally. Eunice was only a child when an adult...
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Description
"Reminiscent of Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich's The Fact of a Body and Maggie Nelson's The Red Parts, a perfect balance of memoir and true crime, The Book of Atlantis Black will have you questioning facts, rooting for secrets, and asking what it means to know the truth. A young woman is found dead on the floor of a Tijuana hotel room. An ID in a nearby purse reads "Atlantis Black." The police report states that the body does not seem to match the identification,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Separated from her real mother at birth, Anya grew up in terror of her drunken bullying uncle. Beaten, humiliated and sexually abused by him from the age of six, she thought her life couldn't get worse. But one day it did. "I was used to Daddy screaming 'whore's child' at me, over and over again. But I couldn't get used to what he made me do." Anya was too terrified to tell anybody about what her uncle did to her. But then he got careless and started...