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22) Malicia
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1996
Description
On the evening of her mother's funeral Grace Adams decides she has had enough and shoots her father when he tries to molest her once again. After two years of prison, it looks like Grace is going to be able to go on with her life, but the past seems to keep resurfacing.
Author
Series
Steel brothers saga volume 6
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
Jonah Steel has fallen in love with Melanie Carmichael but still lives with the guilt that consumes him as he tries to unravel the mystery of his family's past. A new threat has surfaced, and he finds himself trapped in a web of deceit and lies.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Eleven-year-old Owen is excited to spend the summer hanging out with his best friend Sean. But Sean's mother's new job throws a bit of a wrench in their plans when she hires a babysitting, Paul, to look after her son. Paul is a well-liked member of the local church, but Sean confides in Owen that Paul has started to do things to him sexually, making Owen promise not to tell anyone. Now Owen doesn't know what he should do--keep his friends secret,...
Author
Series
Steel brothers saga volume 8
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Ryan Steel, his world recently upended by an earth-shattering secret, now faces yet another potential revelation surrounding the Steel family mystery. He no longer fully trusts his siblings or the woman he loves. He's alone --- alone and terrified and immersed in a conundrum that becomes more twisted each day. Ruby Lee loves Ryan and desperately wants to help him. She'll do whatever she must to see him through this troubling time, but her own shrouded...
27) Open secrets
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Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"The #MeToo movement has revealed the prevalence of sexual assault in society, especially as committed by powerful men. But it is an issue that also affects the lives of teen girls. This book tells the story of seventeen year-old Ana Santos, who has ambitions to make it big in music and signs a contract with the owner of a music café without knowing there are sexual strings attached. It looks at the darker side of the music industry, including sexual...
Author
Series
Burke novels volume 9
Pub. Date
[1996]
Description
"Burke. Ex-con. Mercenary. Urban survivalist. Career criminal. Scar-carrying member of that vast underground tribe, Children of the Secret. And, some whisper, the city's finest hunter of predators. Perhaps because he was spawned from the same seed."--BOOK JACKET. "Burke is a man for hire. And Bondi is a private dancer, performing on command her special routine on a high-tech stage. When she learns who's really watching, she wants to buy some revenge...
29) Into the dark
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"New York Times bestselling author Karen Rose returns with a new thriller in her chilling Cincinnati series. Michael Rowland is not your typical teenager. Deaf from birth, he's always looked out for his five-year-old brother, Joshua. When his stepfather comes after Joshua, Michael takes the child and runs. He's determined to protect his brother at all costs, even if that means making himself vulnerable to a danger he can't hear coming. And the danger...
Author
Pub. Date
c2013.
Description
A missing child, a buried tin of coins, and a terrible secret -- these lie at the heart of Muriel Macleod's powerful first novel set deep in the back country of early-20th-century Louisiana, where lawlessness still reigns and the voodoo curses and charms of the old ways hold sway. Here eight-year-old Arletta lives with her family in an isolated shack in the woods. Sometimes she sees the white men walking down the track toward her home and knows to...