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1) Run away
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"You've lost your daughter. She's addicted to drugs and to an abusive boyfriend. And she's made it clear that she doesn't want to be found. Then, by chance, you see her playing guitar in Central Park. But she's not the girl you remember. This woman is living on the edge, frightened, and clearly in trouble. You don't stop to think. You approach her, beg her to come home. She runs. And you do the only thing a parent can do: you follow her into a dark...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"A servant girl escapes from a colonial settlement in the wilderness. She carries nothing with her but her wits, a few possessions, and the spark of god that burns hot within her. What she finds in this terra incognita is beyond the limits of her imagination and will bend her belief in everything that her own civilization has taught her. Lauren Groff's new novel is at once a thrilling adventure story and a penetrating fable about trying to find a...
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Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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"From one convenient marriage... To another? Shunned by society because of his parentage, half-Roma blacksmith Fell Barden lives a simple life alone in the forest until his peace is disturbed by an injured runaway lady. Fleeing a forced marriage, Sophia Somerlock needs his help. Caring for the intriguing miss, Fell feels an intense connection to her. The obvious solution is to save her by marrying her himself... but that would mean returning to the...
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Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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Can they put the past behind them? Lorne Malcolm ’s wedding to her handsome suitor Daniel MacNeil is a joyful day much looked forward to by both families. But by the time Lorne’s older sister, Rosa , returns from a trip to the flower shop on the morning of the wedding, Lorne has disappeared. When news arrives that Lorne has run off to Ireland with a wealthy landowner’s son, Rory Thain , their families are shocked. None more so than Daniel. Jilted...
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English
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"A "startlingly original" novel of "recursive loops through the mind of a woman who is breaking down from not making the art she absolutely must make" (Alexander Chee, Paris Review ). Alma and her family live close to the land, raising chickens and sheep. While her husband works at a nearby college, she stays home with their young children, cleans, searches for secondhand goods online, and reads books by the women writers she adores. Then, one night,...
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English
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"An emotional debut for fans of Elizabeth Strout and Diane Chamberlain, The Ones We Keep follows the splintered lives of four family members in the years following an unthinkable tragedy, and the choices they must make to find their way back to each other. One family. One tragedy. One incredible decision to change their fate. A quiet lakeside resort in Vermont seems like the perfect summer getaway for Olivia and Harry Somerville and their three young...
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English
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"Can there ever be sympathy for a kidnapper-no matter how forceful her case? Don't decide until you read Before You Found Me, Brooke Beyfuss's complex, compelling new novel that dissects the tangled psychology of right and righteousness." - Jacquelyn Mitchard, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Deep End of the Ocean
Explore the unlikely bond that develops between two abuse survivors and take a deep dive into personal sacrifice, morality,...
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Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Lee Gulliver never thought she'd find herself living on the streets -- no one ever does -- but when her restaurant fails, and she falls deeper into debt, she leaves her old life behind with nothing but her clothes and her Toyota Corolla. In Seattle, she parks in a secluded spot by the beach to lay low and plan her next move -- until early one morning, she sees a sobbing woman throw herself into the ocean. Lee hauls the woman back to the surface,...
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