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At the Bounty Canyon Ranch in Southeastern New Mexico, the bodies of Luke and Deona Pruitt are buried in a manure pit and their fourteen year old son Leeland Pruitt is missing. Deputy Sheriff Greenwood is called out to investigate the missing Pruitt family and discovers the grim scene. Leeland's brutal upbringing was an open secret overlooked by neighbors and teachers for years. The community turned a blind eye as Leeland was moved by his cruel...
3) Mean Dreams
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1 videodisc (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Local farm boy Jonas and the new girl next door, Casey, embark on a journey that will change their lives forever. When Casey's abusive home life reaches a new level of danger, Jonas takes the lead in their escape by stealing a bag full of drug money from Casey's corrupt father, local cop Wayne Caraway. With the stolen cash as their only means to a better life, Casey flees with Jonas. Under relentless pursuit from her father, they learn the hard truth...
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432 pages ; 21 cm
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Seventeen-year-old William is uprooted from his home and sent to live with his estranged father. When he is confronted with a situation in which he must help an abused four-year-old boy, horrible memories come back to him, and William realizes that he and the boy are connected. He vows to hurt those responsible for hurting the child, but must find the love and compassion he needs to make the right choices.
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270 pages ; 22 cm
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"Sometimes all that it takes to start over is the courage to say you will. In Kathleen's home, red jeans were a sin. Parties were punishable with violence. Fear was part of the daily norm. Growing up in a Catholic cult, under the unforgiving eye of her abusive father, Kathleen knew from an early age that if she were to survive, she'd have to do it on her own. But when the time come to escape, she found herself in a damaging spiral of self-destruction....
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1 videodisc (approximately 101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Based on true events, a teenage girl runs away from her abusive mother to find the wealthy father she's never known. But she must find redemption to create a family of her own.
A pregnant teenager runs away from her abusive mother to find her father, but when her father rejects her she is left alone on the streets until a compassionate stranger steps in.
8) Radio flyer
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1 videodisc (approximately 114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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After their mother marries a child abuser, Mike decides to help Bobby escape by turning their Radio Flyer wagon into a magic rocket ship that will carry Bobby to safety.
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436 pages ; 25 cm
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"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author, a novel about the power of family to harm -- and to heal. Within the walls of a tasteful, perfectly kept house in North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains, young Zane Bigelow feels like a prisoner of war. Strangers -- and even Zane's own aunt across the lake -- see his parents as a successful surgeon and his stylish wife, making appearances at their children's ballet recitals and baseball games. Zane and...
10) Dark river
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1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Following the death of her father, Alice returns to her home village for the first time in fifteen years, to claim the tenancy to the family farm she believes is rightfully hers.
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"As a child, Abby had the same recurring nightmare night after night, in which she wandered through a field ridden with human skulls and bones. Now an adult, Abby thinks she's outgrown her demons until, the evening before her wedding, the terrible dream returns, forcing her to confront the dark secrets from her past that she has kept from her new husband, Willem. The following day-less than 24 hours after exchanging vows-Abby steps out into traffic....
12) Sanitatum
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1 videodisc (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Four survivors of childhood abuse, now high-functioning and successful adults, find themselves suspects in an investigation into a series of vigilante murders.
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"In this twisty, mind-bending thriller from the bestselling author of Behind Her Eyes, Emma Averill worries that her crippling insomnia is a sign that she's slowly going insane-like the mother she's worked so hard to leave in her past"--
Emma Averell loves her life -- her high-powered legal career, her two beautiful children, and her wonderful stay-at-home husband -- but it wasn't always so perfect. When she was just five years old, Emma and her...
14) Gossamer
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While learning to bestow dreams, a young dream giver tries to save an eight-year-old boy from the effects of both his abusive past and the nightmares inflicted on him by the frightening Sinisteeds.
15) Blood family
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291 pages ; 22 cm
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A boy with an abusive father grows up and fears that he has the same potential for violence as his father has.
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In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis' parents and load him into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there's no window. And outside his door are other doors, behind which are other kids with special talents - telekinesis and telepathy - who got to this place the same...
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411 pages, 389 pages . ; 18 cm, [21 cm].
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Chris, Cathy, and the twins are to be kept hidden until their grandfather dies so that their mother will receive a sizeable inheritance, however, years pass and terrifying things occur as the four children grow up in their one room prison.
All across America and around the world millions of readers have been captivated by this strange, dark, terrifying tole of passion and peril in the lives of four innocent children, locked away from the world by...
18) Grey
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Christian Grey exercises control in all things; his world is neat, disciplined, and utterly empty -- until the day that Anastasia Steele falls into his office, in a tangle of shapely limbs and tumbling brown hair. He tries to forget her, but instead is swept up in a storm of emotion he cannot comprehend and cannot resist. Unlike any woman he has known before, shy, unworldly Ana seems to see right through him -- past the business prodigy and the penthouse...
20) The final case
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245 pages ; 22 cm
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"A provocative new novel from the best-selling author of Snow Falling on Cedars -- a moving father-son story that is also a taut courtroom drama and a bold examination of privilege, power, and how to live a meaningful life. In a small rural town outside Seattle, Joanna, an Ethiopian girl adopted by a white fundamentalist Christian family, is found dead of hypothermia in her own backyard -- setting in motion a gripping journey into the complexities...
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