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Young Spencer novels volume 1
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169 pages ; 24 cm.
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English
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Spenser reflects back to when he was fourteen-years-old and how he helped his best friend Jeannie when she was abducted by her abusive father.
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vi, 344 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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When a struggling mother loses her five-year-old daughter to a kidnapper, two women and one girl will find their loyalties and affections tested.
Emma Townsend lives with her cruel mother and clueless father, retreating into her own world of quiet and solitude. When a chance encounter with Emma presents itself, Sarah Walker takes her. Has Emma been stolen, or rescued? Amy Townsend is unsure whether she wants her daughter back. She had physically...
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English
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When Adam Blake lands the best elective ever in his senior year, serving as an aide to the school psychologist, he thinks he's got it made. Sure, it means a lot of sitting around, which isn't easy for a guy with ADHD, but he can't complain, since he gets to spend the period texting all his friends. Then the doctor asks him to track down the troubled freshman who keeps dodging her, and Adam discovers that the boy is Julian -- the foster brother he...
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362 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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The McCauleys look perfect on the outside, but this family is hiding a dark secret. Hadley will do anything to keep her sister safe from their father. When Hadley's forbidden relationship with Charlie Simmons deepens, the violence at home escalates. An explosive accident occurs, following which Hadley attempts to take her own life at the hospital. Her friends, doctors, family, and the investigator on the case want to know why. Only Hadley knows what...
10) Gossamer
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English
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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.
11) Blood family
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291 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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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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343 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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After an injury forces Ria off the diving team she forms an unexpected friendship with Cotton, a neuro-divergent boy who helps her to see that Coach Benny's training methods were actually abuse. Then Benny returns, offering Ria a second chance with a life-changing diving opportunity. How do you separate the impossible from possible when the one thing you love is so tangled up in the thing you fear most?
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410 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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When Rev Fletcher and Emma Blue meet, they both long to share secrets, his of being abused by his birth father, hers of her parents' failing marriage and an online troll who truly frightens her.
With loving adoptive parents, Rev Fletcher has managed to keep the demons of his past at bay... until he gets a letter from his abusive father. Emma Blue spends her time perfecting the computer game she built from scratch, rather than facing her parents'...
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298 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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Evelyn Peters is desperate. Desperate for a way out of McNair Falls, the dying southern town that's held her captive since the day she was born. Desperate to protect her little sister from her mother's terrifying and abusive boyfriend. And desperate to connect with anyone, even fallen golden boy Ashton Harper, longtime boyfriend of the girl Evelyn can never stop thinking about--beautiful, volatile, tragically dead Reid Brewer. Until a single night...
16) Faith: a novel
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318 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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When her older brother Art -- a Catholic priest and the popular pastor of a large suburban parish -- finds himself at the center of a scandal, Sheila McGann, estranged from her family for years, returns to Boston, ready to fight for him and his reputation.
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Series
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537 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
Español
Description
Practicing silence to shield herself from the traumas of her past, Mallory, after years of homeschooling, enrolls in public school, a challenge that is complicated by her reunion with Rider Stark, a friend and protector from her childhood.
18) Still waters
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English
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"High-schooler Jason, who lives with a drunk, abusive father at home, hopes to earn enough money to escape with his younger sister, Janie, by being tough at school, but the stakes grow ever more dangerous and soon even his fists and ability to think on his feet are not enough to keep his head above water."--
19) Bruiser
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328 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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Inexplicable events start to occur when sixteen-year-old twins Tennyson and Brontë befriend a troubled and misunderstood outcast, aptly nicknamed Bruiser, and his little brother, Cody.
20) Todd's TV
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When Todd's parents are too busy to take care of him, his television steps in to handle the parenting.
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