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161) The keeper
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Katie Straw's body is pulled from the waters of the local suicide spot, the police are ready to write it off as a standard-issue female suicide. But the residents of the domestic violence shelter where Katie worked disagree. These women have spent weeks or even years waiting for the men they're running from to catch up with them. They know immediately: This was murder. Still, Detective Dan Whitworth and his team expect an open-and-shut case--...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
viii, 421 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Jason Schmidt wasn't surprised when he came home one day during his junior year of high school and found his father, Mark, crawling around in a giant pool of blood. Things like that had been happening a lot since Mark had been diagnosed with HIV, three years earlier. Jason's life with Mark was full of secrets--about drugs, crime, and sex. If the straights--people with normal lives--ever found out any of those secrets, the police would come. Jason's...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xxiii, 320 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Edna "Gertrude" Beasley's original memoir was published in Paris in 1925, but ultimately suppressed and lost to history-- until now. In 1927, Beasley-- a self-proclaimed socialist and staunch feminist who fought for women's rights-- disappeared. Her fate remained a mystery until researchers began digging into her story. This book reveals the story of a woman who grew up in abject poverty in rural Texas during the early 1900s, where she battled ongoing...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xi, 288 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Christy Martin spent most of her life hiding. For someone who for two decades was the most famous female fighter in the world, that wasn't easy. This book is the extraordinary tale of a female athlete's rise to become the fighter who legitimized women in combat sports and the personal turmoil she hid from the world." --
166) Still waters
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
311 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"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."--
167) Old Newgate Road
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
299 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Old Newgate Road runs through the tobacco fields of northern Connecticut that once drove the local economy. It's where Cole Callahan spent his youth, in a historic white colonial that his family was devoted to restoring--painstakingly, relentlessly, pointlessly. But the famous claim that you can't go home again falls far short in this instance. Cole has not come back to this house, to this street, in thirty years-- not since he was a teenager, when...
168) Watch over me
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
345 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Told in two voices, eighteen-year-old Zoey Ward struggles to protect her mother and siblings from her violent father, and her brother's best friend, Tristan, a member of the Coast Guard, tries to make her feel safe. From the author of Come Back to Me.
Zoey has spent much of her life caring for her mom and her little sister, defending them from her violent father. She sacrificed her wants and dreams to keep her family together. Her father, just released...
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
viii, 273 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Tells the harrowing, yet wryly funny story of Safran's childhood chasing the perfect life off the grid--and how he and his mother survived the imperfect one they found instead. More than just a coming-of age story, "Free Spirit" is a journey of the spirit, as Safran reconnects with his Jewish roots; a tale of overcoming adversity; and a captivating read about a childhood unlike any other.
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
220 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Shortly after a dismembered torso was discovered by a pond outside Philadelphia in 1887, investigators homed in on two suspects: Hannah Mary Tabbs, a married, working-class, black woman, and George Wilson, a former neighbor whom Tabbs implicated after her arrest. As details surrounding the shocking case emerged, both the crime and ensuing trial brought otherwise taboo subjects such as illicit sex, adultery, and domestic violence in the black community...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
247 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Two kids from different worlds form an unexpected friendship. Cody's home life is a messy, terrifying story of neglect and abuse. Autumn is from a wealthy, loving Indigenous family, who is "in" with the popular crowd at school, even though it is hard for her to want to keep up.
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