Author: Jennifer Weiner Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 145161778X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 400
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Struggling with the demands of her job, distant husband, spoiled daughter and Alzheimer's patient father, Allison becomes addicted to painkillers and lands in rehab, where amid fellow inpatients she confronts incompatible recovery techniques, barely trained counselors and her own denial.
Author: James Brabazon Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0440001536 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 368
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A failed mission sends a British intelligence operative running for his life in this electrifying new thriller from the author of The Break Line. Soldier, assassin, and special agent—Max McLean works for a highly secretive unit called The Unknown: a black ops team which delivers off-the-books justice on behalf of the British Government. When a straightforward operation to kill a terrorist commander goes badly wrong, Max finds himself framed for murder. Cut off from his base and cut loose by his Government handlers, he’s forced to go even deeper underground, propelled across Europe on a personal, high-stakes investigation to clear his name. Racing against time to find out who his enemy is before his enemy finds him, Max has to unravel the only clue he has to their identity: an unusual hundred-dollar bill clutched in the dead terrorist’s fist. But in this brutal game of spies nothing is as it seems: as hostile powers prepare to move against the West, Max McLean must face the shocking possibility that the traitor he seeks has been with him all along.
Author: Christine Pope Publisher: Dark Valentine Press ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 355
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Healer Merys Thranion has been trained to fight disease and wage war against ignorance. Her training comes to the ultimate test when she is captured by slave traders in a neighboring country and brought to the estate of Lord Shaine. Her task is to heal the brooding lord's injured daughter...but that is only the first of her trials. As the deadly plague raises its head again and threatens to wipe out everyone on Lord Shaine's estate, Merys must summon all her skills to protect those she has come to care for...including the man who has become much more to her than simply her master. Author’s Note: All Tales of the Latter Kingdoms novels are written as standalone romances and can be read in any order.
Author: Megan Hart Publisher: MIRA ISBN: 0778313069 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 397
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In the midst of a chaotic midnight assembly, Sunshine is forced outside into the darkness. Holding a scrap of paper scrawled with a stranger's name and address, Sunny grasps the hands of her three small children and begins her escape. Liesel Albright has dreamed of starting a family. She never bargained on inheriting one already in progress…or one so deeply damaged. When nineteen-year-old Sunshine appears on the Albrights' doorstep claiming Liesel's husband, Chris, is her father, all they can think to offer is temporary shelter. The next day, they're stunned by the news that the Family of Superior Bliss, led by a charismatic zealot, has committed mass suicide. Sunny and her children haven't just left the compound—they've been left behind. Now, instead of a baby of her own, Liesel must play mother to the four survivors, while Chris retreats into guilt and denial. For Sunny, however, a lifetime of teachings is not easily unlearned. No matter how hard she tries to forget, an ominous catechism echoes in her mind, urging her to finish what the Family started.
Author: Amber M. Dyehouse Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 144900556X Category : Friendship Languages : en Pages : 158
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Pete returns home early from a weekend camping trip only to find his longtime girlfriend, Katrina, entangled in a passionate romp with another man. Unable to control his actions, Pete brutally ends the lives of both Katrina and her new lover. Shocked by what he has done, Pete stashes the bodies and escapes back to a small college town in Illinois to try to recapture normalcy for himself. The quest proves to be more difficult than anticipated, though, after he crosses paths with a breathtaking young freshman, Tali, who quickly falls head-over-heels for him. Add a strained friendship with Tali's roommate, Jess, to his increasingly stifling inward struggle to forget the past and move on, and Pete can't seem to catch the break he needs. He surprised himself in the past by releasing an evil that he didn't know he had, but can he surprise himself again by conjuring up enough positive strength to escape the torment of his own mind and become the person that his new friends need?
Author: Carlene Thompson Publisher: Macmillan + ORM ISBN: 1429909552 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 306
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Few locals believe Sinclair's wealthy golden boy Martin Avery actually took his own life-or that his beautiful young widow had nothing to do with his death. Well aware of the rumors behind her back, Blaine Avery is focused on managing her late husband's finances and raising her adolescent stepdaughter...until her serene woodland property yields a gruesome discovery. For the second time in six months, Sheriff Logan Quint has been called out to the Avery place, where another corpse has been found. This time, it belongs to a teenage girl who had everything to live for. But if Rosie Van Zandt didn't kill herself...who did? As the once sleepy town reels from the rash of so-called suicides, Blaine regrets the day she ever came home. Only Logan is willing to accept her innocence-or her suspicions. For Blaine is desperate to clear her name, and dead certain somebody intends to destroy it. Somebody who calls her in the dead of night, taunting her with the childhood rhyme: Ring around the rosy, a pocket full of posey, ashes, ashes, we...All Fall Down
Author: Erica Spindler Publisher: MIRA ISBN: 1459213270 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 458
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A female cop hunts a serial killer who is hauntingly familiar in this “suspenseful” crime thriller from a New York Times–bestselling author (Publishers Weekly). Men are dying unexpectedly in Charlotte, North Carolina—all victims of bizarre accidents. No one will call these deaths murder. No one except small-town cop Melanie May. She sees the pattern: a serial killer targeting men who have slipped through the fingers of justice. Alone with her awful certainty, Melanie risks her career to convince Connor Parks, a troubled FBI profiler, that she’s right. Suddenly Melanie is in the limelight, lauded for uncovering the Dark Angel. But her involvement makes her a target. For as she and Connor study the victims, their deaths, the signature the murderer leaves at every scene, Melanie comes face-to-face with the terrible truth. The profile Connor’s created fits someone in her own life . . . a profile of a cunning killer, one without remorse and bent on vengeance. A killer who will not stop until . . . All Fall Down. “‘A smooth fast ride to the end. Spindler is at the controls, negotiating the curves with consummate skill.” —John Lutz, New York Times–bestselling author of Single White Female
Author: Nic Sheff Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers ISBN: 0316175897 Category : Young Adult Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 368
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In his follow-up to his bestselling memoir Tweak: Growing Up On Methamphetamines, Nic Sheff reveals a brutally honest account of a young person's struggles with relapse and rehab. In his bestselling memoir Tweak, Nic Sheff took readers on an emotionally gripping roller-coaster ride through his days as an addict. In this powerful follow-up about his continued efforts to stay clean, Nic writes candidly about eye-opening stays at rehab centers, devastating relapses, and hard-won realizations about what it means to be a young person living with addiction. By candidly revealing his own failures and small personal triumphs, Nic inspires readers to maintain hope and to remember that they are not alone in their battles. A group reading guide is included. Nic Sheff's Tweak, We All Fall Down, and his father's memoir about him (Beautiful Boy) are the basis of the film Beautiful Boy starring Steve Carell and Timothée Chalamet.
Author: Cynthia Clark Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1786699664 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 364
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Many years ago orphans Bea, her brother Sebastian, Helen, Sandra and John lived together in a home, with their carer Miriam. But Miriam didn't care at all. If you asked the children, they would have said that Miriam hated them. And it's no fun living with someone who hates you, so the children decided to do something about it... Then a terrible accident changed everything, and the children were ripped apart from each other. Many years ago Ronnie Moss made a mistake he can never take back, no matter how much he wishes he could, so instead he runs for his life. But he can't run forever. Many years later the secrets of the past are finally being revealed, and nothing will ever be the same again. Cynthia Clark has written a breathtaking suspense novel for all fans of B A Paris and Sophie Hannah.
Author: Monica Friesen Publisher: FriesenPress ISBN: 1460282302 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 378
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Graham and Joanna Kornelsons' life has all gone according to their plan. Graham a lawyer, and Joanna, a stay-at-home mom to her three children, live in the quaint town of Mountain City, Manitoba, enjoying a typical busy life together. Until one Sunday morning when Joanna finds their fourteen year old daughter, Ally, at the bottom of the staircase enduring an unexpected seizure. What happens to this family is as unpredictable as the diagnosis of epilepsy. The Kornelson family find themselves emotionally collapsing as they try to make sense of this untimely illness that has shattered their idyllic home life. Ally, who dreams of becoming a concert pianist, continues to suffer from seizures and endures the difficult experience of finding the right anti-seizure drugs. Twelve year old twins, Jack and Lydia, want to know that their family will be back to normal as Graham and Joanna can't find balance between managing Ally's medical changes and dealing with the crippling trauma that grips their family. Graham, who recently lost his dad to cancer, struggles to be the supportive husband and father for his suffering family. Joanna is desperate to cling to the easy life they once knew, but in the process alienates them all with her controlling and overprotective decisions. But over these difficult years, the Kornelson family turn to each other to find strength and renewal as they learn to pick up one another, as they all fall down.
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