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1) Lost Girls
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In this timely drama we see Kara, a victim, who is forced to lure young girls into sex trafficking, confront her inner demons and dangerous employers in order to break free from the cycle of victimization. When Kara spots fifteen-year-old, Marisol being treated badly by her classmates, she befriends her and seduces her with attention, gifts, and a party invitation. Marisol is unwittingly imprisoned in a world of forced drugs and prostitution. However,...
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English
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Sage Winters always knew her sister was a little different even though they were identical twins. They loved the same things and shared a deep understanding, but Rosemary-awake to every emotion, easily moved to joy or tears-seemed to need more protection from the world. Six years after Rosemary's death from pneumonia, Sage, now sixteen, still misses her deeply. Their mother perished in a car crash, and Sage's stepfather, Alan, resents being burdened...
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Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In 1935 on a remote Minnesota lake, six-year-old Emily has disappeared from her family?s vacation home. Generations later, Justine returns to the family home to escape her abusive relationship and start a new life with her daughters. But the ghosts of the past still haunt the lake house and no one is safe. 352pp., 50K
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Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
When you're an identical twin, your story always starts with someone else. For Iris, that means her story starts with Lark. Iris has always been the grounded, capable, and rational one; Lark has been inventive, dreamy, and brilliant--and from their first moments in the world together, they've never left each other's side. Everyone around them realized early on what the two sisters already knew: they had better outcomes when they were together. When...
7) Lost girl
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Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Amidst dramatic climate change in the year 2053, a father takes up the search for his kidnapped daughter, determined to find her no matter where it takes him or what he must do.
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Series
Joanna Brady mysteries volume 20
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"Driven by a compulsion that challenges his self-control, the man calling himself Charles Milton prowls the rodeo circuit, hunting young women. For years, he has been meticulous in his methods, abducting, murdering, and disposing of his victims while leaving no evidence of his crimes--or their identities--behind. Indigenous women have become his target of choice, knowing law enforcement's history of ignoring their disappearances. A cold case has just...
9) Girls lost
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Swedish
Description
BFFs Kim, Momo and Bella are bullied by boys at school while their teachers do nothing. On top of that, Kim secretly confesses to Bella she thinks she was born in the wrong body. So when the trio finds a magical plant whose nectar temporarily turns them into boys, it offers them the thrilling chance to experience freedoms they've never known.
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Liverpool, 1935: Raised in a strict Catholic family, Viv Byrne knows what's expected of her: marry a Catholic man from her working-class neighborhood and have his children. However, when she finds herself pregnant after a fling with Joshua Levinson, a Jewish man with dreams of becoming a famous Jazz musician, Viv knows that a swift wedding is the only answer. Her only solace is that marrying Joshua will mean escaping her strict mother's scrutiny....
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Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Español
Description
De la autora best seller de El vagón de los huérfanos llega una nueva novela basada en hechos reales de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Creían que las mujeres no podían ser espías. Estaban equivocados. Las chicas perdidas de París es una emotiva historia de amistad y traición durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, inspirada en hechos reales, de la autora best seller internacional Pam Jenoff. 1940: Con el mundo en guerra, Eleanor Trigg lidera un misterioso...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Selvi loves the animals that live on the mountains behind her home, particularly the beautiful golden leopard, Lokka, and she is determined to protect him from the hunter Jansz who both threatens not only Lokka, but Selvi's family as well.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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This emotional, hard-hitting film takes Stacey Dooley to a remote part of Canada to investigate why the regular disappearance or murder of hundreds of young women from indigenous communities has largely been ignored. She discovers that in the last 30 years, an estimated 4,000 women from these First Nation communities have gone missing or been killed. And the vast majority were aged under 30. Why were so many of their killers never brought to justice—and...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: In the tradition of Daphne du Maurier, Shari Lapena, and Michelle Richmond comes a new thriller from the bestselling author of The Lake of Dead Languages-a twisty, harrowing story set at a prestigious prep school in which one woman's carefully hidden past might destroy her future. 320pp., 25K
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Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Growing up gifted and poor in small-town Arkansas, Monica and Darci became fast friends. The girls bonded over a shared love of reading and learning, even as they navigated the challenges of their declining town and tumultuous family lives--broken marriages, alcohol abuse, and shuttered stores and factories. They pored over the giant map in their middle school classroom, tracing their fingers over the world that awaited them, vowing to escape. In...
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Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Most people think that the Brown vs. Board of Education decision of 1954 meant that schools were integrated with deliberate speed. But the children of Prince Edward County located in Farmville, Virginia, who were prohibited from attending formal schools for five years knew differently, including Yolanda. Told by Yolanda Gladden herself, cowritten by Dr. Tamara Pizzoli and with illustrations by Keisha Morris, When the Schools Shut Down is a true account...
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Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Publisher Annotation: With a name like hers, Owl never expected her life to be normal, at home or at school. But when Owl finds out that she is Jack Frost's daughter, her world shifts beyond what she could ever imagine. Determined to meet him, Owl delves into Jack's wonderful world of winter and magic-the kind of place she thought only existed in fairy tales. And as she notices frost patterns appearing on her skin and her tears turning to ice, Owl...
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