Search Results: Returned 7 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 7
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c1998., Adult, Random House Call No: FIC QUI Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A fictional narrative in which Fran Benedetto, a woman who was abused by her husband, examines the reasons why she stayed in her marriage for so long, and ponders whether leaving was the right thing to do.
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2001., Adult, Jove Books Call No: ROM ROB Edition: Jove ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Nell Channing arrives on Three Sisters Island hoping she has finally escaped her abusive husband, but her new life is threatened by a curse that was placed on the island more than two hundred years earlier.
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p2005., Adults, Simon & Schuster Audio Call No: AUD CLA Edition: Abridged. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: At the age of ten, Liza Barton had shot her mother, trying desperately to protect her from her estranged step-father, Ted Cartwright. Despite his claim that the shooting was a deliberate act, the Juvenile Court ruled the death an accident. Many people, however, agreed with Cartwright, and the tabloids compared her to the infamous murderess Lizzie Borden, pointing even to the similarity of their names. To erase Liza's past, her adoptive parents change her name to Celia. Her peace of mind later in her life is shattered when her new husband, Alex Nolan, surprises her with a gift -- the house in Mendham, New Jersey, where she killed her mother. On the day they move in, they find the words little lizzie's place -- beware painted on the lawn, splotches of red paint all over the house, and a skull and crossbones carved into the door. More and more, there are signs that someone in the community knows Celia's true identity.
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[2014]., Revell Call No: FIC EAS Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Hidden identity Volume: book 2
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c2012., Adult, Dutton Call No: FIC CHI Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Elm Creek quilts novelSummary Note: Rosa Diaz Barclay, mourning the loss of four of her eight children, lives on a rye farm in California with her abusive husband when she finally leaves him in order to save two of her remaining children from succombing to a mysterious wasting disease and when she reunites with her ex-husband, the father of her two healthy children, they try to start a winery in the midst of prohibition.
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c2009., Adult, Signet Call No: ROM AND Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Rainie Hall, having faked her death to escape her abusive husband, learns that he is hunting her down and she must rely on the help of her boss, the handsome Parker Harrigan, with whom she has not been completely honest if she wants to live.