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Years after discovering her father's predatory double life, successful photographer Naomi Bowes struggles to hide her painful past from her fellow residents in a community thousands of miles away, a situation that introduces her to a new relationship and forces her to confront her demons.
In freeing the woman trapped in the root cellar, Naomi Bowes revealed the horrible extent of her father's crimes, made him infamous... and discovered she can't...
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"Olivia Taylor Jones's life has exploded. She's discovered she is not only adopted, but her real parents are convicted serial killers. Fleeing the media frenzy, she took refuge in the oddly secluded town of Cainsville. She has since solved the town's mysteries and finds herself not only the target of its secretive elders but also her stalker ex-fiancé. Visions continue to haunt her: particularly a little blond girl in a green sundress who insists...
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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"After a fourteen-year estrangement, Maria Venegas returns to Mexico from the United States to visit her father, who is living in the old hacienda where both he and she were born. While spending the following summers and holidays together, herding cattle and fixing barbed-wire fences, he begins sharing stories with her, tales of a dramatic life filled with both intense love and brutal violence--from the final conversations he had with his own father,...
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Disney
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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The Villain Kids are back in a high-stakes adventure that's badder than ever! When the pressure to be royally perfect becomes too much for Mal, she flees Auradon only to have Evie and the rest of the gang sneak onto the Isle to retrieve her. But there's a new, self-proclaimed queen of evil in town: Mal's archenemy Uma, daughter of Ursula. Together with her pirate crew, including Captain Hook's son Harry and Gaston's son Gil, Uma unleashes havoc on...
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Disney-Hyperion, an imprint of Disney Book Group
Pub. Date
2016.
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IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Mal, Evie, Carlos, and Jay have received threatening messages demanding they return home. They have a sneaking suspicion that their villainous parents are behind the messages, and something Evie sees in her Magic Mirror confirms their fears. Although Maleficent's just a tiny lizard after her confrontation with Mal, could she have found a way to escape? Mal and her friends determine to sneak back to the Isle to get to the bottom of the mystery.
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Villard Books
Pub. Date
c2010
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English
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When Jennifer Mascia is five years old, the FBI comes for her father. At that moment Jenny realizes that her family isn't exactly normal. What follows are months of confusion; she and her mother crisscross the country, from California to New York to Miami and back again. When her father finally returns home, months later, his absence is never explained--and the family has a new last name. It's only much later that Jenny discovers that theirs was a...
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Disney-Hyperion
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IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Imprisoned on the Isle of the Lost, the teenaged children of Disney's most evil villains search for a dragon's eye--the key to true darkness and the villains' only hope of escape.
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English
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An Amazon Charts and USA Today bestseller.
Gina Royal is the definition of average—a shy Midwestern housewife with a happy marriage and two adorable children. But when a car accident reveals her husband’s secret life as a serial killer, she must remake herself as Gwen Proctor—the ultimate warrior mom.
With her ex
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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The daughter of a former Gambino crime family underboss relates her struggle to reconcile the image of her elusive yet loving father with that of a murdering mafioso, and shares how she was able to forge a life after the truth was out.
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HighBridge Audio
Pub. Date
℗2015
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English
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Ramsey Miller threw a blowout block party, then murdered his wife and three-year-old daughter. But everyone is wrong: the daughter got away. Now she is nearly eighteen and tired of living in secrecy, the last fifteen years in the Witness Protection Program. Precautions must be taken at every turn, because Ramsey Miller was never caught and might still be looking for his daughter. Taking matters into her own hands, she returns to her hometown in hopes...
12) Anti/Hero
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DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"Piper Pájaro is strong and longs to be a superhero while Sloane MacBrute puts her smarts to use for her villainous grandfather, but when a mission to steal an experimental technological device brings the two 13-year-old girls face to face with each other, the device sparks and the two girls switch bodies."--Provided by publisher.
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Sandra Jonas Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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"Growing up on the Navajo Indian Reservation, David Crow and his three siblings idolized their dad. Tall, strong, smart, and brave, the self-taught Cherokee regaled his family with stories of his World War II feats. But as time passed, David discovered the other side of Thurston Crow, the ex-con with his own code of ethics that justified cruelty, violence, lies--even murder. A shrewd con artist with a genius IQ, Thurston intimidated David with beatings...
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Tokyopop
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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Parents' Day at Auradon Prep proves to be even more dreadful than expected for the VKs. Ostracized by their new friends and classmates, Mal, Evie, Jay and Carlos are even more determinted to fulfill their parents' evil plan, but doubt begins to creep into their thoughts. The people of Auradon think the VKs will always be evil, but in their hearts they are conflicted. Explore the last volume of Disney Descendants: The Rotten to the Core Trilogy as...
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Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2016.
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Español
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"Tras catorce años de ausencia, Maria Venegas regresa a México, desde Estados Unidos, para visitar a su padre José en la hacienda donde él nació. Mientras pasan juntos una temporada, él comparte los recuerdos de su vida. Es así como Venegas consigue reconstruir el pasado doloroso, violento y enardecido de su padre: desde la última conversación que sostuvieron antes de que él fuera extraditado a México por asesinato, abandonándola a ella...
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Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Sixteen-year-old physics nerd Aysel is obsessed with plotting her own death. With a mother who can barely look at her without wincing, classmates who whisper behind her back, and a father whose violent crime rocked her small town, Aysel is ready to turn her potential energy into nothingness. There's only one problem: she's not sure she has the courage to do it alone. But once she discovers a website with a section called Suicide Partners, Aysel's...
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DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"Cassandra Cain, teenage assassin, isn't exactly Batgirl material...yet. Will she step out of the shadows and overcome her greatest obstacle--that voice inside her head telling her she can never be a hero? Lucky for Cass, she won't have to defy her destiny alone. With the help of her new mentors, noodle shop owner Jackie Fujikawa Yoneyama and a librarian named Barbara Gordon, she'll attempt to answer this question the only way she knows how: learning...
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Nelson Books, an imprint of Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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What is it like to learn that your ordinary, loving father is a serial killer? In 2005, Kerri Rawson heard a knock on the door of her apartment. When she opened it, an FBI agent informed her that her father had been arrested for murdering ten people, including two children. It was then that she learned her father was the notorious serial killer known as BTK, a name he'd given himself that described the horrific way he committed his crimes: bind, torture,...
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