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81) Nickel plated
Author
Publisher
AmazonEncore
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Raised in abusive foster homes, Nickel escapes at the age of ten and pays his way by blackmailing online pedophiles, selling marijuana to high school students, and investigating crimes. When a beautiful high school girl named Arrow asks him to find her runaway sister Shelby, Nickel takes the case, but soon discovers that finding Shelby is one thing, surviving is another.
83) Daredevils
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
1974: Fifteen-year-old Loretta slips out of her bedroom window to meet her Gentile boyfriend. This time, however, her strict Mormon parents catch her returning at dawn and quickly arrange for her to marry the upstanding Dean Harder, a devout yet materialistic fundamentalist who already has a wife and a brood of kids, some not much younger than Loretta herself. Trapped in her role as a sister wife, Loretta dreams of another, better future, of a world...
Author
Publisher
Seventh Street Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Mona Ellison's life is as perfect as the porcelain dolls lined up on her shelves. She has a successful husband, a loving son, a beautiful home, and a supportive group of girlfriends ever ready for their weekly wine night. But when Mona's son gets entangled with the wrong crowd and runs away from home, her blissful suburban world begins to unravel. She tells her friends that boys will be boys, that he'll be back as soon as his money runs dry . . ....
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin MIRA
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"When a runaway teen surfaces at Molly Creighton's tavern, Daniel Devaney's job as a child advocate forces him to investigate...and to confront his tumultuous past with Molly. Though a tragic loss shattered their relationship four years ago, Daniel is now ready to accept responsibility for their breakup and make a fresh start. Their overwhelming attraction is undulled by time, but Molly fears risking her heart again. Daniel vows to banish the shadows...
Author
Publisher
MIRA Books
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Meg Williams has had a rough time since her husband died. Leaving her burdened by tangled emotions, recriminations and guilt, the tragedy has taken its toll on both Meg and her teenage daughter, Allie. Now Allie has run away. Sheriff Earl Sanders feels a responsibility to look after Meg and Allie. But he's determined not to let his love and desire for his best friend's widow make her life even harder.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
June has schizophrenia, and between managing her symptoms and her parents, she is just trying to keep it together. Nick is a reluctant car thief, supporting his aunt with the money and focusing on his art whenever he can. When June lands in the hospital and Nick might go to prison, the two decide to run away. Out on the road, trying to stay hidden while managing June's new medication, how far can they get on love alone? -- adapted from jacket
88) Runaway
Author
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Glasgow, 2015. Jack Mackay dares not look back on a life of failure and mediocrity. The heavy-hearted sixty-seven-year-old is still haunted by what might have been. His recollections of the terrible events that befell him and his friends some fifty years earlier, and how he did not act when it mattered most is a memory he has tried to escape his entire adult life. London, 2015. A man lies dead in a one-room flat. His killer looks on, remorseless....
89) Hidden
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
When 15-year-old Ahmed inadvertently outs himself to his parents, they take him to a residential treatment center in the Nevada desert, Serenity Ridge, where he's tortured, molested, and put through a "straight" rehabilitation program. After 11 months, Ahmed manages to escape to a safe house for runaway gay teens in San Francisco, where he meets a slew of other kids like himself, all with their own stories to tell, most just as traumatizing as his...
Author
Series
Night tales ; 3-4
Publisher
Silhouette Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Collects two romance stories, including "Nightshade," in which Lieutenant Althea Grayson, who prided herself on being in control, falls for her renegade partner, a man with no respect for rules."--
92) The assassins
Author
Publisher
Stein and Day
Pub. Date
[1972]
Language
English
Description
Master Sergeant Cesario Flores is a troubled man. A career non-com, he feels safe in his well-ordered life. So when his precious daughter Juana joins the tuned-in, dropped-out generation, Flores breaks into little pieces ... with murder the result. The Assassins is set in the United States during the '70s, a violent time at home and abroad. It's about two specific murders, but more than that, it focuses on a murderous way of life.
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Thirty-two-year-old Jess Abbot has lost everything: her job, her apartment, and--most heart-wrenching--her eight-year-old son, Chance, to a tragic accident. Haunted by memories and grief, Jess packs what's left and heads for the small mountain town of Pine Lake, where she takes a position as caregiver to an eccentric old woman. A rumored clairvoyant, Lucy is strange but welcoming and immediately intuits Jess as a loose end in need of closure. But...
94) The hard bounce
Author
Publisher
Tyrus Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Boo Malone lost everything when he was sent to St. Gabriel's Home for Boys. There, he picked up a few key survival skills; a wee bit of an anger management problem; and his best friend for life, Junior. Now adults, Boo and Junior have a combined weight of 470 pounds (mostly Boo's), about ten grand in tattoos (mostly Junior's), and a talent for wisecracking banter. Together, they provide security for The Cellar, a Boston nightclub where the bartender...
Author
Publisher
Cinco Puntos Press, an imprint of Lee & Low Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Three runaway teenagers are chased in a road trip from the Texan frontera to New England, by a drug cartel planning to unleash chaos unto the country. Seventeen-year-old Turi escapes from his abusive family by reading. He hopes to actually escape by saving up from his work at a chicken farm near Ysleta, Texas. He believes the beautiful setting of his favorite book, Connecticut, will be the perfect home for him. So Turi sets off on the road with Arnulfo-an...
96) No more words
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Forced to choose between abortion or adoption, Olivia Carson's younger sister, Lily, runs away from home. Sixteen and pregnant, she never returns. But she writes. Once a year, Lily mails a picture of her son, Josh, to Olivia until his thirteenth year. Then it's Josh himself who arrives at Olivia's house, alone, terrified, and in possession of a notarized declaration from Lily. It begins, "In the event I go missing..." Josh has difficulty talking....
97) She's gone
Author
Publisher
Herkimer Limited
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"This is the fear she's had from the beginning, the fear every mother has, of a loss too terrible to bear. Marcia Lennox has a life most people would envy: a loving husband, Harry, a beautiful and clever daughter, Phoebe, a high-flying career, and a pristine London home. But in her third week at university, Phoebe disappears. She leaves her phone, her credit cards and all her possessions in her room. Detective Sergeant Jo Boden is new to Cambridge,...
98) Beginner's luck
Author
Series
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
"There could be no doubt left in anyone's mind that my life had all the makings of a country-and-western song." The second of seven children (with another on the way), Hallie Palmer has one dream: to make it to Vegas. Normally blessed with an uncanny gift for winning at games of chance, she's just hit a losing streak. She's been kicked out of the casino she frequents during school hours, lost all her money for a car on a bad bet at the track, and...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Charles Forsman's graphic novel debut follows James and Alyssa, two teenagers living a seemingly typical teen experience as they face the fear of coming adulthood. Forsman tells their story through each character's perspective, jumping between points of view with each chapter. But quickly, this somewhat familiar teenage experience takes a more nihilistic turn as James's character exhibits a rapidly forming sociopathy that threatens both of their...
Author
Publisher
Boom! Box
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The land of Esseriel is a darker and more dangerous place than ever, as tensions between the Human and Faerie realms build to the brink of war. Could Wynd be the only hope for peace? Danger, betrayal, and even some romance confront our heroes at every turn, while elsewhere, the Duke makes murderous plans of his own. Things seem dire, but help from an unexpected figure might just be the lifeline Wynd and Merien need... even though the final battle...
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