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1) Lola Rose
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A family run away to London to get away from an abusive husband and father, but find that their new life is not any easier when the mother is diagnosed with breast cancer.
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Bolinda/Audible audio
Pub. Date
2016
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Experimental psychologist Jim Marchuk has developed a flawless technique for identifying the previously undetected psychopaths lurking everywhere in society. But while being cross-examined about his breakthrough in court, Jim is shocked to discover that he has lost his memories of six months of his life from twenty years previously - a dark time during which he himself committed heinous acts. Jim is reunited with Kayla Huron, his forgotten girlfriend...
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The Bodley Head
Pub. Date
2014
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Countering the atheist claim that believers are by default violent fanatics and religion is the cause of all major wars, Karen Armstrong demonstrates that religious faith is not inherently violent. In fact, the world's major religions have throughout their history displayed ambivalent attitudes towards aggression and warfare. At times they have allied themselves with states and empires for protection or to further their influence; at others they have...
7) Aftermath
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Atom
Pub. Date
2018
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Two teens whose lives were changed by a school shooting meet for the first time since the incident and begin to uncover the real truth behind the tragedy.
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Hodder
Pub. Date
2016
Description
In this powerful and timely book, Jonathan Sacks tackles the thorny issue of violence committed in the name of God - and draws on arguments from science, philosophy, and many other disciplines to show how religion, rightly understood, is hardwired to be part of the solution, not just the problem.
9) Don't tell
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Chicago volume 1
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Having suffered at the hands of her abusive husband long enough, Mary Grace Winters concocts a risky survival plan. She drives her car into a lake to fake her and her son's death, changes their names, and relocates to a small university town far away.
10) Treacle Town
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Andersen Pr
Pub. Date
2023
Description
A young man stuck in a town with no prospects and beset with violence is offered an escape through poetry.
12) Young women
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Manilla Press
Pub. Date
2022
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When Emily meets the enigmatic and dazzling actress Tamsin, her life changes. Drawn into Tamsin's world of Soho living, boozy dinners, and cocktails at impossibly expensive bars, Emily's life shifts from black and white to technicolour and the two women become inseparable. Tamsin is the friend Emily has always longed for; beautiful, fun, intelligent and mysterious and soon Emily is neglecting her previous life - her work assisting vulnerable women,...
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Sheldon Press
Pub. Date
2022
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One Saturday morning, Beverly Gooden is woken by her husband shoving her off the bed. She makes to flee, but he catches her, his sudden anger inexplicable. No words are exchanged. He begins to strangle her - as he has done many times before. With unflinching vulnerability, Gooden outlines in painstaking detail what she had to do to walk away from violence and control, and how others can use her experiences to escape their own abuse, from skimming...
14) Vengeance
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Canelo
Pub. Date
2022
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On a beautiful summer afternoon, Stacey Sullivan is getting married to Mark James. But then screams smother the laughter, police sirens drown out the church bells. Out of nowhere, a drug-fuelled gunman opens fire on the wedding party. The shooter is beaten, disarmed and detained by the guests. No one knows who the gunman is - or if they do, they're not admitting it. The job of solving the two murders is laid solely at the feet of DI Charley Mann....
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Sphere
Pub. Date
2023
Description
The home is the place where murder most commonly occurs. In England and Wales, each year on average 75% of female murder victims and 39% of murdered men are killed at home. This title explores the tragic prevalence of domestic murder and how, for so many victims, their own home is the place they are most in danger.
17) Endgame
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Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2021
Description
Tobey and Callie Rose have to work together to try and clear Tobey's name and find their kidnapped brother and daughter.
18) It ends with us
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Series
It Ends With Us volume 1
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Lily has come a long way from the small town in Maine where she grew up. She graduated from college, moved to Boston, and started her own business. So when she feels a spark with a gorgeous neurosurgeon named Ryle Kincaid everything in Lily's life suddenly seems almost too good to be true. Ryle is assertive, stubborn, and maybe even a little arrogant. He's also sensitive, brilliant and has a total soft spot for Lily. Lily can't get him out of her...
19) Chinglish
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Andersen Pr
Pub. Date
2019
Description
Thirteen-year-old Jo tries to juggle life in a family that is half Chinese, half English, running a takeaway in Coventry.
20) The broken man
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Sometimes a damaged child becomes a broken man... It's 1952 and Adam Carter is seven years old, an only child with no friends or any self-confidence. His father Edward is a bully of a man: a successful and ruthless businessman, he breeds fear in the hearts of his family. Adam's mother Peggy is too cowed to protect her son, so his only support comes in the shape of Phil Wallis, the school bus driver. One particular afternoon, when Adam is his last...