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Series
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
After a tragic accident leaves them fatherless, four children return to their mother's mysterious family mansion hoping for an inheritance. But when they are imprisoned and abandoned by their evil grandmother, the children must survive a nightmare of brutal cruelty, forbidden passion, and a final shocking discovery that will shatter their innocence forever.
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Anonymous memoir of a daughter's abuse by, and attachment to, her father"--
A memoir by a woman who was sexually assaulted by her father explores how incest has formed her psychological conditioning, impacted her sexuality, and continues to complicate her adult perspectives and relationships.
4) Outer dark
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
This stark novel is set in an unspecified place in Appalachia, sometime around the turn of the century. A woman bears her brother's child, a boy; he leaves the baby in the woods and tells her he died of natural causes. Discovering her brother's lie, she sets forth alone to find her son. Both brother and sister wander separately through a countryside being scourged by three terrifying and elusive strangers, headlong toward an eerie, apocalyptic resolution....
Author
Publisher
AmazonCrossing
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"A haunting and hopeful tale of discovering light in even the darkest of places. For his whole life, the boy has lived underground, in a basement with his parents, grandmother, sister, and brother. Before he was born, his family was disfigured by a fire. His sister wears a white mask to cover her burns. He spends his hours with his cactus, reading his book on insects, or touching the one ray of sunlight that filters in through a crack in the ceiling....
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Josef Fritzl was a 73-year-old retired engineer in Austria. He seemed to be living a normal life with his wife, Rosemarie, and their family-though one daughter, Elisabeth, had decades earlier been 'lost' to a religious cult. Throughout the years, three of Elisabeth's children mysteriously appeared on the Fritzls' doorstep; Josef and Rosemarie raised them as their own. But only Josef knew the truth about Elisabeth's disappearance . . .For twenty-seven...
7) Chinatown
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Private eye Jake Gittes, living off the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-war Southern California is hired by a beautiful socialite to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair. Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double dealings and deadly deceits, uncovering a web of personal and political scandals that come crashing together for one, unforgettable night in Chinatown.
8) Regression
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Minnesota, 1990. Detective Bruce Kenner investigates the case of young Angela, who accuses her father, John Gray, of an unspeakable crime. When John unexpectedly and without recollection admits guilt, renowned psychologist Dr. Raines is brought in to help him relive his memories and what they discover unmasks a horrifying nationwide mystery.
Author
Series
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Fern and her mother have lived as servants in Wyndemere House, the old Gothic mansion of the Davenport family, for as long as she can remember, and her friendship with Dr. Davenport's son Ryder was never a problem . . . until they came of age. An intimate encounter following a high school prom brings the pair near-tragic consequences, and the forces of fate, arrogance, and class prejudice gather to crush their warm relationship. Still, the real threat...
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Contains "Flowers in the Attic" in which four children are locked into the attic of their grandmother's home after the death of their father, and "Petals on the Wind" in which Cathy discovers that she has the power to revenge those childhood years locked in an attic with her brothers and sister.
13) Push: a novel
Author
Publisher
Vintage Contemporaries/Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Relentless, remorseless, and inspirational, this "horrific, hope-filled story" ("Newsday") is certain to haunt a generation of readers. Precious Jones, 16 years old and pregnant by her father with her second child, meets a determined and highly radical teacher who takes her on a journey of transformation and redemption.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1162
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Swedish
Description
Loving couples: In 1915, three pregnant women form varying social backgrounds enter a maternity ward. Cue a swirl of presective-shifting flashbacks that, with searing psychological insight, illuminate the divergent yet interconnected experiences that brought them there
Night games: Jan returns with his fiancé to his childhood home. While there he flashes back to his childhood, twenty years before when he lived an unfettered life watched over by...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1987, obese, illiterate, black 16-year-old Claireece 'Precious' Jones lives in Harlem with her dysfunctional family. She has been raped and impregnated twice by her father, Carl. She suffers constant physical, mental and sexual abuse from her unemployed mother, Mary. After getting pregnant for the second time, Precious is suspended from her school. Her principal arranges to have her attend an alternative school where her new teacher, Ms. Rain,...
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