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2) We, the jury
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On the day before his twenty-first wedding anniversary, David Sullinger buried an ax in his wife's skull. Now, eight jurors must retire to the deliberation room and decide whether David committed premeditated murder--or whether he was a battered spouse who killed his wife in self-defense. Told from the perspective of over a dozen participants in a murder trial, We, the Jury examines how public perception can mask the ghastliest nightmares. As the...
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"Set in modern India, the unnamed narrator falls in love with a university professor and agrees to be his wife. Based on the author's own experience of marriage, soon the newly-wed experiences extreme violence at her husband's hands and finds herself socially isolated. Intellectual and physical cruelty is explored. Yet hope keeps her alive. Writing becomes her salvation, a supreme act of defiance and, as the subtitle suggests, the novel is also about...
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Three years into her arranged marriage, Tara moves from India to Atlanta to live with her husband, Sanjay. As she begins to establish herself in the American south, Sanjay becomes violent. She has no support from her family so she must choose to be a silent, battered wife for the sake of appearances or to define and liberate herself.
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Thatch novels volume 2
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"He promised to wait for her. She told him he was wasting his time. Not waiting for him ended up being the biggest mistake of her life."Molly McAdams reels you in, one heart-wrenching, nail-biting page at a time."--USA Today bestselling author K.A. Tucker"I was on the edge of my seat in this gripping, emotional page-turner. The characters come to vivid life and you will cry tears of heartbreak and joy as Molly McAdams takes you To the Stars." Tiffany...
7) Born at dawn
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"Thirty-four-year-old Cynthia Barclay knows that marriage is supposed to be for better or for worse. Unfortunately, for the last ten years of her marriage Cynthia has experienced the worst that marriage has to offer at the hands of her abusive husband Marvin Barclay. With the hope of saving herself and her family she turns to the Lord. Expecting to see God manifest himself greatly in her life sooner than later Cynthia is not content just waiting....
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"Award-winning author Heidi Chiavaroli transports readers across time and place in this time-slip novel that will appeal to fans of Little Women. Two women, one living in present day Massachusetts and another in Louisa May Alcott's Orchard House soon after the Civil War, overcome their own personal demons and search for a place to belong. 2001 Abandoned by her own family, Taylor is determined not to mess up her chance at joining the home of her best...
10) Perska miłość
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Studiująca turystykę Lidka dostaje nieoczekiwaną proposzycję wyjazdu na roczne stypendium językowe do Kuwejtu. Tam posnaje Hassana, któremu bardzo szybko wpada w oko. Aby oczarować dziewczynę, wschodni przystojniak zabiera ją w kilkudniową podróż. Potem prosi ją o rękę i obiecuje, że będzie żyła jak arabska ksieżniczka. Polka waha się, ale ostatecznie decyduje się na ślub i szybko zachodzi w ciązę. Czułe pieszczoty i...
12) Pink October
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From domestic abuse and infidelity to second chances and a "different" relationship, the members of a south suburban-based support group learn that there's a lot more life to live after battling breast cancer.
13) Sweetwater
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Sweetwater is the name of a southern town in Virginia where the story takes place. It follows the path of the Montgomery family from Sweetwater and later their move to Chicago, IL. It is a story about love, romance and betrayal, deception, spousal abuse, incest, adultery and homosexual relationships.
14) Ruin's wake
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"A moving and powerful science fiction novel with themes of love, revenge, and identity. A story about humanity, and the universal search to find salvation in the face of insurmountable odds. An old soldier in exile embarks on a desperate journey to find his dying son. A young woman trapped in an abusive marriage with a government official finds hope in an illicit love. A female scientist uncovers a mysterious technology that reveals that her world...
16) Trzecia żona
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"Marlena Durst żyje w cieniu męża. Kontroluje każdy jej ruch i podejmuje za nią decyzje - co ma na siebie włożyć, co zjeść, z kim się przyjaźnić. Jeżeli żona okaże się nieposłuszna, poniesie konsekwencje. To on trzyma całą władzę. Z zewnątrz wydaje się, że Marlenie nic lepszego w życiu nie mogło się trafić. Nikt się jednak nie zastanawia, czy po ślubie z idealnym mężczyzną jest szczęśliwa i spełniona. Marlena oddała...
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Library of America volume 290
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Seventy-five years ago Mary McCarthy provoked a scandal with her electrifying debut novel, The Company She Keeps (1942), announcing the arrival of a major new voice in American literature. A candid, thinly-veiled portrait of the late-1930s New York intellectual scene, its penetrating gaze and creative fusion of life and literature-"mutual plagiarism," she called it--became the hallmark of McCarthy's fiction, which the Library of America now presents...
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