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Loving on the Edge volume 1
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
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"With her debut erotic romance CRASH INTO YOU, Roni Loren has penned a sexy, sizzling tale that is sure to have readers begging for more!"
-Jo Davis, author of I Spy a Dark Obsession
-Jo Davis, author of I Spy a Dark Obsession
Brynn LeBreck has dedicated herself to helping women in crisis, but she never imagined how personal her work would get, or where it would take her. Her younger sister is missing, suspected to be hiding from cops and criminals alike at a
...Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"From the New York Times bestselling author of The Winter Sister comes a new work of psychological horror about a therapist who returns to the old family home after her sister drowns in its swimming pool, where she discovers that it has something sinister lurking beneath its surface"--
When social worker Jax receives nine missed calls from her older sister, she assumes that Lexie is having another series of episodes. Manic and increasingly out of...
3) Broken bonds
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Series
Cold Creek novels volume 3
Language
English
Description
"Cold Creek is a place with a dark history, especially for the Lockwoods. Now adults, the three Lockwood sisters are still recovering from the events that led to the destruction of their family when they were children. Determined to move forward, Tess and Kate are making fresh starts, ready to put bad--even deadly--memories to rest and settle happily in the small but booming town. And they're hoping their older sister, Charlene, can do the same. Char...
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English
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A novel about two sisters, the true meaning of success, and the qualities in life that matter most. It's an otherwise ordinary Monday when Meghan Fitzmaurice's perfect life hits a wall. A household name as the host of the country's highest-rated morning talk show, Meghan cuts to a commercial break--but not before she mutters two forbidden words into her open mike. In an instant, it's the end of an era, not only for Meghan, who is unaccustomed to dealing...
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Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
After her mother is murdered trying to protect her, young Sarah Baxter ends up in the care of an unlikely hero; a new and inexperienced social worker with problems of her own. Yet when Christine Rose discovers something very special about Sarah, she also learns a terrifying secret that few would ever dream possible. But it's more than just possible, it's imminent. For over a century, in countries around the globe, a dark and meticulous plan has been...
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English
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"If not you, who? If not now, when? This was the challenge answered by Stephen Foreman and his wife, Emily, when they traded in their American white picket fence for a giant, dusty sandbox as missionaries in the deserts of North Africa. Stephen had given Emily a well-read copy of Foxe's Book of Martyrs on their first date, a telling foreshadowing of the ultimate cost he would pay when, at 39, he was shot and killed by al-Qaeda operatives. His life...
7) Stone pillow
Publisher
KOCH Vision
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
The great Lucille Ball plays an elderly bag lady struggling to survive on the streets of New York City. When approached by a young social worker, both women discover a new perspective on their lives.
8) Case 39
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Emily, a social worker, is assigned to the unusual and disturbing case of ten-year-old Lilith Sullivan, a girl with a strange and mysterious past. When Emily opens her home in an attempt to help Lilith, it turns into a deadly nightmare she may not survive.
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English
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"The Bronx. It's America at its most vibrant and chaotic; it's also where one foster care caseworker-a would-be white savior from New England, a twentysomething kid prematurely jaded by the system--takes it upon himself to reunify a troubled birthmother with her children, against the recommendation of his world-weary but wise Hispanic boss. (Nevermind the fact that the mother in question just might have a crush on him--either that, or she's running...
10) Little mercies
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Language
English
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Veteran social worker Ellen Moore is a fiercely dedicated children's advocate and a devoted mother and wife. But one blistering summer day, a simple moment of distraction will have repercussions that Ellen could never have imagined, threatening to shatter everything she holds dear, and trapping her between the gears of the system she works for. Meanwhile, ten-year-old Jenny Briard suddenly finds herself on her own, forced to survive with nothing but...
11) Sea swept
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Series
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
℗1997
Language
English
Description
After years of independence, champion boat racer Cameron Quinn is called home by his dying father to care for his troubled young brother Seth. While he struggles with cooking, cleaning, and caring for a difficult boy, old rivalries and new resentments flare between Cameron and his brothers.
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Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A magical island. A dangerous task. A burning secret. Linus Baker leads a quiet, solitary life. At forty, he lives in a tiny house with a devious cat and his old records. As a Case Worker at the Department in Charge Of Magical Youth, he spends his days overseeing the well-being of children in government-sanctioned orphanages. When Linus is unexpectedly summoned by Extremely Upper Management he's given a curious and highly classified assignment: travel...
13) Caught
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Language
English
Description
Dan Mercer stands accused of being a sexual predator thanks to the ambush journalism of Wendy Tynes, a tabloid TV reporter, who must cope with her husband's death caused by a drunken driver as well as reckon with the possibility of Mercer's innocence. When Tynes finds a link between a father of one of Mercer's alleged victims and others felled by scandal, she could become a killer's next victim.
14) Dangerous Jane
Author
Publisher
Peachtree
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Describes the life and accomplishments of the founder of Hull House, a settlement house in Chicago, where she provided aid to immigrant families and whose legacy is still evident today.
15) Next to die
Author
Publisher
Bookouture
Pub. Date
©2018
Language
English
Description
"When a social worker is brutally murdered, Detectives Mike Nelson and Lena Overton are straight on the scene ... It's Lake Haven's first murder in eighteen years, and the community is terrified-- especially Bobbi, who was not only supposed to be on duty that night, but also has the same long dark hair as [her colleague] Harriet and drives the same blue car. Now Bobbi lives in constant fear that the murderer will be back for her"--Back cover.
Author
Publisher
Oasis Audio
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Early one morning, just down the street from the local mosque, gunshots shattered the silence. A young American lay in a pool of blood, murdered by al-Qaeda extremists. When God called Emily and Stephen Foreman to bring the gospel to a Muslim nation where Christianity was illegal, they knew they were being called to a life of sacrifice. 'We died before we came here' was their common refrain. Emily, left with four children and an undying calling to...
17) A brush of wings
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Series
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English
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From #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury comes the third and final novel in an unforgettable series about four friends and the divine intervention that changes their lives forever.
Against the advice of her doctor, Mary Catherine moves to Uganda to work at a new orphanage. Whatever time she has left, Mary Catherine wants to spend it helping children—especially since she is unable to have children of her own....
Against the advice of her doctor, Mary Catherine moves to Uganda to work at a new orphanage. Whatever time she has left, Mary Catherine wants to spend it helping children—especially since she is unable to have children of her own....
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English
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"Before Dracula, before Nosferatu, there was--CARMILLA. At the height of the Lunar New Year in 1990s New York City, an idealistic social worker turns detective when she discovers young, homeless LGBTQ+ women are being murdered and no one, especially the police, seems to care. A series of clues points her to Carmilla's, a mysterious nightclub in the heart of her neighborhood, Chinatown. There she falls for the next likely target, landing her at the...
Publisher
Hallmark Hall of Fame Productions
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
As a social worker, Irena had access to the Warsaw Ghetto, making it possible for her to rescue the daughter of a Jewish friend and safely hide the young girl with a Catholic family. Realizing that thousands of children were still in danger, Irena recruited sympathetic friends and co-workers to smuggle children out and place them in safe homes, farms and convents. At great personal risk, she devised extraordinary schemes to sneak the children by Nazi...
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