Books Collection

HE'S CLOSING IN: When love turns into fear, escape becomes survival What happens when the man who once made a vow to protect you becomes the one you dread the most?In  HE'S CLOSING IN , a thrilling, gripping and emotional memoir of survival, Sloane shares the harrowing true story of how she broke free from a dangerously abusive marriage. What started as love, quickly descended into a nightmare of psychological abuse, control, and fear — until she found the strength to fight back.Told with raw honesty and heart-pounding intensity, this abusive relationship memoir transports readers inside the head of a woman trapped in a web of manipulation, emotional anguish, and continuous danger. As the threat escalates and her husband becomes more erratic, escape isn't just an option — it's a matter of survival.This isn’t just a true story of escaping abuse — it’s a story of reclaiming power. It’s about courage, resilience, and the will power to survive when the odd...

A debut novel of family, fame, and religion that tells the emotionally stirring, wildly captivating story of the seventeen-year-old daughter of an evangelical preacher, star of the family's hit reality show, and the secret pregnancy that threatens to blow their entire world apart. Esther Ann Hicks—Essie—is the youngest child on Six for Hicks, a reality television phenomenon. She's grown up in the spotlight, both idolized and despised for her family's fire-and-brimstone brand of faith. When Essie's mother, Celia, discovers that Essie is pregnant, she arranges an emergency meeting with the show's producers: Do they sneak Essie out of the country for an abortion? Do they pass the child off as Celia's? Or do they try to arrange a marriage—and a ratings-blockbuster wedding? Meanwhile, Essie is quietly pairing herself up with Roarke Richards, a senior at her school with a secret of his own to protect. As the newly formed couple attempt to sell their fabr...

Once in a great while, we encounter a novel in our voluminous reading that begs to be read aloud. Leif Enger's debut, Peace Like a River , is one such work. His richly evocative novel, narrated by an asthmatic 11-year-old named Reuben Land, is the story of Reuben's unusual family and their journey across the frozen Badlands of the Dakotas in search of his fugitive older brother. Charged with the murder of two locals who terrorized their family, Davy has fled, understanding that the scales of justice will not weigh in his favor. But Reuben, his father, Jeremiah—a man of faith so deep he has been known to produce miracles—and Reuben's little sister, Swede, follow closely behind the fleeing Davy. Affecting and dynamic, Peace Like a River is at once a tragedy, a romance, and an unflagging exploration into the spirituality and magic possible in the everyday world, and in that of the world awaiting us on the other side of life. In Enger's superb debut effort, we ...