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22) The monitor
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After escaping an abusive husband, Anna and her 8-year-old son move to a secret location in a giant apartment building. Terrified that her ex-husband will find them, she buys a baby monitor to keep in her son's room at all times. But strange noises echo in the baby monitor from elsewhere in the building. As she witnesses the sounds of what she believes is another child being murdered, she fears it is her own.
23) Perska miłość
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Polish
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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...
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Torn by years in an abusive marriage, an emotional Ellie Rose arrives alone at the family cabin along a broken East US coastline. Her story and motives for being there are unclear. Arriving unprepared and packed with few supplies she seems anxious at either leaving or someone else arriving. The cabin unused for years, still holds memories providing hints of a shattered family.
28) Trzecia żona
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Polish
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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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""Every woman who is struggling to understand the mistreatment she is experiencing in her relationship should begin by reading [this] wonderful book."--Lundy Bancroft, author of Why Does He Do That? What do you do when the one you love lets you down? If you are wondering about whether you are experiencing abuse from a partner or unsure if your damaged relationship can be fixed, finding answers can seem daunting--or even impossible. When Love Hurts...
31) 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.
32) 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.
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"David Clarke, a psychologist specializing in marital therapy, wants to help you find refuge from your abusive relationship. You need to get out so you can sort it out. Because only with some distance will you be able to see what your loving, ever-faithful God has in store for you"--
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In Marital Cruelty in Antebellum America, Robin C. Sager probes the struggles of aggrieved spouses, shedding light on the nature of marriage and violence in the United States in the decades prior to the Civil War. Analyzing more than 1,500 divorce records that reveal intimate details of marriages in conflict in Virgina, Texas, and Wisconsin from 1840 to 1860, Sager offers a rare glimpse into the private lives of ordinary Americans shaken by accusations...
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Library of America volume 290
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English
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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...