Laci

To grow up in the 1950s was to enter a world of polarized national alliances, nuclear threat, and destabilized social hierarchies. To be a privileged white girl in conservative, segregated Virginia was to be expected to adopt a willful blindness to the inequities of race and the constraints of gender. For young Drew Gilpin Faust, the acceptance of both female subordination and racial privilege proved intolerable and galvanizing. Urged to become “well adjusted" and to fill the role of a poised young lady that her upbringing imposed, she found resistance was the necessary price of survival.

He says he loves you. So...why does he do that? You've asked yourself this question again and again. Now you have the chance to see inside the minds of angry and controlling men---and to change your life. In this groundbreaking book, a counselor who specializes in working with abusive men shows you how to improve, survive, or leave an abusive relationship.

In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis' parents and load him into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there's no window. And outside his door are other doors, behind which are other kids with special talents - telekinesis and telepathy - who got to this place the same way Luke did: Kalisha, Nick, George, Iris, and 10-year-old Avery Dixon.

When Will moves his family to Meadow, Texas, it seems like the perfect idea. It's supposed to be a newer - and bigger - home, in which they could continue to build more happy memories. Except, as the house's past begins to haunt them, they realize it's not the dream they first hoped it to be. From the imagination of L.A. Maldonado, comes a spellbinding story of a house, with demonic visions of the dead and relentless screams of terror. This novel is a haunted house story that will keep you at the edge of your seat. After all, there's no place like home.

When a single mother and her two daughters mysteriously come into possession of a haunted antique doll, they could never imagine how their lives will deteriorate into a terrifying maelstrom of extreme horror, blood, and gore.