The Resource Before we were strangers, Brenda Novak
Before we were strangers, Brenda Novak
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The item Before we were strangers, Brenda Novak represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Brazil Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
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- Summary
- Something happened to her mother that night. Something no one wants to talk about. But she’s determined to uncover her family’s dark secrets, even if they bury her. Five-year-old Sloane McBride couldn’t sleep that night. Her parents were arguing again, their harsh words heating the cool autumn air. And then there was that other sound—the ominous thump before all went quiet. In the morning, her mother was gone. The official story was that she left. Her loving, devoted mother! That hadn’t sat any better at the time than it did when Sloane moved out at eighteen, anxious to leave her small Texas hometown in search of anywhere else. But not even a fresh start working as a model in New York could keep the nightmares at bay. Or her fears that the domineering father she grew up with wasn’t just difficult—he was deadly. Now another traumatic loss forces Sloane to realize she owes it to her mother to find out the truth, even if it means returning to a small town full of secrets and lies, a jilted ex-boyfriend, and a father and brother who’d rather see her silenced. But as Sloane starts digging into the past, the question isn’t whether she can uncover what really happened that night...it’s what will remain of her family if she does?
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 394 pages
- Note
- Includes discussion questions
- Isbn
- 9780778369943
- Label
- Before we were strangers
- Title
- Before we were strangers
- Statement of responsibility
- Brenda Novak
- Subject
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- trueFamilies
- trueFamily secrets
- Family secrets -- Fiction
- Family violence -- Fiction
- trueHomecomings
- trueHometowns
- Motherless families -- Fiction
- trueMothers
- Psychological fiction
- trueSuspicion
- trueTexas
- Texas -- Fiction
- Thrillers (Fiction)
- trueThrillers and suspense
- trueSmall town life
- Abused wives -- Fiction
- Dysfunctional families -- Fiction
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Something happened to her mother that night. Something no one wants to talk about. But she’s determined to uncover her family’s dark secrets, even if they bury her. Five-year-old Sloane McBride couldn’t sleep that night. Her parents were arguing again, their harsh words heating the cool autumn air. And then there was that other sound—the ominous thump before all went quiet. In the morning, her mother was gone. The official story was that she left. Her loving, devoted mother! That hadn’t sat any better at the time than it did when Sloane moved out at eighteen, anxious to leave her small Texas hometown in search of anywhere else. But not even a fresh start working as a model in New York could keep the nightmares at bay. Or her fears that the domineering father she grew up with wasn’t just difficult—he was deadly. Now another traumatic loss forces Sloane to realize she owes it to her mother to find out the truth, even if it means returning to a small town full of secrets and lies, a jilted ex-boyfriend, and a father and brother who’d rather see her silenced. But as Sloane starts digging into the past, the question isn’t whether she can uncover what really happened that night...it’s what will remain of her family if she does?
- Summary
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- A woman reeling from a traumatic loss returns to her childhood hometown to uncover the truth about her mother's mysterious disappearance years earlier, a mystery that is complicated by community secrets and questions about her father's innocence
- Sloane McBride searches for answers to what really happened to her mother who disappeared when she was five years old.
- Sloane McBride searches for answers to what really happened to her mother who disappeared when she was five years old.
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10745352
- Cataloging source
- TnLvILS
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Novak, Brenda
- Dewey number
- 813
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Motherless families
- Family secrets
- Dysfunctional families
- Family violence
- Abused wives
- Texas
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Before we were strangers, Brenda Novak
- Note
- Includes discussion questions
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 21647844
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Extent
- 394 pages
- Isbn
- 9780778369943
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Label
- Before we were strangers, Brenda Novak
- Note
- Includes discussion questions
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 21647844
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Extent
- 394 pages
- Isbn
- 9780778369943
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
Subject
- trueFamilies
- trueFamily secrets
- Family secrets -- Fiction
- Family violence -- Fiction
- trueHomecomings
- trueHometowns
- Motherless families -- Fiction
- trueMothers
- Psychological fiction
- trueSuspicion
- trueTexas
- Texas -- Fiction
- Thrillers (Fiction)
- trueThrillers and suspense
- trueSmall town life
- Abused wives -- Fiction
- Dysfunctional families -- Fiction
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