Product Description: Competitive, cocky Mitchell Adams is a Ph.D. social worker in St. Louis who has it all-intelligence, good looks, a thriving private practice and a beautiful girlfriend-until his highly ordered world is suddenly turned inside out by her brutal murder...read more

Product Description: Maddy is a social worker trying to balance her career and three children. Years ago, she fell in love with Ben, a public defender, drawn to his fiery passion, but now he's lashing out at her during his periodic verbal furies. She vacillates between tiptoeing around him and asserting herself for the sake of their kids - which works to keep a fragile peace - until the rainy day when they're together in the car and Ben's volatile temper gets the best of him, leaving Maddy in the hospital fighting for her life...read more

Product Description: A child advocate and a mercenary must work together to overcome their past losses and save both of their lives and hearts.Lelia Freeman created a life for herself after growing up homeless on the streets of Los Angeles. When the horror has passed, Lelia vows to make a better life...read more

Dans le Montana, en 1980. Autour de Pete, assistant social dévoué, gravite tout un monde d'écorchés vifs et d'âmes déséquilibrées. Il y a Beth, son ex infidèle et alcoolique, Rachel, leur fille de treize ans, en fugue dans les bas-fonds de Tacoma, Luke, son frère, recherché par la police. Et puis il y a Cecil l'adolescent violent et sa mère droguée et hystérique, et ce jeune Benjamin, qui vit dans les bois environnants, avec son père, Jeremiah Pearl, un illuminé persuadé que l'apocalypse est proche, que la civilisation n'est que perversion et que le salut réside dans la survie et l'anarchie. Pearl qui s'est exclu de la société, peut-être par paranoïa, peut-être aussi pour cacher qu'il aurait tué son épouse et leurs cinq enfants. Au milieu de cette cour des miracles, Pete pourrait être l'ange rédempteur, s'il n'était pas lui-même complètement perdu...

Product Description: The last person social worker Mitch Adams wants to hear from is St. Louis Homicide Detective JoJo Baker, a man with whom Mitch shares a tangled past. Baker wants Mitch to counsel Lonnie Washington, a disabled African-American arrested for counterfeiting and armed robbery...read more

Product Description: In this shattering and iconic American novel, PEN Prize-winning writer Smith Henderson explores the complexities of freedom, community, grace, suspicion, and anarchy, brilliantly depicting our nation's disquieting and violent contradictions...read more

Product Description: "Zbinden invites comparison with Leo Tolstoy's Ivan Ilych."—Alexander Starritt, The Times Literary SupplementLukas Zbinden leans on the arm of his carer in an old people's home. Step by step, the devoted walker recounts his life with his late wife and his son...read more

Potent sex appeal, smarts, irresistible charm...the patient assigned to social worker Lexi Brennan's care had everything--except any idea who he was! With no ID and no memory after an avalanche hit his ski slope, John Doe was forced to stay in town to recuperate. And Lexi, who once believed she was better-off single, was suddenly having second thoughts.The instant Lexi entered his hospital room, John Doe--a.k.a. Dallas attorney Nick Delacorte--was drawn to her wit and warmth. But what if the memory he was trying to recover proved he had other ties? His heart had made room for Lexi and her adorable little girl. Now all he wanted was to make a place for them in his life!

Product Description: Sometimes the last thing you want is exactly what you need...BATTLE SCARREDSix years after trading in his combat gear for hospital scrubs, Luke Rafferty still hasn't found what he's been searching for: a normal life. At his job, Luke is faced with things just as heartbreaking as those on the battlefield, none more so than the abused children brought in by a pretty red-headed social worker...read more

Product Description: Getting paid to be hit is one thing. Getting killed is something else. Duffy Dombrowski is an upstate New York social worker ― and professional sparring partner. He’s just accepted a dream job: chief sparring partner for Russian heavyweight contender Boris Rusakov ― in Las Vegas! In Sin City with his obstinate basset hound and four buddies, however, Duffy learns that Vegas ― and Boris ― have a dark side, and before he knows it, his trip turns into a nightmare...read more

Product Description: Duffy Dombrowski just accepted a dream job: chief sparring partner for Russian heavyweight contender Boris Rusakov in Vegas. His obstinate basset hound, Al, and a few friends join Duffy for the ride—but before Duffy knows it, his trip turns into a nightmare...read more

Product Description: Suddenly they?re in charge of testing a "robo baby " designed to show teens how hard parenting really is. Will playing house lead to the real thing? As both a social worker and an unwanted child, Mandy really wanted the robo-baby program to have a chance in Carson High...read more

Product Description: In this taut romantic suspense, a woman who has devoted her life to protecting children now needs protecting herself.

Product Description: Susan Koefod's debut novel was declared a "smashing debut" by Library Journal and a finalist in the Midwest Book Awards. In WASHED UP, a shocking discovery on the banks of the Mississippi River forever changes 11 year-old Abatha Cox and Somerset Hills, the small Minnesota community she calls home...read more

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