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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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One evening, eight Mennonite women climb into a hay loft to conduct a secret meeting. For the past two years, each of these women, and more than a hundred other girls in their colony, has been repeatedly violated in the night by demons coming to punish them for their sins. Now that the women have learned they were in fact drugged and attacked by a group of men from their own community, they are determined to protect themselves and their daughters...
Author
Series
To kill a mockingbird volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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The explosion of racial hate in an Alabama town is viewed by a little girl whose father defends a black man accused of rape.
"One of the most cherished stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than forty million copies worldwide, served as the basis for an enormously popular motion picture, and was voted one of the best novels of the twentieth century by librarians across the country....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Art & Artist Fiction
Art & Artists in Teen Fiction
Historical Fiction Featuring Young Women & Girls
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Art & Artists in Teen Fiction
Historical Fiction Featuring Young Women & Girls
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"When I finished this novel, I knew I would be haunted and empowered by Artemisia Gentileschi's story for the rest of my life." --Amanda Lovelace, award-winning author of the princess saves herself in this one. Her mother died when she was twelve, and suddenly Artemisia Gentileschi had a stark choice: a life as a nun in a convent or a life grinding pigment for her father's paint. She chose paint. By the time she was seventeen, Artemisia did more than...
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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While trying to pinpoint the root of her dissatisfaction with her life, Daisy Shoemaker begins receiving misdirected emails meant for another woman and starts living vicariously through her until she discovers that their connection was not completely accidental.
5) The Violated
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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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In Echo Park, in the small town of Santa Rita, California, the mutilated body of Martin Torrey is found by two passersby. A registered sex offender, Torrey has been a suspect in a string of recent rapes, and instant suspicion for his murder falls on the relatives and friends of the women attacked. Police chief Griffin Kells and detective Robert Ortiz are under increasing pressure from the public and from a mayor demanding results in a case that has...
Publisher
ro*co Films Educational
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
An exposé of rape crimes on U.S. college campuses, their institutional cover-ups, and the devastating toll they take on students and their families. Weaving together verité footage and first-person testimonies, the films follows survivors as they pursue their education while fighting for justice--despite harsh retaliation, harassment and pushback at every level.
Author
Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
A scientist and expert on terrorism and post-traumatic stress disorder describes her own journey through trauma and its lingering effects after repressing and disassociating her own ordeal as the victim of an unsolved sexual assault as a teenager.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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A poetic memoir and urgent call-to-action by the award-winning author of Speak blends free-verse reflections with deeply personal stories from her life to rally today's young people to stand up and fight the abuses, censorship and hatred of today's world. Simultaneous eBook.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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Magic passed down through generations. An island where strange things happen. One summer that will become legend. Practical Magic meets Nova Ren Sumas Imaginary Girls and Laura Rubys Bone Gap in this lush, atmospheric novel by acclaimed author Katrina Leno. Georgina Fernweh waits impatiently for the tingle of magic in her fingersmagic that has touched every woman in her family. But with her eighteenth birthday looming at the end of this summer, Georgina...
10) Women talking
Publisher
Orion Releasing LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Do nothing. Stay and fight. Or leave. In 2010, the women of an isolated religious community grapple with reconciling a brutal reality with their faith.
Publisher
Delta Entertainment Corp
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
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Blackmail: A young woman kills an artist who attempts to rape her. Her Scotland Yard detective boyfriend soon learns the killers identity, but so has someone else. During production of this silent feature, Hitchcock added dialog with the advent of talking pictures in America, making this England's first talkie.
Easy virtue: After divorcing an abusive husband, an innocent woman makes a valiant effort at beginning her life anew, but she cannot escape...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
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Description
Prolific author Stephen King presents a collection of four new novellas. In the story 1922, a man plunges into the depths of madness when his wife attempts to sell off the family home. A mystery writer, who was beaten and raped while driving home from her book club, plots her revenge in Big Driver. Diagnosed with a deadly cancer, a man makes a deal with the devil in Fair Extension. And in A Good Marriage, a woman discovers her husband's darker side...
Author
Publisher
Tiny Reparations Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
"An extraordinary and unforgettable short story collection about community, home, betrayal, and forgiveness—from a writer whose “spellbinding, buoyant”* storytelling will break your heart as it tends to the wounds. *Texas Monthly In Holler, Child’s eleven brilliant stories, LaToya Watkins presses at the bruises of guilt, love, and circumstance. Each story introduces us to a character irrevocably shaped by place and reaching toward something—hope,...
14) Echoes of Grace
Author
Publisher
Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Incorporated
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Description
In Eagle Pass, Texas, Grace struggles to understand the echoes she inherited from her mother--visions which often distort her reality. One morning, as her sister, Mercy, rushes off to work, a disturbing echo takes hold of Grace, and within moments, tragedy strikes. Attending community college for the first time, talking to the boy next door, and working toward her goals all help Grace recover, but her estrangement from Mercy takes a deep toll. And...
Publisher
New Video Group
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
A groundbreaking investigative documentary about the epidemic of rape within the U.S. military. Follows the stories of several idealistic young servicewomen who were raped and then betrayed by their own officers when they courageously came forward to report.
Author
Series
Field party novels volume 3
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
After being away for two years, Riley Young returns to Lawton, Alabama, with her fifteen-month-old daughter to help take care of her grandmother who has Alzheimers, even though it means she has to face the lies that forced her to leave town in the first place and a blossoming friendship with the high school football star Brady Higgens, who is dealing with his own family problems.
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