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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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 30
Language
English
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A family of six disintegrates after a daughter is raped by a high-school student. It happens to the wealthy Mulvaneys in upstate New York. The disgrace--there is some question if it was rape--sends the father to drink and financial ruin, the girl leaves home, the others follow. By the author of What I Lived For.
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
Publisher
Harmony Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
An Olympic hopeful recounts her journey of healing and empowerment after a rape attack in 2009, describing the media frenzy that surrounded her trial; her advocacy for fellow survivors; and the mental, spiritual, and physical exercises that enabled her recovery.
5) M.F.A
Publisher
Dark Sky Films
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
After she is brutally assaulted, a fine arts student finds her calling as a vigilante seeking justice for other rape victims.
Author
Series
Christchurch novels volume 8
Publisher
Atria Paperback
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Investigating a string of murders targeting convicted rapists, Detective Tate struggles with public opinions while Schroeder embarks on a vigilante goal triggered by the injury-related loss of his emotions.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
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
The Dial Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"In this dazzling debut, Emilie Pine speaks to the events that have marked her life--those emotional disruptions for which our society has no adequate language, at once bittersweet, clandestine, and ordinary. She writes with radical honesty on the unspeakable grief of infertility, on caring for an alcoholic parent, on taboos around female bodies and female pain, on sexual violence and violence against the self. This is the story of one woman, and...
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Series
Publisher
Truth to Power, an imprint of Steerforth Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Presents the memoir of a courageous young woman whose public accusation of rape against the deposed president of Gambia sparked an outpouring of support on social media from other survivors of sexual violence in West Africa.
11) Disobedient
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"A riveting novel based on the life of Artemisia Gentileschi—the greatest female painter of the Renaissance—as she forges her own destiny in a world dominated by the will of men. This is the ring that you gave me, and these are your promises. A young woman is put on trial. She has accused her painting teacher of the darkest betrayal - he accuses her of being an immoral liar. What really happened, and why will this trial scandalise seventeenth-century...
12) Deliverance
Author
Publisher
Dell Pub. Co
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
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Description
“You're hooked, you feel every cut, grope up every cliff, swallow water with every spill of the canoe, sweat with every draw of the bowstring. Wholly absorbing [and] dramatic.”Harper's Magazine The setting is the Georgia wilderness, where the states most remote white-water river awaits. In the thundering froth of that river, in its echoing stone canyons, four men on a canoe trip discover a freedom and exhilaration beyond compare. And then, in...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"During a terrible heat wave in 1991--the worst in a decade--ten-year-old Anton has been locked in an apartment in the projects, alone, for seven days, without air conditioning or a fan. With no electricity, the refrigerator and lights do not work. Hot, hungry, and desperate, Anton shatters a window and climbs out. Cutting his leg on the broken glass, he is covered in blood when the police find him. Juanita, his mother, is discovered in a crack house...
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