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2000. Bright, ambitious, and yearning for adulthood, fifteen-year-old Vanessa Wye becomes entangled in an affair with Jacob Strane, her magnetic and guileful forty-two-year-old English teacher. 2017. Amid the rising wave of allegations against powerful men, a reckoning is coming due. Strane has been accused of sexual abuse by a former student, who reaches out to Vanessa, and now Vanessa suddenly finds herself facing an impossible choice: remain silent,...
3) Victim six
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The bodies are found in towns and cities around Puget Sound. The young women who are the victims had nothing in common. But a depraved killer has carefully chose them to stalk, capture, and torture. A killer whose cunning is matched only by the depth of his bloodlust.
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"Leigh Collier has worked hard to build what looks like a normal life. She has a good job as a defense attorney, a daughter doing well in school, and even her divorce is relatively civilized-her life is just as unremarkable as she'd always hoped it would be. But Leigh's ordinary life masks a childhood which was far from average ... a childhood tarnished by secrets, broken by betrayal, and finally torn apart by a devastating act of violence. Then...
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2022.
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"Part memoir and part literary true crime, Tell Me Everything is the mesmerizing story of a landmark sexual assault investigation and the female private investigator who helped crack it open. Erika Krouse has one of those faces. "I don't know why I'm telling you this," people say, spilling confessions. In fall 2002, Erika accepts a new contract job investigating lawsuits as a private investigator. The role seems perfect for her, but she quickly realizes...
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Naomi Bowes lost her innocence the night she followed her father into the woods. In freeing the girl trapped in the root cellar, Naomi revealed the horrible extent of her father's crimes and made him infamous. Now a successful photographer living under the name Naomi Carson, she has found a place that calls to her, thousands of miles away from everything she's ever known. Naomi wants to embrace the solitude, but the residents of Sunrise Cove keep...
9) Betrayal
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A woman, whose husband was sent to prison when their friends' daughter accused him of a heinous act, risks her future happiness to avenge him and clear his name.
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Heart of Texas (Donna Grant) volume 4
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St. Martin's Paperbacks
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2019.
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English
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Danny Oldman, the handsome Lone Star sheriff, is still single. He tells himself, and anyone who asks, that he is married to his joband what matters most is keeping the people of his beloved Texas hometown safe. The truth? Danny still hasnt gotten over his high school crush. She moved away after graduation and took Dannys heart with her.Skylar Long never thought she would have to flee Houston and return homewhere it all began for her. But thats what...
13) Anthem: a novel
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Grand Central Publishing
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2021.
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English
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"The wheels are coming off in America. Opioid addictions accelerate unstoppably. Environmental collapse can be read in every weather report. Vigilante bands take over streets at night, wearing clown face makeup. The very idea of government, of citizenship, is challenged daily. And something is happening to teenagers across the country, spreading through memes only they understand. At the Float Anxiety Abatement Center, in a suburb of Chicago, Simon...
14) Blue velvet
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MGM Home Entertainment
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[2002]
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English
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A mystery and a series of strange circumstances in a small town disclose secrets that lie beneath the town's placid appearance.
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"A candid look at the cultural factors that lend themselves to tolerance of abuse and violence against women."Booklist. Revised and updated to include current studies, politics, and discussions, The Macho Paradox is the first book to show how violence against women is a male issue as well as a female one and how we can come together to stop it. Written by pioneering anti-violence educator Jackson Katz, The Macho Paradox incorporates the voices and...
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McSweeney's
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[2019]
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English
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"Indelible in the hippocampus is the laughter," said Dr. Christine Blasey-Ford when she testified to congress in September 2018 about the men who victimized her. A year earlier, in October 2017, the hashtag #MeToo shone a light on the internalized, normalized sexual harassment and abuse that'd been ubiquitous for women for generations.Among the first books to emerge from the #MeToo movement, Indelible in the Hippocampus is a truly intersectional collection...
18) The chaos kind
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John Rain novels volume 11
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Thomas & Mercer
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[2021]
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English
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Determined not to play by anyone else's rules, a Seattle sex-crimes detective, a "natural causes" killer and an ex-Mossad honey-trap killer fight to get their hands on a tape implicating some of the most powerful members of the US national security state in human trafficking.
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IVP, an imprint of InterVarsity Press
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[2020]
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English
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"The #MeToo movement has revealed sexual abuse in every sphere of society, including the church. But all too often, churches have been complicit in protecting abusers, reinforcing patriarchal power dynamics, and creating cultures of secrecy, shame, and silence. Disclosing candid stories of abuse, pastor and survivor Ruth Everhart offers God's hope to survivors while shining a light on the prevalence of sexual misconduct within faith communities"--...
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