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Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Each year in the United States nearly three hundred thousand people are sexually assaulted. New practices by police, prosecutors, nurses, and rape crisis professionals are resulting in more humane and compassionate treatment of victims, and more aggressive pursuit and prosecution of persecutors. Based on seven years of in-depth interviews in Cleveland, Detroit, Memphis and other cities, Johnston presents the people behind these new approaches and...
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"From Nobel laureate, world-renowned doctor, and noted human rights activist Dr. Denis Mukwege comes an inspiring clarion call-to-action to confront the scourge of sexual violence and better learn from women's resilience, strength, and power. At the heart of Dr. Mukwege's message will be the voices of the many women he has worked with over the years. Dr. Mukwege will use individual cases to reassure all survivors that, even if their psychological...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
When her daughter is eight, Leah McLaren’s mother abruptly fled her life as rural house wife in search a glamorous career in the city. In the chaotic years that follow, Cecily lurches from one apartment, job and toxic romance to the next. In a home without rules or emotional boundaries, Leah and Cecily become confidants—a state of enmeshment that suits them both. Their bond is loving but also marked by casual indifference. Cecily’s self-described...
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
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.
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...
Author
Series
Publisher
New Harbinger Publications, Incorporated
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In Loving Someone Who Has Sexual Trauma, a sex therapist offers self-compassion and attachment-based communication skills to help readers nurture intimacy and trust, and cultivate a more secure relationship with a partner who has experienced past sexualtrauma. In the book, readers will learn powerful, trauma-informed techniques to help them understand the full impact of their partner's past experience, as well as strategies to increase feelings of...
70) The road dance
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In a small, remote village in the Outer Scottish Hebrides, Kirsty yearns for adventure and another life across the ocean. Though she finds comfort in time spent with her mother and younger sister, she sees hope and a future with Murdo, an intelligent, curious poet. The two fall in love as World War I looms, and Murdo is soon conscripted to join the other men of the village to fight. As a gesture of farewell, the village hosts a road dance, a celebration...
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.
72) Death wish II
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
When Paul Kersey's daughter is kidnapped and assaulted, he takes to the street as a one-man army bent on revenge.
Paul Kersey is trying to nurse his daughter back to health when she is raped and driven to suicide by a gang. Kersey relentlessly hunts down the gang, and in turn is hunted by a New York City detective.
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,...
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