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Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter's gripping account of one young man's path to murder--and a wake-up call for mental health care in America On a summer night in 2009, three lives intersected in one American neighborhood. Two people newly in love--Teresa Butz and Jennifer Hopper, who spent many years trying to find themselves and who eventually found each other--and a young man on a dangerous psychological descent: Isaiah Kalebu, age twenty-three,...
Author
Publisher
Principal
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
Durante milenios, el cuerpo de la mujer ha sido un arma con la que ejércitos, terroristas y milicias han humillado, oprimido y castigado a sus adversarios. A pesar de los numerosos casos de violencia sexual, las voces de las protagonistas han sido acalladas mucho tiempo. Christina Lamb, corresponsal de guerra de larga trayectoria, nos ofrece en Nuestros cuerpos, sus batallas una crónica de la extraordinaria tragedia de la guerra, centrándose en...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
A history of America's civil rights movement traces the pivotal influence of sexual violence that victimized African American women for centuries, revealing Rosa Parks's contributions as an anti-rape activist years before her heroic bus protest.
Rosa Parks was often described as a sweet and reticent elderly woman whose tired feet caused her to defy segregation on Montgomery's city buses, and whose supposedly spontaneous act sparked the 1955 boycott...
146) Too late: a novel
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Large Print
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Sloan will go through hell and back for those she loves. And she does so, every single day. Caught up with the alluring Asa Jackson, a notorious drug trafficker, Sloan has finally found a lifeline to cling to, even if it's meant compromising her morals. She was in dire straits trying to pay for her brother's care until she met Asa. But as Sloan became emotionally and economically reliant on him, he in turn developed a disturbing obsession with her--one...
147) Fury
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
New York District Attorney Butch Karp and his wife, Marlene, find themselves embroiled in corruption when they set out to bring a group of Brooklyn rapists to justice.
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Former police officer Cassie Dewell is trying to start over with her own private investigation firm. Guilty about not seeing her son and exhausted by the nights on stakeout, Cassie is nonetheless managing...until an old friend calls in a favor: she wants Cassie to help exonerate a man accused of assaulting a young girl from an influential family. Against her own better judgment, Cassie agrees. But out in the Big Sky Country of Montana, twisted family...
149) Faking normal
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Alexi Littrell hasn't told anyone what happened to her over the summer by her backyard pool. Instead, she hides in her closet, counts the slats in the air vent, and compulsively scratches the back of her neck, trying to make the outside hurt more than the inside does. When Bodee Lennox -- "the Kool-Aid Kid"--Moves in with the Littrells after a family tragedy, Alexi discovers an unlikely friend in this quiet, awkward boy who has secrets of his own....
Author
Language
English
Description
For more than ten years, a mysterious and violent predator committed fifty sexual assaults in Northern California before moving south, where he perpetrated ten sadistic murders. Then he disappeared, eluding capture by multiple police forces and some of the best detectives in the area. Three decades later, true crime journalist Michelle McNamara was determined to find the violent psychopath she called "the Golden State Killer." Michelle pored over...
Author
Publisher
VIZ Media LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
After that day, she stopped being a girl. In the wake of an assault, Nina Kamiyama, a former idol in the group Pure Club, shuns her femininity and starts dressing as a boy. At high school, she keeps to herself, but fellow student Hikaru Horiuchi realizes who she is. What secrets is she keeping? The shocking drama starts.
152) After that night
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"After that night every thing changed... Fifteen years ago, Sara Linton's life changed forever when a celebratory night out ended in a violent attack that tore her world apart. Since then, Sara has remade her life. A successful doctor, engaged to a man she loves, she has finally managed to leave the past behind her. Until one evening, on call in the ER, everything changes. Sara battles to save a broken young woman who's been brutally attacked. But...
Series
Publisher
Pegassus Films
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
Español
Description
El Coyote y la bronca: Un hombre llega a un pueblo para cobrar una venganza pero antes seduce a una joven que estaba próxima a casarse.
Juan Charrasqueado: Esta es la verdadera historia de Juan Charrasqueado, un mujeriego que solo vive para gozar la vida y Gabino Barrera, un revolucionario zapatista. Dos hombres legendarios cuyas vidas se unen en la aventura y se dividen por pasión de una mujer.
Lauro Puñales: En la época de Emiliano Zapata...
155) The last duel
Publisher
20th Century Studios
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
After the wife of knight Jean de Carrouge accuses his squire of assaulting her virtue, King Charles VI declares that the men must fight to the death, leaving the truth to be revealed by God who will let the guilty man perish. This arrangement will leave the woman either berieved or besmirched, her life and position in society ruined no matter the result.
Author
Series
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
"In a London hospital, Prudence Barrymore, a talented nurse who had once been the one of Florence Nightingale's angels of mercy in the Crimean War, meets sudden death by strangulation. Private inquiry agent William Monk is engaged to investigate this horrific crime--which intuition tells him was no random stroke of violence by a madman. Greatly helped by his unconventional friend Hester Latterly, another of Miss Nightingale's nurses, and barrister...
157) Blood oath
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The depths of Manhattan's secretive Rockefeller University are explored in this thriller about the deep--and often deadly--reverberations of past sins. Assistant DA Alexandra Cooper of the Manhattan Sex Crimes Unit is finally back at work following a leave of absence, and not a moment too soon. With more women feeling empowered to name their abusers, Alex is eager to return to the courtroom to do what she does best. But even she can't anticipate...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
In 1987, obese, illiterate, black 16-year-old Claireece 'Precious' Jones lives in Harlem with her dysfunctional family. She has been raped and impregnated twice by her father, Carl. She suffers constant physical, mental and sexual abuse from her unemployed mother, Mary. After getting pregnant for the second time, Precious is suspended from her school. Her principal arranges to have her attend an alternative school where her new teacher, Ms. Rain,...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
Español
Description
Recently retired criminal court investigator Benjamín decides to write a novel based on a twenty-five-year-old unresolved rape and murder case which still haunts him. Sharing his plans with Irene, the beautiful judge and his former colleague, Benjamín's initial involvement with the case is shown through flashbacks as he sets out to identify the murderer. But Benjamín's search for the truth will put him at the center of a judicial nightmare, as...
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