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1) Test Pattern
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (82 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Part psychological horror, part realist drama, this exhilarating debut feature from Shatara Michelle Ford is set against the backdrop of national discussions around inequitable health care and policing, the #metoo movement, and race in America. TEST PATTERN follows an interracial couple whose relationship is put to the test after a Black woman is sexually assaulted and her white boyfriend drives her from hospital to hospital in search of a rape kit....
2) Speak
Author
Language
English
Description
A traumatic event near the end of the summer has a devastating effect on Melinda's freshman year in high school.
Author
Language
English
Description
Between 2005 and 2009, in a remote religious Mennonite colony, over a hundred girls and women were knocked unconscious and raped, often repeatedly, by what many thought were ghosts or demons, as a punishment for their sins. As the women tentatively began to share the details of the attacks -- waking up sore and bleeding and not understanding why -- their stories were chalked up to 'wild female imagination.' Women Talking is an imagined response to...
Author
Publisher
Two Dollar Radio
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
212 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"An entrancing and prismatic debut novel by Christine Lai, set in a near future fraught with ecological collapse, Landscapes brilliantly explores memory, empathy, preservation, and art as an instrument for recollection and renewal. In the English countryside--decimated by heat and drought--Penelope archives what remains of an estate's once notable collection. As she catalogues the library's contents, she keeps a diary of her final months in the dilapidated...
Author
Language
English
Description
The acclaimed, best-selling author of This Could Hurt returns with her biggest, boldest novel yet--an electrifying, twisty, and deeply emotional family drama, set on Manhattan's glittering Upper East Side, that explores the dark side of love, the limits of loyalty, and the high cost of truth. You can have everything, and still not have enough. Cassie Quinn may only be 23, but she knows a few things. One: Money can't buy happiness, but it's certainly...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
2021
Physical Desc
242 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the midst of the devastating Hundred Years' War between France and England, Jean de Carrouges, a Norman knight fresh from combat in Scotland, returns home to yet another deadly threat. His wife, Marguerite, has accused squire Jacques Le Gris of rape. A deadlocked court decrees a trial by combat between the two men that will also leave Marguerite's fate in the balance. For if her husband loses the duel, she will be put to death as a false accuser."...
Author
Publisher
F. Watts
Pub. Date
1990
Physical Desc
143 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Uses first-person accounts of both rape victims and offenders to depict the physical, psychological, and legal aspects of rape and gives advice on what can be done in various situations. Janet Bode returns to the difficult and emotional topic of rape in this completely revised and updated edition of Voices of Rape. In addition to the original interviews, Bode updates the reader on what has happened to those people she interviewed, appends a comprehensive...
Author
Publisher
WildBlue Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
236 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Monique, the daughter of San Diego Charger's football great Earl Faison, married her high school sweetheart soon after she discovered she was pregnant with his child. Her relationship with Chris was shaky from the start, but turned tumultuous as he became verbally and physically abusive. When she could no longer put up with the abuse, she left him with their children. That was when the stalking and genuine threats began. Nothing stopped him--not protection...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Teen
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The perfect after-school job turns deadly for teens working as simulated patients at the local med school. Everyone has something to hide and no one is safe in this contemporary YA thriller that exposes the dark reality of #MeToo in the world of medicine, for fans of Karen McManus and Holly Jackson. It seemed like a cool part-time program -- being a simulated patient for med school students to practice on. But now vivacious, charismatic Viv lies in...
11) Wrecked
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
357 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Offers a kaleidoscopic view of a sexual assault on a college campus that will leave readers thinking about how memory and identity, what's at stake, and who sits in judgment shape what we all decide to believe about the truth"--
Haley saw Jenny return from the party, shell-shocked. Richard heard Jordan brag about the cute freshman he hooked up with. When Jenny accuses Jordan of rape, Haley and Richard are pushed to opposite sides of the schools...
12) Good husbands
Author
Publisher
Park Row Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Three wives, one letter, an explosive secret that will change everything. He said, she said. Whom do you believe? Jessica, Stephanie and Priyanka are complete strangers, but they have one thing in common: more than two decades ago, unbeknownst to them, their husbands committed a sexual assault. Or was it something else; a night of drunken regrets, just a horrible misunderstanding? It was a secret that remained buried for years. One unsuspecting morning,...
13) The word for yes
Author
Publisher
Harper Teen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
242 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Three sisters try to get used to life after their parents' divorce. The gap between the girls widens, until a devastating incident at a high school party changes everything.
Author
Publisher
Square One Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
x, 155 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Rape is, unfortunately, an all-too-common violent crime usually perpetrated against women. For victims, the process of sharing information about the assault with loves ones or reporting the crime to police can be harrowing, embarrassing, and painful. The emotional aftermath and the responses of others can greatly affect the way a rape survivor copes. Although there are trained counselors to help women through the process of recovery, the question...
15) Dangerous play
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
346 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Zoe Alamandar has one goal: win the State Field Hockey Championships and earn a scholarship that will get her the hell out of Central New York. She and her co-captain Ava Cervantes have assembled a fierce team of dedicated girls who will work hard and play by the rules. But after Zoe is sexually assaulted at a party, she finds a new goal: make sure no girl feels unsafe again. Zoe and her teammates decide to stop playing by the rules and take justice...
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Simon Pulse hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
404 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Three misfit girls come together to avenge the rape of a girl none of them knew and in the process start a movement that transforms the lives of everyone around them"--
Author
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...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"An account of the unsolved murder of two women in Shenandoah National Park, by a journalist with unprecedented access to all key elements of the case, and a story that reveals the challenges of wilderness forensics and the failures of our justice system"--
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
232 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Throughout his long and illustrious career, Mark Bowden has written about crime and was recognized in 2010 with a lifetime achievement award by the International Thriller Writers organization. The Case of the Vanishing Blonde collects six of his most riveting pieces-accounts spanning four decades of searing characters and unsettling tales to illustrate all manner of crimes and the ways technology has progressively altered criminal investigation....
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