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Author
Series
To kill a mockingbird volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Eight-year-old "Scout" Finch tells of life in a small Alabama town where her father is a lawyer.
2) Speak
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
A traumatic event near the end of the summer has a devastating effect on Melinda's freshman year in high school.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
One evening, eight Mennonite women climb into a hay loft to conduct a secret meeting. For the past two years, each of these women, and more than a hundred other girls in their colony, has been repeatedly violated in the night by demons coming to punish them for their sins. Now that the women have learned they were in fact drugged and attacked by a group of men from their own community, they are determined to protect themselves and their daughters...
Author
Series
Will Trent volume 11
Language
English
Description
Will Trent and Sara Linton are back in an electrifying thriller featuring GBI investigator Will Trent and medical examiner Sara Linton from New York Times bestselling author Karin Slaughter
After that night, everything 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...
5) Sanctuary
Author
Publisher
Vintage International
Pub. Date
1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
326 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sanctuary is the dark, at times brutal, story of the kidnapping of Mississippi debutante Temple Drake, who introduces her own form of venality into the Memphis underworld where she is being held.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
Comic book artist Daniel Stone, once a violent youth and the only white boy in an Alaskan Inuit village, is now a loving, stay-at-home dad. After his 14-year-old daughter Trixie accuses her boyfriend of rape, Daniel must deal with the murderous rage he feels towards her assailant.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Leigh Collier has worked hard to build what looks like a normal life. She's an up-and-coming defense attorney at a prestigious law firm in Atlanta, would do anything for her sixteen-year-old daughter Maddy, and is managing to successfully coparent through a pandemic after an amicable separation from her husband Walter. But Leigh's ordinary life masks a childhood no one should have to endure ... a childhood tarnished by secrets, broken by betrayal,...
8) Fractured
Author
Series
Will Trent volume 2
Language
English
Description
With its gracious homes and tree-lined streets, Ansley Park is one of Atlantaś most desirable neighborhoods. But in one gleaming mansion, in a teenagerś lavish bedroom, a girl has been savagely murdered. And in the hallway, her horrified mother stands amid shattered glass, having killed her daughterś attacker with her bare hands. Detective Will Trent of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation is here only to do a political favor; the murder site belongs...
Author
Publisher
Libros En Red
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
196 p. 22 cm.
Language
Español
Description
Este libro trata sobre la vida de una mujer violada. Bárbara era una niña pobre que vivía con sus abuelos. Su vida cambió completamente cuando fue violada. Tuvo que superar muchas dificultades antes de encontrar los eventos felicidad.
This book is about the life of a woman raped. Barbara was a poor girl who lived with her grandparents. Her life changed completely when she was raped. She had to overcome many difficult events before finding happiness....
Author
Language
English
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Description
"[This book] tells the stories of Justine--a mixed-blood Cherokee woman--and her daughter, Reney, as they move from Eastern Oklahoma's Indian Country in the hopes of starting a new, more stable life in Texas amid the oil bust of the 1980s. However, life in Texas isn't easy, and Reney feels unmoored from her family in Indian Country. Against the vivid backdrop of the Red River, we see their struggle to survive in a world--of unreliable men and near-Biblical...
11) Limitations
Author
Series
Kindle County novels volume 7
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Formats
Description
Life would seem to have gone well for George Mason. His days as a criminal defense lawyer are long behind him. At fifty-nine, he has sat as a judge on the Court of Appeals in Kindle County for nearly a decade. Yet, when a disturbing rape case is brought before him, the judge begins to question the very nature of the law and his role within it. What is troubling George Mason so deeply? Is it his wife's recent diagnosis? Or the strange and threatening...
12) Good husbands
Author
Publisher
Park Row Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
407 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jessica, Stephanie and Priyanka are complete strangers, but they have one thing in common: they've each received a letter accusing their husbands of committing a sexual assault more than two decades prior. Is the accusation true or is there more to the story? It was a secret that remained buried for years. With their worlds suddenly turned upside down, they don't know who to trust. The three women come together to embark on a hunt for the truth, but...
13) A girl like that
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, sixteen-year-old half-Hindu/half-Parsi Zarin Wadia is the class troublemaker and top subject for the school rumor blogs, regularly leaving class to smoke cigarettes in cars with boys, but she also desperately wants to grow up and move out of her aunt and uncle's house, perhaps realizing too late that Porus, another non-Muslim Indian who risks deportation but remains devoted to Zarin, could help her escape. When the two end...
15) Entombed
Author
Series
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
400 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
It was a crime scene Edgar Allan Poe himself could have conjured, only it was all too real: workers demolishing a nineteenth-century Greenwich Village brownstone where Poe once lived unearthed the skeleton of a young woman -- buried standing upright behind a brick wall. Manhattan Assistant D.A. Alexandra Cooper takes on the gruesome case while in pursuit of the Silk Stocking Rapist, who is terrorizing the Upper East Side. But Alex discovers that one...
16) The violated
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
381 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
In Echo Park, in the small town of Santa Rita, California, the mutilated body of Martin Torrey is found by two passersby. A registered sex offender, Torrey has been a suspect in a string of recent rapes, and instant suspicion for his murder falls on the relatives and friends of the women attacked. Police chief Griffin Kells and detective Robert Ortiz are under increasing pressure from the public and from a mayor demanding results in a case that has...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
384 pages ; 22 cm
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
Series
Kinsey Millhone volume 25
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
483 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The darkest and most disturbing case report from the files of Kinsey Millhone, Y is for Yesterday begins in 1979, when four teenage boys from an elite private school sexually assault a fourteen-year-old classmate — and film the attack. Not long after, the tape goes missing and the suspected thief, a fellow classmate, is murdered. In the investigation that follows, one boy turns state’s evidence and two of his peers are convicted. But the ringleader...
Author
Series
Dismas Hardy novels volume 16
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Late one night, a teenage African American foster child named Tanya Morgan plummets to her death from the overpass above San Francisco’s Stockton tunnel. But did she fall… or was she pushed? Rushing to produce a convictable suspect in the glare of the media spotlight, homicide inspectors focus their attention on a naïve young man named Greg Treadway. Greg is a middle school teacher and he volunteers as a Special Advocate for foster children....
Author
Publisher
Jove
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
385 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"A daring young woman pushes back against societal constraints in a feminist, coming-of-age Western romance from New York Times bestselling author Susan Andersen. It's a new era for Hattie. In the small but bustling town of Mattawa, turn-of-the-century Oregon offers a new kind of frontier: a vast and exciting range of possibilities for women--to a point. It's a time for change, and no one is more eager to embrace new roads than self-proclaimed black...
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