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Missoula, Montana, is a typical college town, with a highly regarded state university, bucolic surroundings, a lively social scene, and an excellent football team — the Grizzlies — with a rabid fan base. The Department of Justice investigated 350 sexual assaults reported to the Missoula police between January 2008 and May 2012. Few of these assaults were properly handled by either the university or local authorities. In this, Missoula is also...
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Now that her beloved daughter, the offspring of a terrible event, is twenty-seven and recently married, Eden decides to build a separate life and takes ownership of a beautiful old home willed to her by someone who cared for her during a very difficult time. Her move is met with mixed emotions from the town's residents, and while she is pursued by two eligible bachelors she is plunged in the middle of a mystery that may threaten her life.
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Crown
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English
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On August 11, 2008, eighteen-year-old Marie reported that a masked man broke into her apartment near Seattle, Washington, and raped her. Within days police and even those closest to Marie became suspicious of her story. The police swiftly pivoted and began investigating Marie. Confronted with inconsistencies in her story and the doubts of others, Marie broke down and said her story was a lie — a bid for attention. Police charged Marie with false...
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Ecco
Pub. Date
c2010
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xvii, 300 p. ; 24 cm.
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English
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"I have listened and I have been quiet all my life. But now I will speak." One of the world's foremost experts on terrorism and post-traumatic stress disorder investigates her own unsolved adolescent sexual assault at the hands of a serial rapist, and in so doing, examines the horrors of trauma and denial. Alone in an unlocked house in a safe neighborhood in the suburban town of Concord, Massachusetts, two good, obedient girls, Jessica Stern, fifteen,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
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English
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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.
8) Yes, Daddy
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2021.
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282 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"A propulsive, scorching modern gothic, Yes, Daddy follows an ambitious young man who is lured by an older, successful playwright into a dizzying world of wealth and, soon, to an idyllic Hamptons home where things take a nightmarish turn"--
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2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 21
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English
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"I believe there is another man inside every man, a stranger . . ." writes Wilfred Leland James in the early pages of the riveting confession that makes up "1922," the first in this pitch-black quartet of mesmerizing tales from Stephen King. For James, that stranger is awakened when his wife, Arlette, proposes selling off the family homestead and moving to Omaha, setting in motion a gruesome train of murder and madness. In "Big Driver," a cozy-mystery...
10) Women talking
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SDS
Pub. Date
[2023]
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1 videodisc (1 hr., 44 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Follows a goup of women in an isolated ultraconservative Mennonite colony who face the trauma of realizing that they have been drugged and raped by men from their community.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 25
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English
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"When Billy Summers was twelve years old, he shot and killed his mother's boyfriend after he kicked Billy's sister to death. At 17, he enlisted in the army. At 18, he was a sniper in Iraq and involved in the deadly battle to recapture Fallujah. For nearly twenty years, he's worked as a paid assassin. He's a good guy in a bad job, and he wants out. He takes on a very complicated, very lucrative job that he hopes will be his last. He's got a perfect...
12) Deliverance
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Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2007
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1 videodisc (109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Four "weekend warriors" take a canoe trip along a Georgia river, an adventure that pits their courage against the river's raging rapids and the most primitive human impulses of fear, lust, and murder.
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020
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391 pages ; 25 cm.
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English
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"When the elite St. Paul's School recently came under state investigation after extensive reports of sexual abuse on campus, Lacy Crawford thought she'd put behind her the assault she'd suffered at St. Paul's decades before, when she was fifteen. Still, when detectives asked for victims to come forward, she sent a note. Her criminal case file reopened, she saw for the first time evidence that corroborated her memories. Here were depictions of the...
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New Video Group
Pub. Date
p2012
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1 videodisc (ca. 97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A groundbreaking investigative documentary about the epidemic of rape within the U.S. military. Follows the stories of several idealistic young servicewomen who were raped and then betrayed by their own officers when they courageously came forward to report.
15) Blood oath
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Alexandra Cooper novels volume 20
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2019]
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355 pages : map ; 24 cm
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English
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"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 the complexity of her first case when she meets Lucy, a young woman who testified years earlier at a landmark federal trial ... and now reveals that she...
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English
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While trying to pinpoint the root of her dissatisfaction with her life, Daisy Shoemaker begins receiving misdirected emails meant for another woman and starts living vicariously through her until she discovers that their connection was not completely accidental.
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English
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"When investigative journalist Gina Kane receives an email from a 'CRyan' describing her 'terrible experience' while working at REL, a high-profile television news network, including the comment 'and I'm not the only one,' Gina knows she has to pursue the story. But when Ryan goes silent, Gina is shocked to discover the young woman has died tragically in a jet ski accident while on holiday. Meanwhile, REL counsel Michael Carter finds himself in a...
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