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Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the experiences of several women in Missoula, Montana, who claimed to be raped by University of Montana football players, highlighting the inequities of the law in regard to rape allegations and the treatment of rape victims and perpetrators.
Author
Language
English
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In the tradition of Rebecca Solnit, a beautifully written, deeply intelligent, searingly honest-and ultimately hopeful-examination of sexual assault and the global discourse on rape told through the perspective of a survivor, writer, counselor, and activist After surviving gang-rape at seventeen in Mumbai, Sohaila Abdulali was indignant about the deafening silence that followed and wrote a fiery piece about the perception of rape-and rape victims-for...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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“This gorgeously rendered graphic-novel version provides a new perspective for old fans but also acts as an immersive introduction for youngsters as well as any adult who somehow missed out on the iconic story set in Maycomb, Alabama.”--USA TodayA beautifully crafted graphic novel adaptation of Harper Lee’s beloved, Pulitzer Prize–winning American classic, voted America's best-loved novel in PBS's Great American Read. "Shoot all the...
Author
Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
National security advisor Jessica Stern reflects on her experience being raped at gunpoint by an unknown assailant when she was fifteen, discussing the assault, how it influenced her ability to feel fear, her career interviewing terrorists, her feelings about the case being reopened after more than thirty years, her role in the new investigation, and other related topics.
9) The accused
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
A fiercely independent woman is gang raped, then battles the legal system twice, going after both her attackers and the onlookers whose cheering fueled and encouraged the assault.
10) Descent
Publisher
Distributed by Warner/Elektra/Atlantic
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Maya is like many other college coeds: booksmart yet shy, curious about sex, yet scared to let herself go. One night she meets Jared. When their courtship turns from romantic to horrific in a single violent act, Maya's world is ripped inside-out. Shutting out everyone in her life, Maya loses herself to a dark throbbing underworld of experimentation. Lured by club DJ Adrian, she awakens to a cold and vicious new strength. Will she be saved by its power...
11) The tenth circle
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
From New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult, a powerful novel that explores the unbreakable bond between parent and child, and questions whether you can reinvent yourself in the course of a lifetime—or if your mistakes are carried forever.Fourteen-year-old Trixie Stone is in love for the first time. She’s also a straight-A high school student, pretty and popular, and the light of her father’s life.... Comic book artist Daniel Stone would...
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
New York Times Bestseller Edited and with an introduction by Roxane Gay, the New York Times bestselling and deeply beloved author of Bad Feminist and Hunger, this anthology of first-person essays tackles rape, assault, and harassment head-on. Vogue, “10 of the Most Anticipated Books of Spring 2018” * Harper’s Bazaar, “10 New Books to Add to Your Reading List in 2018” * Elle, “21 Books We’re Most Excited to Read in 2018” * Boston Globe,...
13) Violation
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
Thea thinks she has finally put her rape behind her, even though she is still haunted by nightmares, but when her son disappears, she realizes that in order to find him, she will have to face the demons she has been running from.
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Language
English
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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
Publisher
Cliff Street Books
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
The author shares the story of her fifteen-year struggle to overcome the effects of a violent rape, describing her fear during and after the attack, and discussing its impact on key areas of her life, including passion, marriage, and motherhood.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
An alleged rape victim's odyssey through a broken justice system. In Pakistan, women and girls who allege rape are often more strongly condemned than their alleged rapists. Deemed impure and shameful, some are even killed by their own families. For this unforgettable documentary, an earlier version of which premiered at Sundance, filmmakers Habiba Nosheen and Hilke Schellmann spent years tracing alleged rape victim Kainat Soomro's odyssey through...
17) An act of love
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
Linda and Owen McFarland, married for seven happy years, are forced to reevaluate their commitment to one another when Linda's teenage daughter accuses Owen's son of rape.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Traces the story of a rape survivor and the man she mistakenly identified as her attacker, describing the unlikely friendship they forged after DNA evidence proved his innocence and their shared subsequent advocacy for judicial reform.
19) Speak
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Formats
Description
A traumatic event near the end of the summer has a devastating effect on Melinda's freshman year in high school.
20) Crying Wolf
Author
Language
English
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Description
It's a tale as old as time. Girl meets boy. Boy wants girl. Girl says no. Boy takes what he wants anyway.
After a violent sexual assault, Eden Boudreau was faced with a choice: call the police and explain that a man who wasn't her husband, who she had agreed to go on a date with, had just raped her. Or go home and pray that, in the morning, it would be only a nightmare.
In the years that followed, Eden was met with disbelief by strangers, friends,...
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