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Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xiv, 252 pages ; 25 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...
3) Lucky
Author
Publisher
Little/Brown
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First world edition.
Physical Desc
251 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
After ten years' absence, Carl Burns returns to his hometown seeking justice for his estranged daughter, who is testifying against the towns former mayor in a rape case, but as Carl searches for the truth, he incurs the wrath of powerful enemies.
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
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
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Description
"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...
Author
Series
Robin Lockwood volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The "master of heart-pounding suspense"--New York Times bestseller Phillip Margolin--returns with a new legal thriller starring Robin Lockwood. A young woman accuses a prominent local college athlete of rape. Convicted with the help of undisputable DNA evidence, the athlete swears his innocence and threatens both his lawyer and his accuser as he's sent to prison. Not long after, there's another rape and the DNA test shows that the same person committed...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
Robbed of his teaching career and reputation by a student's false accusations, Jack St. Bride is struggling to rebuild his life, but fresh accusations of rape by teenage girls from his former school threaten to destroy him once again.
10) Take it back
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"From author Kia Abdullah, Take It Back is a harrowing and twisting courtroom thriller that keeps you guessing until the last page is turned. One victim. Four accused. Who is telling the truth? Zara Kaleel, one of London's brightest legal minds, shattered the expectations placed on her by her family and forged a brilliant legal career. But her decisions came at a high cost, and now, battling her own demons, she has exchanged her high profile career...
11) Shout
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Laurie Halse Anderson is known for her advocacy for--and unflinching writing about--survivors of sexual assault. Shout, a poetry memoir, is as vulnerable as it is rallying, as timely as it is timeless. In free verse, Anderson shares reflections, rants, and calls to action woven between deeply personal, and previously untold, stories from her life. Searing and soul-searching, this memoir is a denouncement of our society's failures and a love letter...
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
252 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Cody Hatcher is the kind of teenager you don't want your kids hanging with, and it's why the citizens of Mineral Springs have no problem at all believing that he's guilty of three rapes. It's against such odds that Nameless must work to prove Cody innocent. There are few to help him and plenty to get in his way.
13) False witness
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"AN ORDINARY LIFE ... Leigh Collier has worked hard to build what looks like a normal life. She has a good job as a defense attorney, a daughter doing well in school, and even her divorce is relatively civilized-her life is just as unremarkable as she'd always hoped it would be. HIDES A DEVASTATING PAST ... But Leigh's ordinary life masks a childhood which was far from average ... a childhood tarnished by secrets, broken by betrayal, and finally torn...
Author
Language
English
Description
"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Big Summer comes another timely and deliciously twisty novel of intrigue, secrets, and the transformative power of female friendship. Daisy Shoemaker can't sleep. With a thriving cooking business, full schedule of volunteer work, and a beautiful home in the Philadelphia suburbs, she should be content. But her teenage daughter can be a handful, her husband can be distant, her work can feel trivial,...
16) Asking for it
Author
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
It's the beginning of the summer in a small town in Ireland. Emma O'Donovan is eighteen years old, beautiful, happy, confident. One night, there's a party. Everyone is there. All eyes are on Emma. The next morning, she wakes on the front porch of her house. She can't remember what happened, she doesn't know how she got there. She doesn't know why she's in pain. But everyone else does. Photographs taken at the party show, in explicit detail, what happened...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
376 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Honored with the Holt Medallion, three RITAs, and membership in the Romance Writers of America Hall of Fame, Christy Award-winning author Francine Rivers is acclaimed for perennial best sellers like Redeeming Love. With over a quarter-million copies sold, The Atonement Child explores the devastating consequences of rape and resulting pregnancy on innocent victims, their families, and their faith.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"She was know to the world as Emily Doe when she stunned millions with a letter. Brock Turner had been sentenced to just six months in county jail after he was found sexually assaulting her on Stanford's campus. Her victim impact statement was posted on BuzzFeed, where it instantly went viral--viewed by almost eleven million people within four days, it was translated globally and read on the floor of Congress; it inspired changes in California law...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
279 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The author, a crime novelist, recounts her personal investigation and preparation for the trial against a man who brutally assaulted her in 1992 when she was a young drama student.