A transformative and necessary work--as completely unexpected as it is inspired--by the award-winning author of the bestselling novels All My Puny Sorrows and A Complicated Kindness. The sun rises on a quiet June morning in 2009. August...
Rape victims
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Author:Toews, MiriamSummary: -
Author:Malle, MirionSummary:Clara's at a breaking point. She's got writer's block, her friends ask a lot without giving much, her psychologist is useless, and her demanding publishing job leaves little time for self care. She seeks solace in the community around...
- Author:Molope, Kagiso LesegoSummary:
What does a teenage girl do when she sees her beloved older brother commit a horrific crime? Should she report to her parents, or should she keep quiet? Should she confront him? All her life, Naledi has been in awe of Basi, her charming...
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Author:PICOULT, JodiSummary:When Daniel Stone was a child, he was teased mercilessly, but he fought back and became a 'bad kid', full of anger, until he got a girl pregnant and reinvented himself. However, fifteen years later when his daughter is date...
- Author:Mukwege, DenisSummary:
From Nobel laureate, world-renowned doctor, and noted human rights activist Dr. Denis Mukwege comes an inspiring clarion call-to-action to confront the scourge of sexual violence and better learn from women's resilience, strength,...
- Author:Bujold, Lois McMasterSummary:
When the Lady Ijada slays Prince Boleso in defense of her virtue, it falls to Lord Ingrey to bring her to court for judgment. But his road is fraught with danger, and his prisoner may turn out to be the only one he dares trust.
- Author:Straley, JohnSummary:
When Louise Root, a new client of Cecil Younger, is found murdered, the private investigator finds himself in the middle of an environmental law violation that has deadly repercussions. Cecil finds he is unable to leave behind Root,...
- Author:Weiner, JenniferSummary:
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 is rebelling, her husband can be...
- Author:Wolfe, FrédérickSummary:
Tara emménage à Montréal, enthousiasmée par sa nouvelle vie entre un emploi à temps partiel et ses séances de coaching avec Simon Lafleur pour préparer ses auditions pour l'École nationale de théâtre. D'une rencontre à l'...
- Author:Coats, J. AndersonSummary:
Wales, 1109. Three years ago, a warband raided Elen's home. Her baby sister could not escape the flames. Her older sister fought back and almost killed the warband's leader, Owain ap Cadwgan, before being killed herself....
- Author:Poitras, Marie-HélèneSummary:
Novembre, un soir de neige et de violence. Dans un appartement de Montréal, une rencontre qui n’aurait jamais dû avoir lieu. Le quotidien bouleversé par l’arrivée d’un être venu apporter la peur en cadeau. Quelques mois plus tard,...
- Author:Martel, KarinSummary:
Karin Martel had never considered what happened to her in ninth-grade shop class as sexual abuse. So when she sees a therapist to talk about the stress of her job as a 911 call-taker and police dispatcher, she surprises herself by...
- Author:Graham, BethSummary:
When Laura finds a familiar book of poems in her estranged twin Lizzie's bedroom, the sisters are dragged through a turbulent past, reliving their complicated history in order to make sense of their present.
- Author:Shelton Harris, TerahSummary:
A compelling debut that glows with bittersweet heart and touching emotion, deeply interrogating questions of family, redemption, and unconditional love in the sweltering summer heat of Savannah, as two people discover what it means to...
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Author:Freedman, Karyn L.Summary:In this powerful memoir, philosopher Karyn L. Freedman travels back to a Paris night in 1990 when she was twenty-two and, in one violent hour, her life was changed forever by a brutal rape. One Hour in Paris takes the reader on a...
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Author:Summary:Cultural critic and bestselling author Roxane Gay presents a collection of essays that explore what it means to live in a world where women are frequently belittled and harassed due to their gender, and offers a call to arms insisting...
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Author:Cassidy, AnneSummary:My name is Stacey Woods and I was raped... Stacey is the victim of a terrible sexual attack. She does not feel able to go to the police, or talk about it to anybody other than her best friend, Patrice. Patrice, outraged, when she cannot...
- Author:Aguirre, CarmenSummary:
Carmen Aguirre has lived many lives, all of them to the full. At age six she was a Chilean refugee adjusting to life as a Latina in North America. At eighteen she was a revolutionary dissident married to a generous-hearted man she...
- Author:Déraspe, RébeccaSummary:
Quand Noémie apprend que son fils, son Théo, est accusé d'agression sexuelle, elle est aspirée par la vague et forcée de replonger dans ses traumas. Parce que si la tête peut faire croire à l'exil de la souffrance, le corps,...
- Author:Miller, ChanelSummary:
She was known 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...
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