An analysis of sexual assault as it affects the victim and the assailant in the Canadian justice system.
Rape
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Author:Minch, Candice, Gunn, Rita F.Summary: - Author:Quintana, ChristineSummary:
A new year of high school is full of excitement and potential—but three teens didn't expect it to bring such a dark change to their lives. After spending a summer reinventing herself in Paris, Emma is ready for her new life to start,...
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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:Nayebzadah, RahelaSummary:
In this powerful debut novel set in the spring of 2000, Rahela Nayebzadah introduces three unforgettable characters: Beh, Shabnam and Alif. In a world swirling with secrets, racism and danger we watch through the eyes of these three...
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Author:Stratton, AllanSummary:Leslie can’t seem to avoid trouble, whether it’s at school or at home. Just as life seems at its lowest, Jason McCready, the exceedingly cool new guy at school, enters her life. Now Leslie is the envy of all the girls. But, Jason’s...
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Author:Butcher, KristinSummary:After accepting a ride home, sixteen-year-old Emma Kennedy is raped by a boy from school. But handsome, popular Ross Schroeder tells everyone the sex was consensual, and Emma is immediately branded as a slut. Even Emma's best...
- Author:Capin, HannahSummary:
"This revenge fantasy is as brutal as it is beautiful...An absolutely gorgeous retelling, artistry on every page, Oscar-worthy if it were a film." — NPR Hannah Capin's Foul is Fair is a bloody, thrilling revenge fantasy...
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Author:Payne, Mary JenniferSummary:In this high-interest novel for teens, Lizzie has to protect herself from her mother's boyfriend while looking out for her brother.
- Author:Tate, PoloSummary:
Polo Tate wanted to be in the Air Force since she was eleven, an unpopular dream for most young girls, but her hard work paid off. At eighteen, Polo is in basic training at the United States Air Force Academy and doing everything right...
- Author:Glatt, JohnSummary:
In the fall of 1999, a twenty-two-year-old woman was discovered naked and bleeding on the streets of a small New Mexico town south of Albuquerque. She was chained to a padlocked metal collar. The tale she told authorities-of being...
- Author:Bérubé, SophieSummary:
Christophe est à la maison, Shaya, sa fille de trois ans, dort dans sa chambre, Kaï, sa compagne, est sortie pour la soirée. Christophe entend des pas dans l’escalier. La porte s’ouvre. Il regarde Kaï et se rend vite compte que quelque...
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Author:Chapman, BrendaSummary:Two separate crimes, two tragic outcomes. Jacques Rouleau has moved to Kingston to look after his father and take up the position of head of the town's Criminal Investigations Division. One hot week in late September, university student...
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Author:Frederick, JimSummary:This is the story of a small group of soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division's fabled 502nd Infantry Regiment-a unit known as the Black Heart Brigade. Deployed in late 2005 to Iraq's so-called Triangle of Death, a veritable meat...
- Author:Schwartz, Selby WynnSummary:
Longlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize. An exhilarating debut from a radiant new voice, After Sappho reimagines the intertwined lives of feminists at the turn of the twentieth century. "The first thing we did was change our names. We...
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Author:Jackson, JoshilynSummary:Every fifteen years, trouble comes after the three Slocumb women. Now, as the youngest turns fifteen, she's desperate to know who used their yard as a makeshift cemetery, and why. The unlikely matriarch, forty-five-year-old Ginny, doesn...
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