Nina is actually a tough Queens cop, an avenger on a mission. Her latest investigation involves Artemis, one of the city's battered women's shelters. A number of men connected to the women living there are ending up dead. Why...
Women's shelters
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Author:Elias, MichaelSummary: - Author:Alexandra ZabjekSummary:
In Canada, a woman is killed by her intimate partner every six days. Alberta has one of the highest rates of domestic violence in the country. Starting in the 1970s, Alberta women's shelters have assisted women in crisis. Much more than...
- Author:GoldenEagle, Carol RoseSummary:
The Narrows of Fear (Wapawikoscikanik) weaves the stories of a group of women committed to helping one another. Despite abuse experienced by some, both in their own community and in residential schools, these women learn to celebrate...
- Author:GoldenEagle, Carol RoseSummary:
The Narrows of Fear (Wapawikoscikanik) navigates the unsettling, but necessary. When love of, and respect for, culture goes awry, it is our Indigenous women who bring us back to what is important. This novel is an interweaving of...
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Author:Ready, CaseySummary:Shelter in a Storm brings together the personal and the political to ask: What is neoliberalism? How does it harm women? And what can be done about it? The book looks at how three YWCA women’s shelters in Ontario were affected by the...
- Author:Goodhand, MargoSummary:
In the supposedly enlightened 60s and 70s, violence against women was widespread. It wasn't talked about, and women had few, if any, options to escape their abusers. Yet in 1973, with no statistics, no money and little public support,...
- Author:Hodges, Cheris F.Summary:
Marie Charles' party-girl days come to a screeching halt with a DWI arrest and a totaled Jaguar. Sentenced to 500 hours of community service at a local women's shelter, her only bright spot is a fellow volunteer, TV star Devon Harris....
- Author:Dillon, AlenaSummary:
Little daunts renegade, silver-haired Sister Evelyn, who, with her fellow sisters, make Mercy House a safe haven for Brooklyn's abused and abandoned, until they receive word that Bishop Hawkins is coming to investigate Mercy House...
- Author:Benson, AliceSummary:
In Her Life Is Showing, the life and death drama of domestic violence is the backdrop to the daily struggle of the workers in a shelter. Manager Nancy, counselors Monica and Paula, and administrative assistant Becky must cope with...
- Author:Wiggs, SusanSummary:
Helena Cabot Barnes discovered too late that her husband is a dangerous man. Fearing for her safety, she ends her marriage and flees to legendary Moon Lake Lodge. But Helena can't outrun her past. In desperation, she turns to...
