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Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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"Murphy Shepherd's last rescue mission very nearly cost him his life. He'd like nothing more than to stay close to his wife and daughters for a while. But Bones's brother must be stopped, and there are so many who still need to know they are worth rescuing. As the cat-and-mouse game moves into the open, Murphy is tested at every turn--both physically and mentally. Then the unthinkable happens: his beloved mentor and friend is taken. Gone without a...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
The author describes how she was held hostage for eighteen years by registered sex offender Phillip Garrido, who sexually abused her and fathered her two children, and how she was finally found by authorities.
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...
5) Boy toy
Author
Publisher
Graphia
Pub. Date
[c2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
410 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
After five years of fighting his way past flickers of memory about the teacher who molested him and the incident that brought the crime to light, eighteen-year-old Josh gets help in coping with his molestor's release from prison.
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
318 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
At thirteen years old, Stephen Mills is chosen for special attention by the director of his Jewish summer camp, a charismatic social worker. Stephen, whose father had died when he was four, places his trust in this authority figure, who then grooms and molests him for two years. The boy tells no one, but the aftershocks rip through his life: self-loathing, drugs, petty crime, and horrific nightmares, all made worse by the discovery that his abuser...
Series
Publisher
Free Spirit Publishing
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
167 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
With plenty of reasons to be angry due to parental abuse, street violence, peer pressure, and more, these teens' stories offer realistic advice on anger management skills to gain control of their emotions.
9) Identical
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st paperback ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
565 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old identical twin daughters of a district court judge and a candidate for the United States House of Representatives, Kaeleigh and Raeanne Gardella desperately struggle with secrets that have already torn them and their family apart.
Author
Series
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
c2017
Physical Desc
xv, 197 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Offers teenagers, who account for seventy percent of sexual assault victims, resources for finding support and assistance to begin the healing process after an assault.
Author
Publisher
[Create Space Independent Publishing]
Pub. Date
c2014
Physical Desc
444 ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Misty Griffin writes about her life as a child where she lived as a slave on a mountain ranch where she was subjected to complete isolation, sexual abuse and extreme physical violence.
12) Judgment Road
Author
Series
Torpedo Ink volume 1
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
"As the enforcer of the Torpedo Ink motorcycle club, Reaper lives for riding and fighting. He's a stone-cold killer who turns his wrath on those who deserve it. Feelings are a weakness he can't afford--until a gorgeous bartender gets under his skin ... Near Sea Haven, the small town of Caspar has given Anya Rafferty a new lease on life. And she's desperate to hold on to her job at the biker bar, even if the scariest member of the club seems to have...
13) Desolation Road
Author
Series
Torpedo Ink volume 4
Publisher
Jove
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 466 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
"Torpedo Ink is Aleksei 'Absinthe' Solokov's whole life. They're his brothers, his family - his everything. But that doesn't stop him from wanting something that only belongs to him. That's why the tough biker has spent the last six weeks at the library, reading every book he can get his hands on and watching the prim and proper librarian who makes his blood rush. For the past six weeks, Scarlet Foley has been fantasizing about the handsome, tattooed...
14) The missing girl
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
284 p. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
In Mallory, New York, as five sisters, aged eleven to seventeen, deal with assorted problems, conflicts, fears, and yearnings, a mysterious middle-aged man watches them, fascinated, deciding which one he likes the best.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Nujood Ali's childhood came to an abrupt halt in 2008 when her father arranged at age 10 for her to be marrried to a man three times her age. Nujood tells of abuse at her husband's hand and of her daring escape. Nujood's courageous defiance of both Yemeni customs and her own family has inspired other young girls in the Middle East to challenge their marriages.
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the founder and activist behind one of the largest movements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the "me too" movement, Tarana Burke debuts a powerful memoir about her own journey to saying those two simple yet infinitely powerful words-metoo-and how she brought empathy back to an entire generation in one of the largest cultural events in American history. Tarana didn't always have the courage to say "me too." As a child, she reeled...
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
First Harper Perennial Edition.
Physical Desc
277 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
During her teens, Rachel Lloyd ended up a victim of commercial sexual exploitation. With time, through incredible resilience, and with the help of a local church community, she finally broke free, leaving her past behind. She is the founder of GEMS, Girls Educational and Mentoring Services.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Physical Desc
xviii, 334 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the woman who gave the landmark testimony against Clarence Thomas as a sexual menace, a new manifesto about the origins and course of gender violence in our society; a combination of memoir, personal accounts, law, and social analysis, and a powerful call to arms from one of our most prominent and poised survivors. In 1991, Anita Hill began something that's still unfinished work. The issues of gender violence, touching on sex, race, age, and...
19) We accept no
Author
Series
Publisher
Free Spirit Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When asking for consent, the answer will sometimes be no. This story validates the feelings of sadness, anger, and disappointment that accompany rejection and provides a model for young children about how to take responsibility for the actions after"--
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
337 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Detective Milo Sturgis and investigator Alex Delaware tackle the case of a murdered teacher who before her death made a chilling DVD describing the sexual trauma she was suffering at the hands of three fellow teachers at her prestigious Los Angeles school.