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To kill a mockingbird volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Set in the small Southern town of Maycomb, Alabama, during the Depression, To Kill a Mockingbird follows three years in the life of 8-year-old Scout Finch, her brother, Jem, and their father, Atticus--three years punctuated by the arrest and eventual trial of a young black man accused of raping a white woman. Though her story explores big themes, Harper Lee chooses to tell it through the eyes of a child. The result is a tough and tender novel of race,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Joy McCullough's bold novel in verse is a portrait of an artist as a young woman, filled with the soaring highs of creative inspiration and the devastating setbacks of a system built to break her. McCullough weaves Artemisia's heartbreaking story with the stories of the ancient heroines, Susanna and Judith, who become not only the subjects of two of Artemisia's most famous paintings but sources of strength as she battles to paint a woman's timeless...
3) Fractured
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Series
Will Trent series volume 2
Language
English
Description
Detective Will Trent of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation takes on the case of a girl who has been savagely murdered in one of Atlanta's most desirable neighborhoods
4) Fury
Author
Series
Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi thrillers volume 17
Language
English
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Bestselling author Robert K. Tanenbaum astonishes readers with Fury, his most explosive book yet in the staggeringly popular Butch Karp/Marlene Ciampi series. In Brooklyn, a female jogger is brutally raped; the assailants are convicted and later exonerated by the Kings County DA. Now the guilty are filing a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against the city of New York, the police, and the two assistant DAs who tried the case. While the cops and the criminal...
5) Speak
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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"Speak up for yourself - we want to know what you have to say." From the first moment of her freshman year at Merryweather High, Melinda knows that this is a big fat lie, part of the nonsense of high school. She is friendless, outcast, because she busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops, so now nobody will talk to her, let alone listen to her. As time passes, she becomes increasingly isolated and practically stops talking altogether. Only...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Graduating from their school's special education program, Quincy and Biddy are placed together in their first independent apartment and discover unexpected things they have in common in the face of past challenges and a harrowing trauma.
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Series
Publisher
Viking Penguin
Pub. Date
1997, c1996
Language
English
Description
A tense, twisting thriller perfect for fans of Linda Fairstein.
Prosecutor Helen West's relationship with police officer Geoffrey Bailey is becoming more serious, but the couple is at odds because Bailey's protégé, Sergeant Ryan, is suspected of rape. As the evidence slowly mounts against Ryan, West and Bailey examine the seemingly open-and-shut case; a terrible crime warrants justice regardless of their feelings toward Ryan. But as they dig...
8) Knife music
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Series
Hank Madden novels volume 1
Language
English
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Description
The novel pits Ted Cogan, a forty-three-year- old surgeon and self-described womanizer, against Hank Madden, a handicapped veteran detective. From the outset it's not clear who is victim and who is victimizer, as the usually dispassionate Madden grapples with his long-suppressed prejudices and his obsession with bringing Ted Cogan to justice at any cost. It all leads up to the most stunning surprise ending since Scott Turow's Presumed Innocent.|David...
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Redeeming Love and The Masterpiece—and "one of [Christian fiction's] most honored and talented writers" (Library Journal)—comes a heart-wrenching but uplifting story about a highly controversial topic.
Dynah Carey knew where her life was headed. Engaged to a wonderful man, the daughter of doting parents, a faithful child of God—she has it all. Then the unthinkable...
Dynah Carey knew where her life was headed. Engaged to a wonderful man, the daughter of doting parents, a faithful child of God—she has it all. Then the unthinkable...
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Series
Abe Ringel novels volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Massachusetts attorney Abe Ringel defends basketball star Joe Campbell against charges of rape. But as the case unfolds, Ringel develops doubts about Campbell's innocence.
11) Limitations
Author
Series
Kindle County novels volume 7
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
George Mason's days as a criminal defense lawyer are long behind him. At fifty-nine, he has sat as a judge on the Court of Appeals in Kindle County for nearly a decade. Yet, when a disturbing rape case is brought before him, he begins to question the very nature of the law and his role within it. What is troubling George Mason so deeply?
12) You against me
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
When eighteen-year-old Mikey's younger sister claims to have been raped and he seeks to avenge the crime, he meets Ellie, the sister of the accused, and befriends her, complicating the situation considerably for all of them
13) Obsessed
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Language
English
Description
Seattle surgeon Ivy Pennington treats a victim of serial rapist "Hart" who carves a heart on all of his victims. She becomes involved with her neighbor Vincent D'Ambruzzi who is the cop in charge of investigating these brutal rapes. The rapist becomes obsessed with Ivy .
Author
Series
Way I used to be volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"After fourteen-year-old Eden is raped by her brother's best friend, she knows she'll never be the way she used to be"--
15) Take it back
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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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...
Author
Language
English
Description
Between 2005 and 2009, in a remote religious Mennonite colony, over a hundred girls and women were knocked unconscious and raped, often repeatedly, by what many thought were ghosts or demons, as a punishment for their sins. As the women tentatively began to share the details of the attacks -- waking up sore and bleeding and not understanding why -- their stories were chalked up to 'wild female imagination'. Women Talking is an imagined response to...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"An experimental novel that reveals one young woman's every thought over the course of twenty-four hours"--
She wakes up, goes to work. Watches the clock and checks her phone. But underneath this monotony there's something else going on: something under her skin. The narrator becomes increasingly anxious as the day moves on: Is she overusing the heart emoji? Isn't drinking eight glasses of water a day supposed to fix everything? Why is the etiquette...
18) The monk
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Series
Language
English
Description
Left at a monastery as a baby, Ambrosio grew up to be a cruel and stern monk, renowned for his sermons and piety. When a nun named Agnes goes to Ambrosio for the sacrament of confession, she admits that she is pregnant after having a long love affair with a man named Raymond. Though admissions told in confession are meant to be kept in confidence, Ambrosio turns Agnes over to the authorities in her convent for punishment. Without a trace of guilt...
19) Salem Falls
Author
Pub. Date
c2001
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.
20) Wrecked
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Offers a kaleidoscopic view of a sexual assault on a college campus that will leave readers thinking about how memory and identity, what's at stake, and who sits in judgment shape what we all decide to believe about the truth"--
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