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Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
The story of Michelle Jordan, a young woman raised in an environment of abuse and molestation at the hands of her mother's boyfriend Reggie, which her mother Cassie unwittingly condons. While incarcerated, Michelle sends Bishop Jakes a letter requesting a visit. Jakes agrees to meet Michelle and soon uncovers the painful history that led to her personal demise.
Author
Language
English
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2020 Rise: A Feminist Book Project Top Ten
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Tear Jerkers
A Year in GoodReads 5 Star Ratings
Ashland Books at Noon April 2019 Picks
Tear Jerkers
Description
"Bestselling author Laurie Halse Anderson is known for the unflinching way she writes about, and advocates for, survivors of sexual assault. Now, inspired by her fans and enraged by how little in our culture has changed since her groundbreaking novel Speak was first published twenty years ago, she has written a poetry memoir that is as vulnerable as it is rallying, as timely as it is timeless. In free verse, Anderson shares reflections, rants, and...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
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...
85) The life I'm in
Author
Series
The skin I'm in novels volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
The powerful and long-anticipated companion to The Skin I'm In, Sharon Flake's bestselling modern classic, presents the unflinching story of Char, a young woman trapped in the underworld of human trafficking.
86) Charm & strange
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A lonely teenager exiled to a remote Vermont boarding school in the wake of a family tragedy must either surrender his sanity to the wild wolves inside his mind or learn that surviving means more than not dying.
88) You ruined it
Author
Series
Publisher
Dottir Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In You Ruined It, Anastasia Higginbotham, acclaimed author of Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness, sheds light on the confusion and pain that many children feel in the aftermath of incest and sexual assault. When 11-year-old Dawn discloses that a favorite cousin sexually assaulted her, it's hard to tell what hurts more: the betrayal or the fall-out. After all, everyone always says to tell someone, but does this mean she'll never get to hang out...
89) Dear Medusa
Author
Publisher
Labyrinth Road
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: This searing and intimate novel in verse follows a sixteen-year-old girl coping with sexual abuse as she grapples with how to reclaim her story, her anger, and her body in a world that seems determined to punish her for the sin of surviving.
Author
Series
Alex Delaware novels volume 25
Language
English
Description
Homicide detective Milo Sturgis and psychologist Alex Delaware probe the hallowed halls of Windsor Prep Academy, one of L.A.'s most prestigious prep schools, searching for the killers of a murdered woman.
Author
Publisher
Spiegel & Grau
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Born in a Cambodian village, Somaly Mam was sold into sexual slavery by her grandfather at age twelve. For the next decade she was shuttled through the brothels that make up the sprawling sex trade of Southeast Asia. She suffered the brutality and horrors of human trafficking--rape, torture, deprivation--until she managed to escape with the help of a French aid worker. Emboldened by her newfound freedom, education, and security, Somaly blossomed but...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Lost Girls of South Africa is a timely and revealing feature length documentary that offers a privileged glimpse into what life is really like for young girls growing up in South Africa. It follows the stories of four girls, aged 11-13, who become victims of child rape, looking at the experience and its aftermath through their eyes and in their words.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"The false memory attack is one that has caused a great deal of unhappiness and a great deal of difficulty. It has also helped raise the standard of care. There is no doubt that the law has intruded into the practice of therapy, and there is no doubt that it will continue to do so." Alan Scheflin, JD. The 1990s saw a vigorous and well-publicized backlash, exemplified by the false memory movement, against sexual abuse survivors and the therapists who...
Author
Publisher
Free Spirit Publishing Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Every child's body has boundaries. And understanding those boundaries-as well as knowing what to do if they are crossed-is important to every child's safety. In this friendly, gentle book, simple words and colorful illustrations help share this important message with young children and their parents, teachers, and other adults in their lives"--
96) Naondel
Author
Series
Red Abbey chronicles volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Told in alternating points of view, Kabira, Garai, and the other First Sisters share a history of years of sexual violence, oppression, and exploitation at the hands of the vizier Iskan, whose dark powers originate from his control of the sacred spring at his palace at Ohaddin, before the women are able to escape and establish the female haven of Red Abbey on the island of Menos.
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