De Becker, Gavin
Summary: Covering all the dangerous situations people typically face -- street crime, domestic abuse, violence in the workplace -- de Becker provides real-life examples and offers specific advice on restraining orders, self-defense, and more. But the key to self-protection, he demonstrates, is learning how to trust -- and act on -- our own intuitions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Back Bay Books/Little, Brown and Company 2021
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Summary: In this groundbreaking bestseller, Lundy Bancroft—a counselor who specializes in working with abusive men—uses his knowledge about how abusers think to help women recognize when they are being controlled or devalued, and to find ways to get free of an abusive relationship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.82 BanMoore-Lobban, Shavonne J.
Summary: "Black women experience domestic violence and abuse at a disproportionately high rate. Grounded in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), this first-of-its-kind book addresses the unique struggles faced by Black women who have experienced domestic violence, and empowers them to understand and heal their trauma, leave harmful situations, and regain a sense of safety and freedom"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Harbinger Publications 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.82 MOORubin, Kathy Kleiner
Summary: "In January 1978, I slept in my bed at the Chi Omega sorority house at Florida State University as Ted Bundy stalked nearby. He grabbed an oak log from a stack of firewood, slipped through a back door with a broken padlock, and headed upstairs.He began twisting doorknobs. Room 9 was open, and he quietly and quickly killed one of my sleeping sorority sisters. Across the hall, he found another...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RUBIN, KATHY KLEINER RUBGlenn, Ruth M.
Summary: "The raw, uplifting, and unforgettable memoir from the CEO and president of the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence chronicling her personal battle against abuse, violence, and even a murder attempt. Ruth M. Glenn wasn't surprised the first time her husband beat her. She was hurt and disappointed but after a childhood in a broken and violent home, she was not surprised. After all, this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GLENN, RUTH M. GLECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B GLENN GLEHill, Jess
Summary: "A deeply researched account from an award-winning journalist that uncovers the ways in which abusers exert control in the darkest-and most intimate-ways imaginable We fear dark alleys when in truth, home is the most dangerous place for a woman. Of the 87,000 women killed globally in 2017, more than a third (30,000) were killed by an intimate partner, and another 20,000 were killed by a family...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.82 HILNeely, Kindra
Summary: "Author Kindra Neely recounts her journey to healing after surviving a mass shooting during her first year of college"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 921 NEEKotlowitz, Alex
Summary: "The numbers are staggering: Over the past twenty years in Chicago, 14,033 people have been killed and another roughly 60,000 wounded by gunfire. What does that do to the spirit of individuals and communities? Drawing on his decades of experience, Alex Kotlowitz set out to chronicle one summer in the city, writing of those who have emerged from the violence and whose stories reveal the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.15 KOTGrossman, Dave
Summary: "The author of the 400,000-copy bestseller On Killing reveals how violent video games have ushered in a new era of mass homicide--and what we must do about it" -- Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Brown and Company 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303 GROMoss, Otis
Summary: A guide to uplift our spirits as we work for justice in these politically turbulent times--from Reverend Otis Moss, III, Senior Pastor at Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ and one of the country's most renowned and beloved spiritual and civil rights leaders. Once again, as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. first observed in the 1960s, it is midnight in America--a dark time of division and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 248.4 MOSWestover, Tara
Summary: Cómo una educación puede salvar una vida. "Podéis llamarlo transformación. Metamorfosis. Falsedad. Traición. Yo lo llamo una educación." Nacida en las montañas de Idaho, Tara Westover ha crecido en armonía con una naturaleza grandiosa y doblegada a las leyes que establece su padre, un mormón fundamentalista convencido de que el final del mundo es inminente. Ni Tara ni sus hermanos van a la...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lumen 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 WESHill, Anita
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.42 HILCopies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.42 HILKnoll, Jessica
Summary: "The book opens on a Saturday night in 1978, hours before a soon-to-be-infamous murderer descends upon a Florida sorority house with deadly results. The lives of those who survive, including sorority president and key witness, Pamela Schumacher, are forever changed. Across the country, Tina Cannon is convinced her missing friend was targeted by the man papers refer to as the All-American Sex...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marysue Rucci Books 0000
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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: BOOK CLUB KIT FIC KNORose, Jacqueline
Summary: We see it in the streets, where black people are dying at the hands of the police. We see it in our courts, whose scales are tipped toward the powerful. What about the violence behind closed doors? Rose examines violence from postapartheid South Africa to Trump's White House; trans rights, sexual assault, and the #MeToo movement. Is violence always gendered and, if so, always in the same way?...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.88 ROSBell, Darrin
Summary: "This graphic memoir by a winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning offers a deeply personal meditation on the "the talk" parents must have with Black children about racism and the brutality that often accompanies it, a ritual attempt to keep kids safe and prepare them for a world that--to paraphrase Toni Morrison--does not love them. Darrin Bell was six years old when his mother...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 921 BELL, DARRIN BELCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B BELL BELGill, Joel Christian
Summary: "Fights is the visceral and deeply affecting memoir of artist/author Joel Christian Gill, chronicling his youth and coming of age as a Black child in a chaotic landscape of rough city streets and foreboding backwoods"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oni Press 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 921 GILAuster, Paul
Summary: "Each year, approximately forty thousand Americans are killed by gunshot wounds, which is roughly equivalent to the annual rate of traffic deaths on American roads and highways. Of those forty thousand gun fatalities, more than half of them are suicides, which in turn account for half of all suicides per year. Add in the murders caused by guns, the accidental deaths caused by guns, the law...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.33 AUSFollman, Mark
Summary: "It's time to go beyond all the thoughts and prayers, misguided blame on mental illness, and dug-in disputes over the Second Amendment. Through meticulous reporting and panoramic storytelling, award-winning journalist Mark Follman chronicles the decades-long search for identifiable profiles of mass shooters and brings readers inside a groundbreaking method for preventing devastating attacks....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 FOLGooden, Beverly
Summary: "When survivors of domestic violence reveal their predicaments, the first question many ask is "Why did you stay?" Here, an abuse survivor answers that question through her own story of survival and offers help to those who want to leave and rebuild theirlives"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.82 GOOSummary: "Inspired by the global #MeToo Movement, Drawing Power : Women's Stories of Sexual Violence, Harassment, and Survival is a collection of original, nonfiction comics drawn by more than 60 female cartoonists from around the world. Featuring such noted creators as Emil Ferris, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, MariNaomi, Liana Finck, and Ebony Flowers the anthology's contributors comprise a diverse group of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams ComicArts 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.883 DRASturges, Lilah
Summary: "A mythic and emotionally charged hero's journey, Dune tells the story of Paul Atreides, a brilliant and gifted young man born into a great destiny beyond his understanding, who must travel to the most dangerous planet in the universe to ensure the future of his family and his people. As malevolent forces explode into conflict over the planet's exclusive supply of the most precious resource in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Legendary Comics 2022
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Summary: Traces the author's experiences as a child born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, describing her participation in her family's paranoid stockpiling activities and her resolve to educate herself well enough to earn acceptance into a prestigious university and the unfamiliar world beyond.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2018
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2 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 921 WESTOVER, TARA WESSummary: The gripping, first-hand accounts of women who escaped the brutal reign of ISIS. These women and children are Yazidis, a religious minority that have been targeted by ISIS for particularly brutal treatment, as ISIS tries to impose upon them what it claims is a pure version of Islam.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2015
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ESCWestover, Tara
Summary: Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her "head-for-the-hills bag." In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged in her father's junkyard. Her father distrusted the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: JC Lattès 2019