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De Becker, Gavin

2 holds on 2 copies

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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Back Bay Books/Little, Brown and Company 2021

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Chouinard, M. M.

Summary: "When Jennine Hammond is found dead in a hotel in the picture-perfect town Oakhurst, newly-promoted Detective Jo Fournier is thrown into a disturbing case. Who would murder this shy, loving wife and leave her body posed like a ballerina? Jo wants to know why Jeanine's husband is so controlling about money, and where Jeanine"s wedding ring is, but before she and her team can get close to the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bookouture, an imprint of StoryFire, Ltd. 2019

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHO

Howard, Catherine Ryan

Summary: I was the girl who survived the Nothing Man. Now I am the woman who is going to catch him ... At the age of twelve, Eve Black was the only member of her family to survive an encounter with serial attacker -- the Nothing Man. Now an adult, she is obsessed with identifying the man who destroyed her life. Supermarket security guard Jim Doyle has just started reading The Nothing Man--the true-crime...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC HOW

Hawkins, Paula

Summary: A single mother turns up dead at the bottom of the river that runs through town. Earlier in the summer, a vulnerable teenage girl met the same fate. They are not the first women lost to these dark waters, but their deaths disturb the river and its history, dredging up secrets long submerged. Left behind is a lonely fifteen-year-old girl. Parentless and friendless, she now finds herself in the...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HAW

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HAW

Katz, Jackson.

Summary: Jackson Katz is an American hero! With integrity and courage, he has taken his message--that the epidemic of violence against women is a men's issue--into athletic terms, the military and frat houses across the country. His book explains carefully and convincingly why--and how--men can become part of the solution, and work with women to build a world in which everyone is safer.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks, Inc. 2006

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.8 KAT

Slaughter, Karin

Summary: Fifteen years ago, Sara Linton's life changed forever when a celebratory night out ended in a violent attack that tore her world apart. Since then, Sara has remade her life. A successful doctor, engaged to a man she loves, she has finally managed to leave the past behind her. Until one evening, on call in the ER, everything changes. Sara battles to save a broken young woman who's been brutally...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2023

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George, Elizabeth

Summary: On compassionate leave after the murder of his wife, Thomas Lynley is called back to Scotland Yard when the body of a woman is found stabbed and abandoned in an isolated London cemetery. While Lynley works on the case in London, his former colleagues Barbara Havers and Winston Nkata follow the murder trail south to the New Forest--and to an outcome that is both tragic and shocking.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 2010

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GEO

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M GEO

Grey, Zane

Summary: "Kidnapping a pretty woman for the sake of his own ruthless whims, desperado gang leader Jack Kells finds something changing inside of him in the face of Joan's loving spirit and finds his own gentler instincts emerging"--Amazon.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Walter J. Black 1944

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRE

Patterson, James

Summary: Two true-crime tales relate the stories of a married woman who suspects her husband isn't who he says he is and a teenage girl who moves to Arizona and finds her perfect life is about to turn on its head.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 PAT

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 PAT

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 PAT

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 PAT

Summary: Actress/advocates and New York Times journalist Nicholas Kristof meet individuals who are doing work to empower women and girls everywhere. These are stories of challenge, transformation and hope.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Docuramafilms 2012

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HAL

McDermid, Val

Summary: "In Insidious Intent, Tony and Carol are on the hunt for a serial killer who forces the duo to confront their most haunting moral dilemma so far. In the north of England, single women are beginning to disappear from weddings. A pattern soon becomes clear: someone is crashing the festivities and luring the women away--only to leave the victims' bodies in their own burned-out cars in remote...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic 2017

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCD

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCD

Ahmed, Badeeah Hassan

Summary: "Captured by ISIS, her bravery and faith became her pathway to freedom. Badeeah Hassan was just 18 when she witnessed firsthand the horrors of the 2014 genocide of the Ezidi people by ISIS forces. Captured by ISIS, known locally as Daesh, Badeeah was among hundreds forced into a brutal human trafficking network made up of women and girls of Ezidi ethnicity, a much-persecuted minority culture of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Annick Press 2019

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 AHM

Hamilton, Steve

Summary: New York juvenile probation officer Joe Trumbull matches wits with a deadly unknown adversary responsible for the deaths of his fiancée and other women with whom he has been involved, as he takes on an enemy intent on destroying him.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2007

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HAM

McDermid, Val

Summary: "In the northern England, psychologist Tony Hill and former police detective Carol Jordan are on the hunt for a serial killer who picks up women at weddings without a date, only to leave the victims' bodies in their own burned-out cars in remote locations"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2018

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Summary: Corridors of blood: Set in the primitive hospitals of 19th century London, this recounts the story of the unfortunate Dr. Bolton, an early pioneer in anesthesiology, showing his gradual addiction to drugs and his dealings with grave robbers.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2006

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2 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER HAU

Summary: A detective gives a ride to a half-naked girl, who is abruptly killed by thugs. Almost killed himself, the detective tries to solve the murder.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2001

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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER KIS

Cacho, Lydia

Summary: Lydia Cacho follows the trail of sex traffickers and their victims from Mexico to Turkey, Thailand to Iraq, Georgia to the UK, to expose the trade's hidden links with the tourist industry, Internet pornography, drugs and arms smuggling, the selling of body organs, money laundering, and even terrorism.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pgw 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.362 CAC

Margolin, Phillip

Summary: Legendary attorney Regina Barrister has agreed to defend a man charged with the murder of two women. But Regina has a secret that could threaten her reputation and her clients. Young attorney Robin Lockwood agrees to work for Barrister, but the details in the case don't quite add up.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2018

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MAR

Miller, Chanel

Summary: Brock Turner had been sentenced to just six months in county jail after he was found sexually assaulting "Emily Doe" on Stanford's campus. Her victim impact statement was posted on BuzzFeed, where it instantly went viral, was translated globally, and read on the floor of Congress. It inspired changes in California law and the recall of the judge in the case. Now Miller reclaims her identity to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2019

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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MIL

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MILLER, CHANEL MIL

Summary: A charming, eloquent, and vicious drifter on the lam in London rejects those who would care for him and hurls himself into a nocturnal odyssey through the city, colliding with a succession of desperate and dispossessed people and scorching everyone in his path.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2005

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY NAK

Robinson, Peter

Summary: "When property developer Connor Clive Blaydon is found dead, Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks and his Yorkshire team dive into the investigation. As luck would have it, someone had installed a cache of spy-cams all around his luxurious home. The team hope that they'll find answers, and the culprit, among the video recordings. Instead of discovering Connor's murderer, however, the grainy and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021

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Summary: Johnny is a charming and eloquent, but relentlessly vicious drifter. Rejecting anyone who might care for him, the volcanic Johnny hurls himself through a nocturnal odyssey around London, colliding with a succession of other desperate and dispossessed people, and scorching everyone in his path. With a virtuoso script and raw performances, Mike Leigh's picture of England's underbelly is an...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2011

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY NAK

Brodsky, Jordanna Max

Summary: "Manhattan has many secrets. Some are older than the city itself. Winter in New York: snow falls, lights twinkle, and a very disgruntled Selene DiSilva prowls the streets looking for prey. But when a dead body is discovered sprawled atop Wall Street's iconic Charging Bull statue, it's clear the NYPD can't solve the murder without help. The murder isn't just the work of another homicidal cult --...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2017

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRO

Brohi, Khalida

Summary: "A fearless memoir about tribal life in Pakistan--and the act of violence that inspired one ambitious young woman to pursue a life of activism and female empowerment. From a young age, Khalida Brohi was raised to believe in the sanctity of arranged marriage. Her mother was forced to marry a thirteen-year-old boy when she was only nine; Khalida herself was promised as a bride before she was even...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House, an imprint and division of Penquin Random House LLC 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BROHI, KHALIDA BRO

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