Peters, Julie
Summary: Have the courage to heal. We know, increasingly, how common and devastating sexual violence is for women, but we don’t always talk about how survivors can recover from the trauma and return to desire, sexuality, trust, and pleasure. Want is the story of how Julie Peters did just that—and how you can, too. Move past the fog of trauma. In the years after the assault, Julie was in what she calls...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mango Publishing Group 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.15 PETMalle, Mirion
Summary: "In This is How I Disappear, Mirion Malle paints an empathetic portait of a young woman wrestling with psychological stress and the trauma following an experience of sexual assault. Malle displays frankness and a remarkable emotional intelligence as she explores depression, isolation, and self-harm in her expertly-drawn novel. Her heroine battles an onslaught of painful emotions and while Clara...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2021
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 MALMiller, T. Christian
Summary: August, 2008. Marie, a teenager, reported being raped in her Seattle apartment by a masked man. Confronted with inconsistencies, she was charged with false reporting and branded a liar. Years later Colorado detectives discovered they were dealing with a serial rapist. Miller and Armstrong follow the tale of doubt, lies, and a hunt for justice-- and the long history of skepticism toward rape...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 364.15 MILSummary: A peasant girl is raped and murdered in 14th century Sweden. When her killers seek shelter in her father's house, he kills them to avenge her death. Soon a spring appears from where the girl was killed and her father sees this as a sign from above.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2006
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Summary: 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....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA 921 Anderson 2019Abdulali, Sohaila
Summary: "Drawing on her own experience, her work with hundreds of survivors as the head of a rape crisis center in Boston, and three decades of grappling with rape as a feminist intellectual and writer, Abdulali tackles some of our thorniest questions about rape, articulating the confounding way we account for who gets raped and why--and asking how we want to raise the next generation. In interviews...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.15 ABDSmith, B. J. (Brad J.)
Summary: "After ten years' absence and a spell in prison, Carl Burns has returned to his hometown of Rose City to offer support to his estranged daughter Kate, currently one of four witnesses testifying against former Mayor Joseph Sanderson III, who stands accused of multiple counts of underage rape. Carl is determined to get justice for Kate, whatever it takes. But with his former sister-in-law Frances...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House Publishers Ltd 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SMILeitner, Tamara
Summary: "In April 1999, reporter Tamara Leitner woke to an active crime scene outside her Arizona apartment. Her neighbor had been sexually assaulted by a man who would later be identified as Claude Dean Hull II, a serial rapist who escaped justice for decades. New identities. New states. New victims--more than one hundred suspected across the country and thousands more victimized in myriad ways....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.25 LEISummary: Shares twenty stories from diverse survivors of childhood sexual violence, explaining how they overcame the boundaries of stigma and silence to help prevent trauma and loss of life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zest Books 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 616.85 THIProut, Chessy
Summary: The numbers are staggering: nearly one in five girls ages fourteen to seventeen have been the victim of a sexual assault or attempted sexual assault. This is the true story of one of those girls. In 2014, Prout was a freshman at St. Paul's School, a prestigious boarding school in New Hampshire, when a senior boy sexually assaulted her as part of a ritualized game of conquest. She reported her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 PRONegendank, Megan
Summary: "In Loving Someone Who Has Sexual Trauma, a sex therapist offers self-compassion and attachment-based communication skills to help readers nurture intimacy and trust, and cultivate a more secure relationship with a partner who has experienced past sexual trauma. In the book, readers will learn powerful, trauma-informed techniques to help them understand the full impact of their partner's past...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Harbinger Publications 2023
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Summary: "The author details her experiences in competitive gymnastics and the painful realities of being a victim of sexual abuse at the hands of serial abuser, Larry Nassar." --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HAINES, RACHEL HAIMiller, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2019
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Summary: Ghana. Eldest of four girls, Amerley is offered a job working for one of her mother's old school friends. She has to accept: her wages will feed her family, help her sisters stay in school, and ensure that her mother won't have to worry about them. Amerley's move to Accra isn't easy, but she soon settles into her new life away from her small village-- until she is raped by the son of her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GOKReyes, Sonora
Summary: "Ariana Ruiz wants to be noticed. But as an autistic girl who never talks, she goes largely ignored by her peers--despite her bold fashion choices. So when cute, popular Luis starts to pay attention to her, Ari finally feels seen. Luis's attention soon turns to something more, and they have sex at a party--while Ari didn't say no, she definitely didn't say yes. Before she has a chance to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC REYWeiner, Jennifer
Summary: "Daisy Shoemaker can't sleep. With a thriving cooking business, full schedule of volunteer work, and a beautiful home in the Philadelphia suburbs, she should be content. But her teenage daughter can be a handful, her husband can be distant, her work can feel trivial, and she has lots of acquaintances, but no real friends. Still, Daisy knows she's got it good. So why is she up all night? While...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Weiner 2021Summary: A fiercely independent woman is gang raped, then battles the legal system twice, going after both her attackers and the onlookers whose cheering fueled and encouraged the assault.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2002
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Summary: "Rape is, unfortunately, an all-too-common violent crime usually perpetrated against women. For victims, the process of sharing information about the assault with loves ones or reporting the crime to police can be harrowing, embarrassing, and painful. The emotional aftermath and the responses of others can greatly affect the way a rape survivor copes. Although there are trained counselors to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Square One Publishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.15 MCESchwartzman, Nancy
Summary: An incisive narrative about a teen rape case that divided a Rust Belt town, exposing the hostile and systemic undercurrents that enable sexual violence, and spotlighting ways to make change. In football-obsessed Steubenville, Ohio, on a summer night in 2012, an incapacitated sixteen-year-old girl was repeatedly assaulted by members of the "Big Red" high school football team. They took turns...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.15 SCHGoldberg, Lee
Summary: "A catastrophic wildfire scorches the Santa Monica Mountains, exposing the charred remains of a woman who disappeared years ago. The investigation is assigned to Eve Ronin, the youngest homicide detective in the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, a position that forces her to prove herself again and again. This time, though, she has much more to prove. Bones don't lie, and these have a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC GOLLi, Winnie M.
Summary: "One bright spring afternoon in West Belfast, cosmopolitan Taiwanese-American tourist Vivian's path collides with fifteen-year-old Irish teenager Johnny and culminates in a horrifying act of violence. Inspired by true events, a riveting novel of suspense about of the dark chapters and chance encounters that can irrevocably determine the shape of our lives"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC LISummary: From Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning director Kirby Dick, and Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning producer Amy Ziering comes a startling expose of sexual assault on US campuses, their institutional cover-ups, and the devastating toll they take on students and their families. Weaving together cinema verite footage and first person testimonies, the film follows the lives...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HUNSummary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2011