Smith, 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 SMI

Watson, Cristy

Summary: "This book tells a tough but realistic story about teen relationships and sexual assault and how social media plays a role in magnifying its impact. In suburban Vancouver, in a multiracial mixed-income neighbourhood, three 14-year-old friends, a boy and two girls, go to a party organized by the boy's older brother. One of the girls, who comes from a mixed-race Aboriginal/Caucasian family of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction Watson 2018

Makino, Aoi

Summary: After that day, she stopped being a girl. In the wake of an assault, Nina Kamiyama, a former idol in the group Pure Club, shuns her femininity and starts dressing as a boy. At high school, she keeps to herself, but fellow student Hikaru Horiuchi realizes who she is. What secrets is she keeping? The shocking drama starts.

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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media LLC. 2020

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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 NOT

Neiderman, Andrew.

Summary: "Six years after "the incident" that no one will talk about, Victoria Myers returns to her small hometown in the Catskill Mountains. After years in therapy, she is determined to start living life to the full once again--particularly when she starts dating Bart Stonefield, son of a wealthy businessman. But the past has not yet been laid to rest. No one has ever been brought to justice for the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2016

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NEI

Louis, Édouard

Summary: "On Christmas Eve 2012, in Paris, the novelist Édouard Louis was raped and almost murdered by a man he had just met. This act of violence left Louis shattered; its aftermath made him a stranger to himself and sent him back to the village, the family, and the past he had sworn to leave behind. A bestseller in France; challenged and vindicated in the courts; History of Violence is a short...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2018

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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LOU

Butcher, Kristin

Summary: No one believes her. After accepting a ride home, Emma Kennedy is raped by a boy from school. But handsome, popular Ross Schroeder tells everyone that sex was consensual, and Emma is immediately branded a slut. Even Emma's best friend, Jen, doesn't believe Emma's version of events. In fact, she is angry with Emma because she feels betrayed. After all, she liked Ross first. But when Ross starts...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2019

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BUT

Fordham, Fred

Summary: The explosion of racial hate in an Alabama town is viewed by a little girl whose father defends a black man accused of rape.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2018

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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 FOR

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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA FIC LEE

Henderson, Eleanor

Summary: "Cotton County, Georgia, 1930: In a house full of secrets, two babies - one light-skinned, the other dark - are born to Elma Jesup, a white sharecropper's daughter. Accused of her rape, field hand Genus Jackson is lynched and dragged behind a truck down the road to the nearby town. In the aftermath, the farm's inhabitants are forced to contend with their complicity in a series of events that...

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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe, a trademark of HarperCollins Publishers 2017

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HEN

Hunt, Lynda Mullaly

Summary: Delsie loves tracking the weather, living with her grandmother, and the support of friends and neighbors, but misses having a "regular family," especially after her best friend outgrows her.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books 2019

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC HUN

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HUN

Mills, Kyle

Summary: "With President Anthony Cook convinced that Mitch Rapp poses a mortal threat to him, CIA Director Irene Kennedy is forced to construct a truce between the two men. The terms are simple: Rapp agrees to leave the country and stay in plain sight for as long as Cook controls the White House. In exchange, the administration agrees not to make any moves against him. This fragile détente holds until...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022

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Hawksley, Humphrey.

Summary: "Instructed to guide in a speed boat crossing from Russia in the Bering Strait, special forces Major Rake Ozenna watches in horror as the operation culminates in a fatal firefight - and the loss of vital intelligence of a deadly new weapon. A weapon of unimaginable power. A weapon that, if it were unleashed, would cripple civilization as we know it. But who sabotaged the mission? Who...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAW