Glenn, 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, Call number: B GLENN GLERose, 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 ROSHill, 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 HILKatz, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks, Inc. 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.8 KATLi, 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 LIBlack, Saul
Summary: "Critically acclaimed author Saul Black returns with a heart-racing thriller in which a brutal murder forces one woman to reckon with her own past--and her future. On a hot summer night, a watchful neighbor locks eyes with an intruder and unwittingly alerts the police to a vicious crime scene next door: a lavish master bedroom where a man lies dead. Next to him, his wife is bleeding out onto...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLAGlass, Emma
Summary: Something has happened to Peach. Staggering around the town streets in the aftermath of an assault, Peach feels a trickle of blood down her legs, a lingering smell of her anonymous attacker on her skin. It hurts to walk, but she manages to make her way to her home, where she stumbles into another oddly nightmarish reality: Her parents can't seem to comprehend that anything has happened to their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury USA 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GLAGraham, Heather
Summary: Someone is murdering beautiful young women in the New York area and displaying them in mausoleums and underground tombs. The FBI is handling the case, with Special Agent Craig Frasier as lead. Kieran Finnegan, forensic psychologist and part owner of Finnegan's, her family's pub, is consulting on the case. Craig and Kieran are a couple who've worked together on more than one occasion. On this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira Books 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Graham 2017Castillo, Linda
Summary: A deadly fire exposes the dark side of Amish life in this harrowing new thriller in the New York Times bestselling series. When a historic barn burns to the ground in the middle of the night, Chief of Police Kate Burkholder is called in to investigate. At first, it looks like an accident, but when the body of eighteen-year-old Daniel Gingerich is found inside--burned alive--Kate suspects...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: MYSTERY CASIhli, Noelle W.
Summary: James Carson has gotten away with murder three times. What James doesn't know is that his three victims have found each other. And that they're coming for him. Brecia, Meghan, and Skye might be dead, but they're not gone. And they won't rest until they find a way to keep him from killing again.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dynamite Books 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC IHLMukwege, Denis
Summary: "From Nobel laureate, world-renowned doctor, and noted human rights activist Dr. Denis Mukwege comes an inspiring clarion call-to-action to confront the scourge of sexual violence and better learn from women's resilience, strength, and power. At the heart of Dr. Mukwege's message will be the voices of the many women he has worked with over the years. Dr. Mukwege will use individual cases to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 610.82 MUKSolnit, Rebecca
Summary: In her comic, scathing essay "Men Explain Things to Me," Rebecca Solnit took on what often goes wrong in conversations between men and women. She wrote about men who wrongly assume they know things and wrongly assume women don't, about why this arises, and how this aspect of the gender wars works, airing some of her own hilariously awful encounters. She ends on a serious note-- because the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Haymarket Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.4 SOLSummary: 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 ESCChavez, Heather
Summary: When veterinarian Cassie Larkin sees a man and woman fighting on the side of the road she calls 911. She then gets out of her minivan and chases after the violent man, trying to help his victim. He turns on her and spits out an ominous threat: 'Let her die, and I'll let you live' and then steals her car. Now he has her name, her address, and he knows about her children. The next day--...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHAFielding, Joy.
Summary: "Deeply shaken after a brutal attack, Bailey Carpenter struggles to reclaim control over what had once seemed like a neatly-ordered life. Unable to face her job, her friends, or even the world outside her apartment, Bailey is trapped with her thoughts, replaying the attack in a desperate search for a detail that will help the police uncover the identity of her unknown assailant. Bailey sees her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2015
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Summary: A deadly fire resulting in the death of an Amish teen exposes the dark side of the community to which Chief of Police Kate Burkholder once belonged.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CASSchwartzman, 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 SCHBlack, Saul.
Summary: "When the two strangers turn up at Rowena Cooper's isolated Colorado farmhouse, she knows instantly that it's the end of everything. For the two haunted and driven men, on the other hand, it's just another stop on a long and bloody journey. And they still have many miles to go, and victims to sacrifice, before their work is done. For San Francisco homicide detective Valerie Hart, their trail of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Black 2015Fielding, Joy.
Summary: "A special investigator for a hotshot Miami law firm, Bailey Carpenter is fearless-- until she's attacked and nearly killed while on an assignment. Now nightmares merge into her waking hours and she's unable to venture beyond her front door without panicking. Soon Bailey finds a new use for her idle binoculars: casually observing from her window neighboring buildings and other people's lives....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2015
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Summary: Wrapping up a normal day at the office, criminal psychologist Kieran Finnegan is accosted by a desperate woman who shoves an infant into her arms and then flees, only to be murdered minutes later on a busy Manhattan street. Who was the woman? Where did the baby come from? Kieran can't stop thinking about the child and the victim, so her boyfriend, Craig Frasier, does what any good special agent...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Graham 2018Carter, Jimmy
Summary: "The world's discrimination and violence against women and girls is the most serious, pervasive, and ignored violation of basic human rights: This is President Jimmy Carter's call to action. President Carter was encouraged to write this book by a wide coalition of leaders of all faiths. His urgent report covers a system of discrimination that extends to every nation. Women are deprived of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014