rape

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Edge of ready

Often helping her mother pay the bills and taking care of her younger brother, Dani Garcia is no stranger to adversity, but after she is raped she is forced to face her most challenging personal struggle yet.

Are you in the house alone?

As the recipient of threatening, obscene notes and phone calls, a high school girl becomes terrifyingly aware that she is under constant observation by a psychotic.

Salem Falls

Jack St. Bride arrives in the quiet town of Salem Falls, determined to rebuild his life and leave behind the accusations which ruined his reputation as a teacher, but just as his life is getting back on the right track, his past catches up with him.

Know my name

a memoir
2019
Looks at the life of Chanel Miller who was raped after a party on the Stanford University campus on January 18, 2015.
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Things we didn't talk about when I was a girl

a memoir
2019
The author shares her story of the betrayal she felt after her friend sexually assaulted her, including the conversation she had with him many years later.
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Girls like me

2019
In this high-interest novel for teens, sixteen-year-old Emma is raped by a popular boy from school.
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100 times

a memoir of sexism
2019
"An . . . account of one hundred experiences of sexism, harassment, discrimination and assault . . . Here are Woods' personal stories of 100 times she suffered or was witness to a sexually charged experience--from gender-based discrimination in work places, to unsolicited groping from strangers in public, to sexual assault--beginning from the time she was five years old to the present"--Publisher.
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My whole truth

2018
After killing her attacker, seventeen-year-old Seelie must prove in court and in the hallways of her high school that she acted in self-defense.
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Stolen things

a novel
2019
"When the daughter of a local police chief and dispatcher makes a horrific 911 call, the whole town jumps into action. JoJo is disorientated; she has been raped and beaten at the home of pro footballer Kevin Leeds. She doesn't know what happened to Kevin's trainer, whose beaten corpse is also discovered in the house. And she has no idea where her best friend Harper, who was with her earlier in the evening, could be. When Jojo dives into Harper's social media to look for clues to her whereabouts, she uncovers a shocking secret that turns everything she knew on its head"--Provided by publisher.
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Asking for it

2018
"Emma O'Donovan is eighteen, beautiful, and fearless. It's the beginning of summer in a quiet Irish town and tonight she and her friends have dressed to impress. Everyone is at the party, and all eyes are on Emma. The next morning Emma's parents discover her collapsed on the doorstep of their home, unconscious. She is disheveled, bleeding, and disoriented, looking as if she had been dumped there in a hurry ... [Relates] the devastating effects of rape and public shaming, told through the awful experience of a young woman whose life is changed forever by an act of violence."--Provided by publisher.
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