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181) What Mr. Mattero did
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Three seventh-grade girls accuse their music teacher of having touched them inappropriately and sexually.
Author
Publisher
Seal Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
For decades, in a small-town gym in Michigan, Larry Nassar honed his manipulations on generations of aspiring gymnasts. Kids from the neighborhood. Girls with hopes of a college scholarship. Athletes and parents with a dream. Pesta describes Nassar's increasingly bold predations through the years, recounts their warning calls unheeded, and demonstrates their resiliency in the face of a nightmare. -- adapted from jacket
Author
Publisher
Thames and Hudson
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"The 1970s was a time of deep division and newfound freedoms. Galvanized by 'The Second Sex' and 'The Feminine Mystique', the civil rights movement and the March on Washington, a new generation put their bodies on the line to protest injustice. Still, even in the heart of certain resistance movements, sexual violence against women had reached epidemic levels. Initially, it went largely unacknowledged. But some bold women artists and activists, including...
185) Stained
Author
Publisher
Harcourt, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A teenaged girl bullied for her port-wine stain must summon her personal strength to survive abduction and horrific abuse at the hands of a deranged killer.
Author
Language
English
Description
The crucial skills taught of this title will help children to protect their bodies from inappropriate touch. Children will be empowered to say in a strong and clear voice, "This is my body! What I say goes!" Through age-appropriate illustrations and engaging text this book will teach children the crucial and empowering skills in personal body safety.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsEspañol
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Español
Description
En 2017, durante la ola de acusaciones de agresión sexual contra hombres poderosos, Vanessa Wye se ve envuelta en una polémica. Su antiguo profesor de Literatura, Jacob Strane, ha sido acusado de abuso sexual por otra exalumna. El escándalo desencadena en Vanessa una multitud de recuerdos del tiempo que pasó en Browick, un idílico internado en Maine, cuando tenía quince años. Allí, en sus días de estudiante ambiciosa y precoz, mantuvo una...
190) Scars
Author
Publisher
WestSide Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Kendra, a budding artist, has not felt safe since she began to recall devastating memories of childhood sexual abuse, especially since she cannot remember her abuser's identity, and she copes with the pressure by cutting herself.
Publisher
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"An anthology of powerfully honest and intimate letters written by trans and non-binary survivors of sexual violence, offering support and guidance to fellow survivors with additional resources for allies and professionals."--Publisher website.
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"From ESPN journalists whose investigation garnered a Peabody Award, the full devastating story of former physician Larry Nassar's serial abuse of America's elite gymnasts and others, revealing the win-at-all-costs culture in youth athletics and higher education that enabled him"--
Barr and Murphy tell the full devastating story of former physician Larry Nassar's serial abuse of America's elite gymnasts and others -- for over a quarter century. They...
198) The #MeToo movement
Series
Publisher
Greenhaven Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"#MeToo gained much-needed traction when celebrities began sharing their horrifying experiences in an effort to bring down a powerful studio mogul. Revelations of sexual harassment are often met with smearing and victim blaming, but many believe the Hollywood spotlight has a real chance of effecting change. Still, many feel threatened by this movement. Has #MeToo gone too far? Is its mission clear? Has it failed to include more marginalized groups?...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
Description
Deb Ralston, a detective with the Fort Worth police, has a lot on her plate in this follow up to Martin's earlier novel, Hacker. She has to investigate child abuse, a suicide and serial rape, all the while suffering from foot surgery.
200) Little rot
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Aima and Kalu are a long-time couple who have just split. When Kalu, reeling from his loss, visits a sex party hosted by his best friend Ahmed, he makes a decision that will plunge them all into chaos, brutally upending their lives. Ola and Souraya, two Nigerian sex workers visiting from Kuala Lumpur, intersect with the three old friends as everything goes to hell. Sucked into the city's corrupt underworld, they're all looking for a way out of the...
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