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201) Deliver us from evil
Series
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
A documentary on confessed pedophile priest Oliver O'Grady and attempts by the Catholic Church to cover up his actions. Includes interviews with O'Grady and his victims.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
From Emmy Award winning executive producer Dick Wolf comes the nineteenth season of the longest-running primetime drama currently on U.S. television. Mariska Hargitay returns as Sergeant Olivia Benson. As acting commander of the Special Victims Unit of the New York City Police Department, Lieutenant Benson leads a team of dedicated detectives seeking to bring sexually violent criminals to justice. --
Author
Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"An examination of the complex relationship between the women living near the U.S. base in Okinawa and the servicemen who are stationed there."
Okinawa, at the southern end of the Japanese archipelago, is host to a vast complex of U.S. military bases. Tensions are often exacerbated by the volatile relationship between islanders and the military, especially after the brutal rape of a twelve-year-old girl by three servicemen in the 1990s. Johnson focuses...
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"The Necktie Murderer has the London police on red alert and an innocent man is on a desperate quest to find the real sex criminal and clear his name. Alternating heart-pounding tension with distinctive Hitchcock humor, Frenzy marked the Master of Suspense's return to his native England after almost 20 years." --
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"As commander of the SVU, Capt. Olivia Benson is a seasoned veteran of the unit who has seen it all. She leads with empathy and professionalism, all the while dealing with her difficult past as a product of rape and her responsibility as a trailblazer in survivor advocacy, both of which influence the way she relates to the victims and perpetrators of each case." --
Author
Publisher
Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In Our Bodies, Their Battlefields, longtime intrepid war correspondent Christina Lamb makes us witness to the lives of women in wartime. An award-winning war correspondent for twenty-five years (she's never had a female editor) Lamb reports two wars--the "bang-bang" war and the story of how the people behind the lines live and survive. At the same time, since men usually act as the fighters, women are rarely interviewed about their experience of...
Author
Publisher
Verso
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In 2012, the promise of the democratic Egyptian Revolution was tempered by revelations of sexual assault in Tahrir Square in Cairo, the uprising's symbolic birthplace. Among the calls for freedom and liberation, there were also circles of dozens and sometimes hundreds of men that would form around a woman, isolating her, assaulting her, and challenging a woman's right to be in a public space. Radius recounts the formation of Opantish-Operation Anti-Sexual...
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Follows the cases and the internal workings of the Special Victims Unit of the New York City Police Department, headed by Acting Commander Sergeant Olivia Benson, as she and her team work to bring sexually violent criminals to justice.
214) Live through this
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
From the outside, fifteen-year-old Coley Sterling's life seems imperfect but normal, but for years she has buried her shame and guilt over a relationship that crossed the line and now that she has a chance at having a real boyfriend, Reece, the lies begin to unravel.
215) Celia, a slave
Author
Series
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Barbara Seyda's stunningly theatrical Celia, a Slave is a vivid tableau of interviews with the dead that interweaves oral histories with official archival records. Powerful, poetic, and stylistically bold, this work foregrounds twenty-three diverse characters to recall the events that led to the hanging of nineteen-year-old Celia, an African American slave convicted in a Missouri court of murdering her master, the prosperous landowner Robert Newsom,...
216) Courage in Patience
Author
Publisher
Kunati Inc
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Ashley Asher has suffered sexual abuse at the hands of her stepfather, Charlie, since she was nine but when she finally tells, her mother does not believe her and Ashley is sent to Patience, Texas, to live with the father she never knew and his wife and son.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"For two unforgettable decades, the unflinching series has followed the elite detectives of the New York City Police Department as they investigate crimes of sexual assault, child abuse, and domestic violence." --
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