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[2021]
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English
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Leigh Collier has worked hard to build what looks like a normal life. She has a good job as a defense attorney, a daughter doing well in school, and even her divorce is relatively civilized-her life is just as unremarkable as she'd always hoped it would be. But Leigh's ordinary life masks a childhood which was far from average ... a childhood tarnished by secrets, broken by betrayal, and finally torn apart by a devastating act of violence. Then a...
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[2022]
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English
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The acclaimed, best-selling author of This Could Hurt returns with her biggest, boldest novel yet--an electrifying, twisty, and deeply emotional family drama, set on Manhattan's glittering Upper East Side, that explores the dark side of love, the limits of loyalty, and the high cost of truth. You can have everything, and still not have enough. Cassie Quinn may only be 23, but she knows a few things. One: Money can't buy happiness, but it's certainly...
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"In The Night Swim, a new thriller from Megan Goldin, author of the "gripping and unforgettable" (Harlen Coben) The Escape Room, a true crime podcast host covering a controversial trial finds herself drawn deep into a small town's dark past and a brutal crime that took place there years before. After the first season of her true crime podcast became an overnight sensation and set an innocent man free, Rachel Krall is now a household name-and the last...
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Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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Eden and Josh never had a fair shot at a healthy relationship. When they dated in high school, they each had their own problems getting in the way of the deep connection they felt toward one another. Unbeknownst to Josh, Eden was carrying the burden of a devastating sexual assault, while Josh was dealing with his own private struggle of having an alcoholic father. Months after Eden and two other girls publicly accuse their rapist, Eden is starting...
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Alcove Press
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Phaedra has been cast to the side all her life: daughter of an adulteress, sister of a monster, and now unwilling bride to the much-older, power-hungry Theseus. Young, naïve, and idealistic, she has accepted her lot in life, resigned to existing under the sinister weight of Theseus's control and the constant watchful eye of her handsome stepson Hippolytus. When supposedly pious Hippolytus assaults her, Phaedra's world is darkened in the face of...
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2023 Summer Reading - Read Outside Your Comfort Zone: Frequently Challenged Books
2023-05 - National Inventors Month
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A young girl growing up in an Alabama town in the 1930s learns of injustice and violence when her father, a widowed lawyer, defends a black man falsely accused of rape. One of the best-loved stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has earned many distinctions since its original publication in 1960. It won the Pulitzer Prize, has been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than thirty million copies worldwide, and been made into an...
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"Find Your Voice" Teen Books
Books Written in Verse- Youth and Teen
OBD April Is National Poetry Month - YOUTH
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In Renaissance Italy, Artemisia Gentileschi endures the subjugation of women that allows her father to take credit for her extraordinary paintings, rape and the ensuing trial, and torture, buoyed by her deceased mother's stories of strong women of the Bible.
Rome, 1605: After her mother's death, Artemisia Gentileschi had a stark choice: a life as a nun in a convent or a life grinding pigment for her father's paint. She chose paint. Artemisia became...
8) Disobedient
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Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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Artemisia Gentileschi, growing up in a family of all-male painters, dreams of becoming a great artist in 1611 Rome and completes lesson after lesson until a mysterious tutor threatens her honor and virtue and she is put on trial.
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HQ
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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Attending an elite all-boys boarding school in London, Kamran Hadid feels invincible until a night of revelry leads to a drunken encounter and he must ask himself a horrific question, in this unputdownable courtroom drama that takes on toxic masculinity, rape and privilege.
10) Rough justice
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Severn House Publishers Ltd
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2015.
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English
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"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 his only ally, he finds himself incurring the wrath of...
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HarperCollins Espanol
Pub. Date
[2015]
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Español
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El consejo de un abogado a sus hijos mientras él defiende el verdadero ruiseñor de la novela clásica de Harper Lee —un hombre negro acusado de violar a una niña blanca. A través de los ojos de Jem y Scout Finch, Harper Lee explora con humor y honestidad inquebrantable la irracionalidad de la actitud de los adultos hacia la raza y la clase en las profundidades del sur en la década de 1930. La conciencia de una ciudad impregnada de prejuicios,...
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2000]
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English
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Nora Braxton's life is falling apart. Her husband has run off with a waitress almost young enough to be his daughter, leaving behind unpaid taxes amounting to thousands of dollars. In addition, her vindictive mother continues to criticize her, telling her how to run her life, constantly berating her with shrill choruses of "I-told-you-so." To make matters worse, Nora's thirteen-year-old son wants to run off to Miami to live with his freethinking,...
14) Fury
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Several cases are entwined in this new Butch Karp story: Karp, now acting district attorney, and his family and friends unmask legal, law-enforcement, and moral corruption as they separately and together face a terrorist threat, marshal a defense against four young black men claiming they were wrongly convicted, and review a rape charge brought by a student against her professor.
15) Zabić drozda
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Polish
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"Ponadczasowa opowieść o prześladowaniach na tle rasowym, które doprowadziły do niejednej tragedii. Poznaj wyjątkowe dzieło Harper Lee, poszerzając własne horyzonty. "Zabić drozda" to powieść polityczna należąca do klasyki, taka, której nie sposób nie znać. Porusza problem rasizmu i społecznego przyzwolenia na nie. Głównymi bohaterami są: Atticus Finch oraz dwójka jego dzieci (Jeremy i Jean Louis). Mieszkają oni w fikcyjnym...
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Español
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Situado en la peque?a ciudad del sur de Maycomb, Alabama, durante la Gran Depresi?n, la historia sigue a tres a?os en la vida de Scout Finch, su hermano, Jem, y su padre, Atticus. Los tres a?os son interrumpidas por la detenci?n y el juicio final un hombre negro acusado de violar a una mujer blanca. El resultado es una novela de raza, clase social, la justicia y el dolor de crecer, todo a trav?s de los ojos de una ni?a.
Set in the small Southern...
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