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61) Liar: Season one
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Laura Nielson, a smart and capable teacher not long out of a relationship, is set up on a date with recently widowed surgeon Andrew Earlham, the father of one of her students. However, the day after it is apparent that something has gone wrong, and the subsequent fallout rapidly spirals out of control, exposing the power of truth, deception, and trust.
62) Deliverance
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1970
Language
English
Description
The setting is the Georgia wilderness, where the states most remote white-water river awaits. In the thundering froth of that river, in its echoing stone canyons, four men on a canoe trip discover a freedom and exhilaration beyond compare. And then, in a moment of horror, the adventure turns into a struggle for survival as one man becomes a human hunter who is offered his own harrowing deliverance.
63) The Exile
Author
Series
Publisher
Bookshots, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
"Ex-cop Finn O'Grady hasn't been home in years. In Kilmeaden, Ireland, his ex-lover-- the woman he swore to protect-- is convinced an ancient curse has put her and her son in deadly danger. O'Grady has seen too much evil on earth to believe in the supernatural. And then the killing starts...." -- Back cover.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
In this searing memoir, the author, "the girl" at the center of the infamous Roman Polanski sexual assault case, breaks a virtual thirty-five year silence to tell her story and reflect on the events of that day and their lifelong repercussions. March 1977, Southern California. Roman Polanski drives a rented Mercedes along Mulholland Drive to Jack Nicholson's house. Sitting next to him is an aspiring actress, Samantha Geimer, recently arrived from...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Two-year-old Rachel Haines didn’t know that she would be committing to twenty-one years of hard work, dedication, and perseverance as she jumped into the foam pit during her first “mommy and me” gymnastics class. She had no idea that one day she would become a two-time National Team Member, two-time National Champion, and a Division I college gymnast at the University of Minnesota. Nor could she have known that she had just signed herself up...
Series
Publisher
LaserLight DVD
Pub. Date
[1999], c1999
Language
English
Description
[Blackmail] A young woman kills an artist who attempts to rape her. Her Scotland Yard detective boyfriend soon learns the killer's identity, but so has someone else. First produced as a silent film, then in this version with dialog.
[Easy Virtue] "After divorcing an abusive husband, an innocent woman makes a valiant effort at beginning her life anew, but she cannot escape the incidents surrounding her past."--Container
67) After the game
Author
Series
Field party novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Two years after being raped, Riley Young returns to Lawton, Alabama, with her fifteen-month-old daughter. She plans to help take care of her grandmother who has Alzheimers, even though it means she has to face the lies that forced her to leave town in the first place. She begins a friendship with the high school football star Brady Higgens, who is dealing with his own family problems.
Publisher
Zest Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Things We Haven't Said is a powerful collection of poems, essays, letters, vignettes and interviews written by a diverse group of impressive adults who survived sexual violence as children and adolescents. Structured to incorporate creative writing to engage the reader and informative interviews to dig for context, this anthology is a valuable resource of hope, grit and honest conversation that will help teens tackle the topic of sexual violence,...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"An adaptation of the Olivier Award-winning play that the New York Times wrote radiated with "visceral power," Suzie Miller's legal thriller Prima Facie is a heartbreaking, nuanced look at the system's flaws when protecting sexual assault and rape survivors, through the eyes of a star defense attorney"--
70) Sudden impact
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Sensitive to outcries of police brutality, San Francisco Detective Harry Callahan bosses send him on an out-of-town assignment until events cool down. But wherever Harry goes, things just get hotter. This time, he is tracking a traumatized rape victim who coldly guns down her bygone attackers-- and as secrets come to light, starts striking an empathetic chord in the pursuing lawman.
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"A YA memoir of sexual abuse in the Air Force academy, and the author's survival and healing."--Provided by publisher.
"'I want to be in the Air Force someday.' These are the words Polo Tate engraved on her junior dog tags at age eleven. It was an unpopular dream for most young girls, but her hard work paid off and at age eighteen, Polo started basic training at the United States Air Force Academy. She did everything right, from academics to athletics....