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1) Earth star
Author
Series
Earth girl trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Eighteen-year-old Jarra has a lot to prove. After being awarded one of the military's highest honors for her role in a daring rescue attempt, Jarra finds herself - and her Ape status - in the spotlight. Jarra is one of the unlucky few born with an immune system that cannot survive on other planets. Derided as an "ape"- a "throwback" - by the rest of the universe, Jarra is on a mission to prove that Earth Girls are just as good as anyone else. Except...
Pub. Date
[1939]
Language
English
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Description
This adaption of Frances Hodgson Burnett's classic children's novel stars Shirley Temple as Sara Crewe, a kindhearted rich girl left penniless after her father is reported dead in battle. She is forced to work as a maid under the harshest of conditions but continues to search for the truth about her father's disappearance. The New York Times critic Janet Maslin, in 1983, described the film as culminating in "a happy ending sure to make even grown-up...
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A collection of personal stories of trauma and recovery from women around the world. Curated by Best-selling Author and Editor of SPEAK Magazine Edna J. White, who contributed her own piece "Layers of Me" to the project, "Women Write Now" compiles the experiences of several writers, professors, artists, and mothers through their own tales of survival and empowerment after life-altering events of violence and domestic abuse." -- Adapted from amazon.com....
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A powerful source of healing for teen girls and young women who have experienced sexual abuse, Invisible Girls offers survivors agency and hope in an era when too many girls have suffered alone The statistics are staggering. One in four girls will experience sexual abuse by the time she is sixteen, and 48 percent of all rapes involve a young woman under the age of eighteen. It's not surprising then, that in a society where sexual abuse of young women...
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In Qatar, allegedly 4000 workers will die to put on the 2022 Football World Cup. This staggering figure indicates the slave-like conditions the builders of football's most expensive construction project are enduring. Qatar's capital Doha is a beautiful desert oasis of incredible wealth, built by migrant workers who are almost slaves. Bullied, abused, yet somehow still grateful? Their choice is between dehumanising conditions or a return to poverty...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A generation of American Christian girls was taught submitting to men is God's will. They should not question the men in their families or their pastors. They were told to remain sexually pure and trained to feel shame if a man was tempted. Some of these girls were abused and assaulted. Some made to shrink down so small they became a fraction of themselves. To question their leaders was to question God himself. All the while, their male leaders built...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Sassy, streetwise Sammy is falling through the cracks. Neglected by an alcoholic mother, the problems she endures at school and home lead her to act out, seeking attention from unseemly adults when what she wants most is protection. Meanwhile, in a small Eastern European village, sweet Nico is about to turn 13. As her family falls upon desperate times, her father receives an offer of money to marry her off. But when she's shuttled across the border...
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Doctors of the Dark Side is the first feature-length documentary that exposes the wrongdoing behind the Abu Ghraib torture scandal, how American psychologists and physicians betrayed their oaths and actively facilitated and covered up the torture of detainees in U.S.-controlled military prisons. This program highlights torture occurrences at Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, and select CIA Black Sites.
Pub. Date
[1975]
Language
Français
Description
Maupassant's story is of a young servant girl seduced, made pregnant, and abandoned by her master, who dies because she cannot live without him. This dramatized version focuses on the relationships between people and the landscapes amid which they live, a story reflective both of Maupassant's view of life and of the style in which he described it.
Pub. Date
[2013], c2010
Language
English
Description
This program combines exclusive on-the-job footage of corrections staff as they address the challenges of sexual victimization on a day-to-day basis. The addition of unprecedented interviews with incarcerated youth and candid conversations with subject-matter experts makes this video a truly unique training tool. Contains explicit language.
13) Moth to a flame
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"With reign over [Flint's] drug trade, Benjamin Atkins made sure that his precious daughter Raven was secluded from the grit that the city had to offer. But when Raven's young heart gets claimed by Mizan, a stick-up kid in search of a come-up, there's nothing Benjamin can do about losing her to the streets. She chooses love over loyalty and runs off with Mizan, but her new role as wifey soon proves to be more than she can handle"--Back cover.
14) Dark blood
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Español
Description
Misael is imprisoned, waiting to be sentenced for a revenge crime against the man who killed his child. During his confinement, he must adapt to a new life of abuse. His former life starts to become a distant memory as he is forgotten by his loved ones. Misael, lonely and abandoned, find affection and tenderness in Sarna, the dog of the prison.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"A revealing book about how government, law enforcement, and bureaucratic interests are seizing our property, our children, our savings, and our fundamental American rights-and how to fight back. Liberty and justice for all is the bedrock of American democracy, but has America betrayed our founders' vision for the nation? In When They Come For You, New York Times bestselling author David Kirby exposes federal, state, and local violations of basic...
16) Caged
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
In the psychological horror/thriller Caged, Harlow Reid, an affluent African American psychiatrist, is sent to federal prison after being found guilty of murdering his wife. He is then sent to solitary confinement, a victim of systemic racism. Isolated and fighting for an appeal, he slowly descends into madness, pushed to his breaking point by an abusive female guard hell-bent on her own form of justice. Haunted by internal demons and his dead wife,...
17) Blindsided
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Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Presents the further adventures of the members of the Sisterhood.
Pub. Date
[2013], c2012
Language
English
Description
In 1972, a young TV reporter named Geraldo Rivera exposed the horrific abuse of mentally disabled children at the Willowbrook State School in Staten Island, New York. This program contains Rivera's original report, Willowbrook: The Last Great Disgrace, and presents a follow-up film about former residents of the now defunct facility. Viewers meet two individuals who suffered for years at the notorious institution but subsequently flourished in group...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After leaving her position with Charlotte and Thomas Pitt to get married, Gracie thought her days as a maid were behind her. But when her good friend's daughter, Millie, turns up on her doorstep just before the holidays, frantic because things are going missing from the kitchen in the household she serves, Gracie knows she has to find out what is happening. Millie, whose mother died years before, can't risk being accused of theft and getting thrown...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The raw, uplifting, and unforgettable memoir from the CEO and president of the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence chronicling her personal battle against abuse, violence, and even a murder attempt. Ruth M. Glenn wasn't surprised the first time her husband beat her. She was hurt and disappointed but after a childhood in a broken and violent home, she was not surprised. After all, this was just the way things were, right? It was only after...
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