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Annabelle Collins' world is devastated, when her 6-year-old daughter dies in a Missouri school shooting.
The shooter is the first of its kind, a black female.
16-year-old Raven Monroe.
Annabelle's grief mutates into an obsessive relationship with Raven, who dwells behind bars, unremorseful.
Desperate to find out why Raven did what she did, Annabelle races against the executioner's clock, until finally, the horrific motive behind the murders is, revealed....
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Predators are everywhere and they can strike at any time, and they come in all shapes and sizes. More than 1.2 million families will report child sexual abuse by the end of this year. Research suggests that many hundreds of thousands more boys and girls from all backgrounds and of all ages may experience abuse that is not reported. To keep your family from becoming part of these frightening statistics, you must read this invaluable book.
Protecting...
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Her Word tells a story.
A well-known story that's not being told enough.
Combining both fictional and non-fictional accounts of sexual harassment and assault, Her Word tells the fictional story of Scarlett - a seventeen-year-old girl whose whole world is changed after a singular incident one night at a party. We follow Scarlett, her friends, family, and others who have all been impacted by this one event as they navigate the new world that has been...
84) Codependency Workbook: 7 Steps to Break Free From People Pleasing, Fear of Abandonment, Jealousy, An
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7 Steps to Break Free from the Chains of Codependency Once and for All Do you feel like you could never be independent?Are you tired of feeling like you can't say no in your relationships?Do you want to stop putting others before yourself? You're not alone. You want to be in a healthy, fulfilling relationship, but you don't know how to stop sabotaging yourself. It's not your fault that you don't know how to have better relationships. After all, no...
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'Indelible in the hippocampus is the laughter,' said Dr. Christine Blasey-Ford when she testified to congress in September 2018 about the men who victimized her. A year earlier, in October 2017, the hashtag #MeToo shone a light on the internalized, normalized sexual harassment and abuse that'd been ubiquitous for women for generations.
Among the first books to emerge from the #MeToo movement, Indelible in the Hippocampus is a truly intersectional...
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Practical solutions to stop the culture of bullying.
We've all seen bullies in action. Many of us have been the victims. Some of us have been the perpetrator. But thanks to all the attention being focused on bullies and the issues that surround them, awareness is growing of the damage bullying can do.
Whether we're raising children in this culture or we're part of the village that helps, we also need some effective and user-friendly tools to...
88) Survivaces
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Survivante d'un féminicide, Geneviève Rioux écrit ce recueil de poésie comme une reprise de pouvoir et de liberté. Au fil des poèmes se construit une réflexion sur l'improbable répétition de la violence vécue de mère en fille en des lieux et des temps éloignés. La poète donne voix à la souffrance d'une famille, à celle des ami.es, des proches et des connaissances, toutes et tous victimes de ces violences. Survivaces invite...
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J'excusais sa rage parce que je ne pouvais pas supporter de le voir tel qu'il était vraiment. Il aurait fallu également que je me voie telle que j'étais, et je refusais d'être une femme battue.
L'abus ne pourrait cesser que si j'admettais cette vérité.
Tant et aussi longtemps que je ne réussirais pas à dire à haute voix ce qu'il avait fait, le manège de la douleur ne pourrait pas s'arrêter pour me permettre de descendre du cheval de bois...
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Susan Brownmiller's groundbreaking bestseller uncovers the culture of violence against women with a devastating exploration of the history of rape-now with a new preface by the author exposing the undercurrents of rape still present today Rape, as author Susan Brownmiller proves in her startling and important book, is not about sex but about power, fear, and subjugation. For thousands of years, it has been viewed as an acceptable "spoil of war," used...
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School security is a top priority in today's world, and it is essential for schools to implement effective security measures to ensure the safety of students, teachers, and staff. In the Philippines, school security has become a growing concern in recent years, with several incidents of violence and threats affecting schools across the country.
In this book, we delve into the importance of school security and provide an in-depth analysis of the current...
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Against all evidence to the contrary, American men have come to believe that the world is tilted — economically, socially, politically — against them. A majority of men across the political spectrum feel that they face some amount of discrimination because of their sex. The authors of Gender Threat look at what reasoning lies behind their belief and how they respond to it. Many feel that there is a limited set of socially accepted ways for men...
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Following her first groundbreaking work, The Godfathers of Sex Abuse, Book I: Jeffrey Epstein, Professor Deana Pollard Sacks now takes on two other monstrous sex abusers: Harvey Weinstein and Bill Cosby. Sacks not only presents their dark stories of fraud, manipulation, and coercion, but she broadens the perspective to reveal the other types of abuse commonly aimed at women, simply because of their gender.
But she doesn't stop there. Professor Sacks...
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This insightful and practical guide delves deep into the complex issue of school bullying. Completely revised and updated, this edition of Field's best-selling resource explains what bullying is, the injuries and trauma it inflicts, the underlying reasons behind it and the need for more effective interventions.
Field presents valuable tools and tactics that busy teachers, parents and counsellors can use to empower students to effectively manage bullying....
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My real good friend passed away, and I decided to put our work and thoughts about these illegally modified exhausts into a book. His view on this new phenomenon resonated with me because we always discussed respect as the bottom line of any healthy relationship in this dimension. (A Huge word). If we had more respect in this world for all people, there would be a lot more peace here on earth. When we first heard the intentionally modified exhaust...
96) Mean
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True crime, memoir, and ghost story, Mean is the bold and hilarious tale of Myriam Gurba's coming of age as a queer, mixed-race Chicana. Blending radical formal fluidity and caustic humor, Gurba takes on sexual violence, small towns, and race, turning what might be tragic into piercing, revealing comedy. This is a confident, intoxicating, brassy book that takes the cost of sexual assault, racism, misogyny, and homophobia deadly seriously.
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"'When I was a child, I loved old men, and I could tell that they also loved me.' And so we are introduced to our deliciously incisive narrator: a popular English professor whose charismatic husband at the same small liberal arts college is under investigation for his inappropriate relationships with his former students. The couple have long had a mutual understanding when it comes to their extra-marital pursuits, but with these new allegations, life...
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In 2017, seven-year-old Ava in South Carolina wrote a letter to Tyshaun, an eight-year-old boy from Washington, DC. She asked him to be her pen pal; Ava thought they could help each other. The kids had a tragic connection-both were traumatized by gun violence. Ava's best friend had been killed in a campus shooting at her elementary school, and Tyshaun's father had been shot to death outside of the boy's elementary school. Ava's and Tyshaun's stories...
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On a summer night in 1984, nineteen-year-old UC Berkeley sophomore Karen Thomas leaves her uniformed patrol job and walks home alone in darkness. At the threshold of her apartment, a man assaults her at knifepoint. After a soul-chilling struggle, she manages to escape.
Though she is left traumatized by her assault and the subsequent trial of her attacker, she herself goes on to become a criminal defense lawyer, defending those accused of crimes as...
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More than one in five women and 5 percent of men are sexually assaulted while at college. Some survivors are coming forward; others are not. In We Believe You, students from every kind of college and university-large and small, public and private, highly selective and less so-share experiences of trauma, healing, and everyday activism, representing a diversity of races, economic and family backgrounds, gender identities, immigration statuses, interests,...
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