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From a New York Times bestselling author, a Southern woman returns home to exact revenge on the wealthy family who tried to destroy her.
Years ago, Jade Sperry endured a nightmare at the hands of three local hell-raisers. Confronted with scandal and tragedy, she ran as far and fast as she could. But Jade has never forgotten the sleepy "company town" where every man, woman, and child was dependent on one wealthy family–especially...
Years ago, Jade Sperry endured a nightmare at the hands of three local hell-raisers. Confronted with scandal and tragedy, she ran as far and fast as she could. But Jade has never forgotten the sleepy "company town" where every man, woman, and child was dependent on one wealthy family–especially...
2) Fractured
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English
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"With its gracious homes and tree-lined streets, Ansley Park is one of Atlanta's most desirable neighborhoods. But in one gleaming mansion, in a teenager's lavish bedroom, a girl has been savagely murdered. And in the hallway, her horrified mother stands amid shattered glass, having killed her daughter's attacker with her bare hands." "Detective Will Trent of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation is here only to do a political favor; the murder site...
4) Knife music
Author
Series
Hank Madden novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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Six months after saving the life of teenage accident victim Kristen Kroiter, emergency room surgeon Ted Cogan is shocked when he is questioned by police in the wake of her baffling suicide, which causes the womanizing Cogan to be wrongly accused of rape.
5) Dreamland
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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After her older sister runs away, sixteen-year-old Caitlin decides that she needs to make a major change in her own life and begins an abusive relationship with a boy who is mysterious, brilliant, and dangerous.
Author
Series
Way I used to be volume 1
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Eden used to be a good girl until her brother's best friend raped her. He told her no one would believe her if she said anything, and Eden believed him. So she kept the secret, and her personality and world changed overnight. She suddenly began lashing out with booze and sex, lying to her caring boyfriend, and sabotaging her relationship with her friends. Eden's story plays out over four years of high school, as she painfully but surely finds her...
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Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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The Woodburys cherish life in the affluent, bucolic suburb of Avalon Hills, Connecticut. George is a beloved science teacher at the local prep school, a hero who once thwarted a gunman, and his wife, Joan, is a hardworking ER nurse. They have brought up their children in this thriving town of wooded yards and sprawling lakes.Then one night a police car pulls up to the Woodbury home and George is charged with sexual misconduct with students from his...
8) Honor code
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Publisher
Carolrhoda Lab
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Fifteen-year-old Sam contacts a reporter, hoping to expose a fellow student at elite Edwards Academy for rape, but the reporter tells her parents and soon, she is facing him in court.
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Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
[1991]
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English
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College freshman Elizabeth Mason grew up with every advantage, but her life is thrown into chaos after a violent encounter Elizabeth Mason's parents always strived for the best for their daughter, sparing no expense on her education and upbringing. Now, on the verge of her freshman year at prestigious Layton College, Elizabeth has grown into a brilliant and compassionate young woman, if a little spoiled and naïve. But when a senior tennis star named...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
"Trixie Stone is fourteen years old and in love for the first time. She's also the light of her father's life - a straight-A student; a freshman in high school who is pretty and popular; a girl who's always looked up to Daniel Stone as a hero. Until, that is, her world is turned upside down with a single act of violence ... and suddenly everything Trixie has believed about her family - and herself - seems to be a lie." "For fifteen years, Daniel Stone...
11) Coal black horse
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Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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When Robey Childs's mother experiences a premonition about her husband, a Civil War soldier, she sends her only son to retrieve his father from the battlefield, accompanied by a horse that becomes his only companion as he makes his way through the destruction of war.
12) Leslie's journal
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Publisher
Annick Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Leslie's life seems to settle from chaos to wonderful when Jason, the new guy in school, asks her out. Things quickly change, however, and spin out of control as she finds out that Jason is not as nice as she thought and she must find a way to break out of the relationship.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Two years after she was raped, Ashley, now a high school junior and still struggling with everyday life, sees her family falling apart. Includes resources about sexualized violence and rape culture.
14) Child of grace
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Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Following a date gone horribly wrong in which EJ (Eva Jean) was secretly given a date rape drug by her business partner's son, EJ has come home seeking an abortion, because she knows she would forever be haunted by memories of the rapist though a child created from rape. Facing one of the hardest decisions of her life, EJ heads home to Cullen's Corner to sort things out. As time passes and EJ spends time with old friends, will her belief in God return...
15) The last lie
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Series
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English
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Alan and Lauren Gregory's new neighbors - a legend in women's rights law and his beautiful wife - throw a house-warming party that ends in quiet disaster. One guest elects to spend the night, only to wake the next morning with no memory of getting ready for bed. Aware that something went terribly wrong, she goes to the police. A national celebrity is soon accused of rape. Lauren, a deputy DA, and detective Sam Purdy both learn facts they can't share...
16) Good and gone
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Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
While on a road trip with her depressed older brother and gay friend, to find a missing musician, fifteen-year-old Lexi grapples with painful memories of sexual assualt by her ex-boyfriend.
17) Speak
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Overview: The first ten lies they tell you in high school. "Speak up for yourself--we want to know what you have to say." From the first moment of her freshman year at Merryweather High, Melinda knows this is a big fat lie, part of the nonsense of high school. She is friendless, outcast, because she busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops, so now nobody will talk to her, let alone listen to her. As time passes, she becomes increasingly isolated...
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Publisher
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Four teens shattered by high pressure, loss, grief and trauma cope by lying, dissociating and imagining themselves far away before finding the courage to confront their problems head-on.
19) Blue Diary
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
The courage to face the unthinkable is at the core of this magnificent new novel. How do we manage to confront the truths in our lives and find forgiveness in the most unforgiving of circumstances? How do we love truly and deeply in a world that is as brutal as it is beautiful? When Ethan Ford fails to show up for work on a brilliant summer morning, none of his neighbors would guess that for more than thirteen years, he has been running from his past....
20) Phaedra: a novel
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Publisher
Alcove Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"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...