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1) Wringer
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
As Palmer comes of age, he must either accept the violence of being a wringer at his town's annual Pigeon Day or find the courage to oppose it.
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Series
Language
English
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Shows the many good things that toddlers can do with their hands including waving, hugging, and playing--but not hitting.
"Psychologist Martine Agassi helps young children understand that violence is never okay, that they can manage their anger and other strong feelings, and that they're capable of positive, loving actions. ": Free Sprit Publishing
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Language
English
Description
Bill Browning heads the trauma unit at San Franciscos busiest emergency room, SF General. With his ex-wife and daughters in London, he immerses himself in his work and lives for rare visits with his children. A rising star at her teaching hospital, UCSF at Mission Bay, Stephanie Lawrence has two young sons, a frustrated stay-at-home husband, and not enough time for any of them. Harvard-educated Wendy Jones is a dedicated trauma doctor at Stanford,...
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Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Language
English
Description
We call it domestic violence. We call it private violence. Sometimes we call it intimate terrorism. But whatever we call it, we generally do not believe it has anything at all to do with us, despite the World Health Organization deeming it a “global epidemic.” In America, domestic violence accounts for 15 percent of all violent crime, and yet it remains locked in silence, even as its tendrils reach unseen into so many of our most pressing national...
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English
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"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author, a novel about the power of family to harm--and to heal. Within the walls of a tasteful, perfectly kept house in North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains, young Zane Bigelow feels like a prisoner of war. Strangers--and even Zane's own aunt across the lake--see his parents as a successful surgeon and his stylish wife, making appearances at their children's ballet recitals and baseball games. Zane and his...
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English
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"When young, pretty Catherine Bailey meets Lee Brightman, she can't believe her luck. Gorgeous, charismatic, and a bit mysterious, Lee seems almost too perfect to be true. But what begins as flattering attention and spontaneous, passionate sex transforms into raging jealousy, and Catherine soon discovers that Lee's dazzling blue eyes and blond good looks hide a dark, violent nature. ... Increasingly isolated and driven into the darkest corner of her...
8) Whispers
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Publisher
Delacorte Press
Language
English
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"It can happen in the best of families--even the Fergusons. When Lynn and Robert first meet, she's bright, fresh-faced twenty-year old; he's handsome, a bit older, a charming young executive on the fast track. From the start they fall deeply in love, thrilled by the discovery of their mutual desire. But as early as their honeymoon the gold begins to tarnish, when Robert's anger erupts into a physical assault, one for which Lynn blames herself. To...
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English
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We've all asked, "What is the world coming to?" But we seldom ask, "How bad was the world in the past?" In this startling new book, cognitive scientist Steven Pinker shows that the past was much worse. Evidence of a bloody history has always been around us: genocides in the Old Testament, gory mutilations in Shakespeare and Grimm, monarchs who beheaded their relatives, and American founders who dueled with their rivals. The murder rate in medieval...
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Series
David Pelzer trilogy volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
A man who suffered horrific abuse as a child speaks of his adult life and how he learned to love, trust, and pursue his dreams.
13) Code of the west
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Language
English
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School teacher Mary Stockwell is joined out west in the Tonto Basin of Arizona by her sister, Georgianna, sent there by her parents because of her outrageous behavior which has caused a "bad" lung. "Code of the West" is another Zane Grey novel which speaks to the riotous and unrestrained times in the country. A man's word was his bond, and a real man respected and honored women.
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CSPV fact sheet volume FS007
Publisher
Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence, Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado, Boulder
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
ABDO Pub. Co
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Violence in Video Games provides a balanced look at a hot-button topic. Discover the controversy over whether video game violence affects players and crime statistics, as well as the history of video games, ratings systems, and the First Amendment. Full-color photos, a glossary, an index, sidebars, primary source documents, and other creative content enhance the book. It also includes prompts and activities that directly engage students in developing...
17) See Me
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
"Colin Hancock is giving his second chance his best shot. At 28, he's focused only on walking a straight line-- getting his teaching degree, working out at the gym religiously, and avoiding all the places and people that proved so destructive in his earlier life. The last thing he's looking for is a serious relationship. But when Maria Sanchez crosses paths with him on a rainswept night in North Carolina, his plans are upended in a way that will rattle...
18) Bone Tomahawk
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Four men from a settlement in the old west must ride to the edge of civilization to find some local townspeople who have been abducted. What they find is an evil beyond imagination and an enemy so brutal, they will never be the same again.
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CSPV school violence fact sheet volume SV07
Publisher
Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence, Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado, Boulder
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Description
In this book, domestic violence expert Lundy Bancroft uses his perspective as a therapist for abusive and controlling men to help women, their children, and other family members who have been touched by abuse understand why abusers behave the way they do and what can be done about it. Bancroft teaches women how to survive and improve an abusive relationship; how to determine how dangerous an abuser is and when it is impossible to rectify a situation;...