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Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In the wake of being sexually assaulted by her pastor, sixteen-year-old Amina struggles to regain her footing until she finds the strength within herself to confront her abuser in court.
Sixteen-year-old Amina Conteh has always believed in using her tongue as her weapon--even when it gets her into trouble. After cursing at a classmate, her father forces her to volunteer at their church with Pastor Johnson. But Pastor Johnson isn't the holy man everyone...
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Throughout his long and illustrious career, Mark Bowden has written about crime and was recognized in 2010 with a lifetime achievement award by the International Thriller Writers organization. The Case of the Vanishing Blonde collects six of his most riveting pieces-accounts spanning four decades of searing characters and unsettling tales to illustrate all manner of crimes and the ways technology has progressively altered criminal investigation....
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
An award-winning filmmaker recounts the intimate abuse she suffered from former New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, using her story as a prism to examine the domestic violence crisis plaguing America.
Author
Publisher
WildBlue Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
On a clear, brisk night in September of 2000, thirty-three-year-old Della Brown was found sexually assaulted and beaten to death inside a filthy, abandoned shed in seedy part of Anchorage, Alaska. She was one of six women, mostly Native Alaskan, slain that year, stoking fears a serial killer was on the loose. A tanned and thuggish twenty-year-old would eventually implicate himself in three of the women's deaths and confess, in detail, to Della's murder....
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Traces the story of a former police officer who was wrongly accused of rape and kidnapping in 1956 Los Angeles, describing how a Latino detective fell in love with one of the victims and became the defender's only advocate.
Author
Series
Legal sidebar volume LSB10726
Publisher
Congressional Research Service
Pub. Date
2022-
Language
English
Author
Series
OPNAVINST volume 1752.1C
Publisher
Department of the Navy, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Author
Series
SECNAVINST volume 1752.4B
Publisher
Department of the Navy, Office of the Secretary
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English