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1) Fury
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English
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Bestselling author Robert K. Tanenbaum astonishes readers with Fury, his most explosive book yet in the staggeringly popular Butch Karp/Marlene Ciampi series. In Brooklyn, a female jogger is brutally raped; the assailants are convicted and later exonerated by the Kings County DA. Now the guilty are filing a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against the city of New York, the police, and the two assistant DAs who tried the case. While the cops and the criminal...
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English
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"AN ORDINARY LIFE ... Leigh Collier has worked hard to build what looks like a normal life. She has a good job as a defense attorney, a daughter doing well in school, and even her divorce is relatively civilized-her life is just as unremarkable as she'd always hoped it would be. HIDES A DEVASTATING PAST ... But Leigh's ordinary life masks a childhood which was far from average ... a childhood tarnished by secrets, broken by betrayal, and finally torn...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Nora Braxton's life is falling apart. Her husband has run off with a waitress almost young enough to be his daughter, leaving behind unpaid taxes amounting to thousands of dollars. In addition, her vindictive mother continues to criticize her, telling her how to run her life, constantly berating her with shrill choruses of "I-told-you-so." To make matters worse, Nora's thirteen-year-old son wants to run off to Miami to live with his freethinking,...
Author
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
A legal thriller starring Karen Kern, who was raped by a handsome Harvard law student after a party. As everyone, including her parents and the police, assumes she provoked the man, Karen takes no legal action. But when a quarter century later she learns that her attacker is running for president Karen decides to obtain her revenge. A first novel.
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English
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"After ten years' absence and a spell in prison, Carl Burns has returned to his hometown of Rose City to offer support to his estranged daughter Kate, currently one of four witnesses testifying against former Mayor Joseph Sanderson III, who stands accused of multiple counts of underage rape. Carl is determined to get justice for Kate, whatever it takes. But with his former sister-in-law Frances his only ally, he finds himself incurring the wrath of...
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Series
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English
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"In The Night Swim, a new thriller from Megan Goldin, author of the "gripping and unforgettable" (Harlen Coben) The Escape Room, a true crime podcast host covering a controversial trial finds herself drawn deep into a small town's dark past and a brutal crime that took place there years before. After the first season of her true crime podcast became an overnight sensation and set an innocent man free, Rachel Krall is now a household name-and the last...
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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...
10) Truth be told
Author
Publisher
HQ
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Attending an elite all-boys boarding school in London, Kamran Hadid feels invincible until a night of revelry leads to a drunken encounter and he must ask himself a horrific question, in this unputdownable courtroom drama that takes on toxic masculinity, rape and privilege."--
11) Disobedient
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Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Artemisia Gentileschi, growing up in a family of all-male painters, dreams of becoming a great artist in 1611 Rome and completes lesson after lesson until a mysterious tutor threatens her honor and virtue and she is put on trial."--
14) Fade the heat
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Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
Description
On a quiet night, San Antonio's peace is shattered by insistent screams. A black maid working late in a downtown office building says she was attacked and raped by a young man who appears dumbfounded and confused as he is handcuffed and taken away.
Author
Publisher
Fawcett Columbine
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
A white girl is raped in Sacramento's Chinatown, but she refuses to talk or submit to a physical examination. The case is given to Chinese-American prosecutor Joshua Jin, while the defense is headed by a woman who is Jin's former lover.
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Publisher
HarperCollins Español
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Description
"The explosion of racial hate in an Alabama town is viewed by a little girl whose father defends a black man accused of rape." --
"La conciencia de una ciudad impregnada de prejuicios, violencia e hipocresía es golpeada por la resistencia y el silencioso heroísmo de la lucha de un hombre por la justicia, en este clásico ganador del Premio Pulitzer que se ha traducido a más de 40 idiomas." --
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