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41) Disappeared
Author
Series
Disappeared (Stork) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Four months ago Sara Zapata's best friend, Linda, disappeared from the streets of Juarez, and ever since Sara has been using her job as a reporter to draw attention to the girls who have been kidnapped by the criminals who control the city, but now she and her family are being threatened--meanwhile her younger brother, Emiliano, is being lured into the narcotics business by the promise of big money, and soon the only way for both of them to escape...
42) Rain rising
Author
Series
Rain novels (Comrie) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Rain is keeping a big secret from everyone around her: She's sad. All the time. Rain struggles with her image and feels inferior to her best friend, Nara. Not even her all-star student-athlete big brother (and personal superhero), Xander, can help Rain with her dark thoughts and low self-esteem. And when Xander becomes the victim of violence at a predominantly white university, Rain’s life and mind take a turn for the worse. But when her favorite...
44) Malala Yousafzai
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Introduces readers to Malala Yousafzai, a young Pakistani girl who stands up and speaks out for every child's right to education.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Formats
Description
Text and photographs look at the life of Malala Yousafzai, a Muslim teenage girl from Pakistan, who advocates for education of women and children, and whom the Taliban attempted to assassinate on October 9, 2012.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"On August 14, 2014, five days after the fatal shooting of Michael Brown ignited race riots throughout the city of Ferguson, Missouri, the nation found an unlikely hero in Captain Ron Johnson of the Missouri Highway Patrol. Charged with the Herculean task of restoring peace between a hostile African American community and the local police, Johnson, a 30-year law enforcement veteran and an African American, did the unthinkable; he took off his bullet-proof...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Across the Tracks introduces the reader to the businesses and townsfolk who flourished in this unprecedented time of prosperity for Black Americans. We learn about Greenwood and why it is essential to remember the great achievements of the community as well as the tragedy which nearly erased it. However, Ball is careful to recount the eventual recovery of Greenwood. With additional supplementary materials including a detailed preface, timeline, and...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
“My job is to go to places where people die. I pack my bags, talk to the survivors, write my stories, then go home to wait for the next catastrophe. I don’t wait very long.” Journalist Patricia Evangelista came of age in the aftermath of a street revolution that forged a new future for the Philippines. Three decades later, in the face of mounting inequality, the nation discovered the fragility of its democratic institutions under the regime...
49) Trust
Publisher
Millenium Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
High definition.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (106 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inches
Language
English
Description
When a young girl is assaulted by an older man she meets on the Internet, her family's bonds are ripped apart as her father searches across the country in an effort to track down her attacker and exact revenge.
50) Lovelace
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Dramatizes the life of Linda Lovelace, star of the 1970s pornographic film "Deep throat" and later an activist protesting violence against women.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xxii, 282 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Instructs parents, counselors and educators on how to empower elementary school-aged girls to resolve friendship struggles and bullying, sharing guidelines for connecting compassionately with affected students and responding in productive ways.
52) Anesthesia
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
While on his way home one evening, Walter Zarrow, a popular Columbia University philosophy professor, is violently attacked on the street. Flashing back one week to the beginning of a domino effect of events that led up to this seemingly senseless assault, the film traces hidden connections between an apparently disparate group of people.
Author
Language
English
Description
Driving home one rainy night, Cassie Larkin sees a man and woman fighting on the side of the road. After calling 911, the veterinarian makes a split-second decision that will throw her sedate suburban life into chaos. Against all reason and advice, she gets out of her minivan and chases after the violent man, trying to help his victim. When Cassie physically tries to stop him, he suddenly turns on her and spits out an ominous threat: "Let her die,...
55) Peach
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
101 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Something has happened to Peach. Staggering around the town streets in the aftermath of an assault, Peach feels a trickle of blood down her legs, a lingering smell of her anonymous attacker on her skin. It hurts to walk, but she manages to make her way to her home, where she stumbles into another oddly nightmarish reality: Her parents can't seem to comprehend that anything has happened to their daughter. The next morning, Peach tries to return to...
57) Anything for you
Author
Series
Valerie Hart novels volume 3
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
340 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Critically acclaimed author Saul Black returns with a heart-racing thriller in which a brutal murder forces one woman to reckon with her own past-and her future. On a hot summer night, a watchful neighbor locks eyes with an intruder and unwittingly alerts the police to a vicious crime scene next door: a lavish master bedroom where a man lies dead. Next to him, his wife is bleeding out onto the hardwood floor, clinging to life. The victim, Adam Grant,...
Author
Publisher
Umbriel
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
1 edición.
Physical Desc
381 pages ; 23 cm
Language
Español
Description
Bailey Carpenter trabaja en un prestigioso bufete de abogados. Su trabajo le apasiona y se dedica a él a tiempo completo. Un día recibe el encargo de vigilar a un padre que no paga la manutención de su hijo y en plena noche, mientras vigila sin pensar en los peligros, es atacada brutalmente. La agresión, casi mortal, cambiará su vida para siempre. Bailey no puede salir de casa sin sufrir ataques de pánico ... En la seguridad de su apartamento...
Publisher
Hart Sharp Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Standard.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 56 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
On September 5, 1972, terror took over the Olympic games when Arab terrorists killed two Israeli athletes and took nine more hostage. Those who reported it to the world, including Peter Jennings and Jim McKay, recall the events of that day.
60) Lucky
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
254 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this candid memoir, Alice Sebold reveals how her life was transformed when, as an 18-year-old college freshman, she was raped and beaten. Sebold tells of her road to recovery and how she secured her attacker's arrest and conviction.
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