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English
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Returning to her Oklahoma hometown when her sister goes missing, an archeologist for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Syd Walker, digs into the case, uncovering a string of missing Indigenous women cases going back decades and must expose a darkness in the town that no one wants to face.
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Language
English
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Brock Turner had been sentenced to just six months in county jail after he was found sexually assaulting "Emily Doe" on Stanford's campus. Her victim impact statement was posted on BuzzFeed, where it instantly went viral, was translated globally and read on the floor of Congress. It inspired changes in California law and the recall of the judge in the case. Now Miller reclaims her identity to tell her story of trauma, transcendence, and the power...
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
256 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Setting out to uncover the story of her attacker, Connors embarked on a journey to find out who he was, where he came from, who his friends were and what his life was like. What she discovers stretches beyond one violent man's story and back into her own, interweaving a narrative about strength and survival with one about rape culture and violence in America.
Author
Publisher
New American Library, Published by Berkley, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 292 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"On June 29, 2009, Air National Guard major Mary Jennings "MJ" Hegar was shot down while on a Medevac mission on her third tour in Afghanistan. Despite being wounded, she fought the enemy and saved the lives of her crew and their patients. But soon she would face a new battle: to give women who serve on the front lines the credit they deserve"--NoveList.
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Publisher
Jossey-Bass
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 337 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Citing cases from the 1906 case of Chester Gillette to the present-day case of Scott Peterson, journalist Strong argues that a growing number of men, the "eraser killers, " murder their wives or girlfriends with premeditation and dispose of the body in an attempt to make both the crime and the victim disappear.
14) Searching for Savanna: the murder of one Native American woman and the violence against the many
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Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 302 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
An investigation into the disappearance of Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind when she was eight months pregnant highlights the shocking epidemic of violence against Native American women in America and the societal ramifications of government inaction.
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
xviii, 316 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Linda Hirshman, acclaimed historian of social movements, delivers the sweeping story of the struggle leading up to #MeToo, and beyond: from the first tales of workplace harassment percolating to the surface in the 1970s, to the Clinton/Lewinsky scandal -- when liberal women largely forgave Clinton, giving men a free pass for two decades. Many liberals even resisted the movement to end rape on campus. And yet legal, political, and cultural efforts,...
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